SKU: AP.48325

UPC: 038081551487. English. Traditional Irish and Old English Blessings.

Following the success of her Two Irish Blessings, Glenda Franklin shares this creative a cappella set that is ideal as a concert finale, encore, benediction, or graduation selection. Whether performed individually or in tandem, each of these brief movements offers a sincere farewell wish sung in polished choral harmony.

About Alfred Choral Designs

The Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.

SKU: HL.256157

ISBN 9781540015235. UPC: 888680723460. 8.5x11 inches.

The pieces in Warren Benson's one-of-a-kind liturgical, choral “activity book” (for lack of a better term) are meant to be sung, used, enjoyed, admired, and drawn from as a well. This never-before-published collection is filled with the joy of singing and communion, with selections that range from the sacred to the secular, the unison to the contrapuntal, the technical to the simple, the modern to the historical. Each piece is 1-2 pages in length and a very few use keyboard accompaniment. Sacred and secular texts range from the Bible to Dickens and Balzac.

SKU: HL.49018856

ISBN 9790220133244. UPC: 884088675028. 9.0x12.0x0.204 inches.

Although this is technically Cowie's seventh string quartet, it replaces his earlier fourth quartet, which he came to feel no longer fit with his compositional voice. The quartet fluctuates between a slow, luminous sound and fast, agitated music. Unlike much of Cowie's work, this music is abstracted from his usual preoccupation with the natural world, turning instead to look at an inner landscape. The composer describes the emotional force behind his quartet: The year 2009 was a terrible year in which I lost three close friends to cancer and an elder brother to Alzheimer's disease. It was also a year in which my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer; something from which she has thankfully made a great recovery. At times like these, emotions are sorely tested and highlighted. Four people I loved have gone, so this music must remain as testament not to death, but to the magnificent fragility and loveliness of life. It closes with a gentle and almost vaporising 'benediction' a kind of 'amen' if you like.