Evening Shade; Brethren, We Have Met to Worship; So Fades the Lovely Blooming Flower; The Morning Trumpet. Arranged for 4 C Flutes with optional Alto Flute or Bass Flute. Works well for any sacred occ...
Written in 2010 in honor of the 30th anniversary season of Winchester (Virginia) Musica Viva, who gave its premiere performance under their music director, Kenneth Nafziger. The piece begins simply wi...
A musical peek into the fantastical visual world of Marc Chagall via poetry by Robert Bode. Its seven poems are imaginative reflections on seven paintings by the Russian-French artist. Scored for SATB...
A gentle lullaby based on an old Welsh Folk Song with the tune AR HYD Y NOS.
The brilliant William Averitt has put his dynamic spin on four American folk songs and hymns in this multi-movement work. Challenging but achievable vocal lines are paired with truly unique and master...
Movement 1 from the larger work, Over Jordan. The brilliant William Averitt has put his dynamic spin on this hymn using challenging but achievable vocal lines paired with truly unique and masterful fo...
Movement 2 from the larger work, Over Jordan. The brilliant William Averitt has put his dynamic spin on this hymn using challenging but achievable vocal lines paired with truly unique and masterful fo...
Movement 3 from the larger work, Over Jordan. The brilliant William Averitt has put his dynamic spin on this folk hymn using challenging but achievable vocal lines unaccompanied in this movement. Came...
Movement 4 from the larger work, Over Jordan. The brilliant William Averitt has put his dynamic spin on this folk hymn using challenging but achievable vocal lines paired with truly unique and masterf...
Whisper of the Dance was written as a resonse to William Averitt's choral song cycle, Deepness of the Blue. The deeply artistic poetry by Robert Bode is an homage to the great Langston Hughes. For fou...
The Song We Sing sets three new poems by Robert Bode for SATB choir and piano four-hands. Compelling and incredibly unique, William Averitt's compositional voice shines through in both excitement and...
for Flute, Cello and Piano. Each piece in this collection is based upon a familiar American folk song or ballad (Erie Canal; Shenandoah; The House Carpenter; Blow the Candle Out; Come Life, Shaker Lif...
William Averitt's Tunebook for Woodwind Quintet is a new take on seven melodies from The Sacred Harp, the most famous of the 19th-century source books. This work combines these melodies with contempor...
From the large work Black Pierrot, Jazzonia (1923) describes the scene in a Harlem café of the 1920s in which 'six long-headed jazzers play, ' and beautiful girls dance. After a short introductory sec...
Commissioned by conductor Paul Crabb for the University of Missouri University Singers and the Mizzou New Music Ensemble (Stefan Freund, director) with funding from the Sinquefield Charitable Foundati...
Commissioned and premiered by the Texas Lutheran University Choir under their conductor, Douglas R. Boyer. The setting presents four verses of the familiar carol. Much of its considerable energy comes...
A delightful setting of a Sicilian carol, traditionally played on bagpipes.
Great a cappella writing, in the Parker/Shaw tradition comes to mind when hearing this arrangement. The familiar tune Warrenton, from Southern Harmony (1835) is always evident as the other vocal parts...
Commissioned for Choral Arts Northwest who gave its premiere performance in 2011 under their artistic director, Robert Bode. The music is primarily contrapuntal in texture, and its tonal language feat...
