Originally written for The Children's Aid Society Chorus of New York City, this e.e. cummings text lends itself so nicely to the pure sound of treble voices and explores the idea of transformative innocence - that no state of being is so dark or hopeless that it cannot be transformed into light and joy through innocence. Duration: ca. 4:00.

Arranger: Daniel Brewbaker

Written for the 20th anniversary of the CME Institute, A Living Song serves to honor and reflect on the passion for music that CME has instilled in countless singers throughout the years.

Arranger: David L. Brunner

This work for treble voices, cello and classical guitar begins with an ostinato repetition of the title, before the entrance of the melodic theme superimposed in counterpoint with the cello melody. The texture becomes more homophonic and builds to a climax before dissolving into a counterpoint on the words not quite the same with the cello and voices above a ground. Duration: 4:30.

Arranger: Richard Kidd

This setting of a profound text by poet William Ayot explores the deep emotions that a person travels in a lifetime. The music depicts our turmoil, vulnerability and sense of inadequacy, but ultimately provides a sense of repose.

Arranger: Andrea Ramsey

With a text taken from a 4th century Latin hymn, this fiery anthem explores the contrast between heaven and hell in a contemporary neoclassical style. An exciting and powerful concert opener, and especially ideal for a reverberant performance space! With opt. string quartet.

Arranger: Andrea Ramsey

This beautiful work by the 17th century female composer Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602-1678) is sophisticated and accessible and a perfect vehicle for introducing this important musical period to your treble choir. Duration: ca. 3 minutes 20 seconds.

Arranger: Kristina MacMullen

Taking its text from a 12th century monastic prayer, this setting for women's chorus is bright and uplifting and features a contemporary harmonic palette and rhythmic vitality. Duration: ca. 2:10.

Arranger: Larys Kuzmenko

This is a highly emotional and powerful piece for women's choir. Composer Boerger asks the chorus to produce the sound of bereavement when it first strikes. A total commitment to the emotions as masterfully created by the poet and the composer will result in a tour de force for the mature women's choir. Duration: ca. 3:30.

Arranger: Kristina Boerger

Several variants of this famous English folk ballad are incorporated into this evocative setting for women's voices. First performed by the Varsity Women's Choir of Appleton North High School, James Heiks, conductor.

Arranger: Stephen Hatfield

Nick Page uses an energetic, driving, percussive style to set the text Be lifted, be received, be embraced by love, reminding us that we are not alone. We're part of something greater than ourselves. Duration: ca. 3 minutes 30 seconds.

Arranger: Nick Page

Lindsay Kesselman's poetic words provide wonderful material for a choral art-song. The words speak of a Nature connected to people and their Souls.

Composer: Lee Kesselman

Written to honor the memory of the influential teacher of singing Dr. William McIver, this piece describes the rippling effects of a teacher's life work with word painting and resonant Biblical texts. With piano.

Arranger: Francisco J. Nunez

Change My Name is a series of melodic variations on the opening line of a spiritual more commonly known as If He Changed My Name. Composer Stephen Hatfield has created an intense, grave, peaceful arrangement for women's voices that will cast a spell over both singer and listener. Duration: ca. 4:00

Arranger: Stephen Hatfield

Originally written for unison choir with descant and part of Nick's Nursery Rhyme Cantata this new voicing for SSA and piano is lush and worthy of any fine choir. Dedicated to Dr. Barbara Tagg and already performed by one of her choirs at Syracuse, her stamp of approval for this arrangement is high praise indeed. Duration Ca. 3 minutes

Arranger: Nick Page

Frozen In evokes the icy calm of a placid winter evening walk, not just any walk but the walk of great friends with a long shared history. The crystalline imagery of the poetry is perfectly depicted in this setting for women's voices, evoking the calm of the atmosphere and the icy walk. With violin.

Composer: Kristen Anderson-Lopez | Musical: Frozen

Hamisha Asar are the Ladino words (the Spanish Hebrew language spoken by the Sephardic Jews) for Tu Be'Shevat, the Jewish holiday in the spring that celebrates the time when sap begins flowing in the tress. Duration: ca. 2:00.

Arranger: Nick Page

A musical representation of the sonnet by Keats of the same name, this work expresses the creative process in variously musing and emphatic music. With piano and oboe or violin.

Arranger: Michael Richardson

Based on poetry by e.e. cummings, this setting is dedicated to the composer's mother on the occasion of her 87th birthday. Masterful vocal writing and an engaging piano accompaniment evoke images both humble and grandiose, and allow choirs to showcase balance and blend through expansive homophonic passages. Duration: ca. 6:30.

