Beginning with a single-lien chant, the music moves through echoing counterpoint into ever more anxious, short phrases before opening into a gentle waltz that urges us to "see all this light". The poet
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In a light-hearted style, the music mirrors Mom's emotions as she considers the various challenges her offspring might face. Perfect for spring/graduation concerts.
True to its name, this modern madrigal focuses on lively, compelling rhythms that imitate and celebrate the energy of youth, while gently underscoring its ephemeral nature. Fitting for an advanced choir
Benjamin Franklin's early American creed is set in a rhythmic a cappella setting with an underlying ostinato for the basses, chanting "I Believe" throughout the piece. Mixed meter, and while soaring
Long vocal lines and piano flourishes imitating the ch’in and gong, and far eastern flavors and colors evoke the vastness of Pearl S. Buck's beloved China.
A gospel-influenced setting of two inspirational texts by W.E.B. Du Bois. In the hands of Carol Barnett, these poems come alive. Energetic and meaningful!
Can a cradle rock in 5/4? This one does, carrying the listener off to faraway harmonic regions and chromatic ideas before returning to a reassuring final cadence in A major.
Young poets write about home in ways both immediate and profound: a place, the things in those places, beloved people and pets, the familiar sounds, smells, and tastes. This music is a kaleidoscope of
Echoing repetitions, supported by a shimmering vibraphone, create the frosty soundscape of Sara Teasdale's poem as the voices strive to make a single song "as lovely and full of light, as hushed and brief
The music utilizes the text of St. Clare of Assisi, contemporary and follower of St. Francis. We hear the women joyfully calling young Clare to the contemplative life, the Franciscan men softly chanting the
Vachel Lindsay's poem is subtitled "A Poem Game," and this musical setting is a bit of a game as well - a game of skill as the text provides tongue-twisting turns for the singers. That and the interesting
This setting of Shakespeare’s iconic text transitions from Prospero’s valedictory speech to images of towers and palaces that are built and dissolved within extended phrases. At the end, the
Unusual sonorities and shifting modes capture the timelessness and simplicity of the everyday images in Patricia Kirkpatrick's poem about small town America.
The composer carefully and cleverly depicts the pairs of opposites and then musically resolves them into one perfect whole. Each resolution rises to a new level so that the final concept, eternity, bursts
In this innovative work, the choir paints the bucolic scene with vocal illustrations: buzzing like bees, singing quasi-overtones, and emulating wind sounds. Otherwise a cappella harmonies are supplemented
A lovely arrangement of Slummersang (Cradle Song) by Gustaf Hagg, this piece set for mixed choir with piano provides harmonic interest while remaining accessible to choirs of many levels. The
This is a choral mini-drama that, through intense and chaotic vocal lines and harmonies, depicts the emotions surrounding the Crucifixion. The text includes the last words of Christ as well as a elements
"We clasp the hands of those who go before us, and the hands of those who come after us..." This unifying text by Wendell Berry preserves our sense of heritage and connection. Barnett's artistic setting for
With layered entrances by oboe, treble/children’s choir, and finally mixed voices, joy and welcome abound in this piece. A contemplative middle section provides a calming contrast to the unbridled joy