SKU: HL.403396

UPC: 196288058618. 6.75x10.5x0.019 inches.

From conductor Jeffery Benson comes a new Choral Series, Voices Without Borders. These are choral songs for humanity, that devle a little deeper into meaningful subjects. This unique and encouraging number approaches those who are in need of a lift. It is great and novel concert repertoire for the college choir.

SKU: WD.080689942129

UPC: 080689942129.

SimplyWORD--the popular, best-selling series written with easy, accessible SATB vocal part writing, especially for smaller choirs or choirs with limited rehearsal time--is proud to present the latest release in its seasonal offerings, RISEN INDEED! This fresh, new musical by veteran arranger and orchestrator Steve W. Mauldin incorporates stellar song selection; sensitive, moving narrations; inspiring orchestrations; and powerfully simple vocal arrangements. This blended choir offering is one of the most emotionally and sonically dynamic musicals ever released in this highly-respected choral series from Word Music.
Perfect for your Easter celebration, RISEN INDEED is a multi-faceted musical designed with every choir in mind! Created especially for a year when Easter comes so early on the calendar, this 30-minute musical from the SimplyWORD Series will become a favorite with your choir and congregation alike!
With everything from its beautiful hymn arrangement of Hallelujah, What a Savior; Hillsong's contemporary anthem for the church, Man of Sorrows; some of your favorite songs penned by Keith and Kristyn Getty; to new songs written especially for this musical, RISEN INDEED is sure to make your next Easter celebration one to remember. Enhance your presentation even further with the use of the movie-quality DVD accompaniment track to set your choir's presentation apart from all the rest!

Song Titles: He Lives No More to Die * Come, People of the Risen King * Christ Is Enough * Hallelujah! What a Savior * He Suffered for Our Sins (Underscore) * Man of Sorrows * Christ Is Risen, He Is Risen Indeed.

SKU: HL.277282

UPC: 840126915006. 6.75x10.5 inches.

Program note:

Looking Up is a piece for large chorus and orchestra, and is in three sections, played without pause. In the 16th century, a variety of psalters in meter were printed in England, with the idea of making psalm-singing something that could happen easily at home, with the rhyming meter being an aid to memorization. These translations are wonderful exercises in brevity and sometimes clumsy rhymemaking, and were usually prefaced by a lengthy explanation as to their merits; the title of one of the first such volumes in English is: The Psalter of Dauid newely translated into Englysh metre in such sort that it maye the more decently, and wyth more delyte of the mynde, be reade and songe of al men. I thought it would be appropriate to set one of these introductions, and the first section of Looking Up sets the preface to Thomas Ravenscroft's psalter (1621), in which he writes: “The singing of Psalmes (assay the Doctors) comforteth the sorrowfull, pacifieth the angry, strengtheneth the weake, humbleth the proud, gladdeth the humble, stirres up the slow, reconcileth enemies, lifteth up the heart to heavenly things, and uniteth the Creature to his Creator.”

It begins meditatively, but eventually grows agitated and fervent, with a vision of the “quire of Angels and Saints” “redoubling anddescanting” - an ecstatic and terrifying vision of the skies opening up. Ravenscroft then encourages the use of instrumental musicfor worship, at which point, a long, acrobatic orchestral interlude with jagged edges antagonizes the choir, who sing a kind of private, anxious meditation on two pitches.

One of the most delicious biblical texts is an Apocryphal prayer known as the Benedicite or the Prayer of the Three Children (the same who were rescued by an angel after King Nebuchadnezzar tried to have them burnt in an oven for not bowing to his image). The text is repetitive, obsessive, and a gift to composers - each line is an invocation of an element of the natural world, followed by the phrase, “blesse ye the Lord, praise him & magnify him for ever.” In Looking Up, the setting begins with three solo voices, and then grows to include the whole choir, itemizing the whole of creation. The idea that these boys are spared from the furnace and then five minutes later are saying, “O ye the fire and warming heate, blesse ye the Lord...” has always felt very loaded to me, and the orchestra plays with this conflict between joyful praise and a more terrible (in the 16th-century sense) awefor the divine.

The text for the third, and shortest, section is taken from Christopher Smart's (1722-1771) A Song to David, purportedly written during his confinement in a mental asylum. This ode to King David points out how David, as the author of some of the Psalms, observes the whole world from the “clustering spheres” to the “nosegay in the vale.&rdquo.

SKU: HL.428623

ISBN 9781705163191. UPC: 196288063940. 6.75x10.5x0.19 inches.

This choral compilation brings together beloved carols and new seasonal lyrics with celebrated music from Bach, Handel, Mozart and others. As a collection, you can use this resource throughout Advent and Christmas, or use the optional narration to present the entire work as a cantata. A full line of support products is available to enable your performance options. Score and Parts (instrumentation varies by song) available as a digital download. For the Accompaniment Tracks: Audio is accessed online using the unique code generated upon purchase and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right. HL00428625: Accompaniment Tracks Songs include: Canon de Noel; Procession of Light; A Classic Advent Flourish; Advent Alleluia; Celebration for Advent; He Shall Feed His Flock; An Etude Carol; Christ Is Born! Let Earth and Heaven Rejoice; Adoramus Te; Christmas Jubilate.

SKU: HL.14047936

UPC: 888680643348. 6.75x10.0x0.08 inches.

Judith Weir's Praise Him with Trumpets, a work for 2 trumpets, SATB choir and organ was commissioned by Historic Royal Palaces in collaboration with The Choral Foundation. The piece was composed for the Hampton Court Chapel Royal Choir in celebration of Hampton Court 500. A setting of text from Psalms 146 and 150, this work can also be performed without trumpets.