Partiture per coro

Un gioiello corale della metà del XX secolo, questo lavoro natalizio a cappella è ottimo per i cori avanzati.

This arrangement presents the challenge of singing a familiar lullaby with freshness and a tender sound quality that is well supported. Take great care in the opening to energize the E natural pedal p...

Two moving settings of wrenching poems by W. B. Yeats (An Irish Airman Foresees His Death) and Sara Teasdale (There Will Come Soft Rain) comprise the master title, Pieces Written in a Time of War. Dur...

The Salve Regina, also known as the Hail Holy Queen, is a Marian hymn and one of four Marian antiphons sung at different seasons within the Christian liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church. The Sa...

The original tune is set in F major using traditional harmony. The suspensions are set at words which reveal tension to be resolved, which I have not always done. The tonal structure is of a modified...

Written in an emotionally appealing twenty-first century style, Glow is written to a haunting and transcendent text, concluding with, 'I feel the whole earth listening, like humming birds beating in m...

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), who studied astromomy, wrote this poem just a few years after Urbain Le Verrier (1811-1887), the well known astronomer, gained great respect for identifying the celestial...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 1892) wrote Crossing the Bar in 1889, only a few years before his death. Although it was not his last poem, he requested that Crossing the Bar appear as the final poem in a...

Written for the Washington and Lee University Singers in 2016, this is a haunting setting of parts of several poems by Joseph Mary Plunkett, the man who came up with the ill-fated plan for the Easter...

The music begins mysteriously with the John Dryden text split among the voices and ending with Alleluias. A sort of scherzo section follows, concluding with a declamation, 'The dead shall live, the li...

The origin of the melody My Country 'Tis of Thee is not known but assumed to generate from Europe. The melody is also used for the national anthem of the United Kingdom, God Save the Queen. The text f...

The writers' intent is to incorporate the sacred and the secular in this adaptation of the final, or seventh, of the Last Words of Christ, 'Into your hands I commend my spirit. ' This movement, set fo...

Commisioned by the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, Lead Us Home speaks to the power music holds: its ability to comfort, to transport, and heal. In moments of conflict, strife, and grief, we turn...