Secular Choral Concert Music

In this innovative work, the choir paints the bucolic scene with vocal illustrations: buzzing like bees, singing quasi-overtones, and emulating wind sounds. Otherwise a cappella harmonies are supplemented

Young poets write about home in ways both immediate and profound: a place, the things in those places, beloved people and pets, the familiar sounds, smells, and tastes. This music is a kaleidoscope of

Echoing repetitions, supported by a shimmering vibraphone, create the frosty soundscape of Sara Teasdale's poem as the voices strive to make a single song "as lovely and full of light, as hushed and brief

Long vocal lines and piano flourishes imitating the ch’in and gong, and far eastern flavors and colors evoke the vastness of Pearl S. Buck's beloved China.

In this rhythmically delightful lullaby, women’s sprightly nonsense syllables contrast with lyrical men’s entreaties, finally converging as the choir sings the child to sleep.

Can a cradle rock in 5/4? This one does, carrying the listener off to faraway harmonic regions and chromatic ideas before returning to a reassuring final cadence in A major. 

Vachel Lindsay's poem is subtitled "A Poem Game," and this musical setting is a bit of a game as well - a game of skill as the text provides tongue-twisting turns for the singers. That and the interesting

Unusual sonorities and shifting modes capture the timelessness and simplicity of the everyday images in Patricia Kirkpatrick's poem about small town America.

True to its name, this modern madrigal focuses on lively, compelling rhythms that imitate and celebrate the energy of youth, while gently underscoring its ephemeral nature. Fitting for an advanced choir

"We clasp the hands of those who go before us, and the hands of those who come after us..." This unifying text by Wendell Berry preserves our sense of heritage and connection. Barnett's artistic setting for

A lovely arrangement of Slummersang (Cradle Song) by Gustaf Hagg, this piece set for mixed choir with piano provides harmonic interest while remaining accessible to choirs of many levels. The