In High Voice

Margaret Walker's text leaps off the musical page as words crying to be sung. 'My grandmothers were strong. They followed plows and bent to toil.' This was not frailty - this was determined womanhood....

Viva La Musica! ( Long Live Music!) is a wonderful theme for any concert. And David Brunner has crafted a wonderful concert opening with a strong, bold, unison exclamation to open the piece. Originall...

This edition, employing modern scholarship and notation, along with insightful program notes, allows singers and directors to drill deeply into the style and musicianship of this master composer. It m...

This work for treble voices, cello and classical guitar begins with an ostinato repetition of the title, before the entrance of the melodic theme superimposed in counterpoint with the cello melody. Th...

Exhibiting that the power of music can influence how we hear words, Cary Ratcliff uses a relentless piano part and 'dark harmonies' to turn a simple lyric into a foreboding tale of desperation. This p...

Die Komponistin sagt über ihr Werk:'Das ist der letzte Teil meiner Trilogie mit Vertonungen von Texten aus einer Sammlung, die die Dichterin Sarah White ihre 'Window Poems' ('Fenster-Gedichte') nennt,...

This is the second in the trilogy called 'Widow Poems,' written after the sudden death of a lover. Each of the three represents a different stage in the arc of the poet's grief. In this one, the berea...

These intimate and comforting lines of Elizabeth Bishop's sonnet are set to music that is reflective, lush and lyrical, with the text always foremost. Originally written for SATB chorus and later arra...

Ausgestattet mit dem Text eines lateinischen Hymnus aus dem 4. Jahrhundert, erkundet dieses feurige Stück den Kontrast zwischen Himmel und Hölle in einem neoklassizistischen Stil. Der Anlass für diese...

'On A Day When the Wind Is Perfect' is an uplifting affirmation of joy and beauty that the world affords every day to the eyes and heart that are opened to perceive and receive it. The poem and music...

In ihrem Stück, das Doreen Rao und ihrem CME Institute (Choral Music Experience) gewidmet ist, erzählt Komponistin Andrea Ramsey mit musikalischen Mitteln von der Reise, die viele von uns im Leben sch...

Playful and inspirational energy courses through this lively song, bringing to life a poem about the joy of musical sharing and personal interconnectedness.

Jabula Jesu is based on an African folk song which also appears in an alternate form in Hatfield's African Celebration. It allows within an orthodox choral setting, an unorthodox taste of the African...