With a simple melody inspired by children's songs, All That Could Never Be Said is a setting of Sara Teasdale's poem In the End. Showcasing her signature pairing of nihilism and pastoral beauty, the poem is an exploration of regret: it suggests that the consequences of our inaction are final and absolute. There are no second chances to speak up or to act, and all our missed opportunities will be lost to us until we're reunited with them in death.

Arranger: Christopher Tin | Composer: Sara Teasdale

Now available for SATB! Composed to teach three essential music and dance styles: the Cuban son, the Puerto Rican Plena, and the Dominican Merengue. These are each specific in Caribbean music expressions. Movement suggestions to reflect the musical style along with teaching strategies are provided in the insightful page 2 notes.

Composer: Juan Tony Guzman

To Shiver the Sky is an oratorio about the history of flight, and mankind's quest to conquer the heavens. Told through the words of 11 of our greatest astronomers, inventors, visionaries and pilots, it charts our relentless need to explore the universe, defy our earthly bonds, reach for the face of God, and ultimately claim our place among the stars. It is sung in English, Latin, Italian, German, French, Polish, Russian, and Sanskrit. This is the fifth movement of the work entitled, Astronomy.

Composer: Christopher Tin

To Shiver the Sky is an oratorio about the history of flight, and mankind's quest to conquer the heavens. Told through the words of 11 of our greatest astronomers, inventors, visionaries and pilots, it charts our relentless need to explore the universe, defy our earthly bonds, reach for the face of God, and ultimately claim our place among the stars. It is sung in English, Latin, Italian, German, French, Polish, Russian, and Sanskrit. This is the fifth movement of the work entitled, Astronomy.

Arranger: Christopher Tin | Composer: Christopher Tin

Published originally as SSAA and commissioned by the 2012 ACDA Women's Choir Commissioning Consortium, the rhythmic and driving music with a text by living composer Stacy Gnall is now available for mixed choir.

Composer: Dale Trumbore

A banjo-like piano accompaniment and expressive fiddle stylings lend folk authenticity to this plaintive and moving choral setting of Stephen Foster's classic song Hard Times Come Again No More. the text is set in simplicity and in fullness, by turns, as the expression of the words demand, with individual vocal parts always retaining a naturalness of line that create a rich, harmonic composite when combined with the orther parts.

Arranger: Shawn Kirchner | Composer: Stephen Foster

Shawn Kirchner burst on to the scene with three early American songs from his collection Heavenly Home. Each of the three songs were published separately--Hallelujah, Angel Band, Unclouded Day. Here they are all together as they were originally intended in a real value package. Program as a set or individually.

Arranger: Shawn Kirchner

Emily Dickinson's poem on the fragility of nature, as well as our own hand in its destruction, finds a elegiac tone in this original piece from Baba Yetu composer Christopher Tin. Palo Alto High School, Tin's alma mater, commissioned this deeply melodic composition in celebration of their centennial in 2018.

Composer: Christopher Tin

Emily Dickinson's poem on the fragility of nature, as well as our own hand in its destruction, finds a elegiac tone in this original piece from Baba Yetu composer Christopher Tin. Palo Alto High School, Tin's alma mater, commissioned this deeply melodic composition in celebration of their centennial in 2018.

Arranger: Christopher Tin | Composer: Christopher Tin

I Shall Not See the Shadows is based on Christina Rossetti's poem When I Am Dead My Dearest. It portrays death at its most indifferent--unnoticed, unheralded, unremembered. It also suggests that forgetting is a form of extinction, too--that the finality of species lies not in the death of its last remaining members, but in the failure to preserve their memory.

Composer: Emily Dickinson

This is an evocative, folk-like setting of Yeats' poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree. The modal vocal writing is both simple and sophisticated and always expressive of the yearning in Yeats' words.

Composer: Shawn Kirchner

This beautiful text by Canadian poet Bliss Carman speaks to themes of peace, thankfulness and humility. The texture is mostly homophonic with brief sections of divisi to illuminate colors and images in the text. There are short passages for SSA and TBB that add interest in color and texture and also offer opportunity to feature sections.

Composer: Matthew Emery

Iza Ngomso is the fourth movement of Christopher Tin's major work The Drop That Contained the Sea, and is based on water in one of its unique naturally occuring states. In the case of Iza Ngomso, a piece about clouds, the text is derived from an unusual translation of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem Keramos: translated into Xhosa, one of the national languages of South Africa (and one of the African dialects that features prominent 'click' sounds).

Composer: Christopher Tin

Iza Ngomso is the fourth movement of Christopher Tin's major work The Drop That Contained the Sea, and is based on water in one of its unique naturally occuring states. In the case of Iza Ngomso, a piece about clouds, the text is derived from an unusual translation of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem Keramos: translated into Xhosa, one of the national languages of South Africa (and one of the African dialects that features prominent 'click' sounds).

Arranger: Christopher Tin | Composer: Christopher Tin

from Calling All Dawns

Composer: Christopher Tin

from Calling All Dawns

Arranger: Christopher Tin | Composer: Christopher Tin

This folk song arrangement expresses the dispersed Jewish community's hope for reunion next year in Jerusalem. It is comprised of two distinct sections: a newly-composed, sorrowful theme, expressive of unrequited longing, and the traditional folk song itself, lively with excitement and hope.

