Greetings Choral & Vocal friends, Hope this finds you all well and healthy. (I write after fighting off assorted colds and flu bugs for most of the winter: Worst. Cold Season. Ever.) This month’s featured piece is my May The Lord Bless You And Keep You – a short, 2-minute SATB a cappella […]
New Publications
The Turning Year
Geoff Allan – The Turning Year (2008) A choral cycle on poems for each month of the year by Hilaire Belloc for experienced SATB choir with SATB solos accompanied by flute, oboe and clarinet/bass clarinet. Available from http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/The_Turning_Year_%28Geoff_Allan%29
We heard you: Presenting the Independent Music Publishers Cooperative
Conductors, After years of following this ChoralNet community, studying how conductors make programming decisions, where you look first to buy music, and what you need to know before you buy, we composers have heard you! And we’ve joined forces to present the Independent Music Publishers Cooperative. http://imp.coop Here you can browse quality […]
SATB Arrangement of BEAU SOIR by Claude Debussy
The arrangement I made of the art song BEAU SOIR by Claude Debussy is no longer a pre-publication edition. (See my Choralnet posting of September 8, 2010.) It is now available in-print from ECS Publishing. It is scored for SATB chorus and piano. The lyrics are in both French and English; the translation is new. The ECS […]
Six Choral Hymn Intros
RedHouse Arts is pleased to offer Six Choral Hymn Intros by composer Larry Finke. These six hymn introductions for organ and choir are meant for small choirs that have limited rehearsal time but still want to add a distinctive sound to worship. Each integrates well with Lenten liturgies, especially coming before a heartfelt singing of […]
Announcing new publication: Sing, Ye Faithful!
We are delighted to introduce our new anthem series from Paraclete Press: Hymns of Praise. This series provides hymn arrangements that will enliven worship, and provide quality, depth, hope and beauty to your congregation. To introduce the series, we chose a text that proclaims our vision for sacred music in the church today: Sing, […]