O America, My America! - SATB

This is a moving cantata for Chorus Piano Ensemble and Tape.Passionate heartbreaking and of our time the music includes recordings of songs and voices made in the field by the composer. Blackford's music itself calls on poetry and writings from thireen different languages- set in English- of the politically alienated and dissenting the prisoner of conscience from Africa Asia Europe and the Americas vivid emotional pictures emerge of loneliness loss exile and grief.

A Setting of America the Beautiful-This setting of 'America The Beautiful' was first performed on March 11 1967 in the Air Force Academy Chapel near Colorado Springs only a few miles from where in 1983 Katherine Lee Bates wrote the first lines of her now famous poem certainly the most beautiful and moving of all hymns to America. The occasion was a concert given by the choral and brass groups of the University of Colorado for the Music Educators National Conference Southwest Division.The setting is concieved as a unified dramatic whole using melodic motives from the Samuel A. Ward tune in the introduction and connecting sections. Each of the four stanzas is treated differently their powerful emotion and meaning culminating in the final affirmation and prayer of the last stanza which is sung in unison with descant and full accompaniment.The work may be performed with an Organ (or Piano accompaniment or with a group of instruments consisting of 3 Trumpets in Bb 4 Horns in F 3 Trombones Euphonium and Tuba.Instrumental parts available from the publisher.

For SATB chorus Clarinet in B flat Percussion Harp and String Orchestra.Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University the Dale Warland Singers Commission Award presented by Chorus America and funded by the American Composers Forum and Utah Chamber Artists.First performed 30th April 2012 at the Libby Gardner Concert Hall University of Utah Salt Lake City by Utah Chamber Artists conducted by Barlow Bradford.Instrumentation.SATB chorus with divisionsSolo SopranoOptional Soprano Alto Tenor and Bass soli Clarinet in Bb(offstage) Percussion (1 player):    Tubular Bells Glockenspiel Large Bass Drum Large Suspended CymbalHarpString Orchestra (minimum 6.6.4.4.2 players) 

This medley is by Len Thomas who has created a fantastic arrangment for SATB with Piano accompaniment. Titles included are: Tonight I Feel Pretty Maria America One Hand One Heart and Somewhere .

Gwyn Arch presents some hot and spicy choral arrangements of five classics of Latin America written specially for SATB chorus and guaranteed to thrill and delight at any occasion! The pieces include Sloop John B Guantanamera and of course Jobim's much-loved Girl From Ipanema. Full Piano accompaniments are included where required. Add a funky dash of sunshine to your choral repertoire!

The Mamas & The Papas’ hymn to the West Coast state California Dreamin’ was actually written in chilly New York City by John and Michelle Phillips before they even formed the band that made them famous.Simon & Garfunkel were New York through and through and Simon’s jaunty song about the Queensboro Bridge — aka Feelin’ Groovy — uses its local colloquial name. Skeeter Davis born Mary Frances Penick was the survivor of a car crash that killed her singing partner Betty Jack Davis. They had enjoyed some success as The Davis Sisters but The End Of The World was the biggest hit of Skeeter’s subsequent solo career.In My Roomsaw The Beach Boys moving indoors from all that sun and sand and recording one of their most reflective and lovely songs. Meanwhile the British invasion was threatening the pop status quo in America and Can’t Buy Me Love from the film Hard Day’s Night gave The Beatles yet another number one in the US charts.Novello Choral Pops: Sixties Hits contains these five decade-defining hits newly arranged for SATB Choir with Piano accompaniment.

A Short Madrigal Cycle for Mixed Chorus-A Short Madrigal Cycle for Mixed Chorus. Five very short pieces serve as a fine example of Mechem's ability to weave separate poems into a connected story. The texts about the joy and despair of love are by one of America'sgreat masters of the short lyric Sara Teasdale.

Traditional spiritual arranged by Moses Hagan. Moses Hagan born in New Orleans in 1957 has earned an international reputation as one of America's most gifted pianists conductors and arrangers. His contemporary choralsettings of spirituals and other works have been praised by the American Choral Directors Association and Gramophone magazine. Audiences have responded with standing ovations upon hearing these unique and sensitivearrangements. The world renowned Philip Brunelle Chorale of Minnesota and the Boy's Choir of Harlem have both performed Hogan's arrangements for national audiences on television and radio.

Judith Clurman Choral Series-In 1814 Francis Scott Key (1779-1843) wrote new words for a well-known drinking song by John Stafford Smith (1750-1836) 'To Anacreon in Heaven' to celebrate America's recent victory over the British. In 1931 Congress passeda law proclaiming 'The Star Spangled Banner' to be the national anthem of the United States.This arrangement by Doug Katsaros was first performed at the Macy's 4th July Fireworks Spectacular onNBC television July 4th 2014. The performers were soloist Idina Menzel Judith Clurman's Essential Voices USA and Sherrie Maricle's Dive Jazz Orchestra. The recording of that performance has been added to the permanent archivesat F. McHenry in Balitmore MD.Text (Defence of Fort M'Henry by Francis Scott Key):O! say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?Whose broadstripes and bright stars through the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming And the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air Gave proof through the night that our flag was stillthere-O! say does that star-spangled banner yet waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

A Choral Cycle. Par CHASE DAVID. Perfect for International Women's Month performances! Washington Women is a collection of musical settings of speeches opinions and interviews of sixteen remarkable women from all across the political spectrum and throughout U.S. history from Abigail Adams to Kamala Harris. The composers took their words and set them to music with the hopes that performers and their audiences will learn more about these women and discover why they spoke those words when they did. Women featured include: Abigail Adams Madeleine Albright Barbara Bush Laura Bush Shirley Chisholm Hillary Rodham Clinton Betty Ford Ruth Bader Ginsburg Kamala Harris Elena Kagan Sandra Day O'Connor Michelle Obama Nancy Pelosi Condoleeza Rice Eleanor Roosevelt and Margaret Chase Smith. / Date parution : 2023-01-24/ Recueil / Choeur Mixte SATB

La musique de Story de Leonard Bernstein repère comédie musicale de Broadway West Side est devenu une partie importante de notre patrimoine musical. Cette suite de 20 minutes chorale en quatre sections offre des contrastes vifs et émotionnel ainsi que quelques-unes des plus belles mélodies et aimé la scène de Broadway ait jamais produit. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Piano