Pulled from Jill Gallina's extensive collection of songs for young voices these six favorites are perfect for any concert or festival. Celebrate hard work friendship and cultural differences and even have a little lesson in music notation with songs your choirs will love to perform and your audiences will love to hear.

Over the many years since its publication this festival arrangement by Roy Ringwald has earned an honored place in the choral repertoire as a true Shawnee Classic.

This festival work by Jerry Estes is perfect for middle school and inexperienced high school choirs. It has limited use of Latin combining with English and the soprano range is slightly higher for use with the upper voices. Thisis an educationally sound up-beat opening choral for your festival or concert. A wonderful choral to teach musicianship! Available separately: 3-part mixed StudioTrax CD.

From Lecons des Tenebres by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1634-1704)This simple Baroque choral is perfect for a developing choir of young voices. Charpentier originally wrote this joyous masterwork for 3-Part Mixedvoices with an accompaniment of continuo and two flutes or violins. Patrick Liebergen has provided a keyboard part that reinforces the vocal parts and revised the flute parts to be optional for flutes or violins (parts includedin the choral). “Lift Up Your Voice” is a concert opener and is well suited for contest or festival use.

This joyful festival anthem in Emily Crocker's highly-regarded concert festival series is uplifting accessible and extremely well-crafted for choirs of all ages. In this contemporary setting the traditional Latin is combinedwith an English hymn text. Available: SATB 2-Part 3-Part Mixed. Performance Time: Approx. 3:15.

This Greg Gilpin choral is electric! Hosanna! is driven with musical energy moving from unison to two-part to three-part harmony the intensity builds to the final “hosanna” with voices layering and overlappingfor an awesome echo effect. An impressive and accessible choral for middle school through adult choirs. A great spring concert or festival piece!

Here is a fresh choral for the Festival of Lights. Lois Brownsey and Marti Lantz have teamed up once again to produce an original song for Hanukkah. Starting slowly and dramatically Hanukkah Dedication quickly moves into alively dance-like refrain. The text touches on both the historical and spiritual significance of the Hanukkah celebration. The melody and accompaniment have a folk quality. Add the violin (part included in the choral) for a trulyethnic-sounding performance.

With her sensitive approach to voice leading and passion for tension/resolution Audrey Snyder has created a choral masterpiece with her setting of the Latin text Kyrie Eleison. Program with her Festival Gloria for anawe-inspiring set. Available separately: SATB 3-Part Mixed. SSA. Duration: 2:00.

Bright syncopations and powerful rhythms are the hallmark of this concert selection by Emily Crocker. Fine choral writing for young voices is brilliantly displayed in this ABA piece which incorporates great vocal ranges for changing voice and a mixture of textures and styles. An excellent festival showcase. Available: SSA 3-Part Mixed. Performance Time: Approx. 2:05.

With her sensitive approach to voice leading and passion for tension/resolution Audrey Snyder has created a choral masterpiece with her setting of the Latin text Kyrie Eleison. Program with her Festival Gloria for anawe-inspiring set. Available separately: SATB 3-Part Mixed. SSA. Duration: 2:00.

From his best known larger work ÚRequiem in D minorÚ Fauré's ÚSanctusÚ is set here for 3-part mixed and SSA voices. Many of the movements from the ÚRequiemÚ have been used inmovies and television making it likely that your young singers have heard parts of it before. This choral arrangement makes a beautiful selection for concert and festival.

Phillip Neil Martin's Human Drum for three voices (SSA). Duration: 3 minutes Composed: 2006 Also published as part of UYMP's Songspin Songbook ISMN M 57036 603 3. Human Drum was a collaboration with the Juice Vocal Ensemble. The piece began in the recording studio where I recorded Juice singing notated fragments I’d popped together and also their own improvisations. I then edited and cut up all the audio into very tiny fragments in a myriad of ways to make a short rhythm-based electronic 3 part vocal piece. This forms part of my larger work Voices of the Asylum for voices human beatbox electronics fashion andspace. The final track bares very little resemblance to the original recording studio session. Several weeks after I had finished Human Drum Juice asked me to transcribe the audio so they could sing the piece live (which wasn’t easy to do after all the cutting and processing!) therefore coming full circle! There are now two versions of Human Drum the studio electronic track and the ‘live’ notated version. Human Drum is dedicated to the Juice Vocal Ensemble with affection. First performed by Juice Vocal Ensemble on 3rd May 2007 at York Spring Festival Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall University of York.

This simple Sephardic folksong offers a tender message over a gentle and flowing accompaniment. A wonderful concert/festival selection. Available separately: SATB 3-Part Mixed 2-Part. Duration: ca. 3:15.

(In the Presence of God)-(In the Presence of God). Haunting chant-like lines build to create a compelling and dramatic texture in this contemporary setting of a traditional Latin text. In the tradition of Roger Emerson's powerful festival works this will be a strong addition to any concert program. Available: 2-Part 3-Part Mixed. Performance Time: Approx. 3:30.

Majestic and moving through lyric and song Joe Martin captures the idea that every thing resounds with music. Since we are a part of earth and its music then we are also made for music. Expressive part writing glorious pianoaccompaniment as only Joe can create and a grand ending make this a stunning festival concert work. Available separately: SATB 3-part mixed PianoTrax CD 35016963.