New Publications

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s Day?” –from “Book of Sonnets” (SAB, piano)  – a flowing, warm setting of Shakespeare’s best known sonnet  – works well with High School choirs  – newly published and available for free download:    http://graymichael.com

I have just completed a new performing edition of Mozart’s Coronation Mass (K 317) which is now available for choirs and conductors to peruse.   If you are interested in seeing some sample pages please e-mail me at and I will send you some pdf files to look at.   I have a variety […]

A selection of seasonal choral music by Cheryl Camm, mostly for SATB, but also for high or low voices:   Five Christmas Fanfares: 1) Cantate Domino 2) Exulta, Filia Zion 3) Dies Sanctificatus 4) Laetentur Caeli 5) Hodie Christus Natus Est   Omnes de Saba   In The Bleak Midwinter   The Lamb   Dancing […]

    Joy to the World – The Forgotten Meaning of Christmas by Isaac Watts Hardcover w/ dust jacket, $16.99, 104 pages Paraclete Press http://www.paracletepress.com/joy-to-the-world-the-lord-is-come.html   Few people know that “Joy to the World” – the world’s most popular Christmas song – wasn’t written for Christmas at all. Isaac Watts wrote it in imitation of Psalm 98. […]

Norwegian composer, Kim André Arnesen’s Even when He is silent is now published both in mixed choir or SSAA choir. The text for the piece was found in a concentration camp after World War 2:    I believe in the sun, even when it’s not shining. I believe in love, even when I feel it […]

I would be interested to know how many choirs in America do a choral compline service -write back if you do!       This beautiful book allows you to experience and participate in the last of the daily cycle of fixed-hour prayer: Compline. Kenneth Peterson has sung Compline at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in […]