Boosey & Hawkes

This Finnish poem makes it clear that this lullaby is being sung by a peasant mother to her dead child, wishing it safe passage to the afterlife.

Birdsongis a celebration of life. The text comes from a collection of poems written by children who, while incarcerated in the Terezin Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia during World War II, wrote o...

Dubula

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. Incl...

Based on a biblical text, 'And Miriam Sang' is a song of celebration following Israel's deliverance from Egypt through the Red Sea. It begins in a slow, chant-like manner, and soon shifts to an up-tem...

The music for this setting of Teasdale's poem highlights the tension in the text between the beauty of nature and the violence human beings inflict on themselves. In the closing measures of the piece,...

Jim Papoulis is donating his composer royalties to the Foundation For Small Voices. This non-profit organization is dedicated to bringing awareness and funding to programs supporting the empowerment o...

Written in a song-writing workshop with the Ridge High School Choir of basking Ridge, New Jersey, here is a song of hopes. 'I wanna believe in beauty, I wanna be seen in darkness, I wanna be heard in...

To Shiver the Sky is an oratorio about the history of flight, and mankind's quest to conquer the heavens. Told through the words of 11 of our greatest astronomers, inventors, visionaries and pilots, i...

These four motets were composed in the fall of 1921 while Copland was studying with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. The four motets have remained unpublished until now. Writing to Copland about them in 1924...

Hot-blooded and haughty, a mixture of delight and disdain. The central paradox of performing this piece it that the rhythms must be very incisive and exact, yet the precision must be combined with the...

This is a folk melody from Ecuador traditionally played on the siku - the double row of panpipes that have been used in the high Andes for over a thousand years.

This is a folk melody from Ecuador traditionally played on the siku - the double row of panpipes that have been used in the high Andes for over a thousand years.

Infectious rhythms and playful melodies characterize this setting. These newly composed melodies and rhythms, while not distinctly Venezuelan, capture the vitality and charm of the region.

Harvest Home, on a text of the Jacobean poet, Robert Herrick, was composed for the Lehman Engle Madrigal Singers in 1937. This is a companion piece to Robert Herrick's To Music that was also performed...

Überlebensgross, which means “larger than life,” pays tribute to the strength, sweetness and savviness of women's voices through a montage of styles ranging from Jerez Flamenco to 1920's f...

The Boosey & Hawkes Concerts for Choirs series is an innovative approach to concert planning for choirs. Each volume contains a wealth of material to help the choral director assemble a concert progra...

This lyrical and passionate work for treble choir, cello and piano features flowing, rich harmonies and exhilarating dance-like passages offering the promise of sensual beauty, joyful connection and u...

Acceptance and unity, even through our differences, are an essential part of our evolving world. Here is a powerful and uplifting song commissioned by Plymouth, Massachusetts and Plymouth, England as...

This ancient Hebrew text about unity still resonates with poignant significance. The distinctive sound of the Hebrew language as expressed through this hauntingly beautiful melody transports performer...