Lee Kesselman

Young voices will soar like the eagle in this accessible work for treble choir. The text was shaped from a ritual song of the Pawnee nation which revered the eagle for its strength and wisdom. Student...

From the opening solo and duet passage to the three-part refrain, Kesselman uses many textures in his transparent a cappella arrangement of this beloved African American spiritual. Sure to touch the h...

Hymn to Time is a choral meditation on the subject of TIME -- its physics, its lyrical and emotional impact on us, and its rhythm. The piece unfolds as a circle, beginning and ending at its most philo...

Renaissance composer Orlando di Lasso used this Latin text for one of his works and Lee quotes this musical motive in this new and contemporary composition. The text speaks to the power of music to ca...

Kesselman's lyrics are based on the premise that individuals work together to create meaning and beauty in life, each person doing their job as well as they can, respecting those around them and tryin...

Hymn to Time is a choral meditation on the subject of TIME -- its physics, its lyrical and emotional impact on us, and its rhythm. The piece unfolds as a circle, beginning and ending at its most philo...

Hwayana yaMwari is composed in the spirit of choral music heard at the Episcopal Cathedral in Harare, Zimbabwe, in the summer of 1993. Shona is the majority tribe in Zimbabwe and its language. The tex...

In a world filled with intense divisions of faith, we often forget our common ancestors, the common pillars of our religious heritage. In this work, the composer has mixed the Hebrew and Latin texts o...

Taken from the last part of Handel's Israel in Egypt, written three years before the Messiah. This aria, sung originally by a solo voice with string orchestra near the end of the work, anticipates the...

This choral art-song is an aural painting of moods and textures. It should give students the opportunity to explore how music paints various pictures of the same phenomena; the three main sections of...

The Shona Mass is composed in the spirit of choral music heard at the Episcopal Cathedral in Harare, Zimbabwe, in the summer of 1993. Shona is the majority tribe in Zimbabwe and its language.

The music is at once a blues, a two-step, a cakewalk, a recitative, and Dixieland jazz. The cello is called upon to be a dance-band rhythm section in accompanying the voices.

While this is scored for two cellos, SAB chorus and piano, it should be noted that this piece can be performed with any combination of 2 cellos, 1 cello or no cello with piano. The cello parts were de...

It's a dance piece! Let the rhythm and accents hold sway as the piano rolics and the singers tease, tempt, cajole and invite the Bonnie Lassie!

This beautiful Scottish melody and words speak of love of place and longing for return to that much-loved place.

Moonplay is influenced by the tradition of inventions - studies using limited musical materials. Yi and yu - change and constancy - are the foundations of almost every musical form. And in abstract mu...

The life of Oglala Sioux holy man Black Elk (1863-1950) spanned the tragic decades of the battle with Custer at the Little Big Horn, the ghost dance, and the massacre at Wounded Knee. In 1930, Nebrask...

Jackson's Carol should be sung with childlike simplicity and joy. It is the song of a wordless child.