Winter 2007 NEW ISSUE

SACRED CHORAL — Mixed Chorus and Organ
CRAIG DeALMEIDA [b. 1976]: Peace for the Nations
     • SATB & Organ • #6438 • $2.65 • c. 6:00
“The text was chosen in response to the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the warfare that ensued. It is to be hoped that the impact of these events might be dissolved by a true commitment to peace. This hope is reflected in the anthem by the violent beginning being washed away by the end.”—Craig DeAlmeida
USE: general
       • moderately difficult
       • accomplished church choruses

HOWARD HELVEY [b. 1968]: Sweetest of Sweets
     • SATB & Organ • #6441 • $1.85 • c. 4:00
This gentle setting of words from Church Music by George Herbert (1593–1633) is about the transcendent power of church music.
USE: general
       • moderately easy
      • church use only

DEREK HEALEY [b. 1936]: The White Dove
     • 1 or 2 S. Soli, SATB & Organ (ad lib.)*
     • #6314 • $1.85 • c. 3:20
“The three verses, which are framed by the solos, tell of the descent of a white dove during the baptism of Jesus by St. John the Baptist. The work, which is in G major, has a structural emphasis on the sixth scale degree, thereby giving it a modal quality.”—Derek Healey
*The organ part is obligatory only if one soloist is used.
USE: baptism, general
      • moderately difficult
      • skilled church choruses   

DAVID EVAN THOMAS [b. 1958]: An Echoing Song
     • SATB Soli, SATB & Organ • #6585 • $2.15 • c. 4:30
“The poems of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Stundenbuch (The Book of Hours) speak of a close personal relationship between soul and deity, etched with bold images from the physical world. I found the expanding gyre of Rilke’s poem emblematic of the potential of the individual, and thus of our stewardship. Our ever-widening rings have a center, but are our actions prophetic, reactive, or merely routine?”

“An Echoing Song is also a complement to my anthem A Joyful Symphony (Catalog No. 6587), which also takes its title from its last line, but while A Joyful Symphony is affirming and celebratory, An Echoing Song raises only questions.”—David Evan Thomas
USE: stewardship-themed services, general
      • moderately difficult
     • accomplished church choruses

SACRED CHORAL — Mixed Chorus unaccompanied
ROBERT APPLEBAUM [b. 1941]: Psalm 116:16 (Truly Lord, I am Free/Ana Adonai)
     • SA Soli, SATB • #6116 • $2.15 • c. 3:15
“The King James translation of this verse presents a paradox. ‘Oh Lord, truly I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.’ The psalmist speaks of himself as a servant, indeed the son of a servant; yet he is freed from bondage.

At least two interpretations seem possible. 1) God freed Israel from bondage in Egypt and Israel’s service to God is to be given throughout all generations. 2) Service to God is liberating, allowing us to break the psychological
chains that we fashion for ourselves. It is the latter interpretation that is emphasized in the English translation employed in this setting.”—Robert Applebaum

This edition includes the lyrics both in English and in Hebrew and a pronunciation guide for the Hebrew words. The English translation is by the composer.
USE: services, concerts
      • moderately difficult
      • skilled temple, church, college, community, professional choruses

SECULAR (MAYBE SACRED) CHORAL —
Mixed Chorus unaccompanied
ROBERT KYR [b. 1952]: Into the Hour of New Life
     • Soprano Solo, SSATBB • #6099 • $3.90 • c. 8:00
This homage to the victims of 9/11 features original lyrics by the composer.
“O World— / Remember the day / When fire blazed from above / Forcing steel intowhirlwinds. // O Love— / Can you forgive / Those who consume nations / With their burning hatred? // O Time— / Remember the dead / To heal the gaping wound That the living cannot forget. // O Truth— / Can you foretell / When darkness will
be undone / And grief will turn to light? // O Great Spirit— / In whom we all areone / Lead us from sorrow / Into the hour of new life.”—Robert Kyr
USE: concerts, 9/11-themed services
      • moderately difficult
      • accomplished college, community, professional choruses

MARK ZUCKERMAN YIDDISH CHORAL SERIES
The front matter to each edition in the series contains a Yiddish-English transliteration guide, an IPA transliteration guide, the text printed in the original Yiddish language, program notes and biographies of the poet and Mark Zuckerman. The lyrics appear only in Yiddish; no English singing translation is supplied in
the music. The teaching aids in the front matter and the similarities between the German and Yiddish languages will make the task of teaching the singers the correct Yiddish pronunciation a straightforward process.

