Adult Community Choir Concert Music

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

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

This setting of the beloved poem by Sara Teasdale features wide ranges and soaring vocal lines for your advanced ensemble. Beginning gently, the texture continues to expand to an emotional zenith and ends

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

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

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

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

This haunting setting from the Donald Nally Contemporary Voices series will challenge your singers. Full of jazzy clusters and inspired by a diverse harmonic palette, this is a great piece for a resonant

The setting of this Walt Whitman text provides a challenge for the advanced ensemble. The harmonic progressions and vocal treatments are adventurous, and the motivic development is effective.

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 work for choir, narrator, and piano with optional wind band or chamber ensemble is intended to be a learning and growth experience in all ways emotional and intellectual. A companion resource is

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

A spectacular reimagining of the celebrated Shaker song made famous by Aaron Copland in Appalachian Spring! This American classic is sent soaring in this joyful and energetic arrangement that tugs at the

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

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

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."

Based on a text by Tennessee Reed, the 11 year-old daughter of author Ishmael Reed, this piece may be performed by a children's or adult chorus of treble voices.