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One in a series of four choral suites that explore the cultural and natural wonders of various regions of North America. Stephen Chatman's choral settings are broad in scope and tone; the tone paintin...

Due East is one in a series of four choral suites that explore the cultural and natural wonders of various regions of North America. Stephen Chatman's choral settings are broad in scope and tone; the...

Due South is one in a series of four choral suites that explore the cultural and natural wonders of various regions of North America. Stephen Chatman's choral settings are broad in scope and tone; the...

Arise is the short opening of this suite of five pieces, and is set to glorious homophonic music with rising motives in the lower voices.

What's Cookin'? takes its sweet time tantalizing the listener with all the menu items of a truly Southern feast. Music, set to a slow tempo in swing eighths, makes the recitation tempting, if not down...

Bugs is a soundscape of insects and their songs. Precise vocal effects make this challenging but also whimsical, and the result is pure fun.

Love, O Love recalls an old-fashioned love letter in which the writer compares the beloved to the moon and the sun and pledges eternal love. The music begins with lush chords sung together, moves to a...

A perfectly apt finale to this choral suite, Kentucky Derby begins with a nod to 'My Old Kentucky Home, ' and then it's off to the races, literally. The text of the suite is declaimed rapidly in patte...

I encountered The Windhover in graduate school, and it made such a strong impression, but was so daunting a work, that I waited nearly three decades to set it. Hopkins combines a poetic vocabulary dra...

Engraved and edited after the composer's death, this charming piece deserves wider attention in the choral world. The music features unmeasured chant-like passages contrasted with moving accompanied o...

American Triptych presents aspects of spiritual experience as expressed by three North American poets: Americans E. E. Cummings and W. S. Merwin, and Canadian Bliss Carman. Commissioned by the Reading...

American Triptych presents aspects of spiritual experience as expressed by three North American poets: Americans E. E. Cummings and W. S. Merwin, and Canadian Bliss Carman. Commissioned by the Reading...

Three Pieces for Chanukah is not so much a set of arrangements of familiar words and tunes than it is a set of original compositions based on them. The first two settings feature jazz-influenced, clas...

This poem by Dana Gioia is spoken by a santo, a devotional wooden statue carved by a Mexican folk artist. This anthropomorphized statue speaks of its history and its fate as a museum piece. The settin...

This fascinating setting of what is arguably one of Dana Gioia's deepest poems features music that ruminates on motivic ideas, among them, attention-grabbing flourishes in the marimba part and arpeggi...

The text of Night Prayer was written by the Rev. John Williamson in 1987 for inclusion in A New Zealand Prayer Book. The tone of the prayer is both traditional and contemporary. Its natural and intend...