New Publications

Greetings from the Senior Editor at ECS Publishing Group. As many of you know, I am also a composer. I am seeking a mixed choir to record and/or premiere a work I composed this year. Management at ECS Publishing Group has already agreed to publish this work. However, we would all prefer not to do […]

“Fare Ye Well, My Darlin’” is based on a Civil War era folksong, collected in South Carolina: A soldier bids farewell to his beloved, informing her that he has enlisted to fight in the war. Follow the score with the premiere performance (6/2018) by San Francisco Choral Artists in this video. Available in print or […]

Christmas in July… “We Three Kings” arranged by Teresa Cobarrubia Yoder’s is available through Paraclete Press. *** This beguiling setting of the famous carol is set for SAB, piano and congregation. Yoder writes playful rhythmic variations and the coda is reminiscent of the Ukrainian Bell Carol.

Two new pieces are now available for download from my website’s scores page, https://nicholasweininger.com/scores. Both are SATB a cappella with limited divisi, suitable for high school, college, or adult ensembles. First is my setting of Song of Solomon 2:10-13, “My Beloved Spake,” which uses chanted motifs and a call-and-response setting to evoke both the solemnity […]

In partnership with the American Guild of Organists National Convention and Grammy Award winning conductor Charles Bruffy, MusicSpoke presents 2018 AGO Anthem Anthology and the launch of the Charles Bruffy Sacred ICON Series. Explore the works at the link below. https://musicspoke.com/AGO2018

My setting of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem Sympathy, called Why the Caged Bird Sings (SATB+ piano), was commissioned by the Young Peoples Chorus of NYC for their Honors Chorus, and is published by EC Schirmer. It has been an inspiration for many for the beauty of the poetry and the resonance of its meaning. There […]