Major Choral Works

Explore the grandeur of the Great Lakes in this seven-movement cantata accompanied by piano or orchestra and featuring soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone soloists. Each movement is written in the character

Rooted in the distinctive "Era of Manifestations" period of Shaker history (1837-1847), this multimovement work is based entirely on Shaker texts and tunes and reflects the visionary repertoire written at

Written in memory of George Floyd, this contemporary requiem features many different styles of composition. The intensity of the work is marked by powerful narration, creative incidental music, and a

Assembled from passages in Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, this work conceptually compares his rolling verses with those of the Psalms. Accompanied by organ with one percussion instrument

This work in three movements: Evening Song; The Cloths of Heaven and She Walks in Beauty uses texts from the past - Sydney Lanier, William Butler Yeats, Lord Byron, and Song of Solomon -

This five-movement work uses text from Psalm 19, Johannes Kepler's Harmonies of the World, and John Donne's An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary and sets them for SSAATTBB choir.

Based on seven poems by Langston Hughes, this seven movement work is scored for SATB divisi chorus  and chamber ensemble - flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, percussion, and piano. This interesting

This work outlines and explores similar themes as the traditional Latin Requiem - love, faith, mortality, surrender to an eternal will - but in a less ecclesiastical framework, with poems and texts drawn

A six-movement choral cycle for soprano solo, SATB chorus, and harp based on the incarnation of the Divine in the life of Christ from Medieval English texts. The harp part is at times robust, at other times

This multi-movement work offers a musical peak into the fantastical visual world of Marc Chagall via poetry by Robert Bode. Its seven poems are imaginative reflections on seven paintings by the

A musical journey through the shadows of the cross. The work is divided into nine individual movements and can be performed with either an instrumental trio of flute/alto flute, viola, and violoncello, or

"When I first began to look at medieval Latin texts for Carmina amoris, the epigrams, marginalia, and love letters I found by clerics and nuns from the fourth to the thirteenth centuries were a revelation.

This larger work is entirely based upon hymn tunes and texts found in the first five editions of a shape-note hymnal entitled Genuine Church Music. This cantata is divided into four movements: Welcome; Old

One of Randall Thompson's defining works, this cycle of eight sacred choruses was composed in 1936 and was a groundbreaking musical statement for a cappella choir. It remains a pinnacle of compositional

Kirke Mechem offers this attractive collection of lesser-known carols from different countries in order to paint different aspects of joy for the Christmastide. He employed the number seven because it is

"The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time." This proud lyric, from the pen of Thomas Jefferson, serves as the inspiration for Randall Thompson's enthralling choral work. It is the perfect