European Grand Prix Association For Choral Singing 45th Tolosa Choral Contest 2013, Basque Country, Spain VOCES GRAVES DE MADRID from Madrid, Spain WANA BARAKA, Trad. Kenia / arr. Shawn L. Kirchner

A request by artistic director Susan Glass for a new Choral work addressing climate change resulted in the creation of “Planet Earth Lullaby.” Composer Rich Campbell contemplated and determined the piece would be both an alarm for help and a call to actio...  moreA request by artistic director Susan Glass for a new Choral work addressing climate change resulted in the creation of “Planet Earth Lullaby.” Composer Rich Campbell contemplated and determined the piece would be both an alarm for help and a call to action. For over a century the internationally recognized distress signal has been the Morse Code sequence for SOS: 3 short, 3 long, 3 short ( . . . - - - . . . ). This became the rhythmic framework of note durations (heard in various ways) throughout this work, though it collapses when the chorus sings of “catastrophic climate collapse.” The SOS pattern then returns, transformed into longer durations, calling for renewed attention and devotion to our environment. Commissioned by the Glass Menagerie Chorus, NYC.  less

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Text by William Butler Yeats, music by Desmond Earley Marie Woulfe (mezzo-soprano solo) Geraldine O’Doherty (harp) Desmond Earley (conductor) UCD Choral Scholars 2014-2015 Sound Recording Andrew Mellor Zucca Films...  moreHe Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Text by William Butler Yeats, music by Desmond Earley Marie Woulfe (mezzo-soprano solo) Geraldine O’Doherty (harp) Desmond Earley (conductor) UCD Choral Scholars 2014-2015 Sound Recording Andrew Mellor Zucca Films Recorded on Friday 20th March 2015 in the college chapel at Castleknock College, Dublin, Ireland. This video (c) and (p) UCD Choral Scholars 2015 Twitter: @UCDChoral  

Score video of THE FERVID HOKEY POKE, Greg Bartholomew's setting for mixed choir (SATB) of the poem by Jeff Brechlin. Audio recording by Matt Curtis (Choral Tracks). Jeff Brechlin won The Washington Post's Style Invitational in March 2003 with his poem T...  moreScore video of THE FERVID HOKEY POKE, Greg Bartholomew's setting for mixed choir (SATB) of the poem by Jeff Brechlin. Audio recording by Matt Curtis (Choral Tracks). Jeff Brechlin won The Washington Post's Style Invitational in March 2003 with his poem The Hokey Poke. The competition asked readers to rewrite some banal instructions in the stvle of a famous writer. Brechlin chose to rewrite one verse of the traditional dance song The Hokey Pokey as if written by William Shakespeare, for which he won the prize of a shotgun shell salt and pepper shaker. His poem is used with permission. For more information visit www.gregbartholomew.com/hokeyindex.html  less

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Nizhny Novgorod State University Choir - "Wait For Me" (music by Aleksandr Baraev, lyrics by Konstantin Simonov). Contest performance at the Final of Russian Choral Festival (Moscow, 06.05.2015).

It's never too early to get organised and, if you are in the same camp as Tim Knight, who likes to be way ahead with music lists and is already preparing for next Spring, then you will already be thinking about your choices for Christmas. So, we are deli...

O Radiant Dawn James MacMillan (1959-) Trinity Church, NYC Downtown Voices (http://downtown voices.net) Stephen Sands, conductor (http://StephenSands.net) James MacMillan (1959-) — O Radiant Dawn Antiphon for December 21st ‘O Oriens’ O Radian...  moreO Radiant Dawn James MacMillan (1959-) Trinity Church, NYC Downtown Voices (http://downtown voices.net) Stephen Sands, conductor (http://StephenSands.net) James MacMillan (1959-) — O Radiant Dawn Antiphon for December 21st ‘O Oriens’ O Radiant Dawn, Splendour of eternal Light, Sun of Justice: Come, shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death. Isaiah had prophesied, The people who walked in darkness have seen the great light upon those who dwelt in the land of gloom a light has shone. Amen.  less