SKU: LP.765762201507

UPC: 765762201507.

In God We Still Trust is everything you have come to love and appreciate about the music of David T. Clydesdale, and this patriotic musical from Lillenas is Clydesdale at his absolute best! A running time of less than 30 minutes make it the perfect presentation piece for any Memorial Day, Fourth of July, or Veterans Day celebration. The ever-popular writer and arranger David T. Clydesdale has incorporated works from Christian songwriters, such as the Gaithers, Deborah Craig Claar, Dave Clark, and Dan Dean, along with patriotic standards such as Woody Guthrie's beloved This Land Is Your Land, new lyrics and settings for This Is My Country, America the Beautiful, My Country, 'Tis of Thee and a couple of George M. Cohan favorites. A tribute to America's armed forces involves both children's and adult choirs, and is a perfect way to recognize and thank the people, both active and veteran servicemen and women, who protect our freedom. The unforgettable and powerful Pray Me Home, from the songwriters Dan Dean, Don Koch, and Dave Clark, is the haunting cry of a soldier on active duty that will say in your heart for a long time to come. Celebrate America this year with In God We Still Trust!

SKU: HL.1197761

UPC: 196288134930. 6.75x10.5x0.019 inches.

The Out from the Shadows Choral Series brings you “Summer Is Gone,” a new setting of British poet Christina Rosetti's 1862 poem “Bitter for Sweet.” The composer, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, displays superb control of text painting and dynamics, creating vocal lines as natural as speech. In perfect harmony with Rosetti's text, falling chromatic figures tossed back and forth among voice parts create an inescapable sense of decay and sorrow. Taylor's harmonic rhythm conveys the latent impression of time stretching and constricting. A truly masterful work, this piece makes for a great festival or competition performance. A fun challenge for an accomplished chamber or larger choir, and a memorable addition to any concert. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was an English-born composer and conductor who hailed from an English and African musical family. After discovering his inherent musical ability, Coleridge-Taylor's family arranged for him to study at the Royal College of Music under composition professor Charles Villiers Stanford. After completing his degree, Coleridge-Taylor was appointed a professor at the Crystal Palace School of Music and became the conductor of the Croydon Conservatoire Orchestra. With his compositions, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor sought to draw from traditional African music and integrate it into the classical tradition, in a similar fashion to Brahms and Dvorak with Hungarian and Bohemian music. He was a prolific composer and a well-respected conductor in England and America, even touring in America and being received at the White House by President Theodore Roosevelt. His most celebrated work was his cantata Hiawatha's Wedding Feast. On his death, close friend and poet Alfred Noyes said, “Too young to die: his great simplicity, his happy courage in an alien world, his gentleness, made all that knew him love him.”.