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E. E. Cummings' poem i carry your heart could be read as a marriage vow, a joyous ode to a newborn, or even a eulogy to a lost love…it is adaptable to all kinds and levels of love. This setting is gro...

Henry Mollicone wrote Now I Can See the Light! for the Choir of the Stone Church of Willow Glen, Nancy Wait Kromm, director. Set to a text by the pastor at Stone Church, Rev. Ken Henry, this anthem is...

Featuring a text from Proverbs 31:25 30, She That Feareth the Lord is a lyrical setting extolling the virtues of being a woman who is faithful to God. Useful for any service highlighting the role of w...

Composed employing the harmonic vocabulary of Herbert Howells, this setting of the Te Deum was commissioned for the inauguration of the new organ at Ladue Chapel Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, Miss...

Commissioned for the 100th anniversary of Lakewood Congregational Church, Lakewood, Ohio. The text is drawn both from Psalm 84 and two additional verses written by the late poet John Stirling Walker....

The text of Forever Toward You is a translation of a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 1926) from The Book of Monastic Life. Rilke's poem speaks of a desire to encounter the Creator-the You in the titl...

The Rose Led Us to Our Eyes is a setting of a text by poet Ghalib (1797 1869) as adapted by the composer. The music is relatively uncomplicated and mellifluous.

Three Pieces for Chanukah is not so much a set of arrangements of familiar words and tunes than it is a set of original compositions based on them. The first two settings feature jazz-influenced, clas...

Three Pieces for Chanukah is not so much a set of arrangements of familiar words and tunes than it is a set of original compositions based on them. The first two settings feature jazz-influenced, clas...

A modern setting of the well-known and pensive text from Lidley's Prayers. The overall mood is plaintive and atmospheric, with dissonant and distinct harmonies throughout, portraying the penitent and...

The composer has created a new musical setting based on Josiah G. Holland's well known text 'There's a Song in the Air. ' The opening introduction depicts the twinkling stars and beautifully captures...

This movement from Songs for the Journey has a text adapted from the poem 'Epitaph' by Merrit Malloy, 'When all that's left of me is love, give me away. ' Duration: 3:00

This final movement of the larger work Songs for the Journey is set to the traditional blessing, 'May the road rise up to meet you. '

The opening lines, 'Listen, I love you. Do not turn your face / Nor touch me. ', reflect the somber feelings encompassing Sara Teasdale's poem. Paired voices initially express contrapuntal melodic lin...

Stephen Chatman's setting of Sara Teasdale's whimsical poem pertaining to a brown-thrush, April, love and kisses, emulates the meaning, strict rhythm, rhyme and strophic structure of the text. The sof...

Sara Teasdale's poem, Oh day of fire and sun, suggests a loud, fast musical setting. The syncopated homo-phonic choral texture, with high tessituras, exudes drama and excitement: it balances the expan...

Sara Teasdale's poem, The Mystery, depicts deep lasting love - 'Your eyes drink of me' and 'We have long been lovers'. It also raises a question - 'Can I ever know you / Or you know me?' Stephen Chatm...