Barbershop Sheet Music for Mixed Voices

This arrangement contrasts the unbridled optimism and resolve of a person heading off to war with the bittersweet nostalgia of leaving a special person behind, along with the promise of return. The re...

Written in 2010 in honor of the 30th anniversary season of Winchester (Virginia) Musica Viva, who gave its premiere performance under their music director, Kenneth Nafziger. The piece begins simply wi...

In 2002, I was commissioned by the Turtle Creek Chorale to compose a three-movement star-themed piece for their upcoming 'celestial' concert. I immediately knew that I wanted strings and celeste to se...

Moonlight Sound Design was commissioned and premiered by the youth choir Kamer conducted by Märis Sirmais in Riga, Latvia in 2012. In USA, it was performed by the Wartburg Choir conducted by Lee Nelso...

This setting of the Mother Goose nursery rhyme is a lullaby disguised as a ballad. The scoring is for mixed chorus and jazz trio, but it could be performed with just a piano (probably best with three...

For SATB and piano, this original setting of Maya Angelou's poem, 'Prayer' is in a soulful 6/8. (The accompaniment occasionally quotes 'Lift Every Voice and Sing, ' which gives you an idea of the temp...

This lyrical setting of a poem by Sara Teasdale was commissioned as a gift for a consortium of seven high school choirs in Illinois. It begins with a reflective and contemplative tone that shifts dram...

How would you finish the sentence, 'Today I will_______. '? That was the question Dr. Joe Miller and Anne Sears of Westminster Choir College asked of singers and audience members at the Westminster Ch...

This unique setting pairs the iconic Latin text with an new, original English text, which is a response to the question, -Why do we rejoice and shout our praises to God? The music captures the energy,...

This piece may be performed as part of a collection of four Whitman settings under the master title This Is Thy Hour. A majestic opening heralds the hour that unfolds to a rhythmic ostinato that acts...

This piece may be performed as part of a collection of four Whitman settings under the master title, This Is Thy Hour. Understated elegance is the hallmark of this movement: the music reflects the sim...

Written for the Luther College Collegiate Chorale for concert with the theme, -Prayers for Peace. Although the work is newly composed, the melodic material seems reminiscent of music that one would he...

Clara Schumann's solo song expressing thankfulness for 'True Love' has been expertly and effectively adapted here for SATB voices by composer/scholar James McCullough.

Based on an Inuit proverb, this reflective piece was originally composed for the Centennial High School Concert Choir from Circle Pines, Minnesota, in memory of the composer's mother, Coralynn, who pa...