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Among her commissioned works are five full length ballets and many solo dances for Walter Camryn, Bentley Stone, Ruth Page and the Chicago Grand Opera Ballet Company, two commissioned works for the Chicago Chamber Choir and “The Mystic Trumpeter” for trumpet solo, baritone and organ, commissioned by Dexter Bailey, concert organist.
“The Mystic Trumpeter” with text by Walt Whitman was transcribed for orchestra, trumpet and voice and first played by The Lake Forest Symphony in 1980 with Victor Aitay conductor, and by Oak Park-River Forest Symphony in 1982, Perry Crafton conductor. In 1987 the ballet score “In My Landscape” was performed by The Oak Park Symphony with Robert Smith, narrator.