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Empowering and timely, this original contemporary a cappella concert piece celebrates feminine strength through a bold, youthful text by 17-year-old Taylee Heldt. It uses a modern pop style, encouraging expressive vocal techniques like subtle swoops, chest voice, and vocables. The steady 6/8 cajon ostinato adds extra rhythmic drive.

Womankind

SSAA Octavo w/ Cajon

This fun, lighthearted selection celebrates a woman's freedom to grow old and embrace her inner quirks. The cheeky, humorous text includes optional body percussion, staging suggestions, and alternate lyrics allowing the piece to be adapted to a variety of settings and age groups. Melodramatic phrasing, harmonies, and rhythms offer a tango aesthetic sure to delight singers and audiences alike. A showstopper!

When I Become an Old Woman

SSA Octavo w/ opt. Body Percussion & Staging

Editors Choice Year

Sara Teasdale's love poem is beautifully set in a lilting, dreamlike texture that gradually unfolds from two-part to four-part divisi. The melody has a lovely phrase structure, and the interplay between the parts is seamless. Treble choirs will enjoy learning and performing this sensitive ballad.

I Would Live in Your Love

SA Octavo divisi or SSAA

Playful yet poignant, this piece reflects on the fleeting nature of life's joys through simple text and expressive piano writing. Available in multiple voicings, it offers accessibility and emotional depth to singers of all levels.

Mr. Sun

Three-Part Mixed Octavo or SAB

Many young people fall in love with choral music during high school because of the passion of their teachers. This song celebrates the inspiration that teachers pass on to their students, even though their lives intersect only briefly. Shimmering piano lines and lush harmonies make this piece a touching sendoff, perfect for graduation and a wonderful tribute to the teachers that change students' lives.

Catch & Release

SATB Octavo

This is a ballad of the groove of flight achieved, basking in the freedom of a glorious, sustained glide through the sky and the way the magnificent vista alights within our bodies and under our skin.

This Sky Falls

SA Octavo

Based on the Japanese art of kintsukuroi, filling cracked pieces of pottery with gold, this work encourages us to see the beauty in the flaws of others. Layers of ostinatos and close a cappella harmonies bring a modern and emotional appeal to the text from Julia Klatt Singer in a very effective way.

Heart of Gold

SSAA Octavo

Full of energy with a wonderful motivational message, this thrilling piece works beautifully for advanced choirs. About embracing a messy path to achieve your goal, this original work incorporates body percussion that emphasizes the strength needed to move through difficulty to success.

One Step

Copyright Year

Treble choirs young and old will appreciate the part-writing, repeated patterns, and icy energy of Shakespeare's text. This piece is filled with delightful surprises, including percussion, some aleatoric passages, rapidly changing dance-like meters, and a conclusion that pops.

Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind

SSA Octavo with Percussion

A powerful and colorful affirmation of life's beauty, this is like a miniaturized, one-movement symphony for chorus, piano, and flute. The combined musical forces are whisked together as a single expression, greater than the sum of their parts. The piano arpeggiates with washes of color and harmonic support while the flute dances above, virtuosic and serene. The choral timbres are blended brilliantly to communicate a unified message: "Thank you."

A Thank You Note to the Universe

SATB Octavo divisi

Here's a lighthearted number inspired by one of America's founding fathers, Ben Franklin, who was a big fan of the American turkey. Set in the style of a tango with a clarinet for color, this novelty extols the virtues of this corpulent, feathery friend. Fun and engaging at any time of year, but especially near Thanksgiving, your singers and audiences will gobble this one up!

A Respectable Bird

Two-Part Octavo or SA

Written in an accessible singer-songwriter style, this piece celebrates finding one's true self. A solo gives way to choral accompaniment figures, followed by duetting voices and, finally, a warm homophonic choral texture that broadcasts an affirming message through answering rhythms and clusters. The piano accompaniment is engaging yet easy enough for a student, with opportunities for improvisation.

Known

This piece offers a positive message of hope that will be appreciated by both choir and audience. With a text crafted in part by the students for whom it was commissioned, pleasant triadic harmonies and a fully developed piano accompaniment all combine to make a piece that is easy to learn and satisfying to sing.

Looking for Light

SSA Octavo

Tackling the issue of negative self talk, this powerful text encourages us to replace our negative thoughts with positive ones. Pointed, angular, and repetitive phrases represent the swirling thoughts in a person's mind which transform into affirmations in the final statement: "I am strong. I can do this."

Self Talk

Setting the text of a well-known American nursery rhyme, this a cappella original work uses shimmering chords, layered voices, and ascending patterns to create an effect of the sun rising, evoking a child's understanding and curiosity about the world around them. It's a lovely lyrical concert selection for more advanced choirs.

Good Morning

With lyrics by the composer, this sensitive ballad expresses the importance of finding peace and strength even during the darkest times. Accessible ranges and part writing, in addition to a universal message of hope, make this piece suitable for all ages and types of choirs.

In the Morning

This empowering piece for treble voices is rhythmic and full of color. Sometimes we need reassurances that it's okay to be who we are, and this challenging work will invigorate your singers with confidence and joy!

We Are Here to Shine!

This heartfelt piece reminds us that goodbyes are as filled with gratitude and hope as they are sad. Great intimacy is achieved in this unaccompanied setting with the use of solo voices and lush chords as well as a solitary violin obbligato (or other C instrument). A simple, folk-like style binds the work together along with a text inspired by the traditional Irish Blessing.

A Departing Blessing

SATB Octavo with obbligato

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Written in 2007, Sanctus was the first piece to be composed for Hagen's larger work: amass. Beginning with two female soloists and a small section of women's voices, the piece emerges quietly and sweetly, yet soon overflows into a bubbling and expectant texture that slowly grows into a strong and jubilant climax, ending with a contemplative and uncharacteristic "hosanna."

Sanctus

SSATBB Octavo

Written in memory of a loved one, this song comforts and lifts the spirit. With the idea of infinity and the cyclic nature of life, the harmony never really "stays put" - it never spends too much time in one key. The time signature also supports this idea; it never really lands, but flows back and forth between simple and compound meter.

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