Arranger: Daniel Brewbaker

These intimate and comforting lines of Elizabeth Bishop's Sonnet are set to music that is reflective, lush and lyrical, with the text always foremost. Originally written for SATB chorus, this voicing for treble choir maintains the lush harmonies of the original while taking into account the potential of the women's voices.

Arranger: David L. Brunner

The fragmented nature of the poetry is reflected in the many small musical sections. (3:00)

Arranger: David L. Brunner

Exploring the emotional extremes of the willful momentum generated by one who aspires to expand herself in light of another, this is a piece for advanced women's choirs. Big contrasts abound in range, dynamics, rhythms and emotions.

Composer: Philip Silvey

Playful and inspirational energy courses through this lively song, bringing to life a poem about the joy of musical sharing and personal interconnectedness. With piano.

Arranger: David L. Brunner

This fleet-footed setting of a medieval French folksong is packed with energy and self-assurance. Sure to please!

Arranger: Stephen Hatfield

Adapted from a traditional African-American chant, this is - in the composer's words - a soulful piledriver with a monster backbeat. Plentiful but manageable divisi writing makes this a full and satisfying arrangement.

Arranger: Stephen Hatfield

Based on poetry by Sara Teasdale, this work, in the composer's words, is a passionate roller-coaster ride, surprising and exhilarating, and over before one knows it. Commissioned for the Minnesota All-State Women's Choir and accompanied by piano and violin, this piece will be a striking showcase for concert and festival performances. Duration: ca. 2:50.

Arranger: Jocelyn Hagen

A beautifully unique work, this setting features a 19th century children's poem which unfolds into an imaginative combination of the Latin canon Dona nobis pacem with the ancient Hebrew Sim shalom and the Arabic Saalam, kadiq (peace, brother). For SSA chorus, 2-Part children's choir (or soloists) and piano. Recorded by the Young People's Chorus of New York City; Fransciso J. Nuñez, Artistic Director.

Arranger: Francisco J. Nunez

In a world filled with intense divisions of faith, we often forget our common ancestors, the common pillars of our religious heritage. In this work, the composer has mixed the Hebrew and Latin texts of the Sanctus and Benedictus texts, which derive from the Old Testament.

Arranger: Lee Kesselman

A delicate setting for three-part treble choir of an e.e. cummings text. With piano accompaniment that is supportive of the vocal lines, yet not overpowering, younger and more experienced choirs alike will enjoy the simplicity of this beautiful piece. Duration: ca. 2:00

Arranger: Daniel Brewbaker

Adapted from movement from a suite by C. Hubert H. Parry, this tuneful, quintessentially British melody, easily associated with the 19th Century England's vast reserve of folk-songs provides a wonderful vehicle for teaching style and musicality. The cello part is playable by a high school player.

Arranger: Robert Sieving

Magnificat in D was composed for female voices - a wonderful example of Classical era writing fits the mature woman's voice to perfection! With flute and continuo accompaniment.

Arranger: Brandon Ulrich

This brilliant and impressive work might be described as an outburst of optimism and brightness. It is divided into three main parts, each built out of several short sections, all connected by a continuous flowing piano accompaniment with the texture shifting back and forth between a chorale-like hymn and a three part canon. The third part is a bell-like finale.

Arranger: Avner Hanami

Using excerpts from the Psalms, this work creates a lively fanfare-like opening followed by a legato contrapuntal section, ending with a return to the energetic opening material. An uplifting chorus of praise and joyous singing that is appropriate for concert use in school, community or church choirs. Duration: ca. 2:50.

Arranger: Isabelle Ganz

This is an uplifting affirmation of joy and beauty that the world affords every day to the eyes and heart that are opened to perceive and receive it. The Rumi text and Brewbaker music merge to describe the feeling of life as it flows effortlessly over the water as wind fills its sails. This is a truly uplifting and inspirational work.

Arranger: Daniel Brewbaker

This is a merging of modern diction with the ancient forms of counting song, nursery rhyme, round, or catch, and the incantational folk songs that paid homage to the natural powers of this peculiar and beautiful world. (2:15)

Arranger: Stephen Hatfield

"Queen Ann" is Jane Seymour, the third and most beloved wife of Henry VIII, who died giving birth to Edward VI. Originating in England, this ballad then traveled to America where it settled in the isolated Kentucky hills. The story is told by three characters each of whom carry a distinctive timbre: treble I - Jane Seymour, treble II - the narrator, and treble III - Henry VIIII. The slow tempo and emotional context of the text give many opportunities for word painting and subtle dynamic nuances.

