Stanley M. Hoffman

Der Text, der die extremen Bedingungen des Holocaust und die Auswirkungen auf die Opfer thematisiert, ist ein Werk für fortgeschrittene Chöre, das sowohl die Ausführenden als auch die Zuhörer bewegt.

Composed in 1984 and revised in 1993, Of all the souls that stand create for baritone and piano (Catalog No. 8407) is a setting of a poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886). The music features f...

In this innovative arrangement Stanley M. Hoffman takes Henry Purcell's most popular solo aria, the 'Lament' from his opera Dido and Aeneas, and reimagines it as a work for unaccompanied soprano solo...

SATB with divisions unaccompanied This hauntingly beautiful setting of a text by Christina Rossetti is tonal and yet adventurous in its choice of harmony. This simple, slow piece ends on a wonderfully...

In this innovative arrangement Stanley M. Hoffman takes Henry Purcell's most popular solo aria, the 'Lament' from his opera Dido and Aeneas, and reimagines it as a work for unaccompanied soprano solo...

A setting of the most famous passage from the Book of Ruth (Ruth 1:16-17) opens with a gentle polyphonic section for the chorus. The soprano joins the choir for the twice-repeated middle section of th...

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...

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...