An amazing gift from the Manhattan Choral Ensemble to choirs everywhere: a new, FREE resource. 16 pieces, free for non-commercial use. For their 20th Anniversary, the choir invited composers to contribute to a choral songbook- which you can now download for free.
“In celebration of the Manhattan Choral Ensemble’s 20th Anniversary Season, we are proud to present The Many Hills Songbook. This collection of compositions from contemporary composers connected to New York City is intended to provide the choral community at large with a shared repertoire of songs that reflect our daily life. We are extraordinarily grateful for the composers who have contributed to this project, and allowed us to share their work with you through a Creative Commons license for free non-commercial use. We hope you will download the songbook, share it with your singing partners, and find joy in the music echoing over the many hills of this world.”
There are lovely songs (David Kim’s “Irish Blessing), drinking songs (Jaymay’s “the Happiest Hour”), and songs for other uses. All may be done without a specific reason. (My “Travelin’ On” is meant to be a folk-like piece for choirs to sing to members that are leaving a choir- graduating students, community choir members moving away, etc…) There are 16 songs of various difficulty.
Here is the link to the free download of the Many Hills Songbook: https://www.mce.nyc/songbook/
Roger Stagge says
The link did not work for me, even after emptying my cache and several tries.