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Based on a Carl Sandburg poem, this work tells the story of the mutual longing of mother and grown child for the time and place of childhood.

Based on a Carl Sandburg poem, this piece is a meditation on solitude and how silence and music are interrelated. It evokes a state of stillness, bringing attention to the rise and fall of the breath...

To Hold Beauty expresses an understanding that all desires of the heart are reflections of the soul's one essential desire: to embrace beauty. With piano and optional timpani.

Canadian composer Mark Sirett has set the inspirational Charles Dickens text in a simple and sturdy form. With a flowing and independent piano accompaniment, the singers paint the text with descriptiv...

Composed in the world Music style with a text in Swahili, 'Imbakwa' was written for a film score that features an organization benefiting orphans in Tanzania. This organization called TunaHAKI uses th...

Jim has taken this classic message--a song of confidence and hope--originally scored for 2 part choir, and re-imagined it for mixed choir. This message is as strong as ever and the choral writing lift...

Now available for mixed voices, originally written for treble choir, this work inspires everyone with its rhythmic and energetic style. Using a Swahili text, it is a wonderful example of Papoulis' wor...

Composer Jim Papoulis raises the profile of Boomwhackers out of the elementary classroom and on to the concert stage. With an original, inspirational text that urges young people to 'know thyself', 's...

Written as a commission for the Los Angeles Colburn School, this piece is full of joy, celebrating all of our differences as people, and the importance of being accepting, kind souls. The lyrics are i...

Die kantige Natur des asymmetrischen Rhythmus und ein konstant sich änderndes Metrum sorgen hier für Lebendigkeit und Schwung. Sich bewegende harmonische Zentren sind verantwortlich für Unvorhersehbar...

Here is a work about light. Light which brings peace, hope, awareness, wholeness. The a cappella writing is descriptive and transparent and a wonderful vehicle for exploring choral colors.

This is an homage to the passing of time: a reflection on autumn turning into winter. Silence ensues as one takes refuge inside while wind stirs and trees toss outside, reminding us of the cycles of n...

Examining a real event of 1851, Page asks us to look to the future where the past is always present. Do we learn from our past or do we make the same mistakes over and over. 'Amazing Grace' sung over...

A combination of bluegrass and shapenote hymns create this energetic and fun anthem. The piano, arranged for 1 piano/4 hands, fills in all of the instruments in the bluegrass band while the choir leav...

There is a mysterious quality about the man hidden in the rafters of so many cathedrals and civic buildings of long ago. He is secretive, curious, playful, enigmatic. This music is rhythmic and angula...

This is an evocative, folk-like setting of Yeats' poem 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree.' The modal vocal writing is both simple and sophisticated and always expressive of the yearning in Yeats' words.

Here is a newly-created 'traditional song' that pairs an old hymn text with an original melody. The banjo like piano accompaniment gives the music motion and excitement and the result is a true concer...

The Te Deum is a Latin prayer that has been set to music countless times. But never before has there been a Te Deum for multiple choirs and Bluegrass band. Building on the immense success of The World...

I ask for one day where I don't have to hear about pain, or life that's lost, I ask for one day where whispers of hope are alive inside my heart. These words, written by 5th graders in a writing works...

30-minute work based on the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem 'The Landlord's Tale.' Composed in memory of the victims of 9/11.