Stephen Chatman: Mittelschwere Noten

Stephen Chatman's setting of Sara Teasdale's whimsical poem pertaining to a brown-thrush, April, love and kisses, emulates the meaning, strict rhythm, rhyme and strophic structure of the text. The sof...

Sara Teasdale's poem, Oh day of fire and sun, suggests a loud, fast musical setting. The syncopated homo-phonic choral texture, with high tessituras, exudes drama and excitement: it balances the expan...

Sara Teasdale's poem, The Mystery, depicts deep lasting love - 'Your eyes drink of me' and 'We have long been lovers'. It also raises a question - 'Can I ever know you / Or you know me?' Stephen Chatm...

The opening line of Sara Teasdale's poem, After Love, 'There is no magic any more, ' establishes the theme of vanishing love. Stephen Chatman's setting of the poignant text, in the key of E flat major...

This piece is a fast, joyous outburst. The initial lines, 'I am wild, I will sing to the trees' set the jubilant tone. The perpetual motion of the syllabic step-wise vocal lines is punctuated by stacc...

Stephen Chatman's A Song of Joys was commissioned by the Calgary Philharmonic Society with assistance from the Canada Council. The 21-minute work in seven movements, premiered in Calgary May 2, 2014,...

This is the composer's orchestration of his choral work There is Sweet Music Here. The joyous outer movements, Song of the Laughing Green Woods and Piping Down the Valley's Wild, inspired by William B...

Commissioned for the Kantorei of the Chapel of the Resurrection, Dr. Lorraine S. Brugh, director, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Ohio. Completed in August, 2015, the work received its premiere per...

A Christmas lullaby that gradually grows in texture, featuring a soprano solo soaring over the full choir.

As with Chopins Etudes, this challenging set of five etudes can be used either for technique work or for concert performance. The music most assuredly allows for the pianist to demonstrate his or her...

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...