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Donald Grantham has set the beautiful and descriptive Jane Kenyon Poem in a serene and gentle musical pallet. With lush harmonies and much rubato within a slow tempo, this is atmospheric in its final...

These three choral vignettes are inspired by the whimsical poetry of Emily Dickinson. All three pieces require a free play of fancy and imagination. Using extended, aleatoric passages, non-metrical an...

Long, legato lines and shifting tonal centers describe this setting by Matthew Emery of this famous James Joyce poem. Speaking of the power of both love and music and how they intertwine and collide,...

With a text from the Celtic collection Carmina Gadelica these words speak directly from the heart, in simple and poignant language that is so often a creative departure from mainstream religious writi...

This work is dedicated to the memory of the legendary choral director Paul Salamunovich and his favorite musical genre of Gregorian chant. The composer has written an original chant in the Gregorian s...

This musical setting of the famous Mary Elizabeth Frye poem Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep begins very placidly, and takes the refrain of I am as a mantra for existence. The use of a dramatic sopra...

This wonderful parable by Will Allen Dromgoole has a dreamy quality and the music reflects that with a mix of soft jazz and classical stylings. Syncopated vocal accompaniment creates an effect that fe...

Written for the 100th anniversary of the St. Olaf choir, this work is commensurate with ability of one of the great choirs in America. The music makes consistent use of divisi texture, expansive arcs...

This haunting, introspective plea for relief begins as a near-whisper and rises to an intense clangor. Through the mantra-like repetition and gradual transformation of the words from this timeless Psa...

This beautiful text from Ovid's Metamorphoses speaks of the creatures named for the time they first appear: vespertilians (bats). Not scary or to be feared, rather, here they slip into shadows with tr...

This beautiful and simple melody for mixed, unison choir or solo is the perfect ending to a worship service or concert. It can be sung a cappella or with the optional clarinet, violin, viola and cello...

This is an arrangement, by Zalomen Mlotek, for mixed chorus, of a Yiddish Chanukah song written in 1921, by Solomon Golub and Abraham Reisen. The text describes a father chanting the blessings over th...

Legendary composer Kirke Mechem sets the Hebrew text that reminds us to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels. This inspirational text for SATB a cappella choir is accessible f...

With a text by the composer, this is a delightful kaleidoscope of musical snippets that highlight the joys of choral singing! Melody, harmony, counterpoint, we can sing ANYTHING! Ta-dah!

Opening with the phrase How you wonder what you are, this poem, described by the composer as a sort of fable for adults, is set for mixed voices with soprano solo as a work of lyricism and reassurance...

This is the first new composition in the exciting new series curated by American conductor and composer, Rollo Dilworth. With a focus on literature for upper High School, Honors Choirs and early colle...

Written for the Clarion Chamber Chorale of Omaha, Nebraska, this Gerard Manley Hopkins poem Spring and Fall is full of beautiful, figurative and profound language. It speaks to the human condition in...

This favorite Shaker song from the mid-1800s in an invigorating arrangement by Kevin Siegfried is a wonderful concert opener or sacred anthem with themes of love, peace and personal righteousness.

Celebrated contemporary poet Charles Anthony Silvestri has written a text that reflects the personal insights and positive and negative aspects of being a teenager. Composer Narverud has set these ins...

This setting of an anonymous 15th century text mixes polyphony with homophonic writing, offering broad contrasts in dynamics and range/tessitura that are appropriate for high school and festival choir...

This text is adapted from a heartfelt poem by nineteenth century English poet Christina Rossetti. Teehan's setting is simple and lyrical, with little harmonic twists that lift it from the ordinary, gi...

Written for the professional choir, The Jameson Singers, this moving text by Phillis Wheatley unfolds in long vocal lines with broad dynamics and liberal use of rubato. This is the convergence of visu...

Described as choral counterpoint for church choirs, these two short selections, God Thoughts and Majesty of Mountains, are gems that can be used as responses in worship, or combined, as a lovely anthe...

Salamone Rossi (1570-1630) was a Jewish musician at the court of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga and a contemporary of Monteverdi, but his musical style foreshadows the chorale style yet to come. This beautiful...

Poet and Iraqi war vereran Brian Turner writes moving accounts of the war that are vivid and powerful. Composer Shawn Crouch uses Turner's visceral images of the war but emphasizes the lyrical qualiti...