Partitions Imant Raminsh pour chœur de femmes

La base de la composition se trouve dans un texte des Indiens Ojibway (également connus sous le nom de Anishinabe), adapté par le compositeur lui-même. Ce texte comprend des images variées de la natur...

Based upon the well-known poem by Canadian poet, Bliss Carman, Vestigia explores a variety of moods and tones colours made available by the solo voice, treble choir, violin, violoncello and piano.

The second selection from a set of Five Latvian Folk Songs, this song tells of a young woman picking the whitest of garden roses for a wreath. Its rhythmic 2/4 is playful, with off-the-beat accents st...

White Feathers is set to a translation from the Papago by Frances Densmore (1867-1957), the foremost authority on the songs and music of American Indian tribes. The text likely describes or suggests t...

Originally collected at Chezzetcook, Nova Scotia, by the well-known Canadian folklorist Helen Creighton, the tune and text of this piece are variants of the popular and ubiquitous “Riddle Song&r...

Based on parts of Genesis, chapter 1, this piece explores the creation of light, day and night, the sun and the moon.

Originally titled Caribbean Sun, the poem captured the exuberance of the poet's childhood in the tropics. The piano sets the scene with an energetic rhythmic figure that is picked up by the voices.

Written as a twentieth-anniversary gift for Jean Ashworth Bartle and the Toronto Children's chorus, this new Christmas Carol sets the charming text by Ruth Sawyer in simple flowing diatonic lines, ans...