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Please click below to listen to my Epiphany piece Magi viderunt stellam, which melds a cantus firmus together with words from Lancelot Andrewes’ Christmas sermon for 1622 (made famous in T. S. Eliot’s poem). I am happy to e-mail a free score of the piece (or anything else on my SoundCloud page) if anyone would like to see it.
https://soundcloud.com/simon-42-1/magi-viderunt-stellam
With thanks,
Simon Beattie
This week Cypress along with the rest of Canada would like to wish Gordon Lightfoot a very Happy Birthday. He truly is a Canadian treasure. Please enjoy “Pussy Willows, Cat-Tails”. Some say it’s the most beautiful Canadian folk song ever written.
Setting the stirring words of Julia A. Carney, Patrick Fata has crafted a lovely work for two-part treble voices and piano. Utilizing recurring melodic motives and canonic entrances makes this new work suitable for a wide range of treble choirs. The homophonic middle section provides an opportunity for your choir to sing as one cohesive entity. Carney’s text in suitable for treble choirs of all ages. Take a look and listen today and don’t forget to check out the “Related Items” to view more works for treble voices.
Introducing a new, exciting arrangement of “Go Down, Moses” paired with “I’ve Been in the Storm So Long” from composer Jeffrey Cobb. This piece has it all: thick harmonies, swinging piano accompaniment, TBB section and SSA section, claps and stomps, and an ending that will bring your audience to their feet. It will become your new favorite closer! (This piece had already received many performances throughout Michigan and the Midwest.)
Please enjoy Hunker Down by Tobin Stokes.
A storm is coming so batten down the hatches! – tie up those boats and run for cover!
This is a rousing song – guaranteed to be a fun sing and a people pleaser.
Gordon Thornett’s “Joy of Christmas” Overture is available this year with full choral parts, as premiered by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus last December. An excellent opener for a Christmas concert, it is also available for reduced orchestra and choir. See https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Choral-News-from-Music-for-Now–October-2019—unison-voices-version-of–Wassail—-Goodall-s-new-Christmas-Cantata-to-debut-in-.html?aid=Ji3lDIcHw9w&soid=1115737944336 for further details.