Arranger: Shawn Kirchner

If we can be happy and live well without causing unnecessary harm, why wouldn't we? This simple and yet profound question is the invitation for choir, listener, and all of us in this beautiful new work. Written for Donald Nally and The Crossing, this is a piece for the best choirs.

Composer: John Conahan

This is a song by Frances Smith Thomas inspired by the words of an old woman who participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a pivotal event in the Civil Rights Movement. Here is a powerful arrangement of joy and accomplishment with each verse building to the final phrase I'm walking for the glory of the Lord.

Arranger: Shawn Kirchner

Inspired by the Joseph Jennings arrangement of this same tune for Chanticleer, Shawn combines the five syllable halleluia with this timeless melody of the old spiritual. A true gospel piano part, for years improvised by the arranger and now written down along with an optional coda for any choir blessed with a great gospel soloist, this is a concert closer of the highest order.

Arranger: Shawn Kirchner

This beautiful folk ballad from 17th century England is haunting and timeless. The lyrics tell the story of an immigrant looking for love in a new and unfamiliar land. Each of the 3 verses varies in perspective with verse 1 sung by a baritone soloist accompanied by soaring choral dissonances. The second verse, set in 4 part canon, paints the text, And writes it by the river where the water o'er flow. In the final verse, the Soprano solo adds an unsettled sense of agony to the text, And when I get weary, I'll sit down and cry. And think of my Saro, Pretty Saro, my bride.

Arranger: Franklin Gallo

To Shiver the Sky is an oratorio about the history of flight, and mankind's quest to conquer the heavens. Told through the words of 11 of our greatest astronomers, inventors, visionaries and pilots, it charts our relentless need to explore the universe, defy our earthly bonds, reach for the face of God, and ultimately claim our place among the stars. It is sung in English, Latin, Italian, German, French, Polish, Russian, and Sanskrit. This is the first movement of the work entitled, Sogno di Volare. Sogno di Volare is a setting of modern-Italian adaptations of Leonardo da Vinci's writings on flight. It was originally composed as the theme song to the video game Civilization VI. The piece is based around the concept of exploration: both physically, in seeking out new lands, but also intellectually, in seeking out new frontiers of science, technology, and humanities. (Originally published under Item #: 00275228)

Composer: Christopher Tin

Now available for SATB. Based on a Christopher Smart text also memorably used in Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb, originally set for treble voices, this new voicing retains the little band of snare drum, bass drum and triangle. It is rhythmic, angular, declamatory recitation of the instrument rhimes. It serves as a strong selection for festival or concert choir performances.

Composer: David L. Brunner

Now available for SATB. Based on a Christopher Smart text also memorably used in Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb, originally set for treble voices, this new voicing retains the little band of snare drum, bass drum and triangle. It is rhythmic, angular, declamatory recitation of the instrument rhimes. It serves as a strong selection for festival or concert choir performances.

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

Here is a collection of three of the most popular spirituals in the repertoire. Down To The River To Pray, Deep River and In That Great Gettin'-up Morning are arranged for success. Numbers 1 & 3 are a cappella while the slow and powerful no. 2 (Deep River) has piano accompaniment. This set of 3 is a real value for your choral budget.

Arranger: Dean Rishel

Here is a newly-created traditional song that pairs an old hymn text with an original melody. The banjo like piano accompaniment gives the music motion and excitement and the result is a true concert closer.

Composer: Shawn Kirchner

The Saddest Noise is a setting of Emily Dickinson's poem The Saddest Noise, the Sweetest Noise. It begins the story of The Lost Birds in spring: the season of birth and renewal, and a time of year when bird songs flood the skies. But what is ordinarily a joyous sound is now riddled with sorrow, as the songs of the remaining birds remind us of the ones we've already lost.

Arranger: Christopher Tin | Composer: Emily Dickinson

Now available for TTBB choir, this enduring gospel favorite is set with a straight-forward first verse and chorus. The next two verses combine traditional bluegrass vocal style with counterpoint and fugue, resulting in a crescendo of excitement.

Composer: Shawn Kirchner

Waloyo Yamoni (We Overcome the Wind) is the grand finale to Christopher Tin's second album 'The Drop That Contained the Sea'. The lyrics are a setting of a Lango rainmaking prayer. It was commissioned by the St. Matthews Chamber Orchestra, and recorded by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with the Soweto Gospel Choir. New York Concert Review wrote of the Carnegie Hall premiere The audience reacted after the final notes with the loudest and longest standing ovation I have ever heard at any concert, while The York Press wrote We Overcome The Wind was an outpouring of joy; a unanimous standing ovation evinced the sense of togetherness at the heart of this concert.

Composer: Christopher Tin

Wild Swans, a setting of a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, ends the first half of The Lost Birds. Told from the point of view of the poet, it starts with the sound of bird cries: gradually approaching from a distance, until they pass overhead, triggering feelings of longing. After an instrumental interlude, and the narrator's impassioned declaration of freedom, the song ends as it started--with the cries of wild swans receding into the distance, foreshadowing their demise.

Arranger: Christopher Tin | Composer: Edna St. Vincent Millay