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Carus-Verlag wants to expand its services for choirs in the USA in a more targeted and tailored way. We are therefore looking for someone who is at home in the North American choral world and would like to work as an intern at Carus-Verlag for two to three months. What we can offer you: – […]

Dear conductors, Diluvium” is a TTBB piece (with some divisi…) and was commissioned by a wonderful Swiss male choir, Männerstimmen Basel.The text is from a poem by Sebastian Brant, a German humanist and poet born in 1457.It’s about a great flood that took place in Switzerland in the Middle Ages.This beautiful text in Neo-Latin has […]

Looking for wonderful music for your men’s choir or just wanting to feature your lower voices, Cypress has got you covered. Here’s a lower voices feature of 19 compositions in 19 minutes! Enjoy! There’s much more! All of our Lower Voices pieces are listed here: https://cypresschoral.com/male-choir/ There’s still MORE! Peruse through PROFONDO – the Mark […]

Brand New Treble octavos (3 hole punched): 1 Alway Something Sings Dan Forrest 3 Peace Emma Lou Diemer 3 Vuelie Fjellheim & Beck (from “Frozen) 5 Battle Hymn of the Republic Wilhousky 6 Still I Rise Rosephanye Powell and not 3-hole punched: 8 Will the Circle Be Unbroken arr. J. David Moore (retail $2.95 ea) […]

Based on one of only several poems written by my mother, Jewish Holocaust survivor Rita Hoffman of blessed memory (1927–2018), Only from Blood Does Freedom Grow echoes the words of Hatikvah (The Hope), the national anthem of Israel. I have to believe that she wrote this poem around 1948 because of how it is worded. […]

We know how you choir directors think. Winter is coming. Frances Farrell’s “Winter Proverbs’ is the winner of Chor Leoni’s inaugural C4 composition competition in 2017, this a cappella suite for men’s voices uses secular texts to depict the many shades of winter. This suite can be performed as a group or, alternatively, the last […]

Chorus Austin is proud to be holding our 11th annual Composer’s Competition! To honor Chorus Austin’s upcoming 60th anniversary season, pieces should have a celebratory theme. Pieces may be any voicing of SATB (up to SSAATTBB) or any subset thereof (including SA-SSAA or TB-TTBB), no longer than six minutes in duration, and may be a […]

Jesu, Rex Admirabilis was commissioned by the Golden Gate Men’s Choir of San Francisco, directed by Joseph Piazza. The original setting was for TTBB, two countertenors and two solo tenors. I did this setting for TTBB with some divisi. It’s a piece of medium difficulty with some truly epic moments and others of pure ecstasy […]

Sing the beautiful Franz Schubert Mass in G major, D. 167 with the Lincoln Festival Chorus this summer! Under the leadership of Artistic Director Linda Blanchard who is assisted by pianist and organist Sean Fleming, now is the perfect time to join Lincoln Festival Chorus as we celebrate our 44th season. Composed in just a […]

JUST RELEASED: “Rex Pacificus” based on an ancient Middle English/Latin text about the coming of the King of Peace, sung by the Utah-based Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir! This joins “Good King Wenceslas” and “In natali Domini” as the 3rd in my series of medieval-modern Xmas carols. Sheet music available at: https://musicspoke.com/composers/davidrain.