Carry the Light

SKU: LO.15-3618H

ISBN 9780787763374.

Sing in joy and sadness; let others sing along. Life is but a weaving threads of darkness and of light. With faith in your tomorrow, your dreams can all take flight. This message is combined with suave vocal writing and a lightly rhythmic accompaniment to make a stunning work. A great choice for an end-of-year concert or moving-on ceremony.

SKU: HL.8750170

UPC: 884088403126. 5x5.25 inches.

The Sunday Singer is a choral publication for smaller-sized church choirs that consists of several accessible anthems representing original works and arrangements of hymns and contemporary favorites. For each title, special attention has been given to voice leading, limited vocal ranges and carefully crafted piano accompaniments. Published two times a year, The Sunday Singer will serve as a valuable resource for your choir throughout the church year.



The Fall/Christmas 2009 issue includes five titles: Give Thanks with O Come, Let Us Adore Him (arr. Philip Keveren) • He Made a Way in a Manger (arr. Camp Kirkland) • Carry the Light (arr. Keith Christopher) • Ancient Words (arr. Marty Parks) • Thanksgiving Song (arr. John Purifoy). Available separately: Choral Book, ChoirTrax CD, Kit (10 Choral Books, 1 ChoirTrax CD, 1 Preview CD), Choral Book 10-Pak, Preview CD, Preview CD 10-Pak, Preview Pak (1 Choral Book, 1 Preview CD).

SKU: AP.49695

UPC: 038081567822. English.

Imagine the opening solo in darkness. Light increases as the choir begins, growing to full brilliance when three luminous lines intertwine. A lux aeterna refrain is sung in resonant harmony, with touches of shimmering dissonance on cadences. One final tone cluster at the end ignites shivers. This inspiring text provides a personal credo to live with light. Download the optional violin obbligato for free.

About Alfred Choral Designs

The Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.

SKU: AP.49694

UPC: 038081567815. English.

Imagine the opening solo in darkness. Light increases as the choir begins, growing to full brilliance when three luminous lines intertwine. A lux aeterna refrain is sung in resonant harmony, with touches of shimmering dissonance on cadences. One final tone cluster at the end ignites shivers. This inspiring text provides a personal credo to live with light. Download the optional violin obbligato for free.

About Alfred Choral Designs

The Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.

SKU: PE.EP73479

ISBN 9790577019888. 297 x 210mm inches. English.

At First Light was commissioned by Eric Bruskin, a resident of Philadelphia, USA, in memory of his mother. Eric had a longstanding enthusiasm for my work, and I was touched to be the person he approached for a task which is both a privilege and a daunting responsibility. In a sense, no music can ever measure up to the weight of love or the hope of consolation vested in it under such circumstances - but in memory I carry the deaths of both my own parents, and I was able to draw upon that. Eric's fondness for my Cello Sonata (itself written in memoriam) led him to ask that I include a solo 'cello part in the new work - but his attachment also to my polyphonic sacred choral writing meant that he wanted a centrepiece which would be both a showcase of that approach and the celebration of a life well lived. Therefore, the seven movements of At First Light arrange themselves as a series of slow meditations surrounding an exuberant 9-minute motet in which the lamenting cello falls temporarily silent.

Eric's Jewish faith meant that approaching an agnostic humanist brought up within the Anglican tradition was hardly free of problems! Gradually, though, I was able to win his approval for a collated mosaic of texts. This embraces some liturgical Latin (necessary for the motet) as the shared preserve of broad western culture in general, but balances it with a secular approach to loss, celebration, remembrance and the many shades of our mourning those whom we see no longer. Eric was adamant that he did not want the title Requiem; but what has emerged is still a form of semi-secular Requiem in all but name, taking its title instead from a phrase in the poem by Thomas Blackburn set as the third movement. This seemed to suggest succinctly how the loss of one very close to us is an awakening into an unfamiliar world where everything is changed. Following the exuberant central movement, the texts by the Lebanese-born Kahlil Gibran and the US, Kentuckian poet Wendell Berry first address the departed loved one directly, then place us within an imaginary funeral cortege, where the perennial and universal in human experience become personal without subscribing explicitly to any particular faith (or lack of it). The final text of all is a translation of a Hebraic prayer, requested and provided by Eric Bruskin, which serves to mirror its Latin counterpart heard at the outset.

Throughout, the lamenting cello represents a commentary on the experience articulated in the text. It evokes and, in a sense, tries to embrace and sanctify the individual existential journeys of the bereft, as they in turn seek to make their own sense of what the short-lived Second World War poet Alun Lewis called 'the unbearable beauty of the dead' (movement 5).

In a modern world hostage to ever greater menace, displacement, bloodshed and anguish, I hope fervently that this music not only brings a measure of solace to the person who commissioned it, but also makes its own small contribution to bailing out the sinking ship of humanity.

SKU: HL.1182563

UPC: 888938000169. 5.5x18.75x5.0 inches.

The flat-base snare stand was developed with compactness and portability as priorities. The basket angle adjustment is now gearless, making it even easier to use. Together with the Flat Base Cymbal Stand, it will help you carry them around with ease. The flat base is also convenient for setting up when used as a tom stand.

SKU: HL.1243147

11.0x14.5x4.25 inches.

Light up the night without setting up all day with ILS – the Integrated Lighting System that makes creating a synchronized light show across different fixture types fast and easy without DMX. Now the ILS universe is at your command with ILS Command, a powerful controller capable of programming any ILS-enabled product. This hardware controller has a built-in D-Fi transmitter that wirelessly controls an unlimited number of ILS-enabled fixtures. Enjoy unlimited creativity as you customize, save and recall presets even in dark environments where backlit silicon buttons provide a tactile response and bright visibility. Your lighting creations are always safe because you can back up, restore and update the controller's software using the built-in USB port and ensure unauthorized access is blocked by enabing the onboard lockout. An innovative follow spot mode highlights grand entrances without interrupting the rest of the show and a built-in audio connector allows for better accuracy when triggering lights to the beat. Manually override the show on the fly using the 9 quick color access buttons. Safely transport the controller with the included carry case.