SKU: CF.CM9787

ISBN 9781491164587. UPC: 680160923496. Key: D major. English. Original.

The text for the first voicing (SSA) of this piece came to me in the fall of 2020 while teaching at Crosby High School in Crosby, Texas. My students, though enthusiastic to be back in Choir, were struggling to cope with the civil unrest around them, in addition to the pandemic. When considering how I could help them navigate this time, I realized that they were in need of some sort of consistency, of feeling grounded in themselves. As we  focused on building of community and citizenship, this text and tune came to mind, each phrase highlighting an element of personal and community wellness.I lead with my spirit keeping love in the circle around me. (Social)Expressing my spirit (Occupational)Loving what I can see and cannot see, I'll take care of the vessel I am in (Physical)I love with me that's under the skin (Emotional)Taking care of my mind (Intellectual)Envisioning the me I want to be (Spiritual)I had the honor of collaborating with composer/educator Saleel Menon to create the beautiful piano accompaniment and SATB setting.Who I Want To Be opens with a solo functioning as a mantra throughout the tune. As the piece continues, voices join in unison and harmony to emphasize the intent.When the repeats in mm. 48–51 occur, invite students to share some of their own mantras and affirmations, or feel free to borrow from the words my students in the Crosby HS choir inspired me to write:Allow yourself graceI am persistentI am fragile, not brokenYou are worthyI am worthyI know that your success is not my demise!The only validation I need is my ownI believe in myselfI see youIt’s okay to not be okayBreatheI love and I am lovedPrepare yourself for not only a powerful performance, but a rewarding experience and conversations with your students.THIS is the piece you want stuck in your students’ heads!~CRM.

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: ST.EM21

ISBN 9790220200854.

CONTENTS
Adieu, sweet love (SSA(or T)B)
Alas, where is my love? (SSA(or T)TB)
And must I needs depart? (SSATB)
Ay me, my mistress scorns (SST)
Beauty is a lovely sweet (SAT)
Come, follow me, fair nymphs (SAT)
Dame Venus hence to Paphos go (SSAT)
Dear if you wish my dying (SSATTB)
Down from above falls Jove (SATB)
Fair Hebe, when dame Flora (SST(or A)T(or A)TB)
Hark, hear you not? - Oriana's farewell (SSATB)
If love be blind (SATB)
Love would discharge (SST)
Merrily my love and I (SST(or A)T(or A)B(or T)B)
Music some think no music is (SSATTB)
O fly not, love (SSA(or T)A(or T)T)
Phyllis, farewell (SATB)
Phyllis, farewell (SSA(or T)A(or T)TB)
Sister, awake (SSATB)
Strange were the life (SAATB)
Sweet Gemma (SSATB)
The nightingale so soon as April (SST(orA))
Those sweet delightful lilies (SSATB)
Thyrsis on his fair Phyllis' breast (SSAA(or T)TB)
When Oriana walked (SSATTB)
Who prostrate lies (SSAT(or A)B)
Wither so fast? (SATB)
Yet stay alway (SSA(or T)TB)
Your shining eyes (SAB).

SKU: HL.428247

UPC: 196288063384. 6.75x10.5x0.045 inches.

A Fab Four Medley with 18 classic songs in just four minutes!? As Brian Wilson once said, “There's no outdoing the Beatles.” Includes: All You Need Is Love, Blackbird, Come Together, Eight Days a Week, Eleanor Rigby, A Hard Day's Night, Here Comes the Sun, Hey Jude, I Want to Hold Your Hand, In My Life, Let It Me, Love Me Do, Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields Forever, We Can Work it Out, With a Little Help from My Friends and Hello, Goodbye.

SKU: WD.080689645174

UPC: 080689645174.

Featuring 10 of the newest and best Southern Gospel hit songs, with a variety of arrangements to meet all your southern gospel choir needs; songs and arrangements full of grit and attitude, like Gotta Be Saved; songs that celebrate being sons and daughters of the Most High like We Are God’s Children; songs that express the promise of eternal life and declare a longing to go home like I Know I’ll Be There, and Resurrection Morn; songs that speak to the depth of God’s love for us and the lengths to which He will go to rescue us like Lost and Just When You Thought; songs that tell of His faithfulness to us and songs that speak of our desire to be found faithful; songs that will bring a smile to your face, a tear to your eye, and a spring to your step, that will make your heart soar to think of how much He loves us! No sound this side of heaven rivals the sound of a spirited choir raising their voices together to sing an emotion-filled Southern Gospel song of testimony, deliverance, victory, promise, and forgiveness. Gather your choir together soon to let them experience the joy and blessing of ministering to people through the message and sounds of a Southern Gospel song!