"Can you hear my cries? I am calling out to you." The global community of children speaks together in this dramatic call for a better future that uses worldbeat sounds, unified chordal harmonies, and

"Thou gracious God, whose mercy lends the light of home, the smile of friends, our gathered flock thine arms enfold as in the peaceful days of old..." Based on a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, this is a

Full of life and energy, this work in Spanish and English expresses the plea of Mexican children to the rest of the world to listen to their cry for help. The percussion and bass parts (included in the

The text, adapted by composer, is a lullaby written by the Belorussian Yiddish poet, David Einhorn. On the eve of World War II, more than half of the sixteen million Jews of the world spoke Yiddish. With