Gwyneth Walker

Gwyneth Walker's What Child Is This from Rejoice! for SATB choir with Orchestra or Piano or Organ accompaniment.

The great American hymn "The Lone Wild Bird" serves as the basis for this arrangement. The work begins with a plaintive alto solo and gradually builds by adding voices. The theme of preserving the ear...

The familiar melody and text are adapted and blended with original composition to create a highly original setting and a new twist on the well-loved hymn Amazing Grace.

Prayers and Blessings was commissioned in 2003 by David Arnold, a North Carolina bassbaritone who is a soloist in the 80-voice Chancel Choir at Centenary United Methodist Church in Winston-Salem. Mr....

An assuring text from master poet Sara Teasdale, its central theme is that one can take refuge in singing. Ever sensitive to the text, Walker crafts word painting throughout with shimmering accompanim...

An extended work by noted composer, Gwyneth Walker. This seven-movement work explores the unique character of each of the lakes in the upper midwestern United States and central Canada, as well as the...

An epic poem by Emerson that talks about music as mystery. The text is matched with equally mysterious music. A part of a larger work entitled “Sing Evermore.”

This piece gives occasion to explore complex harmonies as an expression of the mystery of chords. These are added-tone sonorities—clusters. The author searches for that perfect peace, the one lost cho...

Based on a poem by African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906). The bird, a prisoner in his cage, beats his wing until the blood is red on the cruel bars. He sings a plea, to Heaven, for he...

A short flute introduction of music floating across the sky opens “Sky-Born Music.” The poet (Emerson) writes that music is heard not only in places of beauty, but also in the mud, the dark, in the da...

The texts for these songs span many centuries and have the common thread of praising music for its power —from Richard Barnfield”s “In Praise of Music and Poetry” (published in 1598) to the uplifting...