Announcing a new iPad app to teach sight-singing using Solfa syllables. https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id785084554?mt=8 The breakthrough in using an iPad is that learners can finally be self-starting, without needing to be able to check their notes on a piano. The app will sound the key chord, play any note or solfa box the user touches, play […]
New Publications
“It takes a Village” (SMATbB)
It takes a Village (SMATbB) – a rhythmic celebration of community – works great for an end of the concert piece or for a multi-choir finale – newly revised and now available for free at http://graymichael.com
Whitman’s “Turn, O Libertad” now for SATB a cappella
I’ve been asked to create an SATB a cappella version of my fuller settings of Walt Whitman’s powerful poem, “Turn, O Libertad,” originally set for SATB chorus and both piano 4 hands and symphonic orchestra. You may hear a midi file of the orig. v. (w/piano) on my Web site, kenmalucelli.com. Click on Secular Choral, scroll […]
New Arrangement of Jerusalem
A chance to hear before you buy – this is a well loved version of Jerusalem that has become Albion’s signature tune. For the sheet music go to: http://www.freewebstore.org/Fraser-Wilson-Music/Jerusalem/p1610060_7611557.aspx
Beloved
Beloved, by UK composer Helen Williams For unaccompanied eight-part choir with tenor solo. With a text from the Song of Songs, Beloved was written as a wedding anthem and is also suitable for singing about the summer season, when “the winter is past” and “the time of singing has come.” Available from the Canossa […]
Be My Honey(bee)
I just wrote a short, jazzy piece for choir and tuba called “Be My Honey(bee).” You can see the score and hear a computer realization at www.raulkottler.com. You might also have a use for “Observations on the Ventura Pier” for choir and string orchestra. Regards, Raul Kottler Ojai, CA