Boosey & Hawkes

Written in memory of a loved one, this piece celebrates a love of life and a love of music. Sections of text are taken from the traditional hymn How Can I Keep from Singing and the use of Pachelbel's...

Celebrating the Mohawk heritage and Canadian landscape of the poet Pauline Johnson, Mark Sirett captures the passion and grandeur of the lyrics and serves them up for any accomplished women's choir.

This simple but powerful text by Nick Page reminds us that 'When we let our emotions truly shine, we make the world a better place.' Written for the choir Joyful Noise, this piece can be sung by any c...

I ask for one day where I don't have to hear about pain, or life that's lost, I ask for one day where whispers of hope are alive inside my heart.' These words, written by 5th graders in a writing work...

The composer's strong commitment to the power of belief in oneself is reflected in the strength and conviction of this music. Opening as a subtle ballad, the music creates a sense of how important ima...

Drawing inspiration from this powerful and spirit filled text, David Brunner has crafted a melody that inspires. Long musical lines will require careful shaping and the independent yet integral piano...

Unglaubliche Legenden umranken das Leben der irischen Heiligen Brigida von Kildare, und es fällt schwer, tatsächliche Begebenheiten von erfundenen Geschichten zu unterscheiden. Wie auch immer - dieses...

Setting the poem Sunflowers by contemporary poet Susan Windle, this 6-1/2 minute work for women's choir and string quartet is strong and thoughtful and insightful and requires women who are just like...

The sub-title is 'Blessed are those who hunger.' The music contrasts a peaceful, chant-like introduction and coda with an energetically rhythmic middle section that illustrates how our longings and hu...

This is a traditional Christmas lullaby from Mexico. This arrangement is created to be performed in either Spanish or in English or a combination of both. An optional guitar accompaniment for finger s...

The Ecstatic Songs Cycle was a project with conductor Sandra Snow that spanned eight years. The first song was All I Was Doing Was Breathing (BHI 47905), while the second song Don't Go (BHI 48197) fol...

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.

Celebrating every day 'miracles” and the simplicity of the miraculous in our everyday lives, here is a simple yet profound musical setting of these every day occurrences. Lush piano writing and beaut...

Junge Menschen sind fast immer voller Hoffnung. Sie schätzen die Erwachsenen in ihrem Umfeld und hoffen auf ihren Respekt und ihre Freundlichkeit. Henry Leck hat sich schon immer für junge Menschen un...

Eine Klavierbegleitung, die an ein Banjo erinnert, und expressive Fiddle-Stylings verleihen dieser traurig klagenden und bewegen Vertonung von Stephen Fosters klassischem Lied Hard Times Come Again No...

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 pilots, i...

The Saddest Noise is a setting of Emily Dickinson's poem The Saddest Noise, the Sweetest Noise. It begins the story of The Lost Birds in spring: the season of birth and renewal, and a time of year whe...

Wild Swans, a setting of a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, ends the first half of The Lost Birds. Told from the point of view of the poet, it starts with the sound of bird cries: gradually approachin...

With a simple melody inspired by children's songs, All That Could Never Be Said is a setting of Sara Teasdale's poem In the End. Showcasing her signature pairing of nihilism and pastoral beauty, the p...

I Shall Not See the Shadows is based on Christina Rossetti's poem "When I Am Dead My Dearest." It portrays death at its most indifferent--unnoticed, unheralded, unremembered. It suggests that forgetti...

A musical representation of the sonnet by Keats of the same name, this work expresses the creative process in variously musing and emphatic music.

This musical classic has found a new voice with a recent revival on Broadway. Filled with energetic music by Leonard Bernstein and great lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, the story of moving to...

This delightful little piece is a canon that can be sung in two, three or four parts. An excellent teaching piece for solfa that can also effectively be used as a warm-up for the most advanced choirs.

Bring exhilarating energy and vibrant folk character to the choral stage with "Las Agachadas" (The Shake-Down Song)! This captivating piece delights with its driving rhythms, spirited interplay betwee...

These four motets were composed in the fall of 1921 while Copland was studying with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. The four motets have remained unpublished until now. Writing to Copland about them in 1924...