Beginning with a single-lien chant, the music moves through echoing counterpoint into ever more anxious, short phrases before opening into a gentle waltz that urges us to "see all this light". The poet

Written for The Crossing by their resident composer, this innovative work utilizes improvised tone clusters, striking harmonies, and a variety of textures to convey being bound by labor. The final selection

This Ukrainian folk melody exemplifies how a simple musical idea and childlike innocence can create sublime music. A single solo voice tells the story of a bunny that circles a house, desiring nothing else

An effective carol featuring an alto solo combines verse by Robert Louis Stevenson with an ancient Latin antiphon text. From Carols for Choirs 6.

Exploring a variety of vocal and compositional techniques, this original work offers a significant challenge for singers. The text inspires us to persevere beyond the challenges presented by daily life

The De Profundis text includes excerpts from the Psalms that amount to a call to God to hear our prayers and be merciful. This setting is captivating and distinctively original. The rhythmic playfulness

Based on the dramatic events in Springfield, Missouri, Easter, 1906 tells the true story of the lynching of three Black men in the town square on Easter Sunday, 1906. This horrific story is just

Poet Langston Hughes writes, "A long time ago, an enslaved people heading toward freedom made up a song: Keep Your Hand on the Plow! Hold On! The plow plowed a new furrow, and into that furrow, the

This atmospheric piece celebrates the presence of those who illuminate our lives. Rich in color and deeply heartfelt, this work traverses through several different choral textures punctuated by subtle

Heralded by The Los Angeles Times as an “elegant, engaging, an effective setting, pungently scored, rhythmically varied, and highly flattering to a good chorus . . . accessible in the best sense."

A favorite among college and high school women's choirs, this selection is a tenacious, ferocious and distinctly feminine anthem of praise to the goddess Inanna. The text was written by Enheduanna, the

Jacob Collier's amazing Grammy winning arrangement of this iconic jazz standard has been meticulously set with only eight to twelve vocal parts on the page. While this may be one of the most difficult

Here is a spectacular concert arrangement of this classic song from "The Wizard of Oz." With a grand piano opening which captures the orchestration from the full score followed by the tender vocal

This strikingly beautiful arrangement of the traditional 17th-century Scottish folk song features a tenor solo surrounded by a luminous and shimmering a cappella choral texture. The familiar English text

Shaw, who lives in New York City, is often cited as proof that classical music has an exciting future. In 2013, at the age of 30, she became the youngest composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for music, for

Written for The Crossing by their resident composer, this evocative work utilizes innovative vocal techniques to paint the original text. The first selection in a set of three works, this piece can be