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This setting of a prayer for peace from the Jewish liturgy is a fitting work for our time. Opening quietly, it builds steadily to an intense emotional outpouring, then gradually retreats to a hushed c...

This short unaccompanied motet celebrates the wondrous mystery of God made man with this rich setting of a traditional Latin text. Full contemporary harmonies will resound throughout your performance...

From Craig Hella Johnson and Conspirare, this setting of a beloved evangelical hymn by Jonah Kliewer is both sturdy and transformational, projecting a sense of calmness and comfort.

This collection is sixth in a series of musical settings of lyrics to songs in Shakespeare's plays. This grouping opens with When Daisies Pied, in a colorful madrigalian style, followed by the more om...

The flowing lines of this short a cappella work are woven into an elegant vocal tapestry that will create an atmosphere of serenity and warmth.

An early work by Milton Babbitt, it employs a rigorous contrapuntal style and demonstrates a stunning command of advanced compositional techniques including inverted counterpoint, juxtapositions of mo...

A profoundly beautiful poem speaks of life as a series of doors opening and of sighs unfolding, one upon another, rising on a tide of mornings. The music creates a peaceful atmosphere of unfolding son...

Kirke Mechem's choral works consistently reflect his ability to create memorable, meaningful and artistic experiences for performers and audiences. The first in the set, I Will Sing Alleluia, is writt...

Craig Hella Johnson's remarkable setting of verses by the poet Rabindranath Tagore creates a mesmerizing effect with music that is both ancient and modern. Ever in my life have I sought thee with my s...

This unaccompanied choral work for mixed voices draws the audience into a world of deep emotion, rich harmony and vivid imagery. Drawing upon the subconscious bond between mother and child, the work e...

The Pulizer Prize winning Israeli-American composer Shulamit Ran composed these four settings for the Bar Mitzvah occasions of her two sons. From the story of creation to passages such as How fair are...

With a depth and emotional range comparable to art songs, spirituals have become a powerful and significant body of work in Western art music. This pairing of two songs displays a quality of emotional...

The choral ensemble creates a spare and stark vocal atmosphere with steady, pulsating vocal effects as the solo lines emerge from the texture. First Soon ah will be done and then I wanna die easy, whi...

This brief latin motet was written in 1943 as a contribution to a Festschriften in honor of the sixtieth birthday of the president of G. Schirmer, Inc. A limited run of three hundred copies was printe...

Augusta Read Thomas's The Rewaking for SATB choir a cappella. The original version of The Rewaking (TTBB) was commissioned by the Cornell University Glee Club, ScottTucker, Director, in honour of Con...

Here is a sturdy setting of a Sacred Harp tune that is ideal for a concert or set of American music. Intended to be sung with a direct, clear and bright vocal style and a steady and intense underlying...

This beloved American folk lullaby incorporates the repeated word hush-a-bye throughout the arrangement, creating a sweet and calming effect as the melody weaves in and out between the different vocal...

Jon Washburn has crafted a lush and dramatic setting of this traditional Japanese folksong. Using the choir as a traditional Japanese stringed folk instrument, Jon sets the mood with a gentle vocal ac...

The text of this exciting choral work is based on the inscription on the Statue of Liberty. It will be sung for President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, their families and other invited frien...

Dale Warland Choral Series A Lover's Journey is a set of four pieces which chronicles the extraodinarily commonplace yet supremly elegant story of love and valentining. Written as a Valentine to The K...

Setting the Wendell Berry To My Mother but incorporating it for his parents, Joshua Shank portrays the sense of wandering and confusion in the early sections of his music but ultimately finds the reve...

Using the sturdy but lilting Shaker tune, Jeffrey Douma has crafted a beautiful a cappella setting appropriate for any good high school or college choir. With a text that is as important today as it w...

Though it sounds very much like a folk song, Lorena was actually composed in 1856. It became extremely popular during the Civil War, when it was a favorite of both Confederate and Union soldiers who l...

This arrangement of the beloved folk song was first premiered by the Yale Glee Club in the fall of 2006, and has since become an audience favorite. Probably referring to the Red River that flows north...

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...