Walton Choral": composiciones originales para coros exigentes

with celesta (or piano) accompaniment. Duration: ca. 2:50.

Here is an impressive, yet romantically intimate, piece. The title gives away the mood of the beautiful love poem by E.E. Cummings. With rich color and expression, this work is very suitable for matur...

The Latin text is from the Confessions by St. Augustine, best known in the English translation Late Have I Loved You. A beautiful, expressive setting most suited to mature high school or college group...

This energetic, Latin-style piece is a great opener, closer or encore choice for high school, college and community choirs. Choir hand percussion further enhances the lively rhythms. The piano accompa...

Here is a novelty song, fun to sing and to hear! Subtitled A Love Song to Language, it requires sharp and clear diction to bring out the witty poem. Your choir will love this one!

For mature high school and beyond, this is a set of four short, whimsical chorals by Norman Luboff, framed by new clarinet and piano accompaniment. Great closer before intermission, or as an encore. C...

con Piano y Campana (o Triángulo). Duración: aprox. 3:15.

This work combines a highly inspirational text, including an interesting recitative. A beautiful and strongly felt composition, it offers the larger high school choirs, college and community choirs a...

A rhythmically strong work with a compelling text, bringing a Haitian troubadour's heartfelt cry for 'Mama Afrika.' Perfect for competition and festival, it requires a large choir with divisi capacity...

From a Mayan composer in the early 1600s, this is an easy-to-prepare Spanish dance melody that celebrates the joy of living. The medieval style is enhanced by the use of a drum. This is a great choice...

Based on Shaker poems, this song combines a highly inspirational text with an uplifting musical setting, expressing gratitude and faith for everyone. It is suitable for high school women's concerts, f...

This riveting and unusual arrangement offers a chance for your choir to go all out! It will be well worth the preparation needed! A perfect concert closer or encore, with fun piano (four-hands) accomp...

SATB divisi Chorus with Piano, Flute and Oboe Based on a Czech text, here is one of Z. Randall Stroope's most impressive settings, utilizing a vast palette of colors. With an English singing text, thi...

Here is an impressive, yet romantically intimate piece by David Dickau, inspired by the wonderful mood of Sara Teasdale's poem. A lovely choice for the mature high school choir and beyond, or for a fe...

For high school and community choirs, the text describes beautifully the hopes and longings of those families with near ones in harm's way. In addition to the setting with snare drum and piano accompa...

Following last year's very successful version for adult singers, this new setting of Ritmo will be great fun for young singers! The SA(T)B voicing is arranged especially for developing choirs with mor...

This composition was inspired by a poem that incorporates various bird sounds, with melodies based on the actual songs. A charming and playful piano part supports the motif of this song - just right f...

A great piece for concerts or madrigal dinners! The setting is 16th century Scotland. Opportunity is given for theatrical effects in dance, costume and instrumentation, with much flexibility, all acco...

For advanced middle school and high school choirs, this is the perfect easy-to-program piece! A beautiful poem by Rabindranath Tagore is set to music that really sings the text. The song has a flowing...

This folk song from the Channel Islands is for high school and beyond. Its tongue-in-cheek story requires an energetic choir. The French text is repetitive and easy to learn. An English text line is p...

For women's groups, this Croatian song, with its lovely poem about the Good Shepherd being our eternal starlight, is set to a distinctive, strong musical theme. The expressive dynamics in the choral l...

Now available for women's voices! Rollicking and upbeat, this playful setting of a traditional Irish children's song is accented with hand-clapping and foot-stomping. Limited ranges and familiar harmo...

The words by French poet Paul Verlaine set the frivolous tone for the women's mature voices. The playful vocal setting is matched by an elaborate piano accompaniment. This brief vignette will add spic...

This tongue-in-cheek piece is a true audience pleaser. It offers an excellent chance to teach good diction, to ensure that audiences don't miss the punch line! Duration: ca. 2:25.

An African-American work song, perfectly crafted for mixed choirs that are short on boys, but also excellent for any mixed choir. The spoken huh! and hah! notes for the laborers give it a nitty-gritty...