Now available in-print from ECS Publishing: “O Absalom” for TTBB chorus unaccompanied by Stanley M. Hoffman, a setting of the famous ancient text about King David mourning the death of his son. I hope to create a YouTube video for this one very soon. In the meantime, you can get to a fabulous performance by […]
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Composer of “California Anthem” and “Oregon, My Home” seeks choirs to perform SATB
The “California Anthem” has been recorded and sung by many choirs and choruses to date. Most recently the largest chorus to perform the anthem consisted of 650 singers, who performed it at the “Shoreline Amphitheater” in Mt. View, CA in 2015. Composer, Kristi Kelty, (originally from California), has written a new anthem to celebrate the […]
PJR New Work Announcements: Hope and Quietly Wait (Morningstar) for SATB choir and piano
Today I’m featuring a work commissioned for the National Lutheran Choir which was included in their most recent album, “The Caged Bird Sings”. Hope and Quietly Wait combines elements of Thad Fiscella’s beautiful “Ivory Hymn” for piano with texts from Romans and Lamentations. “A moving original composition written as a piece of comfort and solace […]
New Arrangement of Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace (SATB, a cappella) click here to download the FREE pdf file of the arrangement. Of all of the hymns and songs of The Church, “Amazing Grace” may be the most universally well known. There are probably thousands upon thousands of arrangements, recordings, and transcriptions of the song. Well, here’s one more! I have […]
New Anthem from Craig Phillips – Hymn to the Trinity
American Guild of Organists Distinguished Composer Craig Phillip delights us again with this new festive anthem designed for Trinity Sunday with a Latin text by Hildegard von Bingen. The opening words “Praise to the Trinity” is set with grandeur and increasing intensity between choir and instruments (brass quintet, tympani and organ). The second half sets the full text to a 5/8 dance rhythm and the piece […]
Looking for something different for Christmas?
“Star of the East” is a new setting for mixed choir (SATB, with some divisions) and orchestra – or piano/organ. It was performed last Christmas by the London Symphony Chorus at the Barbican, and the previous year by the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus in Symphony Hall. You can look through the vocal score and […]