Secular Choral Concert Music

Setting words by the composer, this is an affirmatory piece with pop-inspired rhythms and harmonies. The scat syllables and repeating patterns of the lower parts provide a rich cushion for the lilting

Dan's setting, written during the events of 2020, of Paul Wigmore's exquisite text invoking Light, Joy, Love, Peace, and Hope, for SATB choir, piano, and optional string quartet.

Commissioned by E. Daniel Shingleton in honor of the East Carolina University Chamber Singers, this piece evokes the sounds of ocean waves in a tender double choir setting. Jonathan Talberg's poetry is the

Here's an accessible up tempo original piece with a great message: "When those hard times come along, keep singin' all the day long!" Positive lyrics and singable melodic lines are a winning combination for

A powerful new Charles Anthony Silvestri text is set in this gospel/pop fusion piece which is offered as an anthem of hope and empowerment. Affirming that others do not have the right to define us or take

Based on a Buddhist blessing, this song is a prayer for kindness, peace, well-being, and joy for all creation. The prayer moves outward like ripples on a pond with successive verses: "May I," "May you," and

Created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, this piece was performed by more than 17,000 singers from around the world in Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 6. The soft... view details

Based on the Edgar Albert Guest poem Compensation, the text of this original concert work asks us to consider what we would like to be able to say about our lives when we look back in our old age.

This charming little piece with a Christina Rossetti text is lauding the clouds of the sky over the boats and ships. A lilting 6/8 meter propels the text forward, and ample unison sections and singable

Extracted from the musical "The Castaways," a play based on the true story of children who were homeless in New York City at the turn of the century, this song underscores the need to be caring and

Dedicated to celebrating the life of a young woman who exemplified grace and goodness in all her pursuits, this tribute will serve as a loving way to honor and celebrate any cherished friend, mentor, or

Born out of the composer's virtual songwriting workshops with students during the pandemic of 2020, this piece expresses the thoughts and feelings of the younger generation. With themes of love, hope,

Born as a game, this clever piece uses imitating sounds and nonsense vocables to form words with no real meaning. It begins with four solo voices in canon over a humming harmonic accompaniment by the choir.

This classic song, written in the 1940s and made popular by Peter, Paul and Mary, is taken outside the box with this contemporary setting. Hand percussion underpins the layers of rhythmic choral lines which

Musical theatre composer Jason Robert Brown returns with this inspirational song that deals with issues like separation, isolation, silence, and identity in a very healing way. Choirs will rally around this

Composed with young singers in a songwriting seminar, this hopeful piece resonates with the themes and musical styles of our younger generation. The lyrics are about the fact that "love, small acts of

Composed in a Foundation for Small Voices songwriting workshop during the 2020 pandemic, the young participants settled on a text that calls for hope and light at the end of the tunnel. Their positive

From poet Linda Studley comes an empowering text: "We are the ones who take the chance, who sing the song, who step the dance, who dare to try...." Treble choirs will revel in this setting of the text which

The thoughtful poem by Charles Dickens provides the inspiration for this lovely work. "The pure, the bright, the beautiful that stirred our hearts in youth... the striving after better hopes; these things

Receiving an honorable mention for the 2020 King's Singers New Music Prize, this sparkling arrangement sets James Weldon Johnson's text about singing through adversity: "...and if the way grows darker

Emphasizing our need to stop and listen to one another, this original selection was written by the composer doing just that - listening to his singers. Created by Jim Papoulis in his songwriting workshops,

A colorful and evocative piano accompaniment underpins the setting of this beautiful late Romantic text. Built on a pentatonic melody that gives it an earthy sound, this arrangement evokes the spirit of its

"That which we are, we are; one equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." These immortal lines of undaunted courage and

This charming selection includes lots of unison and very simple harmonies that echo and playfully interact with each other. Good for developing upper treble registers, this piece features a fun flute part