Partituras de Barbershop para coro mixto

The three unaccompanied choral pieces that comprise A Whitman Triptych were composed between 2012 and 2014. O Setting Sun was commissioned by the Madison Chamber Choir, Madison, Wisconsin, Anthony Cao...

The three unaccompanied choral pieces that comprise A Whitman Triptych were composed between 2012 and 2014. O Setting Sun was commissioned by the Madison Chamber Choir, Madison, Wisconsin, Anthony Cao...

The three unaccompanied choral pieces that comprise A Whitman Triptych were composed between 2012 and 2014. O Setting Sun was commissioned by the Madison Chamber Choir, Madison, Wisconsin, Anthony Cao...

While having a folk-like feel that suits this familiar text, the musical material is entirely original. This setting features a more pastoral, contemplative tone than more lively settings with which y...

Psalm 23 is dedicated to the memory of Carolyn Argento (1930-2006).

This lyrical setting combines the texts Trinitie Sunday by George Herbert (1633) with Gloria tibi (Glory to you, O Trinity, all equal, one God). A charming refrain which begins the piece alternates wi...

The text for this piece about the charm of possibilities is a composite of words by Emily Dickinson and Robert Kyr with an excerpt from 'In Paradisum' from the Requiem Mass. The music is dramatic, fea...

The text for this stirring New Mexico-inspired piece is a composite of words by both the poet D. H. Lawrence and composer Robert Kyr.

If Ye Love Me was composed as a reflective commentary on the well-known motet by Thomas Tallis (1505 1585). Homophony predominates in the first section but with clusters rather than the traditional ha...

This gentle life lesson and setting begins with the chorus acting as accompaniment to the soloist. Then the sopranos pick up the mantle of the soloist and the chorus sings the words together. The fina...

This setting pokes fun at all of the ways in which phrases about money are 'coined. ' The music is appropriately uncomplicated, and nearly always homophonic.

As the composer suggests in his program notes, the poem to which this music is set may 'appear on surface as being rather flippant but, underneath, is deadly serious. ' The same may be said of the mos...

This piece was written at the request of the composer's daughter who needed a Marian song for an M. M. recital focused on women in choral music. The music is based on the chant Salve Regina from the '...

A setting of the most famous passage from the Book of Ruth (Ruth 1:16-17) opens with a gentle polyphonic section for the chorus. The soprano joins the choir for the twice-repeated middle section of th...

This unusual setting uses a fresh text excerpted from the book, Back to the Ethic: Reclaiming Western Values by Diane Weber Bederman (Mantua Books, 2015). The music is very much a text painting, shift...

The conductor of Choral Arts Northwest, Robert Bode, asked the composer to write a work based on a text about The Blessed Virgin Mary. The final poem in Petrarch's most famous work, Il Canzoniere, wa...

In his brief poem Eternitie, Robert Herrick (1591 1674) imagines the immense awe that accompanies leaving this world and entering the next. A hint of longing for what was in the opening words, 'O Year...