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CME Concert Collection provides a complete repertoire for your next concert selected from the Choral Music Experience library.

Unison voices & piano.

While this canon may sound quite serious, it was written in friendly jest for Beethoven's friend, Abbé Stadler, a priest. The first two phrases are written in Italian to signify the relationship of th...

The simplicity and spontaneity of the American play-party has inspired this first medley of songs common not only to the Appalachian Mountains but also shared by many southern states. Because of the n...

Spirit of the Child could be described as a choral drama. Its inspiration was derived from the plight of children cught as innocent victims in civil was in the Sudan region of Africa. The final sectio...

This original carol is intended to ekove the spirit of Dickens' A Christmas Carol with carolers moving from house to house on a snow-white Christmas Eve.

Text from Shakespeare's The Tempest. This piece acts as a kind of spectrum which both breaks a unity into diverse colors, and reassembles the diverse colors into a unity.

This tender lullaby, set to the text of “Good Night” by Jane Taylor, is characterized by lulling repeated notes and rhythms. Written in modified strophic form, the melody has a reassuring...

This piece is a setting of the poem by Kenneth Patchen for women's chorus. It combines new and old musical techniques to reflect the fleeting nature of our lives and passions in the timelessness of th...

The music reflects a Native American influence, though it does not employ authentic native musical elements. A simple, heartfelt text is set in repetitive, chant-like phrases, uncluttered textures, an...

The Wind requires young singers to develop a very smooth legato and vocal flexibility over wide intervals.

The text of I have had singing comes from an oral history collected in the small village of Akenfield, England. The same text is a fitting tribute to young Benjamin Kuylen, a singer with the New Orlea...

Magic Land is a story about a child traveling in his/her magic, imaginary place. On this particular trip the child meets Zee, a boy who came to the same magic imaginary place, but stayed so long and h...

The Smoothing Iron is an enjoyable choral romp through a young lad's sighs and palpitations, observing his lady-love as she sorts, washes, dries, folds, irons, airs... and eventually wears her “...

In the Farther Field, a haiku, the first of four songs form Scarecrow Songs, was written by Sanin and translated by Peter Beilenson in Haiku Harvest published by Peter Pauper Press. The haiku as a poe...

This piece employs the familiar melody Ah vous dirai-je mamam, and is based on the nursery rhyme about wool and taxes where a man harvests a third of his income (wool) for his master, another for his...