A moving setting of original words dealing with the loss of a beloved friend and lover of music.

This serene music is an arrangement of Scene XIV from the composer's oratorio Paradiso, which is a setting of the third part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The music is an evocation of Dante's passage into the hightest realms of heaven. The vocal parts are wordless, unaccompanied, and sublime, representing a song that accompanies his transformation of consciousness as he is surrounded by "love that moves the sun and other stars." Duration 5:45

A challenging work for skilled women's chorus featuring ethereal harmonies and soaring melodies. The soloists' lines are stunning. Duration: 6:00

The text for this piece about the charm of possibilities is a composite of words by Emily Dickinson and Robert Kyr with an excerpt from "In Paradisum" from the Requiem Mass. The music is dramatic, featuring sweeping melodic lines.

Written for the Conspirare Company of Voices and Craig Hella Johnson, this original work requires SATB soloists, SATB chorus (divisi) and some sort of percussion (the composer says "stick, or drum." ) Starting in the style of a slow spiritual, the piece builds in excitement as the four soloists (as well as some drawn from the chorus) improvise over the music. A thorough and thoughtful page of instructions is provided as to the overall performance and the improvisations (which are extensive and rhapsodic.) An amazing, energetic piece for your singers to encounter.

Commissioned by the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, this piece was created to celebrate the awakening and life-transforming power of music, as a force that enlivens and enlightens us. The original text is by the composer. Although the original was for women's chorus and mixed chorus, this version is for SSAATBB chorus alone. Extensive instructions are provided for the ethereal aleatoric section, addressing stage placement, dynamics, use of a solo group, and how the piece should end. Duration 4:40

The text for this stirring New Mexico-inspired piece is a composite of words by both the poet D. H. Lawrence and composer Robert Kyr.

This setting of words by Chinese poet Tu Fu as translated and adapted by Robert Kyr features harmonies and melodies that invoke a mountainous landscape. The lyrics also deal with nature and the human condition. Duration: 5:00

This setting of Romans 11:33 as translated and adapted by Robert Kyr are words used by Catholics on the twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, Lectionary: 121, dealing with the riches of wisdom and knowledge. The choral textures are relatively simple. This brief, rewarding piece is not very difficult to learn or sing and will delight congregations at services or audiences at concerts. Duration: 3:00

The Rose Led Us to Our Eyes is a setting of a text by poet Ghalib (1797-1869) as adapted by the composer. The music is relatively uncomplicated and mellifluous. Duration: 3:00

Like Robert Kyr's "Ode to Music" (#8368, TBB), "The Singer's Ode" is another homage set to music with words and music by the composer. This one features sweeping melodies and rich harmonies culminating in an easy-to-perform aleatoric passage at the close.

A setting of a composite text by the composer which combines passages from a variety of sources: the Requiem service (Dies irae, Libera me), the Mass (Agnus Dei qui tollis, Agnus Dei dona nobis pacem), and from a hymn attributed to the Benedictine theologian Maurus (776-856) "Veni Creator Spiritus." The images of destruction that begin the work are gradually transformed through an invocation of the energies of creation, as the music of the first half (in minor mode) dissolves into the bright music of the conclusion (in major mode). Duration 5:40