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Donald Grantham has set the beautiful and descriptive Jane Kenyon Poem in a serene and gentle musical pallet. With lush harmonies and much rubato within a slow tempo, this is atmospheric in its final...

These three choral vignettes are inspired by the whimsical poetry of Emily Dickinson. All three pieces require a free play of fancy and imagination. Using extended, aleatoric passages, non-metrical an...

Long, legato lines and shifting tonal centers describe this setting by Matthew Emery of this famous James Joyce poem. Speaking of the power of both love and music and how they intertwine and collide,...

From the pen of rapidly rising young composer Matthew Emery and winner of the 2013 ACDA Raymond W. Brock Memorial Student Composition Contest, this a cappella setting of the Robert Herrick poem is a b...

Lux Aeterna by Ivo Antognini for unaccompanied SATB choir.

This work is dedicated to the memory of the legendary choral director Paul Salamunovich and his favorite musical genre of Gregorian chant. The composer has written an original chant in the Gregorian s...

This musical setting of the famous Mary Elizabeth Frye poem Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep begins very placidly, and takes the refrain of I am as a mantra for existence. The use of a dramatic sopra...

This wonderful parable by Will Allen Dromgoole has a dreamy quality and the music reflects that with a mix of soft jazz and classical stylings. Syncopated vocal accompaniment creates an effect that fe...

Written for the 100th anniversary of the St. Olaf choir, this work is commensurate with ability of one of the great choirs in America. The music makes consistent use of divisi texture, expansive arcs...

This haunting, introspective plea for relief begins as a near-whisper and rises to an intense clangor. Through the mantra-like repetition and gradual transformation of the words from this timeless Psa...

Jonathan Tunick has long been regarded as Broadway's preeminent orchestrator and he has been Stephen Sondheim's primary orchestrator from the beginning of his career. He is also a skilled and versatil...

This beautiful text from Ovid's Metamorphoses speaks of the creatures named for the time they first appear: vespertilians (bats). Not scary or to be feared, rather, here they slip into shadows with tr...

This beautiful and simple melody for mixed, unison choir or solo is the perfect ending to a worship service or concert. It can be sung a cappella or with the optional clarinet, violin, viola and cello...

Legendary composer Kirke Mechem sets the Hebrew text that reminds us to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels. This inspirational text for SATB a cappella choir is accessible f...

With a text by the composer, this is a delightful kaleidoscope of musical snippets that highlight the joys of choral singing! Melody, harmony, counterpoint, we can sing ANYTHING! Ta-dah!

Opening with the phrase How you wonder what you are, this poem, described by the composer as a sort of fable for adults, is set for mixed voices with soprano solo as a work of lyricism and reassurance...

This is the first new composition in the exciting new series curated by American conductor and composer, Rollo Dilworth. With a focus on literature for upper High School, Honors Choirs and early colle...

Written for the Clarion Chamber Chorale of Omaha, Nebraska, this Gerard Manley Hopkins poem Spring and Fall is full of beautiful, figurative and profound language. It speaks to the human condition in...

The words of Christina Rossetti 's poem Who Has Seen The Wind? are simple, yet spiritually profound. They speak of placing trust in the unknowable, and of appreciating the miracle of our existence: '...

In this setting, the composer employs warm, lush harmonic language along with a lovely, lyrical treatment of the familiar bedtime poem by Thomas Dekker. It was premiered at the Vancouver Chamber Choir...

This favorite Shaker song from the mid-1800s in an invigorating arrangement by Kevin Siegfried is a wonderful concert opener or sacred anthem with themes of love, peace and personal righteousness.

Celebrated contemporary poet Charles Anthony Silvestri has written a text that reflects the personal insights and positive and negative aspects of being a teenager. Composer Narverud has set these ins...

This setting of an anonymous 15th century text mixes polyphony with homophonic writing, offering broad contrasts in dynamics and range/tessitura that are appropriate for high school and festival choir...

This text is adapted from a heartfelt poem by nineteenth century English poet Christina Rossetti. Teehan's setting is simple and lyrical, with little harmonic twists that lift it from the ordinary, gi...

Inspired by the astonishing Thomas Tallis setting of the same text and using Tallis's original melody in the final refrain, this work from Swiss composer Ivo Antognini is full of shimmering chords and...