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This festive anthem for Easter reminds us that being people of faith means being people of community, and that the triumph of life over death means that we are called to pull people from darkness and exile. It includes options for solo trumpet or brass quintet to accompany the choir.

Alleluia! The Light Returns

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Anthem for SATB chorus and piano, with original text by the composer based on Isaiah 43 and Isaiah 65:17 and incorporating the familiar tune "Hanson Place." This piece is appropriate for services or concerts containing themes of change, newness, hope, and bold action. Medium difficulty.

Behold

This short multi-movement work for choir, soloists, piano, and string quartet invites us the examine and clear our personal and societal shadows in order to bring light to the world. First presented during a Good Friday Service of the Shadows, this piece can fit in either sacred or secular settings. Performance time: c. 11 minutes. 

From the composer: First premiered on Good Friday 2025 at Central United Methodist Church in Albuquerque, NM, Shadow Work is a piece that I wrote about our response to these shadows, both personal and communal, that can cause us to either become the mob or to look away and perhaps to succumb under the weight of hopelessness, injustice, inhumanity, and so forth. The opening movement is a direct confrontation with shadow. It laments our pull toward acts of hatred, even as Love cries out from the cross, asking us to pursue a better way. Our unwillingness to heed the lessons of history cause us to choose violence over and over again, and the choir ends the movement chanting that phrase so associated with the Holocaust, “never forget, never again.” The second movement describes our longing for spiritual water with the plea “may healing rains of justice come, filling our arid, cracking soul earth with rivers of light.” The third movement suggests that, if we look thoroughly at our shadows instead of shoving them down, we can experience resurrection from the shadow of death. And the final movement suggests, very simply, that our waiting for light in the darkness ends when we break the cycles of history and become the light ourselves, having done business with shadow. It ends with a nod to the Navajo idea of Hozhoni- translated often as beauty, it more specifically conveys ideas of harmony, restoration, and right thinking. It is not up to anyone else to break these cycles and to create justice- it us up to us, healing our shadows, becoming the light the world needs. “May it be done through us in beauty.”

Shadow Work

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Cradle Song originally appeared in the full presentations of Light of Peace. It is a reimagining of the beloved Irish song "She Moved Through the Fair." This lilting folk tune naturally lent itself to this reflection on the scene at the manger. It is primarily set for soprano soloist, the choir joins for some atmospheric accompaniment at the end of the song. Providing these extra pieces can help directors fill out a full Celtic service, choosing whichever pieces speak to them and arranging them as they see fit in their own presentations.

Cradle Song (from Light of Peace: Celtic Carols for Christmas)

Drawing its inspiration from world music, "Veni Sancte Spiritus" takes the form of a rhythmic and urgent plea for justice in this setting for SATB unaccompanied chorus and hand drum, appropriate for either church or concert use. It was first premiered by the Foothills Chorale in Seneca, SC as the opener of their concert "Songs of the Muses: A Celebration of Women Composers" on May 8, 2022. Also available on MusicSpoke.

Veni Sancte Spiritus

These carol settings are from the full presentations of Light of Peace that occurred at Central United Methodist Church in Albuquerque, NM in December of 2019 and December 2024. This collection includes Celtic-flavored arrangements of the congregational carols "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear," "Angels We Have Head on High," and "Silent Night." Instrumental parts are included in this booklet.

It is my hope that providing these extra pieces, including the two additional choir/solo movements available separately ("The Rose" and "Cradle Song") can help directors fill out a full Celtic service, choosing whichever pieces speak to them and arranging them as they see fit in their own presentations. The 5 movement publication Light of Peace: Celtic Carols for Christmas is available for purchase from MorningStar Music Publishing (ECS Publishing Group). Please refer to this when considering how you might place these additional songs

Carol Supplement (for Light of Peace: Celtic Carols for Christmas)

A pairing of the carol "Lo How a Rose" with an original setting of the medieval text, "There is No Rose of Such Virtue." Directors can choose to do this piece with or without the singing of "Lo How a Rose," and simply start at measure 27. To keep with the Celtic theme,  it is set to the Scottish tune "Tha mi tinn leis a'Ghaol" (translated as "The Languor of Love.") These extra pieces can help directors fill out a full Celtic service, choosing whichever pieces speak to them and arranging them as they see fit in their own presentations.

The Rose (from Light of Peace: Celtic Carols for Christmas)

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