Contemporary poet Barbara Crooker understands nature and the life we draw from it. Contemporary poet Dale Trumbore understands that nature brings harmony to our lives and beauty to our existence. This...
A beautiful love poem is here set in a rhythmic and energetic fashion. The kind of energy brought to real romance and relationships. The melodies are angular and unsettled like a good marriage. And th...
Series editor and composer Joni Jensen arranges this traditional Irish folk song for women, violin, flute and bodhran. The music is energetic and full of drive as the women sing of a better day ahead....
This musical setting of the Dekker poem employs a warm, lush harmonic language along with a lovely, lyrical treatment of this familiar bedtime poem. Commissioned and premiered by the NW ACDA Women's H...
This beautiful and lamenting poem by French poet Charles Beaudelaire is captured in all of its sadness and intimacy. A detailed IPA makes the language barrier go away. And women's choirs will flourish...
This is a rhythmic, contemporary, gospel-style anthem with words that challenge all of us to take responsibility for making our communities safe, supportive, and just.
Here is a traditional Lakota lullaby that was often sung by mothers to their young boys. The Lakota language has become nearly extinct, but composer/arranger Linthicum-Blackhorse has made it his life'...
This thrilling composition by Macendonian composer Todor Skalovski and editied by Kathleen Rodde was performed by Kathleen and her Iowa State Women's choir at the 2013 National ACDA convention in Dall...
