for Tenor Solo, SATB Quartet (or semi-Chorus) and SSAATTBB Chorus, a cappella.

Composer: Rupert Lang

Here is the second movement and emotional heart of Heavenly Home: Three American Songs. Simple, soaring descants, countermelodies, and rich harmonic textures provide a symphonic breadth to this arrangement that encompasses the full, four-octave range of the choral instrument. Duration: ca. 6:15.

Arranger: Shawn Kirchner

This Chippewa text is energized by close canonic entries.

Arranger: Imant Raminsh

Kenneth Grahame's simple and slightly archais language brings to mind the gentle rocking rhythm associated both with traditional carols and folk lullabies, which the composer has augmented with occasional cross-rhythms. (3:00)

Composer: Frank DeWald

with Mezzo-Soprano solo and optional Handbells. Melody by Janicka Vandervelde. (4:45)

Composer: Aaron Jay Kernis

Exploring themes of the traveler returning to home and family especially during the holidays, this work uses ostinati and superimposed lines of text in a hypnotic, jazz-flavored style that evokes the foggy December weather of St. John, Newfoundland. Duration: ca. 5:30.

Composer: Stephen Hatfield

Exploring themes of the traveler returning to home and family especially during the holidays, this work uses ostinati and superimposed lines of text in a hypnotic, jazz-flavored style that evokes the foggy December weather of St. John, Newfoundland. Duration: ca. 5:30.

Arranger: Stephen Hatfield | Composer: Stephen Hatfield

Based on Psalm 121, the text of this peaceful work captures the beauty and serenity of nature, and the promise of guidance and support from a higher power. The composer has carefully shaped the melodic lines to evoke that of a mountainous landscape and the tone colors to the bold hues of where the hills meet the sky. Duration: 5:00.

Composer: Jake Runestad

This setting of an Emily Dickinson text explores the bittersweet quality of those few summer-like days in what should be fall, comparing them to the bread and wine of the communion service. The music explores the full palette of choral expression, with dramatic contrasts in dynamic range and vocal textures. Duration: ca. 7:30.

Composer: John Burge

This Nahuatl text is a lyrical, rhapsodic setting of a ravishing text. Features a Soprano Solo.

Arranger: Imant Raminsh

This setting of Solveig's Song from Act V of Ibsen's Peer Gynt is a gentle lullaby in ABA form. It features a variety of choral textures, some alternation of meters and interplay between the mezzo-soprano soloist and the rest of the choir. The middle section is characterized by increased divisi writing, contrapuntal imitation and some degree of modulation resulting in overall intensification.

Arranger: Imant Raminsh

Solemn and triumphant music animate this expansive morning song, encompassing both secular and spiritual awe. Bell-like themes and passages from Shall We Gather at the River connect impressively wide-ranging moods. With piano. Recorded by Windsor Classic Chorale, Richard Householder, Director.

Composer: John Burge

This breathtaking work, derived from unique fragments of plainchant from the 13th century, evokes a sense of serenity and peace. O Columba begins slowly and quietly with three verses of hymn in praise of St. Columba.

Composer: Ken Johnston

with Alto & Tenor Soli, with PercussionContents: All Throughout the Great Wide World, The Black Raven, Along the Peterskaya.

Arranger: Imant Raminsh

This Winnebago text is a quiet meditation, featuring a soprano soloist (imitating a boy soprano).

Arranger: Imant Raminsh

These two biblical texts combine to evoke an image of community, the River which contains all of us, yet which still falls short of the Universal Spirit. With Piano, Bass and Percussion.

Composer: Lee Kesselman

Margery Agrell's radiant poem recalls faint light and soft winds and provides a reflective and soothing view of nature in this SATB piece for a cappella mixed voices. The close harmonies produce a lush yet evanescent veil of shimmering sonorities in keeping with the hushed and dream-like spells of sweet silence.

Composer: Robert Sieving

This Inuit text features free and changing meters and frequent divisi. (3:45)

Arranger: Imant Raminsh

This fresh new arrangement was written in response to the events of September 11, 2001.

Arranger: David L. Brunner | Composer: Francis Scott Key

This movement concludes the larger work Earth Chants in quiet benediction. Features a Soprano Solo.

Arranger: Imant Raminsh

This Tewa text is quite vigorous.

Arranger: Imant Raminsh

Long Live Music is a bold statement indeed and the choral writing by David Brunner is strong and dramatic. The opening musical statement in unison is followed quickly by a dance-like, imitative section that allows all parts to soar. A final build to the end is both dynamically and harmonically exciting and will bring the house down! Duration: ca. 2:00.

Composer: David L. Brunner

Long Live Music is a bold statement indeed and the choral writing by David Brunner is strong and dramatic. The opening musical statement in unison is followed quickly by a dance-like, imitative section that allows all parts to soar. A final build to the end is both dynamically and harmonically exciting and will bring the house down! Duration: ca. 2:00.

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

This Sioux text is a vigorous piece with canonic imitation and some tone clustering, starting with single voice parts and expanding to full SSAATTBB texture.

Arranger: Imant Raminsh

The text of We Are the Music-Makers is a few lines from Arthur O'Shaughnessy's Ode that speaks of the special feelings of being musicians, in many ways apart from the world, perhaps lonely and misunderstood, yet possessors of a far greater reality, the movers and shakers of the world forever. (5:15)

Composer: David L. Brunner

Ruth Watson Henderson has set a wonderful secular winter text using a harmonic language that is accessible to a very good high school choir but worthy of a fine adult ensemble as well. Duration: ca. 4 minutes 30 seconds.

Composer: Ruth Watson Henderson