SKU: HL.1197767
UPC: 196288135005. 6.75x10.5x0.029 inches.
The familiar hymn's melody is embraced by a rich choral tapestry and stunning piano accompaniment in this setting by Reginal Wright. The piece was commissioned by the Bridgeland High School Choirs in honor of their first senior class, by directors Christopher Fiorini and Dolores Noel. Truly stunning!
SKU: HL.126561
UPC: 888680004293. 6.75x10.5 inches.
Stacey Gibbs has done it again! He's given us a fresh setting of a spiritual that will appeal to high school, college, community, and church choirs. Leaping into a vibrant tempo from the very start this arrangement carries a bluesy flavor as well. Although it has some divisi writing, it is less-complicated than many of his renditions making it especially suitable for high school choirs and festivals.
SKU: HL.1197750
UPC: 196288134800. 6.75x10.5x0.029 inches.
Once again, Mark Butler has produced a top-notch, inspiring original composition styled as a ballad for soloists, choir, piano, viola and bass. If your choir is blessed with two soulful soloists, this would be an ideal showcase for your next concert. Accessible yet inspiring, this work will prove a favorite for both singers and audiences.
SKU: HL.49046753
ISBN 9781705154229. UPC: 196288021810.
With the Petrarch settings, I am continuing my preoccupation with classical Italian literature, after setting Michelangelo in 2011 and Ariosto in 2013. The gesture and harmony of the piece are developed entirely from the text and from the sensations that are expressed there. Petrarch's poetry is an exploration of beauty and pain that begins again and again: beauty that lies in pain and pain that is causedby beauty. Anno Schreier.
SKU: LO.10-5793MD
ISBN 9780787779405.
With a laid-back, modern country groove, this stellar song recorded by artist and songwriter Anne Wilson boasts in the transforming power of Jesus! Exciting from beginning to end, this bold arrangement from David Wise will inspire your congregation and your choir will want to sing it again and again!
SKU: GI.G-5939
English, Spanish. Text source: Misa Popular Nicaraguense; Translation: Alice Parker.
From the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship series comes a tantalizing offering for thanksgiving and preparation of gifts. “Te Ofrecemos Padres Nuestro†from “Misa Popular Nicaragüense†has a definite dancelike Latin flair with contrasting three-against-two rhythms. Alice Parker provides a fine English translation, but it would be well worth the effort for Anglo choirs to try their hand at the Spanish, if only the final “Gloria†section. An exciting work with a stunning, ecstatic conclusion.
SKU: GI.001119
English.
The unique watercolor style of San Antonio artist G. E. Mullan is noted for its lyrical line set against an ordered and complex geometry of interdependent shapes. His technique creates a visual excitement that involves the viewer and invites close study of the excellence of the work. His religious subjects incorporate the historical traditions of the Santos figures of Mexico and the Southwest, the illuminated manuscripts of Western Europe, and the icons and mosaics of the Byzantine style. 4in. x 9in. Notecard.
SKU: FG.55011-455-5
ISBN 9790550114555.
This cycle of carols, to the poetry of Christina Rossetti, was assembled piecemeal over a number of years, gradually acquiring a larger dramatic and harmonic arch shape as new settings were added. I was particularly attracted to Rossetti's conflation of the dark, fallow winter landscape with that of the soul waiting for salvation. The cycle traces the long nights of watchfulness before Christmas, with the great event constantly deferred, only glimpsed periodically in different visions before the music turns inward again to contemplation. The opening carol embodies this spirit, with passages of diffuse, roving harmony interspersed with meditative, lyrical pedals, calling out the night watch and dreaming of a far-off summer of the spirit. Earth Grown Old is a kind of double carol, setting two complete poems, their lines at first presented separately as a still, expectant chorale and a jubilant dance, then progressively interwoven toward a fervent climax before once again receding into quiet. In the bleak mid-winter, which sets a highly compressed version of Rossetti's original poem, presents an enfeebled landscape frozen in time, in dire need of deliverance. A gentle melody weaves its way through static drones, broken by an angels' chorus announcing the joy to come. Love Came Down at Christmas ends the waiting, with its gently falling, overlapping lines building to a final revelation, the mystery of Christmas at last made real.
SKU: GI.G-7408
UPC: 785147740803. English, Spanish. Translation: Georgina Pando-Connolly. Text by Omer Westendorf.
