SATB Secular Concert Choral Music

Embracing the hope that dreams may someday become a reality, this musical setting is actively stirring, with stunning harmonic and melodic moments. It seeks to capture that internal ecstasy and

This warm choral setting is so beautifully melodic and expressive, it could be precisely the way Robert Louis Stevenson imagined his famous "I will make you brooches" poem. This is very sweet, singable, and

This poignant setting of a poem from William Blake's Songs of Innocence captures the sadness and sense of longing for lost childhood and innocence. 

There is a fierce passion behind Poe’s famous Annabel Lee, and this passion is captured in the speed and delivery of the text within the music. This a cappella arrangement is tonal and rich

This atmospheric setting of the celebrated poem by the Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes captures the sense of comfort and security while listening to rainfall. The ebb and flow, careful phrasing,

East meets West in this evocative and haunting collection of pieces setting poems by contemporary male Arab poets. Each tells a story of a woman they have known, and each is at a different stage of life. An

Based on the familiar text from Song of Solomon, this beautiful a cappella work uses colorful harmonic structures that require care by both conductor and singers. For better high school or university

While these two works share the same title and text, they are vastly different works and cannot be performed simultaneously. The SATB version is scored for mixed voices and one piano,while the SSAA version

Featuring the poem Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon, written shortly after the end of World War I, Armistice 1918 is a celebratory work stemming from themes of victory and revolution.

This imaginative setting of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem encourages the use of evocative bird and wind noises to capture the text's natural imagery. With a rhythmic a cappella texture, this selection

Commissioned to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Eastman School of Music, this celebration of creativity is a recognition of the vision and commitment as well as the vulnerability that accompanies the

Walt Whitman wrote this poem near the end of his life as he was reflecting on his past and preparing for physical death. The music reflects this idea, as it is both meditative, with passages of quiet

"As the rain hides the stars, as the autumn mist hides the hills..." Here is an exquisite setting of a traditional Gaelic prayer that will enhance the ethereal beauty of your choral sound. As the clouds

This setting of a traditional Gaelic prayer is poignant and heartfelt, with sustained lines and a full, rich choral sound. Gentle shifts in harmony between various combinations of voices and the use of

Winner of the prestigious 2018 Brehm Prize in Choral Composition at the University of Michigan, here is a Walt Whitman text that seems to float in the air like the stars the text refers to. Subtle

These three pieces are translated into English but are based on Japanese poems by Yamabe no Akahito, Sakanoue no Korenori, and Takayama Sozei. Creating a quiet winter soundscape with tight cluster

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

A tenderly expressive evening prayer for peace and forgiveness, based on a poem by Nicholas Ogarev, shows Tchaikovsky at his Romantic best! The composer wrote three settings of this text, this being the

This piece explores the theme of hope through a rich homophonic texture, contrasted with a brief solo section in which individual voices punctuate a dissonant background swirling with brief melodies. Rising