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    This Sara Teasdale poem touched me immediately when reading it for the very
  first time. Peace flows into me, the first line of the poem, made me wonder
  what peace feels like. What does peace sound like? How do we envision peace
  flowing?  Many of us think of peace as
  a moment of inner stillness, yet peace, according to Teasdale, is
  flowing.  Is peace still, or does its
  constant motion bring us comfort and tranquility, the way the earth is
  constantly moving in order to create our sense of balance? This setting is
  melodic, harmonically modern and intriguing, and will be attainable for
  self-selected high school ensembles, select ensembles, college, and community
  ensembles.

Peace

SATB Octavo

This original setting of The Road Not Taken is a poem that connects
  deeply with our most important life choices. 
  I composed this piece after I just had a one-on-one conversations with
  several of my high school seniors; each student was trying to figure out what
  school was the right fit for them, but felt a sense of fear that whatever
  choice they made would leave doubt in their minds.  
    
    
    
    What if I chose the wrong school?
    
    
    
    We may believe that we are destined down the road that we are supposed to
  take. Even so, there may still remain a twinge of wonder or even regret about
  that other opportunities we passed up. 
  
    
    
    
    This setting is intended to bring out the wonder and the doubt every step
  of the way. 
    
    
    
    The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
    
    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
    
    And sorry I could not travel both
    
    And be one traveler, long I stood
    
    And looked down one as far as I could
    
    To where it bent in the undergrowth;
    
     
    
    Then took the other, as just as fair,
    
    And having perhaps the better claim,
    
    Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
    
    Though as for that the passing there
    
    Had worn them really about the same,
    
     
    
    And both that morning equally lay
    
    In leaves no step had trodden black.
    
    Oh, I kept the first for another day!
    
    Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
    
    I doubted if I should ever come back.
    
    
    
    I shall be telling this with a sigh
    
    Somewhere ages and ages hence:
    
    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
    
    I took the one less traveled by,
    
    And that has made all the difference.

The Road Not Taken

This is a high-quality, standard arrangement of Star-Spangled Banner. Learn this arrangement quickly. It will naturally adapt for many events and circumstances. Singing outside, in a big gym, as a trio or at a concert, or in the round. This arrangement will be successful and impactful every time in every setting!

Star-Spangled Banner (SAB - unaccompanied)

SAB Octavo

This choral piece describes the search that many of us have to find ourselves. We fill our lives by being busy and don't realize we find ourselves when we are alone.

Dedicated to the POBJFKHS 2025-2026 Treble Choir

They Seek

SSA Octavo

I wrote "Alleluia" for the 2023-2024 Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School Mixed Choir. Alleluia seems like such a finite word and yet I view it as a feeling of comfort through a world of discomfort. It is never stagnant and covers an endless range of emotion. Most of this beautiful composition avoids root position chords and instead explores the emotional complexities of even the most simple harmonies. When the song finally ends in root position, it eliminates the 3rd of the chord, leaving a definitive, yet unsettling ending. I hope this setting of Alleluia brings beauty and light through darkness.

Alleluia

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