SKU: HL.1428504

UPC: 196288202707.

Experience the captivating allure of this pop-inspired composition crafted for double-choir and two soloists. Picture your choirs positioned antiphonally across the stage, immersing the audience in a dynamic sonic experience. As the piece crescendos to a powerful climax, the unforgettable finale beckons, inviting you to embrace the last four measures repeatedly. Then, revel in the classic fade-out - a rare gem reminiscent of the timeless musical nuances that gracefully taper, a feature less prevalent in today's popular music landscape.

SKU: HL.1428485

UPC: 196288202479.

This exciting new song by Zanaida Stewart Robles explores life and love through the sensitive poem using birth, life, and death. The choir has an opportunity to experience the calming vertical sonorities that open and close the song while the center is full of imitation and polyphony reminiscent of earlier time musical periods. This is a rewarding challenge for developed choirs.

SKU: HL.1428118

UPC: 196288202240.

“My Lord! What a Morning” follows the tradition of spirituals by opening with a soulful chorus expressing deep sentiment. The verse that ensues not only introduces musical diversity but also serves as the narrative foundation, providing context for the emotional chorus that follows. This structure creates a compelling ABA format: while the A section vividly describes the falling stars, the B section poignantly alludes to the impending second coming of the Son of God as the catalyst behind this celestial event. This piece captures the stark contrast of the B section through staggered vocal entrances, a brisker tempo, and a crescendo culminating in a hauntingly profound chord on the word “underground” in bar 22. This is predominantly an SAB arrangement, occasionally diverging with nuanced vocal splits in the lowest voice part. The juxtaposition of these elements ensures an evocative and captivating performance, painting a vivid musical picture of this spiritual masterpiece.

SKU: HL.1197758

UPC: 196288134886. 6.75x10.5x0.045 inches.

Here's a choral fantasy on the traditional African American spiritual, “Soon I Will Be Done.” The grave Wagnerian opening sets the stage for the fiery main theme of the piece–a triplet feeling motif in the lower piano that continues under each chorus statement of the melody. The choir re-enters in the role of the “orchestra” in the second chorus with a haunting legato counter melody that leads up to the first verse. Each verse should have a Gospel/Stride feel with the choir, particularly the upper voices, switching to a more Gospel sound and rhythmic feel. The A sections should be performed with aggression and angst to contrast the calm legato middle section. That middle section is our musical prayer of hope that, like the sentiment of this Spiritual, will continue to live in our hearts despite the sometimes difficult realities of life.