A Cappella Concert & Festival Choral Selections

First written as the bright, opening movement of Heavenly Home: Three American Songs, this enduring gospel favorite is set with a straightforward first verse and chorus. The next two verses combine

Inspired by the traditional Sami joik, this arrangement, as sung by Cantus in the Disney movie "Frozen," is a winner. Perfect for a pops concert or a concert looking for a special

Margaret Walker's text leaps off the musical page as words crying to be sung. "My grandmothers were strong. They followed plows and bent to toil." This was not frailty - this was determined womanhood

Viva La Musica! is a wonderful theme for any concert. This exuberant work opens with a strong, bold, unison exclamation, vividly expressing the text and musical idea.

Now available in an SSA voicing, this choral work offers a taste of layered ostinatos and African polyrhythms and may be performed a cappella or with two or more percussionists.

This choral classic sings vibrantly through rapid meter changes with a romantic text celebrating the joys of young love. It continues to be a favorite with contest and festival choirs.

Here is an exciting, very accessible two-part arrangement of a traditional American country dancing song. It is meant to be sung a cappella with hand and body percussion added. This is a hoot to sing and

"The latest sun is sinking fast, my race is almost run..." The beloved American folk hymn from Kirchner's Heavenly Home collection comes to life anew, with soaring descants, countermelodies, and rich

This energetic, uplifting work fuses the rhythms of African, American and Latin cultures, and uses a text primarily in Swahili but interspersed with phrases in Spanish. Supported by shaker, djembe and agogo

Setting a prose text penned by Helen Keller, composer and conductor Andrea Ramsey has created a sensitive yet powerful a cappella work that explores the theme, "All that we love deeply becomes part of

This song by Francis Smith Thomas, a close friend of the Martin Luther King, Jr. family, was inspired by the words of a woman who participated in the Montgomery bus boycott, a pivotal event in the civil