There Comes a Ship : Das Schifflein

Were You There?

This new arrangement focuses on the inherent drama of the text. Each verse expresses a different reaction to its question about the crucifixion. The p...

Were You There?

There Is No Rose

There Is a Country

Let There Be Light!

There is a River

There is a flow'r

Where In God's Truth

Here Is a Soul

There Is a Balm in Gilead

Here are we in Bethlehem

Just As I Am

St. Matthew Passion: Here Yet Awhile

Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head

Wise Women: 11. Where is This Stupendous Stranger

3 Carols: No. 2 Where Is This Stupendous Stranger?

Appalachian Carols: 3 Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head

Christmas Trilogy: 3. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

Songs of Faith: No. 6 Where Moses Stood! : Pno/Choral Rehearsal Score

Silent Night-A Christmas Collection : God Rest Ye / Emmanuel

Three Mystical Choruses: No. 2 En Kelohenu : There Is None Like Our God

Three Mystical Choruses: No. 2 En Kelohenu : There Is None Like Our God

Mine is the Sunlight! : Morning Has Broken

The Lamb of God (Das Agnus Dei)

All-Night Vigil: 13. Salvation has come

This Is the Day That the Lord Has Made

St. Matthew Passion : And Now the Lord to Rest is Laid, BWV 244

Twelve Canticles : No. 7. Arise, Shine- No. 8. The Path of the Just

Cantata 129: Awake, thou wintry earth : Dem wir das Heilig itzt

Chorale Prelude on Das neugeborne Kindelein : ECS/AGO African-American Organ Series

Sehet, welch'eine Liebe : Father Has Shown Us

Three Mystical Songs: No. 3 Me To Tere Paas Me : I Am Within You

I've Known Rivers: No. 1 My Soul Has Grown Deep

The Senator's Stump Speech

Many attribute this text to to Noah S. ("Soggy") Sweat, a judge and member of the Mississippi legislature, circa 1952. This may or may not be true, bu...

Be Thou My Vision from Three Folk Hymns

Be Thou My Vision has a dimension of an entreaty to the Lord, as if asking for the Lord’s presence to be there at all times. Thus, the phrase “Be Thou...

A Bridge of Peace

This is a song of hope--of building a bridge of peace between the Israeli and Palestinian peoples. Their trees (Jaffa Orange in Israel, Olive on Arab ...

Reverie Hommage a Francis Poulenc

Poignant, evocative, wistful, playful, charming. These are just a few of the many adjectives that recount Francis Poulenc's musical craft, and perhaps...

On Recollecting

These songs were commissioned by the Mohawk Trail Concerts in Charlemont, Massachusetts in honor of Ruth Lloyd Black, their co-founder. The first perf...

The War Prayer

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. Hi...

The War Prayer

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. Hi...

The War Prayer

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. Hi...

Back and Forth on the Ferry

The text by Edna St. Vincent Millay, speaks of a youthful all-night adventure riding the ferry back and forth with no destination in mind. There is mu...

Back and Forth on the Ferry

The text by Edna St. Vincent Millay, speaks of a youthful all-night adventure riding the ferry back and forth with no destination in mind. There is mu...

Roosters

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 ...

The Senator's Stump Speech

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...

Everyone Sang Four Songs for Bass and Piano

The songs Homecoming and Quilt were commissioned by the West Chester University Poetry Conference, West Chester, Pennsylvania, and were premiered by b...

I Will Arise from Three Folk Hymns

I Will Arise comprises vocal lines which may be divided among the chorus according to voice range—with melody, harmony and descant designations. It mi...

After Love

The opening line of Sara Teasdale’s poem, After Love, “There is no magic any more,” establishes the theme of vanishing love. Stephen Chatman’s setting...

After Love

The opening line of Sara Teasdale’s poem, After Love, “There is no magic any more,” establishes the theme of vanishing love. Stephen Chatman’s setting...

