Compositions by Donald Juran

(English text except where indicated otherwise):

• 2025: Walk Humbly, Micah 6-6:8, SATB and piano. Duration 2:32.
• 2024: Two Loops of Ribbon, mostly English, briefly Ukrainian. Poem by the composer. Bar. solo, SATB and piano. Duration 3:25.
• 2023: Ein Keloheinu, Hebrew, from the synagogue liturgy. Unison a cappella. Duration 2:19.
• 2022: In Remembrance, SSAATB and piano. Duration 7:08.
  1. “Fear no More” (Shakespeare, Cymbeline IV - VI)
  2. Psalm 23 (English and Hebrew)
  3. “Oseh Shalom” (Hebrew, from the Mourners’ Kaddish)
• 2021: Gura Humora Elegy, Yiddish, three poems by Shilu Ellenbogen. SATB and piano. Duration 10:42.
  1. “1941”
  2. “Shushke, vintl” (“Whisper, wind”)
  3. “Se vil zikh nit in gantsn” (“I don’t want to be happy”)
• 2020: Memories of Dachau, five poems by Dee Eberhart. SATB, incidental B solo, piano. Duration 15:00.
  1. KZ Dachau
  2. April
  3. Hebertshausen - Russian Memorial Service (part 3)
  4. Beating the Odds
  5. Dachau - Return and Farewell
• 2018: Reflections on Tyranny, SATB a cappella. Duration 5:43.
  1. “Pity the Nation” (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
  2. “And the Great Owners” (John Steinbeck, from The Grapes of Wrath)
  3. “Ozymandias” (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
• 2017: Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds (Shakespeare Sonnet 116). SATB a cappella. Duration 1:26.
• 2014: A Lewis Carroll Triptych, SSAATTBB a cappella. Duration 12:51.
  1. “Father William”
  2. “Jabberwocky”
  3. “The Walrus and the Carpenter”
• 2014: I Attempt from Love’s Sickness (text by John Dryden and Robert Howard). Mezzo and harpsichord. Arranged 2019 for trumpet and piano. Duration 1:21.
• 2009: Rise Up, My Love (Song of Songs II: 10-12). TBarB (or SMzA) a cappella. Duration 0:55.
• 2008: The Prophecy of Ezekiel (Ez. 37: 1-14). B solo, SATB, piano. Duration 6:06.
• 2003, rev. 2014: The Miracle of Hanukkah (text from traditional Hanukkah blessings, and by the composer). SATB, B solo, piano. Duration 2:37.
• 2002: B’Rosh ha-Shanah (Hebrew, from the High Holy Days liturgy). SMzATB a cappella, SMzA, MzAT and TBarB soli trios. Duration 3:35.
• 1993-1997: Beyond the Mirror (song cycle on ten poems by Joshua Juran). Bar. solo and piano. Duration 13:58.
• 1977-1996, rev. 2016: Four Psalms of Joy (Ps. 93, 67, 133, 100). SATB divisi a cappella. Duration 6:21.