Women's Choir a capella

Winter Wind was inspired by a sojourn in a snowy wilderness. What a privilege it is to wait quietly in a blanketed forest and hear it sing!

Frauenchor (SS), Klavier und Glockenspiel

The rhythms of Jack Prelutsky's witty text inpired this playful, jazzy setting.

The collaged texts of Spinning Flax are “spun” together from a broad historical range of source material - court records, church and town records, neurological case histories, Medieval and...

Written in 1937 for a performance of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.

Now I walk in Beauty is a setting of a prayer of the Navaho people. The simple set of variations on a four phrase melody is a celebration of the innate deep in the heart of all people.

In a Valley Low combines folksongs from American and Finland in a light, melancholy jazz style. The folksongs share the idea of passing through the world and carrying the beauty encountered there in y...

This setting of the poem Faldang attempts to capture the flavour of the fiddle tunes referred to in the text with the zestiness of meter changes and no-diatonic excursions. Above all else, it should b...

Moonplay is influenced by the tradition of inventions - studies using limited musical materials. Yi and yu - change and constancy - are the foundations of almost every musical form. And in abstract mu...

The life of Oglala Sioux holy man Black Elk (1863-1950) spanned the tragic decades of the battle with Custer at the Little Big Horn, the ghost dance, and the massacre at Wounded Knee. In 1930, Nebrask...

A flowing piano accompaniment sets the gentle, expectant mood of this piece, returning in each section with further development and ornamentation, inspiring and deepening a sense of awe and Divine ecs...

Autumn Song is a setting of a poem by Emily Dickinson, which depicts the season's onset as a charming change of venue and dress. The wit and conciseness of Dickinson's imagery inspired the similarly c...

Above the “purging” arpeggios in the piano accompaniment, the voices sing melodic and harmonic intervals which are predominantly from the whole tone scale. The singing is effectively frame...

This folk song in the Dorian mode tells an amusing story interspersed with appealing responses and a chorus of nonsense syllables. The active piano accompaniment departs from the scale of the melody,...

Dalglish has masterfully set this quiet text with a simple, flowing melody. The shimmering quality of the hammer dulcimer is a perfect complement to the legato vocal line. The easily-accessible descan...

This lively folk song is accompanied by two repetitive countermelodies, each with its own character and humor. The middle voice is the melody, giving young singers an opportunity to develop inner voic...

Longfellow wrote the text, entitled “Christmas Bells,” in 1863. During that Christmas season, the poet's son was critically wounded in a war, and the text expresses his father's anguish ov...

This short piece was written early in Schein's life and is typical of the Italian madrigal. The polyphonic writing offers each voice a melodic line to shape, and imitation to listen for the other voic...