Sandi Becker

Here is a true concert and festival piece written for the choir without tenors. The baritone part is not for cambiata singers but manages to remain in a limited range for developing high school choirs...

Written as a celebration of singing for racial and social justice this powerful work sets the 11th stanza of the Langston Hughes poem Freedom's Plow. Opening with a quote from America (My Country Tis...

Based on the poem Dreams by Paul Laurence Dunbar, one of the first African American poets to gain national prominence and recognition. Singing of the power of dreams and how they take flight. When the...

Exploring the essence of the butterfly and its impact on nature, the tonalities shift with each passing phrase in the music. Consequently, each line of the text has its own character. This inspired te...

Exploring the essence of the butterfly and its impact on nature, the tonalities shift with each passing phrase in the music. Consequently, each line of the text has its own character. This inspired te...

A persistent underlying rhythm gives this setting of the Langston Hughes poem a powerful and mysterious drive. Available separately: SATB, 2-Part. Duration: ca. 2:50.

Opening with a slow, unaccompanied statement of the refrain, this contemporary setting of the traditional spiritual then unfolds into a dramatic layering thematic treatment that is tremendously exciti...

Opening with a slow, unaccompanied statement of the refrain, this contemporary setting of the traditional spiritual then unfolds into a dramatic layering thematic treatment that is tremendously exciti...

In writing Trio in Red, Kernis imagined various shades of red evoked by the music. Originally titled Seeing Red, a reference to both the color as well as the state of rage just before control can brea...

Von einem der angesehensten Komponisten Amerikas komponiert, ist diese Fanfare für Chor voller Leidenschaft und musikalischer Raffinesse. Das Gedicht von Philip Littel gibt dabei den Ton an: 'Musik is...

A-cappella-Messe für die Advents- und Fastenzeit für 4stg. gem. Chor und 5 Blechbläser ad lib. (2 Trp., Horn, Pos. und Tuba), bearbeitet und hrsg. von Bernd Dudek.