New Publications

The choral music of award-winning young composer Jake Runestad is now available for digital download.   See here for perusal scores, audio excerpts, and purchasing information:    Jake Runestad – Choral/Vocal Music   Find out more about Jake Runestad at his website:  www.jakerunestad.com  

This gently satirical poem by John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887) tells the tale of six learned men who visit an elephant to discover its identity. Each being blind, they acquaint themselves with different parts of the beast, and therefore come to different conclusions: “Though each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong!” […]

Now available – my setting of the Delores Dufner text What Feast of Love for SAB or SATB a cappella choir and two handbells.   http://www.morningstarmusic.com/viewitem.cfm/item_id/50-7510  

A fellow ChoralNet composer, now a friend and informal mentor who is infinitely more accomplished and experienced than I, sent me a query about the “metric displacement” in one of my compositions, “The First Snowflake.”  It was a kind and gentle way of telling me that I had made a fundamental notation error, one that I have now […]

Augsburg Fortress has just released two new anthems of mine.   Jesus Said, Come Follow Me is for SATB voices a cappella and oboe. It was the runner-up finalist in the recent National Lutheran Choir Choral Composition Contest. http://store.augsburgfortress.org/store/product/17110/Jesus-Said-Come-Follow-Me   Oh, Love, How Deep is for SATB and organ. http://store.augsburgfortress.org/store/product/17111/Oh-Love-How-Deep    

Beady Eyes, Carol Barnett’s self-publishing venture, can be accessed at   http://www.carolbarnett.net/publishing3.html   Titles include many of the works written for the Dale Warland Singers. Full perusal copies may be viewed on-line; many have recordings.  This is a work in progress; check back often for new titles.