for Flute, Cello and Piano. Each piece in this collection is based upon a familiar American folk song or ballad (Erie Canal; Shenandoah; The House Carpenter; Blow the Candle Out; Come Life, Shaker Lif...
William Averitt's Tunebook for Woodwind Quintet is a new take on seven melodies from The Sacred Harp, the most famous of the 19th-century source books. This work combines these melodies with contempor...
From the large work Black Pierrot, Jazzonia (1923) describes the scene in a Harlem café of the 1920s in which 'six long-headed jazzers play, ' and beautiful girls dance. After a short introductory sec...
Commissioned by conductor Paul Crabb for the University of Missouri University Singers and the Mizzou New Music Ensemble (Stefan Freund, director) with funding from the Sinquefield Charitable Foundati...
Commissioned and premiered by the Texas Lutheran University Choir under their conductor, Douglas R. Boyer. The setting presents four verses of the familiar carol. Much of its considerable energy comes...
A delightful setting of a Sicilian carol, traditionally played on bagpipes.
Great a cappella writing, in the Parker/Shaw tradition comes to mind when hearing this arrangement. The familiar tune Warrenton, from Southern Harmony (1835) is always evident as the other vocal parts...
