Songs that Celebrate Music

Set to the poem Everyone Sang written by Siegfried Sassoon at the end of World War I, this uplifting piece opens with accompaniment patterns intended to imitate the flight of birds, followed by

Based on a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson, this piece opens with a short flute introduction of music floating across the sky. In contrast, the text goes on to say that music is heard not only in places of

Walt Whitman's poem I Hear America Singing (from Leaves of Grass), with its many references to men singing at their work, seems best suited to the direct and forceful character of your experienced

An assuring text from master poet Sara Teasdale, its central theme is that one can take refuge in singing. Ever sensitive to the text, Walker crafts word painting throughout with shimmering piano

The beauty of the natural world is the subject of this piece based on a Ralph Waldo Emerson poem. This peaceful and serene arrangement is short and sweet, bringing a unique warmth to the gentle lyrics.

This beautiful a cappella arrangement was commissioned by Cantus for their album A Harvest Home. Written as a companion piece to the setting of Simple Gifts, this arrangement sounds traditionally

A beautiful a cappella setting of various Shakespeare texts commissioned by the University of Notre Dame Men's Glee Club, Daniel Stowe, conductor, in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the death of