Choir, Vocals

From the larger work Summer Sun, Winter Moon, this movement seeks to give voice to the series of words that the early American explorers had to translate: numbers, seasons, days. Full of musical image...

Past three a clock, and a cold frosty morning, past three a clock; good morrow, masters all, this text is combined with an old English tune in a fresh seasonal setting. With harp. Available for SATB a...

The last published poem of Sara Teasdale forms the lyric framework for this setting for mixed chorus, flute and harp. Rich harmonies and vocal textures create an atmosphere of rare beauty. Performance...

In four movements. The first two choral movements memorialize the composer's mother and mother-in-law. The final movement depicts Mary Magdalene, inspired by Harbison's work with Bach's St. John Passi...

The text by an anonymous 15th century poet is illuminated by the legato and expressive phrases of this evocative work. From the Craig Hella Johnson Choral Series. Performance Time: Approx. 6:00

An elegant setting of the poem by Edward Carpenter, this work evokes the boundary between the living and those who have passed on. So thin a veil divides us from such joy... Performance Time: Approx....

Chinese-born Huang Ruo is a bright new presence on the contemporary music scene. In this work for chorus and semi-chorus, finger bells and gently shifting harmonic textures create an atmosphere of con...

After an opening that evokes a confused and troubled world, this work bursts into a sweeping attempt to drive the world's coldness away in favor of love. Flute part included. Duration: Approx. 3:00 Co...

Create a meditative moment in your concert with this reflective setting of the famous Praetorius chorale tune from Piae Cantiones. Performed by The Canticum Novum Singers - Harold Rosenbaum, conductor...

This final movement of a larger work An Undaunted Heart: Songs of Elders is a setting of a poem by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore and explores the last stage of life for a man and the ocean of p...

All the colors of a Jamaican marketplace burst into song in this rhythmic concert setting by Alice Parker. Taking its text from a poem by Agnes Maxwell Hall, this work is a celebration of life and all...

Winner of the 2007 VocalEssence Carol Competition, this flowing setting of a 16th century anonymous text features the shimmering sounds of a celesta as it echoes and comments upon the vocal phrases, c...

Carlos Chavez' Fragmento, from the ballet 'Piramide', for mixed chorus of speaking voices. The text of this piece is to be spoken, not sung (absolutely not sprechstimme!). Syllables orcombinationof l...

A catchy song for SATB choir on the theme of love. Ideal for teenage/school choirs. Also available for Upper Voices (catalogue no: GS88946)

Exploring themes of infinite possibility and the intersection of the inner and outer essence of life, this setting of the 13th century poetry of Rumi offers a simple but profound reflection on the hum...

Cary Ratcliff's charming and refreshing oratorio Ode to Common Things is set to poetry by Chilean writer Pablo Neruda, who, over the course of his life, wrote odes to ordinary, everyday objects, five...

Composed while a student at the Curtis Institute of Music, Barber's Twelve Rounds are now available for the first time in print. With detailed historical commentary and manuscript facsimile.

This 8-minute work, set entirely in Latin, recounts King David's grief at the death of his son Absalom. Opening with a fiery piano introduction, a solo tenor emerges from the echoing keyboard clusters...

Jon Washburn musically draws special, deep emotions to color this evocative text by Walter de la Mare. The mood is created through the use of a glistening piano part and a brooding choral part. Vocal...

This beautiful Sara Teasdale poem presents, initially, a comforting vision of the natural beauty of a world returning to equilibrium until we realize that it can only happen after humans are removed f...

A playful, breezy and energetic setting of the Robert Louis Stevenson poem The Swing. With a gently sweeping piano accompaniment, this piece, commissioned by Jon Washburn and his Vancouver Chamber Cho...

Composer Dominick DiOrio has been call a forward-thinking young composer, ready to tackle anything and this exciting piece definitely falls under anything. Written for the virtuosic Houston Chamber Ch...

The Whole Sea In Motion sets a prose text from Agnes Grey, a 1907 novel by British author Anne Bronte. In choosing this text to set, the composer was struck by the first sentence, which begins No lnag...

Most of us think that going viral is a 21st century phenomenon, made possible by the immediacy and ubiquity of the Internet. But Tenting on the Old Camp Ground, Walter Kittredge's haunting Civil War s...

Michael Gray wrote the original energetic 3-part mixed voicing for middle school changing voices in 1980. Since then, this has been a popular selection. Now available for SATB and SA voices and with v...