SKU: WD.080689573170

UPC: 080689573170.

KALEIDOSCOPE, the new Modern Youth Choir collection from Word Music & Church
Resources, is the perfect name for this diverse, multi-faceted project. Arranged and produced by West Coast-based arranger and uber programmer Daniel Semsen, KALEIDOSCOPE delivers an impressive array of sound, color and texture woven into a musical coat of many colors. KALEIDOSCOPE turns the color wheel in every direction imaginable as it explores 14 divergent songs arranged for student choirs and vocal ensembles otherwise known as Modern Youth Choirs! Edgy and intense, KALEIDOSCOPE is next generation, forward leaning, bleeding-edge music for student ministry environments.


KALEIDOSCOPE is jam-packed full of great songs designed for life-changing student ministry opportunities. Featuring songs originally made popular by artists such as TobyMac, Hillsong Young & Free with Lecrae, Jordan Feliz, 7eventh Time Down, Bethel, Jesus Culture, Urban Rescue and more, KALEIDOSCOPE contains a wide variety of musical styles and formats, from Hit Radio Songs, Worship Songs, Christian Pop, EDM with Hip Hop, Emerging Songs, to Vocalicious Musicality (a cappella!).

SKU: FG.55011-505-7

ISBN 9790550115057.

Pieces in this collection were commissioned by Organum Society in Helsinki in 2014. Eight Finnish composers wrote pieces for young organists. Technical level of these pieces range from easy to challenging music institute standard.

SKU: FG.55011-604-7

ISBN 9790550116047.

Ann-Elise Hannikainen (1946-2012) was born in Hanko, Southern Finland, but lived mainly abroad, her father working as diplomat. Her grandfather's father was P.J. Hannikainen, the head of a prominent Finnish musical family. Ann-Elise's attraction to music was first found at age of five, when her family, then living in Warsaw, bought a grand piano. Hannikainen started to study piano playing at the Sibelius Academy in 1967, but rheumatoid arthritis prevented her from pursuing a carrier as a concert pianist. In 1972 she moved to Madrid and started to study composition with Ernesto Halffter Ercriche, a student of Manuel de Falla. Hannikainen advanced quickly in her career, and her piano concerto was premiered in Helsinki Festival in 1976. Her composing style evolved into luminous melodies, free atonal harmonies and improvisatory forms. Chachara (1980) is her first composition for solo instrument and piano, and it was also Hannikainen's last work to be premiered during her lifetime. The flute has the main role shifting between virtuosic and bel canto modes. The window of love, a distinct section of tonal harmony and singing melody was typical in many of Hannikainen's compositions. In Chachara this confession of love is heard in the middle of the piece (Molto moderato). In January 1981 Chachara was recognized in Barcelona with the first prize in the competition for young composers.

SKU: FG.55011-569-9

ISBN 9790550115699.

Alex Freeman's I Feel the Same Way, Three songs of Lilian Moore (2015) for children's chorus (SSA) captures little moments of childhood wonder. Lilian Moore (1909-2004) was a poet and editor, who helped make children's books more affordable and worked to combat racial stereotypes in children's literature. In the printed collection, the ambiance of each poem is enhanced by the artwork of Robert Quackenbush. His illustrations for each of the poems that Freeman has set to music here are reproduced within this score with the aim of transporting young singers into the micro universes of Moore's poems. Alex Freeman (b. 1972) grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Around the age of 13 he became interested in composing. In 1998 he moved to New York to begin his Doctoral studies at the Juilliard School, studying with Christopher Rouse. The focus of his doctoral document led him to Finland. The recipient of a Fulbright Full Fellowship, he moved to Helsinki in 2001 to research Sibelius's sketches and study composition with Eero Hameenniemi at the Sibelius Academy. Dr. Freeman is currently composing full-time and lives with his wife and children in Finland.