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In the Evening is an SATB choral setting of Fenton Johnson's reflective poem about how love and nature intertwine. The piece follows the gentle arc of day into night, using shifting harmonies and expressive melodic lines to echo the poem's themes of return, release, and emotional clarity. Dissonance is used with care, adding depth and color without overwhelming the natural flow of the text. As evening falls, sorrow fades, love reappears, and the world feels momentarily still and full of meaning. This piece invites singers and listeners into that quiet, luminous space.

In the Evening

SATB Octavo

Echo is an ode and longing cry for one passed on. Echo, set from poet Christina Rossetti, sports emotive line, dynamic contrast, and presents itself well for talented high school and collegiate ensembles (SATB Divisi)

Echo

Keep Your Lamps is a rejuvenation on the old African-American spiritual. Displaying a fresh, energetic rhythmic pulse matched by the urgent feel of the text, Keep Your Lamps lends itself well to talented high school and collegiate ensembles.

Keep Your Lamps

The Sea is an arrangement of an English art song by Edward MacDowell (1893) with text by William Dean Howells. 

With rich, chromatic harmonies and a text-tailored melody, The Sea lends itself well to high school and collegiate TTBB ensemble.

The Sea

TTBB Octavo

Forever is Composed of Nows is a lesser-known poem by the great Emily Dickinson, but no less powerful than any other. In simple terms, Dickinson describes that we need not to look to tomorrow for the “brighter future,” but to make each day beautiful.

With accessible ranges, a supportive accompaniment, and repeating melody figures, Forever is Composed of Nows programs well as both a Festival and Concert selection.

Forever is Composed of Nows

SAB Octavo

This lush arrangement of the classic song from Tennessee is full of emotion and expression, using traditional southern harmonies in tandem with modern choral chords to created a scene that will enrapture audiences. Great programmable piece for moderate to advanced Tenor-Bass Choirs.

Tennessee Waltz

A mournful, heartfelt reflection of the Five Stages of Grief appropriate for medium advanced Tenor-Bass Ensemble, Luctus displays flowing melodies with dense harmonies using adapted text from the book of Lamentations.

Luctus

Drink of Me

O Earth, Rejoice! is a musical reflection of our collective home.

Set to original text, O Earth, Rejoice! (SATB with Divisi) sports flowing polyphony and textured harmonies, and is suitable for high school and collegiate ensembles with

O Earth, Rejoice!

Flee as a Bird is a reimagining of the hymn and the second movement in Nature Hymns. Flee as a Bird has an invigorated sense of meter and harmony that programs well for high school or collegiate men's choirs.

Nature Hymns is a three-piece set that displays the interplay of hymn-like music and the world around us. The beauty of life lies in the connection between the people and the earth around us

Flee as a Bird

Verleih uns Frieden

SATB Full Score

Stay Yet, My Friends is a piece dedicated to, I feel, one of the most beautiful and self-reflexive holidays - New Year’s Eve. New Year’s Eve was one of the most important holidays in our family, as our grandmother (the family matriarch) would host and entertain guests with traditions and talk of the year that has passed and the year ahead. To me, the holiday has always felt joyful, meditative, somber, and hopeful at the same time, and I have tried to capture those feelings in this piece. 

The piece focuses on the different aspects of NYE, between celebrating with dear friends  and reflecting on the memories, trials, friends and family that has come and gone in a year. With that, though, is the eternal hope that the next year will bring us more, but it’s okay to linger in this moment a moment longer.

Stay Yet, My Friends

What drew me to I'll Follow Thee was not the text, but the poet. The text comes from the 1908 self-published collection Songs from the Wayside. On surface value, the text does offer some beautiful sentiment of the power of continuing through strife. However, Clara Ann Thompson's life as an African-American woman, born during Reconstruction to formerly enslaved parents, leading a life as a poet, teacher, and civil rights activist adds such a layer of nuance and depth to the beautiful text. Clara pushed to tell her story in a climate that pushed against her relentlessly. This piece is a great introduction in dissonance and dynamic contrasts for choirs. I hope I was able to, in some way, honor the life and work of Clara with this piece.

W. Spencer Germany is a young composer from Memphis, Tennessee. Beginning composing at the age of 15, he has had premieres with featured performances by multiple choirs. He has been noted as bringing a fresh and new vitality to his music. Spencer has a degree in Music Education from Middle Tennessee State University and is the choir director at Central Magnet School in Murfreesboro, TN.

Spencer composes not only for choir, but also for the stage, with albums such as Who Says We Can't? as well as his EP "In The Air" available anywhere you stream or buy music. 
Spencer's work can be found published on Sheet Music Press and on Facebook, Youtube, and Instagram @SpencerGermanyMusic

I'll Follow Thee

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