For This, I Love You
SDGS 942 $15.00
Lyric Soprano, Violin, Viola, Violoncello, Piano (optional handbells) 4.5’ 16 pgs.

A vocal solo for soprano, piano, and string trio commissioned in 1985 by the Nebraska Music Teachers Association. Highly suitable for weddings, it is a dramatic setting of text adapted from the Song of Solomon:

“I will sing the song of all songs to my Love And he will smother me with kisses... Take me with you and we will run together...Let us rejoice together and be glad!...If you find my beloved, tell him that I am faint with Love.”

Open The Window,
Aunt Minnie, Here She Comes!
SDGS 2000-1 $20.00
Voice, Piano 12’ 28 pgs.
Song Cycle for Soprano and Piano

A 1999 commission from soprano Carol Eikum of Northwest College, St. Paul, Minnesota, this song cycle is about baseball! Poetry from Elisavietta Ritchie, May Swenson, Isabel Joshlin Glaser, and the composer includes Sittin’ on the Bench, Baseball Wrap-up, Substitute Blues, and Someday, Someday. The score includes suggested costume and stage directions, and is guaranteed to successfully fill that “American composer” spot on a serious song recital.

View Me, Lord, A Work Of Thine
SDGS 962 $4.50
Voice, Piano 4’ 8 pgs.

The text source for View Me, Lord, A Work Of Thine is English poet and composer Thomas Campion (1567 - 1610). A prolific writer, Campion supplied texts and music for masques of the court of James the First. Berkey’s romantic setting interweaves the vocal elements with contrasting ranges and colors in the piano accompaniment.

Voices From The Earth
(SONG CYCLE)
SDGS 941 $25.00
Lyric Soprano, B-flat Clarinet, Violoncello,
and Piano. Parts and two full scores
includes 13’ 44 pgs.

A song cycle commissioned in 1978 for voice and piano, these four songs offer an expansive range of emotion and pathos. The cycle, later revised, was augmented with clarinet and violoncello parts, and has also been adapted as a piano quintet with solo violin assuming the vocal role. (See Earth Voices.) A setting for treble chorus was completed in 1999. (See Voices from the Earth in the Treble Chorus section of the catalog.) The last two songs in the cycle have also been set for soprano and chamber orchestra.

Titles: Evening • Blindengarten • Autumn Comes to Woman • In a French Mountain Village