SKU: FG.55011-506-4

ISBN 9790550115064.

The long-lasting admiration for the poetry of Octavio Paz inspired Matthew Whittall to compose this captivating choir piece. A constant ostinato motif is carried throughout the piece depicting the white noise of the rain.

SKU: HL.1412180

UPC: 196288195733. 6.75x10.5x0.029 inches.

Emily Dickinson wrote a poem about a railway train. This composition captures the 19th century train on the tracks in America, rolling and hooting along the way. The music is as interesting as the text, catching our imaginations in a most enjoyable way. Selected for the Magen Solomon series.

SKU: HL.50490629

ISBN 9781458415950. UPC: 884088607340. 6.75x10.5 inches.

Composed for Craig Hella Johnson and Conspirare, the composer writes: Same Train, in many arrangements seems to sing of good news coming. But – maybe it was the relentlessness, the conclusiveness of the title phrase – I wondered if what was coming might actually have been a funeral train: coming for “our sister, our mother,” and...soon enough for us, too. I thought of so many other spirituals which sing about dark truths in bright music, and wondered if I couldn't use the imitative, “ch-ch-train” ostinato to honor that willfully smiling aspect of the piece, while also freeing the harmonies to make audible the more disconsolate feelings underneath.

SKU: MN.CH-1304

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 43.

Number 4 of the cycle of The Heavens Are Full which consists of 5 a cappella pieces with texts from Ecclesiasticus 43: 1-37, found in the Jerusalem Bible. After the first several measures of introduction, the soprano begins the main thematic element, the octave leap up with the following descending scale pattern. This is followed by scale up and leap down, and scale up then down. All these patterns are employed to suggest the arc of a rainbow. Duration 4:25.