Two new Christmas pieces, “Prayer And Answer” and “Our Lamb Is Born” are available at my website, www.michaelsandvik.com (also available from sheetmusicplus). All pieces are on sale, 25% off the listed price, through September 21, 2014 as part of the website launch sale. Prayer And Answer: http://www.michaelsandvik.com/prayer-and-answer Our Lamb Is Born: http://www.michaelsandvik.com/our-lamb-is-born […]
New Publications
THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD, Christopher Smart/James Johnson
Full title: THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST by the eccentric English poet Christopher Smart (1722-1771); SSAATTBB, 2:20, in an animated homophonic style, only moderately difficult. Smart’s Latin poem Jubilate Agno was used in English translation as the text of Britten’s magnificent motet Rejoice in the Lamb, which contains the famous passage […]
“Do You Hear What I Hear?” SATB a cappella
The Merrie Olde Christmas Carolers’ SATB a cappella arrangement of “Do You Hear What I Hear?” is now available for your more advanced choirs. Each verse is a solo for separate voice section, progressing from B to A to S to T, with the three non-solo sections singing accompaniment in semi-canon; each verse is up […]
MI Y’MALEIL (Hoffman, SATB) Arranged for Chamber Orchestra
I am pleased to announce the availability of my popular Chanukah piece, MI Y’MALEIL (SATB & piano) in a new arrangement I made for chamber orchestra just in time for holiday programming. This arrangement was made at the request of conductor Shulamit Hoffmann for performance by her ensemble Viva la Musica this coming December. The orchestration calls for flute, 2 oboes, B-flat […]
Perchance to Dream (SATB, piano) by Jan Wilke
This setting of some of Shakespeare’s most famous lines (the “To be or not to be” monologue from Hamlet) won the “Knapp Award for Choral Excellence”, awarded by Meistersingers, CA, this year. An excellent concert piece for ambitious choirs, scored for SATB (divisi), piano and triangle. It is now available from SheetMusicPlus, where you […]
New Sacred SATB work by Ralph Manuel from Colla Voce Music
Click the cover image to view the score in its entirety. Colla Voce Music is proud to announce the release of this new SATB work by Ralph Manuel. Setting the text of John E. Bode (1869), Manuel has crafted a work that would work well in many different church settings. Scored for organ accompaniment, […]