New Publications

There’s a bit a a buzz regarding the arrangement of “America the Beautiful” sung by the Armed Forces Chorus at Super Bowl 50.  It was written specifically for the occasion by Ron Harris, who once upon a time was an arranger for The United States Army Chorus when I conducted it.  (The director of the […]

For more information please contact ARTIVA, Nafplio Peloponnese, GREECE Tel +302752400488,+306936774018, E.mail

For more information please contact ARTIVA, Nafplio Peloponnese, GREECE Tel +302752400488,+306936774018, E.mail

I am proud to announce the publication of my newest modern performing edition, Johann Michael Haydn’s “NE TIMEAS MARIA”, for SATB choir with keyboard accompaniment (optional trumpets, strings and continuo), published by Carl Fischer (CM9463). This edition is based upon the autograph score located in the Bavarian State Library in Munich, Germany.

Click on the link below to read about and listen to recent works including ” When the Earth Stands Still” to be published by ECS Publishing and “Last Night of Stars” to be published by Hal Leonard.   http://donmacdonaldmusic.com/newsletter/                

              Click the cover image to view the scores in their entirety.   Alongside the Lied, another popular genre of vocal music in the 19th century was the Romantic part song for chorus. Using texts by many of the same poets who figure so prominently in their Lieder cycles, composers such as Schumann, […]