New Publications

Everything for learning and performing this new Christmas carol is available as free downloads from the webpage.  It’s great fun to sing and there is a video of a performance on YouTube – just search YT or Google The Age Old Reason for Joy and you’ll find it.  Besides the SATB score in portait or […]

New book published by GIA.  It is a compilation of speeches tributes, photos about Elaine Brown, her devotion to the University, to Singing City of Philadelphia, PA, and to choral singers across the United States.   Contact Giamusic.com for more information.  When you find their web site, scroll down to the book, then continue to scroll […]

Please see the following links for my TTBB arrangement of Robledo’s Hoc Corpus.  Hoc Corpus is the communion antiphon for Holy Thursday. PDF: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bkuviox9trndux7/Hoc Corpus – Robledo – TTBB.pdf WAV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yyfb56uh8sp045k/Hoc Corpus – Robledo – TTBB.wav  

Winter’s Cold (SATB/piano/opt soli) Michael John Trotta/Samuel Longfellow​   Look Listen Order   This movement excerpted from “Dedication to Life” is a compelling setting of the text of Samuel Longfellow. It touches on the theme of hope in the midst of darkness. It opens with a haunting unison melody that unfolds to a choral treatment […]

In time for the 100th anniversary of the World War I Christmas Truce, performance rights are now available for “All is Calm: the Christmas Truce of 1914.” Written by Peter Rothstein with musical arrangements by Erick Lichte and Timothy C. Takach, “All is Calm” has been toured by Cantus and Theater Latter Da for several years, […]

“A Song of Myself” from “Posthumous Keats (SA, Piano) by Gray – a good introduction to bi-tonal music; about a young runaway’s discovery. – download available for free at  http://graymichael.com