Audio available here: https://soundcloud.com/jeffrey-derus/afternoon-on-a-hill-by-jeffrey Hello All! New Composition! Title: Afternoon on a Hill Poet: Edna St. Vincent Millay Composer: Jeffrey M. Derus Voicing: SSAATB Duration: 4:30-5 mins Level: Modorate/Advanced Description: This new composition of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Afternoon on a Hill” brings a rush of warm harmonics and a sensitive grace to […]
New Publications
“Many Gifts One Spirit” for SATB Choir Diane Hannibal/Joel Raney
A new release from Shawnee Press. Original words and music by Diane Hannibal arranged by Joel Raney
“When I behold the heav’ns as in their prime” (1650) SATB 4:25
This poem appears in a collection titled Contemplations (1650) by Anne Bradstreet c.1612-1672, who sailed from England to Massachusetts with John Winthrop’s fleet in 1630. Following the catastrophe at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown CT on December 14, 2012, I searched for an appropriate text to set to music In Memoriam. The poem appears in […]
New Publication – “ECCE SACERDOS MAGNUS” for SATB Choir
I am proud to announce the publication of my second new edition of the year, “ECCE SACERDOS MAGNUS” by Johann Michael Haydn, for SATB choir and keyboard (with optional horns, strings and continuo), published by Hinshaw Music (HMC 2369). The younger brother of the more famous Joseph Haydn, Michael Haydn was a prolific composer of sacred Latin […]
“Mister Gecko” (SMATB) by Gray
Mister Gecko –from “Modern Living” (SMATB) – Madrigal about a tourist completely lost in the Global Village - Newly published on this web site and available for free at http://graymichael.com
Ave Maria (SATB, a cappella) – a new setting – free
In Latin – fairly easy, no divisi – circa 1½ minutes long. Here’s a multitrack demo recording by Matthew Curtis. You can view the score here, then click to download. This may be printed and used free of charge for performances. I mentioned this Ave Maria setting late last year on ChoralNet’s Music in Worship community […]