Boosey & Hawkes

Written for the Miami Children's Chorus, players from the 'New World Symphony' and 'Dance Now!', this is a spirited and energetic composition from David Brunner. Reflecting the flavour of the text 'th...

This classic and inspirational text by Langston Hughes is appropriate in school or church. And it is a great vehicle for teaching your singers about hopes and dreams and that their dreams can make a d...

Equally a memorial and a sincere tribute to the cycles of life, this work features contemplative melodies unfolding over a gentle and undulating piano accompaniment.This has been a best seller for 2 p...

A tiny voice is rising carried on the wind. A simple song of reason. Will we let it in? Listen to the children.' This simple yet profound opening statement sets the stage for this inspirational song.

Composer David Brunner has a gift for setting texts in melodic phrases with gentle contours and with a lyrical style. He has done exactly that with this text by Victorian age poet and essayist Bessie...

Tuneful melodies of broad contours and long-breathed phrases characterize this setting of the Thomas H. Troeger text. A sense of rubato will expressively shape each phrase. Though scored for piano, th...

O Aula Nobilis is a festive work, composed for the opening of the Natalie L. Haslam music center at the University of Tennessee. After the opening unaccompanied chant in the women's voices, the music,...

This work is a celebration of the journey towards womanhood with its joys, mysteries and possibilities. Spirited ascending melodies, dance-like rhythms and vocal percussive sounds unfold into a struct...

Now available in an SSAA voicing, this popular arrangement of Psalm 42 features a strong, forward moving pulse, piano ostinato and a vocal percussive quality in the chorus.

With both the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis under one cover, the composer's sensitive attention to the English text results in changing and uneven meters which perfectly find the agogic accents and hig...

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...

Written in a song-writing workshop with the Ridge High School Choir of basking Ridge, New Jersey, here is a song of hopes. 'I wanna believe in beauty, I wanna be seen in darkness, I wanna be heard in...