New Publications

The Spirit of the Lord for choir, organ, brass, timps, flute and violin, will be premiered on Thursday 8th September 2011 at the Enthronment of the new Archbishop of Philadelphia. Details of the final rehearsals can be found here http://archphila.org/press%20releases/pr001836.htm and the service will be streamed live from 1.45pm local time. (Printed Music available on 9th September […]

Following the overwhelming popularity over the last few years of my SA/percussion Walton publication “Peace on Earth…and lots of little crickets”, I’m happy to announce a sort of sequel to it. It’s an uptempo SA/piano arrangement of the American folk tune “Clap your Hands” which shares its melody with “Old Joe Clarke”. It was commissioned […]

A poem by Sheryl Sawyer, a wonderful poetess, so moved me that I composed music to it.  Since schools start in late August, and September 11 occurs so soon after that, no one has time to prepare this piece for any event regarding the tragedy.  Maybe someone will consider preparing the piece at the end […]

“This Year May We Hear” was composed for the convocation at Westminster Choir College.  It will be performed on Sept. 6 by 20 incoming Freshmen.  SATB with piano, 2 minutes in length.  If you would like a pre-publication copy, please contact me at text by Fran Gordon Immerman music by J.A. Kawarsky  

Product Description Featuring more than 100 competitive show choirs from around the United States in photos, quotations, and stories, this edutainment-style book details the pop culture and theater influences that, over time, built this unique entertainment genre into the mecca of music lovers that it is today. Read real-life accounts of show choir performers, directors, […]

I have just set “Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace” (Prayer of St. Francis) for SATB & organ; a gift to Cortlandt Bender, new Minister of Music at First Presbyterian Church of Burlingame, CA. To hear a midi (piece has not yet been sung), please visit kenmalucelli dot com, click on Sacred Choral, […]