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This text has been adapted from Mark Twain's The War Prayer, which he wrote in 1904-5 to protest America's involvement in the Spanish-American War. His family convinced him to keep if from publication...

Many attribute this text to Noah S. ('Soggy') Sweat, a judge and member of the Mississippi legislature, circa 1952. We hope this short piece will find its way onto recitals of serious vocal music, as...

This song is Juliana Hall's first sacred song, a setting of a hymn text by the great hymn writer of the nineteenth century, Fanny J. Crosby. The song is suitable for concert performance, or for use in...

Commissioned by the Canadian Art Song Project for soprano Magali Simard-Galdès, winner of the Jeunesses Musicales Maureen Forrester Tour. This song cycle is, in part, a meditation on what it means to...

On the surface, this 1941 poem is about roosters. More specifically, roosters in Key West, where the poet spent a decade. But the sub-texts could not be any more appropriate in terms of current events...

A set of three interconnected songs for male voice and band. Completed in 1997, this fifteen minute piece features a modal, lyrical musical language throughout, is written at a university or professio...