An Alleluia Flourish : Piano/Choral Score

Commissioned by Classical Movements for an incredibly large ensemble of primarily “older” singers. Along with some brass, keyboard, and timpani, this ...

How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place

The text of How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place is taken from Psalm 84:1–4 (NIV). The piece is an attempt to portray the beauty of the heavenly place wh...

Jesu, We Do Worship You : Christe, adoramus te

This five part C major motet has a Latin text from the Antiphon from the Good Friday Liturgy. Notated on five staves, the soprano 1 and 2 parts have t...

The Morning Train: 3. Maid of Constant Sorrow

A familiar American folk song is "A Man of Constant Sorrow." Adaptations exist for a maid of constant sorrow as well. This is a very simple melody, pl...

Variations on Outburst of Spring Triumphant : A Theme of Ludwig Diehn

This work is built on a theme of the late Virginia composer, Ludwig Liehn. Commissioned for the 2009 Mid-Atlantic Regional Convention of the American ...

When All That's Left of Me Is Love : From Songs for the Journey

This movement from Songs for the Journey has a text adapted from the poem "Epitaph" by Merrit Malloy, "When all that's left of me is love, give me awa...

Two Christmas Preludes

These attractive chorale preludes are suitable for performance during the Christmas and Epiphany seasons. The first is based on 'All This Night My Hea...

The Heavens Delight

The composer has created a new musical setting based on Josiah G. Holland's well known text "There's a Song in the Air." The opening introduction depi...

Gwyneth Walker: Let The Life I've Lived Speak For Me (SSAA)

The traditional text with spiritual roots has been adapted by the composer. With an unadorned melody set in a simple but beautiful musical language wi...

Gwyneth Walker: Let The Life I've Lived Speak For Me (SATB)

The traditional text with spiritual roots has been adapted by the composer. With an unadorned melody set in a simple but beautiful musical language wi...

Mother to Son

Mother to Son is based on the powerful poem by Langston Hughes. The mother (voice) is a strong woman, one who has persevered and is still climbing, st...

Gwyneth Walker: Let The Life I've Lived Speak For Me (TTBB)

The traditional text with spiritual roots has been adapted by the composer. With an unadorned melody set in a simple but beautiful musical language wi...

To Meet a Flower

Poet Emily Dickinson loved writing about nature and wrote many poems about flowers, three of which are celebrated in this song cycle. Flowers of vario...

Upon This Summer's Day

Poet Emily Dickinson loved writing about nature and wrote many poems about flowers, three of which are celebrated in this song cycle. Flowers of vario...

The Morning Train: 4. Worrisome Blues

This fourth and closing song of the set "The Morning Train" is perhaps the best known and most rousing of the set. The original title is "Worried Man ...

Sojourn 3

Commissioned by and dedicated to clarinetist Eugene Jones, was premiered by Mr. Jones on a concert of chamber music at East Tennessee University in Jo...

Sojourn 3 : A Clarinet Solo

The B-flat clarinet version was commissioned by and dedicated to clarinetist Eugene Jones, was premiered by Mr. Jones on a concert of chamber music at...

Mass of the Resurrection

The Mass of the Resurrection is based upon three principal themes, namely the Solemn Tone of the Gregorian Te Deum laudamus, the Great Alleluia, and t...

Be Thou My Vision: Homage to an Ancient Hymn

The beloved hymn Be Thou My Vision has long been part of our rich musical heritage of hymnody. The text is by St. Dallan Forgaill (6th Century Irish),...

Love Shall Live Forever

The texts for this set of three songs are mostly from the 19th century, but the sentiments are ageless. The special imagery in each of the poems finds...

Mrs. Noah from Hotel Eden

Mrs. Noah is about middle-aged love. It centers around the relationship between Noah and his wife, Mrs. Noah, a name she hates being called. In this l...

Fantasypiece

The duet version of Fantasypiece for violoncello and double bass was composed in 2001, an arrangement for chamber orchestra was completed in 2002. The...