Ferguson's classic concertato setting of the evergreen hymn is new again through the inclusion of a recent Spanish translation of the text. The poetry of Westendorf has said so much to believers for so many years, now these sentiments will be appreciated by a widening circle of Christians.
SKU: HL.2050266
ISBN 9781705145784. UPC: 797242010194. 6.75x10.5x0.332 inches.
Randy Vader, Jay Rouse, and Camp Kirkland present the powerful sequel to With Freedom's Holy Light. The excitement of celebrating freedom is deeply ingrained into our National psyche. The right to celebrate our independence did not come without cost and sacrifice. The singular goal of pursuing the dream of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, uniquely bonded our ancestors into a truly United States. Well into the third century of this great and blessed country, it is important and appropriate to examine once again what we mean when we pledge to be one nation under God, indivisible...with liberty and justice for all.
SKU: MN.CH-1295
Spanish.
Muero Porque No Muero was written for the Gregg Smith Singers on the occasion of their fortieth anniversary. The text is by St. Teresa d'Avila. Her meditations and poetry are rife with ambiguous language at once sacred and profane creating a unique sensuality. Consider the sexual implications of the phrase I die because I do not die bearing in mind the medieval double meaning of the phrase to die. The principal theme of the music is presented in fragments emerging over stark harmonies. As the texture grows thicker with Spanish-influenced flourishes and polytonal accompaniment the full melodic episode rises only to subside once again into the complaint: Muero porque no muero.
SKU: PR.411411640
ISBN 9781491137642. UPC: 680160691098. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis novel by Giorgio Bassani.
Based on Bassani’s 1962 novel, THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS dramatizes the true story of a prosperous Jewish family’s disruptions and consequences from state-mandated antisemitism in Italy during World War II. Gordon describes the opera as “romantic, sun-drenched, and cataclysmic, all at the same time.” This dramatically topical and personal grand opera premiered at New York City Opera and National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene to rave reviews in 2022. Chris Ruel wrote in OperaWire, “I have chosen Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie’s THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS as my favorite opera of 2022.”.At one point, in 2008, I was walking down 72nd Street, and I passed the video store, (this is when there were video stores) and I thought to myself, I wonder if Kevin (my partner) has ever seen The Garden of the Finzi-Continis? which was always one of my favorite movies. My reaction when we watched it that night was unlike any other time I had seen it. I was wrenched, sobbing, inconsolable. My heart felt like the autumn leaves we see blowing through the garden at the end of the movie. It seemed immediately that this had to be my next opera. I called Michael Korie, and we both bought the Bassani novel and read it. We settled on it. It felt clear that we both had a collective story to tell through it.Because this opera is so close to both of our hearts, it is dedicated to our fathers.It is not only that The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is a Holocaust story that makes it so resonant for me, though obviously this is no small matter, but the tragedy of people trying to live their lives, or actually living them, their petty disappointments, their heartbreaks, against the backdrop of total catastrophe… that makes it so moving. They cannot possibly imagine what will befall them, but we know… and this makes their every move fascinating and devastating… like watching moths under a glass. It is romantic, sun-drenched and cataclysmic, all at the same time.This is why I had to write it.
SKU: HL.14023538
UPC: 884088826178. 6.75x10.5x0.026 inches.
Vincent Novello was a British composer and Organist who gave the Novello publishing company its first embryonic form. Here he arranges Rule, Britannia! for Voice SATB with Piano accompaniment to introduce some contrapuntal interest in the verse.When 18th century British composer Thomas Arne included his song Rule, Britannia! in a masque based on the life of Alfred the Great that was presented at Cliveden, the country home of Frederick, Prince of Wales, he could not have imagined that more than two hundred seventy years later his ditty would be known throughout the British Isles and beyond. Rule, Britannia! is widely used in the Royal Navy and British Army and is featuredeach year at the Last Night of the Proms in the Royal Albert Hall as a national sing-along.At the time of writing, the Dutch actually 'ruled the waves,' so this song was more an exhortation than a status report. The lyrics were also a statement of civil liberty. Since Cromwell's time, Britain had had a standing army which could be turned against the native population. A standing navy, however, existed solely to protect the nation from invaders, protecting a free populace.
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