Arranger: Stephen Hatfield

With a flowing piano accompaniment, the vocal texture is mainly homophonic, interspersed with brief contrapuntal sections. This particular poem speaks of remembering a relationship, and the need for reflecting upon it in a positive light. A new arrangement for treble voices.

Arranger: Donna Gartman Schultz

This music creates a soundscape inspired by the mysticism of ancient Eastern religions, with a text and chant derived from the ancient Buddhist mantra that calls for peace and well being for all. It translates, Peace. May all beings be well and happy. The work evokes serenity, warmth and love. Duration: ca. 4:00.

Arranger: Mark Sirett

Tracing words by Emily Dickinson, this poetic selection artfully captures the melancholy passing of a season and feelings of irretrievable time gone by. An accompanying horn or viola contributes an autumnal color to the women's chorus. With piano.

Arranger: Frank K. DeWald

Offering guidance through stages of spiritual awakening from respect for and service to all, Daniel Brewbaker captures the inspiration of the Rumi text in ecstatic and energetic music for women's choir, piano and percussion.

Arranger: Daniel Brewbaker

Do unto others as you would have them do to you' or The Golden Rule may be found in most major world religions. In this new composition by Wayland Rogers, eight religions are represented. Written in an Afro-Cuban style using hand percussion along with piano and bass, this positive and uplifting text will make a perfect concert closer. Duration: ca. 3:15.

Arranger: Wayland Rogers

Setting this Celtic folk song in a slow and majestic style, the arranger underscores the anguish and uncertainty of the lovers who must say goodbye to each other. The final outburst is full of heartbreak and will be a passionate and emotional moment for your choir. Duration: ca 3:50

Arranger: Mark Sirett

This is the last in the trilogy of settings of verses from a collection that Sarah White calls her Widow Poems, written after the sudden death of a lover. Each of the three represents a different stage in the arc of the poet's grief. In this one, written on the first anniversary of the beloved's death, a trace of whimsy has entered White's language and the music masterfully captures this same emotion.

Arranger: Kristina Boerger

A tribute to the spirit of creativity and joy that comes from making music. Sung with a sense of whimsy, and a sparkle in the eye.

Arranger: David L. Brunner

Based on the famous Ecclesiastes text, Rupert Lang has created a lovely piece that conveys a message of hope and the idea that there is balance in all things. For three-part treble voices and piano. Duration: ca. 6:00.

Arranger: Rupert Lang

Adapted from an 18th century French folk song, this work tells the story of the female narrator who is in competition with a village beauty. A playful setting that summons up old world towns with their heroines, their rivalries, their heartbreaks and the village gossip in the center of it all. Duration: ca. 4:00.

Arranger: Stephen Hatfield

This work is a celebration of the journey towards womanhood with its joys, mysteries and possibilities. Spirited ascending melodies, dance-like rhythms and vocal percussive sounds unfold into a structured improvisation wherein the members of the choir whisper their aspirations for the future, together forming a sea of sonic dreams.

Arranger: Andrea Clearfield

With a text by thirteenth century poet Meister Eckhart that speaks of the fall from and a return to grace, composer Brewbaker uses mostly homophonic writing with soft, contemporary harmonies to find the soul's rightful place in the universe. This emotional showstopper calls for the full range of a woman's voice and mature emotions. Duration: ca. 4:00. Performed by Somerset Festival Chorus at Wells Cathedral in England, Emily Ellsworth, conductor.

Arranger: Daniel Brewbaker

Exhibiting that the power of music can influence how we hear words, Cary Ratcliff uses a relentless piano part and dark harmonies to turn a simple lyric into a foreboding tale of desperation. This programatic writing will make a powerful statement in your concert as well as a great learning piece for your singers. Duration: 3:20.

Composer: Cary Ratcliff

Second in a cycle of four songs characterizing the wind, Wind Dance captures the cold winter wind, but ends with an optimistic peace. Scored for SSA, piano, and flute.

Composer: David Stocker

First in a cycle of four songs characterizing the wind, Wind Scent opens the set in a lilting 10/8. The wind here is depicted as a constant companion through all stages of life. Scored for SSA, piano, and flute.

Composer: David Stocker