Lee R. Kesselman

Originally created for solo voice, this arrangement will give young voices the opportunity to perform a brilliant American art-song in an idiomatic arrangement with solo clarinet.

With a text deriving from the Latin and Hebrew phrases for 'grant us peace' combined with a message from Pope John Paul II spoken in 1981 at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan, this work remi...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

These two popular Swedish Christmas Carols capture complementary aspects of the Christmas spirit.

This traditional carol comes out of the American oral tradition. The directness of the text is emphasized by the beautiful melody in Mixolydian mode.

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...