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Written for the Choir of the Church of the Advent in Boston, Massachusetts (Dr. Edith Ho, director), this piece was composed for the wedding of John Sterling Lambert and Susan Tighlman Bisson at the A...

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...

On Compassion received its premiere performance by the Vox Nova Chorale. The text comes from two quotes by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and the Tibetan Buddhist mantra, 'Om mani padme hum, ' which is...

SSAA Chorus, Oboe, and String Quartet or Piano American poet Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 collection of poems titled Love Songs. The text for this song is taken from '...

Specks of Earth is a collection of choral miniatures that use poetry from Rabindranath Tagore's work Stray Birds, a collection of 326 short poems. Vivid language elicits a burst of imagery that is tra...

This setting of Maya Angelou's poem Touched by an Angel is a reminder that love is not a mere timid, fleeting feeling, but a courageous struggle which heightens our experience of both joy and pain. Lo...

This lyrical music perfectly matches the elegantly phrased text written by the 18th-century Irish singer, songwriter, and poet Thomas Moore. Tender and emotional, the choral writing is accompanied by...

A setting of a portion of the Hebrew prayer Al HaNissim ('On the Miracles'), recited on the Jewish festival of Chanukah. The prayer is an expression of gratitude for God's intervention on behalf of t...

Composed in celebration of a storied career on behalf of Susan Ihnen, the accompanist at Valley High School in West Des Moines, Iowa, for twenty-five years. This skilled young composer has managed to...

Written for the Jacksonville Children's Chorus, this SSAA setting of a Sara Teasdale text opens with a sort of call and response between the voices. The music then transitions to a contrasting key and...

Written for the Jacksonville Children's Chorus, this SSAA setting of a Sara Teasdale text is set completely for unaccompanied voices. The text, 'Peace flows into me…, ' is introduced on a single note,...

Written for the Jacksonville Children's Chorus, this SSAA setting of a Sara Teasdale text begins in unison. This verse structure is followed by a refrain and a canon between the two voices on the text...

This setting of the Mother Goose nursery rhyme is dangerously close to a groovy choral vamp! The scoring is for mixed chorus and jazz trio, but it certainly could be performed with just a piano (proba...

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...