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A setting of a portion of the Hebrew prayer Al HaNissim ('On the Miracles'), recited on the Jewish festival of Chanukah. The prayer is an expression of gratitude for God's intervention on behalf of t...

Composed in celebration of a storied career on behalf of Susan Ihnen, the accompanist at Valley High School in West Des Moines, Iowa, for twenty-five years. This skilled young composer has managed to...

Written for the Jacksonville Children's Chorus, this SSAA setting of a Sara Teasdale text opens with a sort of call and response between the voices. The music then transitions to a contrasting key and...

Written for the Jacksonville Children's Chorus, this SSAA setting of a Sara Teasdale text is set completely for unaccompanied voices. The text, 'Peace flows into me…, ' is introduced on a single note,...

Written for the Jacksonville Children's Chorus, this SSAA setting of a Sara Teasdale text begins in unison. This verse structure is followed by a refrain and a canon between the two voices on the text...

We are constantly bombarded with language and images that challenge us to consider our world from many points of view. This is important, but perhaps even more important is what do we do with all thes...

This setting of the Mother Goose nursery rhyme is dangerously close to a groovy choral vamp! The scoring is for mixed chorus and jazz trio, but it certainly could be performed with just a piano (proba...

This setting of the Mother Goose nursery rhyme is a lullaby disguised as a ballad. The scoring is for mixed chorus and jazz trio, but it could be performed with just a piano (probably best with three...

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...

Text painting abounds in this setting of a Dickinson poem concerning the brief time gifted to our human condition. To match the topic and brevity of the poem, the work itself isn't long, lasting only...

The work opens with a sardonic take on the title line, the first reaction being one of malice towards recollection. The piece then transitions to a nostalgic perspective, as continued pondering gives...

The SATB version of Moonlight Sound Design was commissioned and premiered by the youth choir Kam r conducted by M ris Sirmais in Riga, Latvia in 2012. In USA, it was performed by the Wartburg Choir co...

For SATB and piano, this original setting of Maya Angelou's poem, 'Prayer' is in a soulful 6/8. (The accompaniment occasionally quotes 'Lift Every Voice and Sing, ' which gives you an idea of the temp...

This arrangement is a re-imagining of Martin Luther's iconic hymn melody. New harmonies and ambient electric guitar accompaniment create an ancient/modern feel-giving new life to this classic hymn. Sh...

Composed for the Columbus International Children's Choir, Tatiana Kats, Conductor, for their performance at the 2018 World Choir Games in Tshwane, South Africa, as an opener to their sacred music set....

This lyrical setting of a poem by Sara Teasdale was commissioned as a gift for a consortium of seven high school choirs in Illinois. It begins with a reflective and contemplative tone that shifts dram...

How would you finish the sentence, 'Today I will_______. '? That was the question Dr. Joe Miller and Anne Sears of Westminster Choir College asked of singers and audience members at the Westminster Ch...