Women Who Kill
(2018)
Written for soprano, violin, and double bass
Published by Dulcamara Press (2024)
Cycle of five songs:
“The Masculine”
“The Muse/Mastermind”
“The Damaged”
“The Respectable”
“The Witch”
Texts by: letters to and from Alice Mitchell and Freda Ward; Bonnie Parker, “The Street Girl”; “The Ballad of Maria Barberi”; Mary August Lee Demarest, “My Ain Countrie”; Allan Cunningham, “Home, Home, Home”; court testimony from Sarah Harvey
Commissioned by Bethany Battafarano
Recorded June 28, 2018 at the Mairs Concert Hall (St. Paul, MN), Bethany Battafarano, sop.; Elizabeth York, vln.; Liz Draper, double bass