Chœur mixte a capella

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...

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...

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...

The friction between professed ideals and painful reality that Langston Hughes captured in his poem, 'Let America Be America Again, ' is also the foundation of the piece commissioned by Shannon Lyles...