SKU: M7.DOHR-17633

ISBN 9790202036334. Latin.

Lobt froh den Herrn, ihr jugendlichen Chöre! So lautet der Text eines einst gern gesungenen Liedes. Er könnte auch als freie Übersetzung des Anfangs dieser Psalmmotette gelten. Die Aufforderung des Psalmisten, Laudate pueri, ist ein Leitmotiv kirchlicher Chorarbeit mit Kindern und Jugendlichen. Diese Intention regte mich an, vorliegende Komposition zu schaffen. Während meiner beruflichen Tätigkeit als Kirchenmusiker boten sich immer wieder Gelegenheiten, mich auf dem Gebiet der Ausbildung junger Sänger weiterzubilden. Schließlich konnte ich die Aschaffenburger Stifts-Chorknaben ins Leben rufen. Den sehr engagierten jungen Sängern widmete ich diese Psalmvertonung für ihren regelmäßigen Dienst in Liturgie und Konzert. (Walter Gleißner).

SKU: PR.342402070

ISBN 9781491111253. UPC: 680160643226. Octavo inches. Text: Archibald R. Ammons. Archibald Ammons. Text by A.R. Ammons.

To benefit Chorus America, Stucky allowed himself to be auctioned off as a prize - the high bidder would receive a new work from the composer. After a few years and not really hearing anything, Stucky suddenly found himself up against a deadline. He reached back to a favorite poem by A.R. Ammons, Eyesight, which, he says, Won't let...his reader rest till the very last word...one of those sudden insights that leave us breathless..
This piece has an odd history. A few years ago, I agreed to be one of the“prizes” in an auction to benefit Chorus America: the highest bidder wouldget a new piece from me, while their money went to the organization. Thewinning bid came from a collection of several professional choruses anddirectors. But I was always a little vague about the details, and, hearingnothing more about it for a few years, forgot the whole thing.One day I received a message from Thomas Edward Morgan, directorof the Ars Nova Chamber Singers in Boulder: they had scheduled thepremiere of my new piece for a few weeks later, and could they have themusic, please? I needed a text, quickly, and (as usual) I was in a Los Angeleshotel room, not at home with my books. So I turned to the internet andsoon tracked down my favorite poet, A.R. Ammons (1926-2001).Once I stumbled on “Eyesight,” I remembered having loved the poemyears before. Archie must have loved it, too, because he included it bothin his Collected Poems 1951-1971 and in the later Selected Poems. It haseverything you want in an Archie Ammons poem: what Edward Hirschcalled his “offbeat, sideways, unpredictable radiance,” his “homespunglory.” It has one of his trademark conversations with a mountain (perhapsfrom his native North Carolina), it has the fluid motion from one line tothe next (enjambment, if you want to get technical) that won’t let him orhis reader rest till the very last word of the very last line, and it has in thatlast line one of those sudden insights that leave us breathless: “some thingsthat go are gone.”I miss Archie, but he’s not gone. I’m grateful for the wonderful poems heleft us, and I’m grateful that he was always generous and kind when I hadthe chutzpah to add my music to his.

SKU: GI.G-7508

UPC: 785147750802. English. Text Source: Inspired by a speech of Martin Luther King Jr., about the Montgomery march. Text by Shirley Erena Murray.

If this text, inspired by Martin Luther King's speech about the Montgomery march, doesn't sufficiently summon one's attention, then combining it with this musical setting will quite certainly accomplish that goal. “Truth pressed to the earth . . . Justice trampled down . . . Love nailed to a Cross . . . through these resurrections we have hope.” A piece with much gravitas. Brass quartet or quintet and timpani part is optional Tuba part is optional Horn in F can be substituted for Trombone I.