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Beginning with two main thematic ideas that are developed throughout the work: a 2-note gentle, lilting motive and a 4-note lyrical theme that travels throughout the voices, this 7 minute piece for a...

Das jüdische Lichterfest Hanukkah feiert den Triumph des Lichtes über die Dunkelheit, der Reinheit über die Verfälschung, der Spiritualität über die Materialität. Das Stück fängt dieses Gefühl der Fre...

This is in the southern Mexican style of the Huapango. In this fast and fun music, with the flash of reds, yellows and greens and the flash in the rhythm, it's as if the entire landscape becomes the d...

If we can be happy and live well without causing unnecessary harm, why wouldn't we?' This simple and yet profound question is the invitation for choir, listener, and all of us in this beautiful new wo...

Combining the Andean folk song Ojos Azules with folk songs from Ecuador and Peru, this is the sort of music that Stephen Hatfield has excelled at for so long. Scored here for choir and percussion - sm...

This beautiful folk ballad from 17th century England is haunting and timeless. The lyrics tell the story of an immigrant looking for love in a new and unfamiliar land. Each of the 3 verses varies in p...

This chant melody was brought to America from West Africa. It is meant to be sung as a meditation. Pedal notes should sound like a drone that supports the melody. It all leads to an experience for the...

The first word of Psalm 119 is both the first and last word of this music - 'Blessed.' Written to celebrate the 750th anniversary of Merton College, Oxford, This music cannot be rushed. It is relaxed...

Blake Fragments was written for performance in Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic Guggenheim Museum in New York City and calls for the solo voices to be placed in various positions on the concentric rings th...

This short, 3 line prayer has found favor from presidents to world leaders and from the solo fisherman. Here it is set as a simple, a cappella duet for treble voices. This is a wonderful benediction f...

This is the first in a set of three spirituals with the overarching title of Songs for the Journey. They celebrate those who have made the trek to freedom during the era of slavery, inspire those who...

This is the 2nd of three songs that create Songs for the Journey. Setting this traditional spiritual in a slow, gut wrenching style, your choir will find endless places to draw inspiration and emotion...

Here is a concert spiritual for the very best choirs. Extended ranges, divisi in all parts, and a tenor solo for that tenor who can really cut it loose. Fun, exciting and the perfect closer for your c...

While we as humans are rooted here to the ground, why do we always look up when searching for answers? This music explores this ancient theme with long phrases, repeated words and the seemingly unendi...

Here is a work about light. Light which brings peace, hope, awareness, wholeness. The a cappella writing is descriptive and transparent and a wonderful vehicle for exploring choral colors.

Rubato phrasings and delicate word painting are the gentle elements that move this beautiful new setting of the iconic Pickthall poem. Shifting tonal centers, divisi in all voice parts and the a cappe...

Written in a Foundation for Small Voices song-writing workshop hosted by the Cincinnati Children's Choir, the student's message is loud and clear - 'Whatever your journey, whatever your beliefs, whate...

This beautiful text by Canadian poet Bliss Carman speaks to themes of peace, thankfulness and humility. The texture is mostly homophonic with brief sections of divisi to illuminate colors and images i...

Heavenly Home is a 13-minute cycle of a cappella settings of beloved 19th century religious songs, all of which share the text imagery of heaven as 'home'. Each movement features newly-composed materi...

Here is a collection of three of the most popular spirituals in the repertoire. Down To The River To Pray, Deep River and In That Great Gettin'-up Morning are arranged for success. Numbers 1 & 3 are a...

The final track on Jacob Collier's four-part, genre-bending, award-winning and world-conquering Djesse album series, this seven minute choral opus was recorded in partnership with Jason Max Ferdinand...

The final track on Jacob Collier's four-part, genre-bending, award-winning and world-conquering Djesse album series, this seven minute choral opus was recorded in partnership with Jason Max Ferdinand...

Nights in armor is a suite for a cappella chorus which reflects on the themes of Arthurian legend as brought to verse by Alfred, Lord Tennyson in Idylls of the King. Each of the four songs takes the v...

Nights in armor is a suite for a cappella chorus which reflects on the themes of Arthurian legend as brought to verse by Alfred, Lord Tennyson in Idylls of the King. Each of the four songs takes the v...

Nights in armor is a suite for a cappella chorus which reflects on the themes of Arthurian legend as brought to verse by Alfred, Lord Tennyson in Idylls of the King. Each of the four songs takes the v...