Musicatlas
Music
- Missa pro defunctis (1990-91), for soloists (SATB), mixed chorus, organ, and instrumental ensemble (Latin & English words)
- Missa Cantata (Sung Mass, 1994), for soprano and mezzo-soprano soloists, mixed voices and organ (Latin words)
- Sunday Morning: hymns, anthems and Communion service music (1997)
- Sunday Morning: Overture on Original Hymn Tunes (1997, rev.2008)
- Symphony no. 1 "Divertimento" (1998, rev. 2006 & 2008) for orchestra, in 4 movements
- Shores of Shadow: Sandburg Chorales (2006), for mixed voices (SSAATTBB), a cappella, on four poems by Carl Sandburg
- Elegies in D Minor for mixed voices, obbligato instrument, and piano (2006)
- The Prayer (2007) for 2 cellos
- Sonatina for Violin and Piano (2007)
- In the Bleak Midwinter (2007) for orchestra; also for voice and piano
- Symphony no. 2 "Lux aeterna" (2008) for orchestra, in 4 movements
Life
Edward Lein (b.1955) lives in Jacksonville, Florida, and holds Master’s degrees in Music (major professor: John Boda) and Library Science from Florida State University. As a tenor soloist (now retired) he has appeared in recitals, oratorios and dramatic works, and drawing on his performance experience the majority of his compositions have been vocal works. He endeavors to imbue his instrumental pieces with a similar singing lyricism and typically avoids the intentionally artificial techniques of the Modernism that dominated the concert music of his youth, instead favoring a more spontaneous approach. Recent performances of orchestral works, including "Meditation" for cello, oboe and orchestra (premiered by the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra in June 2006) and "In the Bleak Midwinter" (premiered by the Jacksonville Symphony Players in December 2007), have demonstrated this aesthetic.