Secular Choral Concert Music

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.

Royal Canadian Air Force pilot John Magee wrote his popular poem High Flight when he was 19 years old. In the poem, he describes the delirious feeling of wheeling and soaring, and an intimate

This piece, based on Christina Rossetti's poem When I Am Dead, My Dearest, portrays death at its most indifferent - unnoticed, unheralded, unremembered. Despite this sense of finality, there is a

Following on the heels of the wildly popular Baba Yetu, Christopher Tin brings us a wonderful new piece from the soundtrack of the video game Civilization VI. In Italian, with sweeping choral lines

This gospel-infused, blues-influenced arrangement of the famous work by Alma Bazel Androzzo was written in honor of Dr. Anton Armstrong. A solo voice drives the work throughout, with the choir playing a

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

Emily Dickinson's poem on the fragility of nature, as well as our own hand in its destruction, finds an elegiac tone in this deeply melodic original work commissioned by Palo Alto High School.

A beautiful arrangement that will challenge your ensemble with its divisi texture, stretched rhythms, and shifting tonalites. The solo section which opens the piece offers vocalists a chance to shine.

With a text centered around divine love, and the depths of that love, the music is characterized by slow-moving cluster chords, soaring voice leading, and first inversion chords that give a feeling of

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

From Handel's first English masterwork, "Acis and Galatea," this lively chorus offers singers valuable experience in working with and performing Baroque melismas. The music is cheerful and colorful,

Here is a work about light, which brings peace, hope, awareness, wholeness. The a cappella writing is descriptive and transparent with the independent lines, modern harmonies, clusters, dissonances and

The message that one's worth is measured in their compassion and care for future generations is at the core of this inspirational piece. With sweeping melodic lines and grand choral writing, this

Setting the imagery of the Sarah Hudlow poem, this rich and emotional poem inspires image rich musical textures. Written for SATB Divisi choir and soloist, a cappella, advanced singers will love the

Although this is an original work, the words, which simulate a tribal language, give it a world-music feeling. In fact, the chant-like character of the piece almost makes you feel as though you are taking

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

Setting a prose text penned by Helen Keller, composer and conductor Andrea Ramsey has created a sensitive yet powerful a cappella work that explores the theme, "All that we love deeply becomes part of

The arranger draws on his long experience with Leonard Bernstein, to create this unique choral setting that weaves together some of Bernstein's most famous works including: Almighty Father

This piece is a section from The Games: A Science Fiction Opera by Meredith Monk and Ping Chong. Set on an imaginary planet, The Games takes place in a post-nuclear future where survivors and their