Secular Choral Concert Music

This ebullient setting, using the text from a Wendell Berry poem which reads like a psalm of praise, is strongly influenced by Appalachian folk music, even incorporating an original fiddle tune sung on

The metaphor of darkness is immediately evocative and also indefinite; a listener could take it to depict a stepping into the unknown, fear, loss, death, or literal darkness. In this setting, the soloist

This wildly popular arrangement is a favorite with choral festivals all over the country. Beginning in the style of a bluegrass trio, the piece opens into a four-part gospel celebration of the power of song

This arrangement of the American folk hymn is inspired by the shape note or Sacred Harp tradition, marked by the placing of the melody in the inner voice, the tendency toward open fifth sonorities, and an

A clever a cappella medley of three jigs with a rich historical heritage: The Swallow's Tail; Morrison's Jig and The Irish Washerwoman. The fiddle part is split between the two upper

The text for this piece comes from an autobiographical essay by Kent Meyers, who grew up on a farm in southern Minnesota. The piece is a meditation on the effects, both physical and psychological, of