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Sounds of a Better World
Sounds of a Better World = small voices calling is a series of songs focusing on children. It examines their world and how small steps can be made to improve it.
When this journey began for me almost five years ago, I was very disturbed to learn of various incidents around the world where children were subjected to adverse conditions. I began to wonder how they could possibly develop into caring, responsible adults, with such hardship defining their childhood.
As I read more and explored our attitudes as a society toward children, I began to feel that we (as Dr. Martin Luther King said) "must ask ourselves how responsible we are for the well-being of others". Do we have the courage to feel responsible? What ideals do we strive for? How can we find innovative ways in which the personal and social problems of childhood can be overcome? Can music be utilized as a potential bridge to reach out and address these issues?
What I have come to understand is that we must send the best part of ourselves into the future through our children. If we want society to evolve, we need to understand the importance of childhood, and how vital our role should be in doing whatever we can to nuture every child. We should all be aware of our powerful influence on their minds. Through this incredible journey that Sounds of a Better World has taken me on, I hope to have somehow addressed these issues and to have embraced the joy that children can bring into this world. - Jim Papoulis
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This special 20th anniversary edition has the same notes as the first edition but now, more of the royalties are going to the Foundation for Small Voices. See Jim talk about this special piece on the Hal Leonard Website.
Composer: Jim Papoulis
Jim Papoulis is donating his composer royalties to the Foundation For Small Voices, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing awareness and funding to programs supporting the empowerment of children throughout the world by fostering their creativity through music and role models.
Arranger: Francisco Núñez
Jim Papoulis is donating his composer royalties to the Foundation For Small Voices, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing awareness and funding to programs supporting the empowerment of children throughout the world by fostering their creativity through music and role models.
Arranger: Francisco Núñez | Composer: Jim Papoulis
This was Jim Papoulis' most popular piece in 2015 in its original SSAA voicing. After countless requests for a version for mixed voices, here it is! You have never heard boomwhackers in concert like this!
Composer: Jim Papoulis
Composed in the World Music style with a text in Swahili, Imbakwa was written for a film score that features an organization benefiting orphans in Tanzania. This organization called TunaHAKI uses the arts to empower the children and give them the future they deserve. Hand drum part in vocal score. Duration 4:20.
Composer: Jim Papoulis
Composed for the 2007 ACDA National Multicultural Honor Choir, this dynamic and complex work explores the truths that will cross cultural boundaries to help light the way toward global understanding. Kolenna Sawa brings American choirs closer to appreciating the melodies and rhythms of the Middle East and Arabic cultures.
Composer: Jim Papoulis
Also written for 2-part treble, this SATB arrangement is written in the world music style and is accessible for all level choirs. The text which is in both Swahili and English, is about standing tall on the earth, not with anger or aggression, but with hope, strength, acceptance, and a positive spirit. The voices along with hand claps, stomps, Djembe, shaker and piano all combine for an exciting world music presentation. Duration: ca. 3:00. Performed by Young People's Chorus of NYC Prelude division, Sophia Miller, conductor.
Composer: Jim Papoulis
Beginning with a free and gentle style then moving into a more up tempo and rhythmic B section, this piece speaks of a bittersweet time when we close one chapter in our lives and move on to another new beginning. Written for a group of teens who wanted to celebrate their wonderful and inspirational choral director and also celebrating what was coming next in their lives.
Composer: Jim Papoulis
Jim has taken this classic message - a song of confidence and hope - originally scored for 2-part choir, and re-imagined it for mixed choir. This message is as strong as ever and the choral writing lifts the message to the high school mixed choir.
Composer: Jim Papoulis
Now available for SATB, composer Jim Papoulis created this uplifting Spanish original as a result of his work with children in Mexico. The message that the Mexican children wanted to convey to the world: Listen. With optional percussion and bass.
Composer: Jim Papoulis
Composer Jim Papoulis has created an energetic and uplifting work that fuses the rhythms from African, American and Latin cultures, and uses a text primarily in Swahili interspersed with phrases in Spanish. Supported by shaker, Djembe and agogo bell, the middle section has the feel of a real celebration with layers of spoken word that lead us to the understanding: listen, hear, stand strong. Duration: ca. 3:15. Performed by Young People's Chorus of NYC, Francisco Núñez, conductor.
Composer: Jim Papoulis
Written for the Young People's Chorus of New York City for the 2004 Lincoln Center Tree Lighting Ceremony. Intertwining melodic lines incorporate multiple languages in the spirit of seeking peace worldwide. Includes parts for handbells and djembe. Performance Time: Approx. 2:30
Composer: Jim Papoulis
The true essence of this piece should be one of gentle inner understanding that peace can come from all of us. Created in a songwriting workshop for SATB choir and children's choir, the joining of these two choirs are suggestive that we should all be supportive of one another. There is a gentle feel to the music during the verses and bridge with the refrains being full of celebrations.
Composer: Jim Papoulis
Celebrating the many reasons that we sing--It fills my soul, it reaches something deep inside my heart, it makes me feel, more than anything. These lines and emotions are woven through this piece as the singers explore and celebrate the reasons we sing.
Composer: Jim Papoulis
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