New Publications

I’ve created, after 15 years of singing in a vocal group, a song cycle for choir. Most of them are SATB or SSATB. I’ve also added some works to combine choir and vocal group SATB + TTBB   Lyrics are from popular soldier and war songs, or poetry from those years. Music is often the […]

“When I do count the Clock” – from “Book of Sonnets” (SAB, piano) is a lyrical setting of Shakespeare’s commentary on the triumph of time and decay.  It is newly published on my web site and is available for free download at…   http://graymichael.com   Enjoy!    

Dear ChoralNet readers, Recently Porfiri & Horváth Publishers has published new choral music  for Mixed and Female Choir:   Pradal, Battista: Kyrie  (SAA) PHP 313062 Sirett, Mark: O, Take the Lute (SATB) PHP 112057 Olofsson, Pär: Aleluya dances (SSAA with percussion ad. lib) PHP 313064   Visit our homepage and enjoy also amateur video recordings […]

By John Beeman, for SATB choir, a cappella, duration: 2:45.  The text comes from an exquisite poem by Hafiz, the 14th century Persian poet, translated by Daniel Ladinsky. I hoped to capture the timeless beauty of the poem with my setting.  Here is an mp3 recording by Matthew Curtis formerly of Chanticleer:   Now available […]

Full of fun, with jumping, hopping, twisting, clapping and sleigh bells, ‘Jump if you love Christmas!’ is a great new Christmas songbook/nativty musical. The five new catchy songs are easy to pick up, and the CD comes with backing tracks, as well as with vocals, so that teachers, helpers and children can learn them in […]

Take a look at: http://www.notenfürchöre.de/component/content/article/68-chor/943-how-many-kings-noten.html for an impression.