Composer Richardson has chosen two poems by Robert Louis Stevenson from his set of six A Child's Garden of Verses. The first, Escape at Bedtime conveys the sense of wonder experienced by a child looking up from his bedroom window at a universe of stars. In the second piece in this set of two, Rain, the composer creates an aural rainstorm that will be fun for your singers as they experience this vivid, musical word painting. Duration: ca. 4 minutes 10 seconds.

Arranger: Harry Richardson

This fresh arrangement of the popular American folk hymn gives a written part for the accompaniment, but also allows your pianist to improvise.

Arranger: Francisco J. Nunez | Composer: John Newton

With piano or harp accompaniment.

Arranger: Rupert Lang

Can You Imagine? was written in response to the war in Afghanistan and to the many civilians, especially children, who become displaced persons. The composer had this to say, I wanted to respond with a composition for children - about children - a work that would inspire us to create a better future for them. Without the beauty of children in our lives...I can't imagine. Duration: ca. 6:40.

Arranger: Rupert Lang

Arranger: Kathy Armstrong

There is a mysterious quality about the man hidden in the rafters of so many cathedrals and civic buildings of long ago. He is secretive, curious, playful, enigmatic. This music is rhythmic and angular, impish, darting here and there, with a bit of fanfare each time his name is announced.

Composer: David L. Brunner

There is a mysterious quality about the man hidden in the rafters of so many cathedrals and civic buildings of long ago. He is secretive, curious, playful, enigmatic. This music is rhythmic and angular, impish, darting here and there, with a bit of fanfare each time his name is announced.

Arranger: David L. Brunner | Composer: David L. Brunner

Hashivenu is a melodic and hauntingly beautiful Hebrew song. The sound and meaning of the text is fundamental to the expressiveness of the song. Contains two arrangements: one for unison voices and piano, and one for SSA a cappella in canon form.

Arranger: Doreen Rao

Kalinka is about a young man sitting under a red berry bush (Kalinka), singing of his feelings for his sweetheart. The expressiveness of the song is achieved through the contrast between a lively and rhythmic chorus and the more legato and subdued verses.

Arranger: Joan Gregoryk

Inspired by the words of great peacemakers like Jesus, Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., Peace Variations sets the word peace in Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, English, and Latin. The piano accompaniment is inspired by Bach's Prelude 1 in C Major.

Arranger: Nick Page

Based on a haiku text of Yayu, the instrumental accompaniment of 3 flutes & marimba or keyboard is intended to simulate the frantic activity of the birds while the choral parts are meant to mock the scarecrow's feeble attemps to ward off the birds. No. 2 of Whittemore's multi-movement work Scarecrow Songs. Duration: 0:43.

Arranger: Joan Whittemore

This is an appropriate work for the developing treble choir. The range and tessitura of the vocal parts lend themselves to cultivating skills of developing singers while giving teachers the opportunity to introduce many common compositional techniques. The Wind transports one to the fanciful, playful, and sometimes mischievous youth that is eternally heard in the howls of the wind.

Arranger: Franklin Gallo