Using the most up to date scholarship, Meredith Bowen has created a beautiful score which allows for an authentic performance. The figured bass has been realized and all editorial markings are in brackets, allowing the conductor and singers to make informed performance choices.

Composer: Chiara Margarita Cozzolani

Written as a celebration of a wedding anniversary, David Brunner has set this beautiful Rumi text with highly impressionistic harmonies and frequently shifting key centers.The text is full of beautiful sensations: carving gems, dressing the earth, feeling the breeze, scattering gold dust, lighting our path to love. Universal themes from this 13th Century poet that are as relevant today as ever. Duration: Ca. 3 minutes

Arranger: David L. Brunner

Written as a celebration of a wedding anniversary, David Brunner has set this beautiful Rumi text with highly impressionistic harmonies and frequently shifting key centers.The text is full of beautiful sensations: carving gems, dressing the earth, feeling the breeze, scattering gold dust, lighting our path to love. Universal themes from this 13th Century poet that are as relevant today as ever. Duration: Ca. 3 minutes

Arranger: David L. Brunner

The eloquent text by Charles Anthony Silvestri serves as the driving force of this work. It addresses the beauty all around us that we often fail to notice - those glimpses of heaven right here on earth. A perfect selection for a children's or youth treble choir, with piano and cello accompaniment. Written mainly for two-parts with limited divisi passages. Duration: 4:45.

Arranger: Andrea Ramsey

Matching the sensuous poetry of the Song of Songs with the swirling rhythms and melodic modes of Jewish folk dances, this second movement of Song of Songs is as dramatic as it is virtuosic.

Composer: Lee Kesselman

A warmly romantic love song of true beauty. Tender lyricism and vocal richness make this piece a rewarding conclusion to the full Song of Songs, or a fine concert selection of its own. With piano.

Arranger: Lee Kesselman

A gentle and sensitive poem by Emily Dickinson, evoking the wait for a love's return, is tenderly shaded by DeWald's flowing melodies and graceful harmonies. With piano and French horn (or cello).

Arranger: Frank K. DeWald

Restoring the music from the original published copy and bringing the latest in scholarship, Meredith Bowen offers us a glimps into the nun's chorus of the Renaissance. Performing music during this early time was flexible and practical and this has been achieved in this beautiful edition.

Composer: Raffaella Aleotti

Tender lyricism and spirited syncopations join together in a celebration of spring, life and love. From the cycle birdsong. With piano. Duration: ca. 3:00. Recorded by Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Dianne Berkun, Director.

Arranger: Daniel Brewbaker

Tender lyricism and spirited syncopations join together in a celebration of spring, life and love. From the cycle birdsong. With piano. Duration: ca. 3:00. Recorded by Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Dianne Berkun, Director.

Composer: Daniel Brewbaker

This jubilant setting of poem by Shelley delights in natural imagery: wild woods and plains, sandhills of the sea, windflowers and violets. Brunner's energetic rhythms carry the music forward in a spirit of youthful enthusiasm. Duration: ca. 3 mins.

Arranger: David L. Brunner

This jubilant setting of poem by Shelley delights in natural imagery: wild woods and plains, sandhills of the sea, windflowers and violets. Brunner's energetic rhythms carry the music forward in a spirit of youthful enthusiasm. Duration: ca. 3 mins.

Arranger: David L. Brunner

While John Adams was in attendance at the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, his wife Abigail was at home in Braintree, Massachusetts, running the farm, raising four children, and maintaining a lively correspondence with her husband on a wide range of topics. The sprightly text is adapted from Abigail's letter dated 31 March 1776, and strongly suggests the role women should play in the newly formed government. Set for treble chorus and piano in a style partially influenced by the music heard in Europe during the late 1700s. Duration: 3:20.

Arranger: Carol Barnett

The first of three movements from Kesselman's Song of Songs, this dreamy and lovelorn reverie gathers pentatonic melodic phrases sung over a harplike piano accompaniment.

Arranger: Lee Kesselman

This edition, employing modern scholarship and notation, along with insightful program notes, allows singers and directors to drill deeply into the style and musicianship of this master composer. It may be performed with the keyboard realization or with the original instrumentation for two violins and continuo. A Baroque treasure! Duration: ca. 6 minutes.

Arranger: David Rayl