Chor & Gesang

The deep beauty of Gregory of Nazianzus ™ text is well-matched in this setting for SATB voices (divisi except for the tenors) and solo viola. The divisi notwithstanding, the music is simple and straig...

Do You Love for Beauty? (Liebst du um Schönheit) is the second of Mahler's Rückert songs arranged by Stanley M. Hoffman for mixed chorus, the first one being Into This World I Came As a Lost One (Ich...

This work was commissioned for and premiered on the 100th Anniversary of the Armistice to WW1, ending the carnage and bringing new hope.

Ein erweitertes Werk der bekannten Komponistin Gwyneth Walker. Dieses siebensätzige Werk erforscht den einzigartigen Charakter jedes einzelnen Sees im oberen Mittleren Westen der USA und in Zentralkan...

A reflective and quiet setting of a poem by Madison Julius Cawein.

This award-winning multi-movement work takes the listener through a journey of reflection and hope. Based on words of Representative Barbara Mikulski to Congress quoting R.F.K. and the Baltimore Sun,...

An epic poem by Emerson that talks about music as mystery. The text is matched with equally mysterious music. A part of a larger work entitled “Sing Evermore.”

This piece gives occasion to explore complex harmonies as an expression of the mystery of chords. These are added-tone sonorities—clusters. The author searches for that perfect peace, the one lost cho...

Based on a poem by African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906). The bird, a prisoner in his cage, beats his wing until the blood is red on the cruel bars. He sings a plea, to Heaven, for he...

A short flute introduction of music floating across the sky opens “Sky-Born Music.” The poet (Emerson) writes that music is heard not only in places of beauty, but also in the mud, the dark, in the da...