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From Szymko’s DARE TO BE POWERFUL choral series; these moderate to advanced choral works are passionate expressions of women’s worth, power and potential.  "As a Woman"  is a stirring

"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love." — Marc Chagall. This gorgeous choral work was composed as the

In simple, true words Kim Stafford's poem transforms "peace" from an abstraction into living, breathing action. Mr. Stafford said of composer Szymko’s composition: "I don't know that I have ever

A dramatic setting of the famous verse from Shakespeare's "As You Like It." The piano creates a rush the wind while the voices match the many moods of the poem: somber, ironic, dancing, and finally—

This exhilarating and majestic setting of familiar psalm verse from the Book of Isaiah is a fitting closer to any concert. Commissioned by the San Francisco Girls Chorus.

This is a lyrical setting of Ranier Maria Rilke's exquisite poem on loneliness and of hope.  The music, introspective and melancholy at first, "falls" gently into the gracious hands of "the One" who

With a bitter, yet beautiful poignancy, this lush work for treble chorus, oboe and piano evokes the emotions of a brilliant woman poet destined to bear obscurity and negation behind of the veil required by

Singers will surely find joy in singing this exuberant, inspired setting, with lyrics that encourage us to have invincible strength, and invincible hope, love, and calm through our troubles.

Mary Oliver's poetry is given a fresh and lively setting in this three-movement work for treble voices and chamber orchestra. Perform the piece with full or reduced orchestration, and rehearse with the

"The whole world is a very narrow bridge and the main thing is not to be afraid at all." Set in the original Hebrew, with dramatic rhythmic intensity, this setting of an 18th-century text by Rebbe

This work of dramatic intensity, set to a Wendell Berry text, explores the soulless greed of those who wield power over land, people, governments, and information - power over our future. The conclusion of