Choir (SATB choir)
SKU: AP.48830
Composed by Jay Althouse.
Performance Music
Ensemble; Single Titles.
Alfred Choral Designs.
Peace/Brotherhood;
Sacred. Choral Octavo. 8
pages. Alfred Music
#00-48830. Published by
Alfred Music (AP.48830).
UPC: 038081561547.
Lat.
The title
provides an important
timestamp for an
unprecedented year.
Veteran choral composer
Jay Althouse constructed
this very special work in
remembrance of lives lost
during the pandemic. His
setting of the
traditional Latin text is
built upon a melody
inspired by nature: Near
the end of my walk that
day, I heard a bird
singing three notes over
and over again. I came
home and began writing.
The bird's song is the
first three notes of the
opening melody. Solemn,
prayerful, and
poignant.
About Alfred
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Designs
Th
e 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.