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This unusual setting uses a fresh text excerpted from the book, Back to the Ethic: Reclaiming Western Values by Diane Weber Bederman (Mantua Books, 2015). The music is very much a text painting, shift...

The conductor of Choral Arts Northwest, Robert Bode, asked the composer to write a work based on a text about The Blessed Virgin Mary. The final poem in Petrarch's most famous work, Il Canzoniere, wa...

In his brief poem Eternitie, Robert Herrick (1591 1674) imagines the immense awe that accompanies leaving this world and entering the next. A hint of longing for what was in the opening words, 'O Year...

A gentle, lyrical anthem suitable for a baptismal service, either as an immediate response (which would be quite moving) or elsewhere in the service. The composer has used his own new text, which is c...

A soaring, joyful, unaccompanied motet in F major. (Keyboard reduction provided.) Notated on five staves with the soprano 1 and 2 on their own staves. However, all parts below that also divide very oc...

Commissioned by a choral society in memory of their beloved accompanist, this is an SATB divisi unaccompanied setting of a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay. The text remembers a departed friend through...

A choral rendition of Proverbs 22:9.

Madrigals for the Seasons was composed especially for Cappella SF, Ragnar Bohlin, conductor. A Summer's Day is a paean to the glories of summer Images of nature are illuminated, climaxing in the splen...

Madrigals for the Seasons was composed especially for Cappella SF, Ragnar Bohlin, conductor. John Clare's poem Autumn conjures up vivid images of this season: the fading of summer flowers, the colors...

A traditional motet based on Matthew 5:16. The text is in Latin with a brief English statement of the text featured in the soprano solo.

Set on the poem 'Sunset Symphony' by Texas-based author Nathan Brown. Without words, the beginning of Brown's poem consists of a series of ellipses set in an almost pointillistic manner, with pulsatin...

A mournful text by English poet Hartley Coleridge. Dark, somber and rich choral writing.

A moving poem by Tennyson about how the world is constantly changing. The piece begins with a drone in the bass and tenor and gradually builds to include all parts.

This meditative work uses stunning harmonies and chant-based melody to evoke the text of the adoration of Mary.

The haunting setting from the Donald Nally Contemporary Voices series challenges the singers. A great piece for a resonant performance space.

A work that explores vocal techniques and offers a significant challenge for singers. It is a whimsical text with depth of meaning that is rewarding to the performers and listeners.

Wanting Memories gehört zu den am häufigsten aufgeführten und bekanntesten Kompositionen von Ysaÿe Barnwell. Ihre Worte sprechen von der Macht der Beziehungen und davon, wie diese Beziehungen die Mens...

Ein weiterer Klassiker von Sweet Honey in the Rock-Gründerin Ysaÿe Barnwell. Dieses Stück ist speziell für gemischte Chöre konzipiert. Es eignet sich hervorragend für den A-cappella-Unterricht und hat...