Mixed Choir with Piano

An assuring text from master poet Sara Teasdale, its central theme is that one can take refuge in singing. Ever sensitive to the text, Walker crafts word painting throughout with shimmering accompanim...

This new arrangement focuses on the inherent drama of the text. Each verse expresses a different reaction to its question about the crucifixion. The piano accompaniment, which plays a featured role in...

This is a song of hope--of building a bridge of peace between the Israeli and Palestinian peoples. Their trees (Jaffa Orange in Israel, Olive on Arab lands) reach out their branches as hands across th...

This work is dedicated to Heather Heyer of Charlottesville, Virginia, who gave her life for our mission of tolerance. Using the traditional African American tune LET US BREAK BREAD, this arrangement i...

A creative and unusual work, The Gale uses text painting, sound effects, and crafty choral writing to bring to life the text written by Abraham ('Abramek') Koplowicz, a Jewish boy who was exterminated...

This movement from Songs for the Journey has a text adapted from the poem 'Epitaph' by Merrit Malloy, 'When all that's left of me is love, give me away. ' Duration: 3:00

This final movement of the larger work Songs for the Journey is set to the traditional blessing, 'May the road rise up to meet you. '

The opening lines, 'Listen, I love you. Do not turn your face / Nor touch me. ', reflect the somber feelings encompassing Sara Teasdale's poem. Paired voices initially express contrapuntal melodic lin...

Sara Teasdale's poem, Oh day of fire and sun, suggests a loud, fast musical setting. The syncopated homo-phonic choral texture, with high tessituras, exudes drama and excitement: it balances the expan...

Sara Teasdale's poem, The Mystery, depicts deep lasting love - 'Your eyes drink of me' and 'We have long been lovers'. It also raises a question - 'Can I ever know you / Or you know me?' Stephen Chatm...

The opening line of Sara Teasdale ™s poem, After Love, -There is no magic any more, establishes the theme of vanishing love. Stephen Chatman ™s setting of the poignant text, in the dark key of D flat...

This piece is a fast, joyous outburst. The initial lines, 'I am wild, I will sing to the trees' set the jubilant tone. The perpetual motion of the syllabic step-wise vocal lines is punctuated by stacc...

The texts for this set of three songs are mostly from the 19th century, but the sentiments are ageless. The special imagery in each of the poems finds its way into the musical setting. Evening Song fe...

Part of the collection Love Shall Live Forever. 'She Walks in Beauty' begins with a piano introduction allowing time to enter the poetic world of Lord Byron. A simple melody is accompanied by steady,...

The text by Edna St. Vincent Millay, speaks of a youthful all-night adventure riding the ferry back and forth with no destination in mind. There is much back-and-forth in the musical setting, to a swa...

From a three-part collection based on poetry by American pioneers, this third piece, 'A Hoopla, ' depicts a barn dance and vocalists circle round the instruments, stomp, clap, and generally perform wi...

A quietly meditative setting of gregorian chant, this work creates a shifting, groundless set of harmonies that effectively treat the source melody with the organic flow it naturally exhibits. Limited...

What would your Facebok timeline sound like set to music? Find out with Gordon Hamilton's Facebook Song!

What would your Facebok timeline sound like set to music? Find out with Gordon Hamilton's Facebook Song!