Children's Choir with Chamber Orchestra

This set of three choruses re-creates in music the nocturnal, magical atmosphere of Shakespeare's play: fairies and nature, lullaby and love.

The second in a set of three settings of Carl Sandburg poems, this piece picks up the tempo and takes the set into the jazz mode.

A setting of a Carl Sandburg poem, abounding with rhythmic and melodic interest.

An upbeat piece with rhythms and vocal patterns that represent the varied cycles of life and exemplify the meaning of Panta Rhei - all things are in flux.

This new version of a well-known song makes a clear break from tradition to set the melody free and let it return to its roots. The accompanying flute and handbells lend a suitably medieval timbre to...

This popular William Blake text has a playful nature, which is reflected in the shifting meters that follow the rhythmic contour and accentuation of the words. The vocal line is light and bright, and...

From Thank You God, John Burge's large-scale work for children's voices is based on prayers written by members of the Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus. In this movement, the choir sings out praising God f...

3 selected scenes from Imant Raminsh's stunning children's opera, The Nightingale. This unique work features the children's chorus as the most central role, giving your choir the chance to truly parti...

The text of this song is based of the story Det utroligste by Hans Christian Andersen.

With an accompaniment as playful as the vocal line, this is a great concert piece for beginning choirs.

From his Mass for Many Nations, Rupert Lang has taken a traditional Irish melody, and set it to the English translation of the Agnus Dei

Kinderchor und Röhrenglocken (Klavier)

These words of St. Francis of Assisi express a delight in all things of the universe: earth, wind and air, moon and stars, fire and sun, referred to endearingly as our sisters and brothers. The evocat...

The bluesy, sultry feel of this Stephen Hatfield original will have singers and audiences grooving to the beat long after the music has ended. Written as a birthday tribute, this song contemplates the...

This classic spiritual is arranged here for three-part treble voices and conga drum, with numerous ostinato patterns that make the piece easy to learn and fun to perform.

Introduce your choirs to the music of America's best known composer - Aaron Copland. Carefully edited and arranged, it preserves the original accompaniment and makes an excellent concert feature.

A Yiddish lament set to an unstoppable dance groove. The rhythms and melodic contour evoke the Middle East without being culturally specific, and driving percussion fuels cantabile vocal lines. A uniq...

From Hatfield's opera Ann and Séamus, this is an adaptation from the third scene. The imagery of the sea, salty air, a hard day's work, and an impending storm are all richly portrayed. The piano part...