Howard Helvey

From the collection Anthems for SA and Men, 'O God, you speak your beauty every hour' is an original choral hymn by Howard Helvey, scored for SA & men with organ. With text by the composer and featuri...

A joyous setting of Psalm 81:1-4, the piece features a festive organ accompaniment and jubilant choral parts.

Mixed meters and exciting, fresh harmonies converge to create a dynamic treatment of a familiar text. Howard Helvey's choral and keyboard writing are creative and effective as usual. Available: SATB.

Duration: ca. 3:30.

Esteemed composer Howard Helvey brings us this thrilling hymn anthem with organ, brass and handbells, good for any Sunday

Cincinnati composer Howard Helvey has skillfully set this George Herbert text for mixed chorus with piano and optional flute or clarinet. Try it on Christ the King Sunday.

Looking for a new Palm Sunday anthem? This is it! Howard Helvey gives us this energetic anthem for mixed voices with organ and trumpet.

This anthem for celebration of the eEcharist is based on the hymn tune Penitentia (found in many hymnals). Set to a text by Horatius Bonar and based on Revelation 19, Howard Helvey scores the work for...

Commissioned to honor Ken and Diane Ketel for their many years of music ministry at First United Methodist Church in Rapid City, South Dakota. Scored for mixed choir and organ, this Advent anthem sets...

For SATB and piano or orchestra. This inspirational text by Mary Louise Bringle is presented in a lush setting. The music begins on a soft, gentle tone reflecting the text. As the piece progresses the...

This is a declamatory setting of a popular Easter text by Gerard Manley Hopkins in an upbeat 7/8 metre. Featuring compelling interplay between choral sections, a slower reflective passage, and a rousi...

This anthem juxtaposes the words of the Antiphon for the Washing of Feet on Maundy Thursday with John Boyle O'Reilly's poem 'A White Rose'. Jackson combines lyrical polyphonic phrases for upper and lo...

A homely text by Joyce Kilmer is the starting-point for this gorgeously expressive ballad for choir and piano. Offprinted from Carols for Choirs 6.

This original composition combines several traditional proverbs (Good things come to those who wait, What goes up..., Where there's a will...), a quirky melody, a laid-back swing feel, a whispering se...

Down the Silver Road is a comforting and uplifting setting of the poem To F.W. by Edith Franklin Wyatt, which describes the joy of growing old with a companion.

This exciting work for choir and solo violin draws its title from Edward Winslow's 1624 chronicles, Good Newes from New England, in which he describes the Mayflower Pilgrims' settlement in the New Wor...

A short upbeat anthem, Cantate Domino sets words from Psalms 9, 95, and 97 and features contrasting styles, optional clapping, and an optional verse in French.

This brilliant soaring anthem of praise is an original hymn tune penned for choir and congregation by talented young composer Howard Helvey. The text was written in 1892 as an account of the World Par...

This inspirational text by Mary Louise Bringle is presented in a lush setting. The music begins on a soft, gentle tone reflecting the text. As the piece progresses the dynamic tension increases to bri...