Adult Community Choir Concert Music

This is an evocative, folk-like setting of Yeats' poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree. The modal vocal writing is both simple and sophisticated and always expressive of the yearning in Yeats' words.

Royal Canadian Air Force pilot John Magee wrote his popular poem High Flight when he was 19 years old. In the poem, he describes the delirious feeling of wheeling and soaring, and an intimate

This piece, based on Christina Rossetti's poem When I Am Dead, My Dearest, portrays death at its most indifferent - unnoticed, unheralded, unremembered. Despite this sense of finality, there is a

From the Grammy-nominated work The Lost Birds, this simple melody inspired by children's songs is a setting of Sara Teasdale's poem "In the End." Showcasing her signature pairing of nihilism

From the Grammy-nominated work The Lost Birds, this selection is a setting of Emily Dickinson's poem "The Saddest Noise, the Sweetest Noise". It begins the story of The Lost Birds in spring:

Following on the heels of the wildly popular Baba Yetu, Christopher Tin brings us a wonderful new piece from the soundtrack of the video game Civilization VI. In Italian, with sweeping choral lines

Featured at the 2018 St. Olaf College Christmas Festival, this is a beautiful and lush setting of the Howard Thurman text. It reminds us that Christmas is a time of light over darkness. The message in the

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

From the Grammy-winning composer of Baba Yetu, this setting of a traditional Maori blessing from Calling All Dawns makes use of haka, a ritualistic choreographed group dance, and

This gospel-infused, blues-influenced arrangement of the famous work by Alma Bazel Androzzo was written in honor of Dr. Anton Armstrong. A solo voice drives the work throughout, with the choir playing a

To Shiver the Sky is an oratorio about the history of flight and mankind's quest to conquer the heavens. Told through the words of 11 of our greatest astronomers, inventors, visionaries, and

To Shiver the Sky is an oratorio about the history of flight and mankind's quest to conquer the heavens. Told through the words of 11 of our greatest astronomers, inventors, visionaries, and

Emily Dickinson's poem on the fragility of nature, as well as our own hand in its destruction, finds an elegiac tone in this deeply melodic original work commissioned by Palo Alto High School.

A banjo-like piano accompaniment and expressive fiddle stylings lend folk authenticity to this plaintive and moving choral setting of Stephen Foster's classic song. The text is set simply but fully, with

Isabella Leonarda was one of the most prolific woman composers of 17th-century Italy, publishing 20 volumes during her lifetime including the first known sonatas written by a woman. This edition seeks to

This beautiful Gaelic carol comes from the Scottish Isles. The tune, which is in the mixolydian mode, has a medieval quality; the gently swaying rhythm captures the essence of Mary gently rocking the Baby

This marvelous poetry is by award-winning Canadian poet, Wendy Jean MacLean and is based on traditional and contemporary thought on the nativity, linking together both sacred and secular images of the

A beautiful arrangement that will challenge your ensemble with its divisi texture, stretched rhythms, and shifting tonalites. The solo section which opens the piece offers vocalists a chance to shine.

With a text centered around divine love, and the depths of that love, the music is characterized by slow-moving cluster chords, soaring voice leading, and first inversion chords that give a feeling of

This text is all about loving one another, a much needed sentiment in these turbulent times in which we live. The music is flowing with soaring voice leadings, modern harmonies, cascades, and chord clusters

Inspired by the Joseph Jennings arrangement of this same tune for Chanticleer, this arrangement combines the five-syllable "halleluia" with the timeless melody of the old spiritual. A true gospel piano part

Here is a collection of three popular spirituals which can be performed separately or as a suite. Down to the River to Pray is a cappella with nice open harmonies typical of the Southern Harmony

A collection of three early American folk hymns: Hallelujah, a six-part a cappella setting of the Sacred Harp tune; Angel Band, an eight-part a cappella setting of the beloved William

This folk song arrangement expresses the dispersed Jewish community's hope for reunion "next year in Jerusalem." It comprises two distinct sections: a newly composed, sorrowful theme expressing unrequited