MARK ZUCKERMAN, arr. [b. 1948]: O, kum shoyn shtiler ovnt
     • SATB • #6190 • $1.85 • c. 2:08
“O, come quiet evening, and rock the fields to sleep. / We sing praises to you, Olovely twilight. / How quiet it has become; the air is turning cool. / In the woods,the nightingale has ended its song. / The meadow turns dim as night comes on; /The white birch stays standing alone in the field.”
Zamlbukh fun kinder lider, 1917 Translation by Mark Zuckerman
USE: concerts
     • easy
     • high school, college, community, professional choruses

JOHN DAVID EARNEST [b. 1940]: In Dreams
     • SATB • #6352 • $1.85 • c. 3:30 (pre-revision recording)
“Carry me up in dreams, to the place where borders melt and forests flow to the sea.Carry me up in dreams, take me where oceans rock in gentle hands and the blue earthfloats as if dreaming. / Carry me to the place where dreams fly, let me rest where silence breathes like songs of the Divine.”
Words © Copyright 2003 by Robert Bode. Used by permission.
USE: concerts
      • moderately easy
      • high school, college, community, professional choruses



SECULAR CHORAL — Mixed or Treble Chorus and Piano
GWYNETH WALKER [b. 1947]: Three Days by the Sea
1. The Bottom of the Sea
     • SATB divisi & Piano • #6570 • $2.15 • c. 3:00
2. Gifts from the Sea
     • SATB divisi & Piano • #6571 • $2.15 • c. 3:30
3. Down to the Sea
     • SATB divisi & Piano • #6572 • $2.65 • c. 3:30
4. Gifts from the Sea
     • SSAA & Piano • #6717 • $2.15 • c. 3:30
“The sea is a universal force which speaks to each of us in unique ways. Thus, these texts by three different authors (Thomas Merton, Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Norah Mary Holland) were selected for this set of choral works. It is intended that a diversity of aspects of the sea be explored.”—Gwyneth Walker
USE: concerts
      • moderately easy
      • high school, college, community, professional choruses

SECULAR CHORAL — Mixed Chorus and Piano
STEPHEN CHATMAN [b. 1950]: Voices of Earth
1. The Bird and the Hour
     • SATB & Piano • #7.0503 • $2.15 • c. 2:50
     • SAB & Piano • #7.0500 • $2.15 • c. 2:50

2. Snow
     • SATB & Piano • #7.0504 • $1.50 • c. 2:15
     • SAB & Piano • #7.0501 • $1.50 • c. 2:15

3. Voices of Earth
     • SATB & Piano • #7.0505 • $2.15 • c. 3:00
     • SAB & Piano • #7.0502 • $2.15 • c. 3:00
“Voices of Earth comprises settings of three nature poems by the Canadian poet, Archibald Lampman (1861–1899). The softly flowing melodies with undulating piano accompaniment in the opening song, The Bird and the Hour, reflect an idyllic scene of a hermit bird singing in the quiet Ontario countryside. The poet’s metaphor, the passing from day to night, is expressed by his poignant last lines, ‘Out of the silent wood, from the closing door of another world, another lovelier mood, hear’st thou the hermit pour — so sweet! so magical! — his golden music, ghostly beautiful.’ ”
USE: concerts
     • moderately easy
     • high school, college, community, professional choruses


ROBERT CONVERY [b. 1954]: Not About Cheese
1. Six Sausages for Sale
     • SATB & Piano • #6492 • $2.15 • c. 3:10
2. Baby Bear’s Lament
     • SATB & Piano • #6493 • $1.85 • c. 3:35
3. Indigestible You!
     • SATB & Piano • #6494 • $2.15 • c. 2:20
4. No Time for Zeus
     • SATB & Piano • #6495 • $1.85 • c. 2:20
5. Miss Muffet’s Revenge
     • SATB & Piano • #6496 • $1.85 • c. 2:45
Not About Cheese is a set of five humourous pieces with lyrics written by the composer. Each one is a spoof on a particular fairytale or on certain myths; 1. Cinderella, 2. Goldilocks, 3. Little Red Riding Hood, 4. the Sphinx and Zeus and 5. Little Miss Muffet.
USE: concerts
     • moderately difficult
     • skilled high school, college, community, professional choruses


SECULAR CHORAL — Mixed or Treble Chorus and Piano
STANLEY M. HOFFMAN [b. 1959]: An Easy Decision
• SATB & Piano • #6747 • $1.50 • c. :50
• Unis. Treble or M-Sop. Solo & Piano • #6748 • $1.50 • c. :50
This is a gentle, humorous setting of the poem An Easy Decision by Kenneth Patchen. It is about someone who goes out for a walk after dinner. The weather is fine; the person starts whistling and soon meets a husband and wife riding on a young horse accompanied by seven running children: the person says hello and passes them by. Then, the person meets another couple with nineteen children; all of them are riding on a large, happy hippopotamus: the person invites them home!
USE: concerts
      • moderately easy
      • high school, college, community, professional choruses

GILDA LYONS [b. 1975]: A Small Handful
     • Solo Voice • #6442 • $5.25 • c. 10:00

Three Robes
     • Voice & Piano • #6443 • $13.50 • c. 16:00
• difficult (both)

KEYBOARD MUSIC
JULIAN WACHNER [b. 1969]: Fantasy on “Marsh Chapel”
     • Organ Solo • #5846 • $13.25 • c. 8:00
• moderately difficult

Tracks 1-8, 10-13, and 15-18 were recorded on January 10, 2007, at Church of the Redeemer in Chestnut Hill, MA, and on January 14, 2007, at the recording studio of Futura Productions, Roslindale, MA, by the Philovox Ensemble directed by Jane Ring Frank. The instrumentalists were Heinrich Christensen, organ (tracks
1-3, 5-8) and Scott Nicholas, piano (tracks 4, 10, 12, 16-18). The vocal soloists were sopranos Adriana Repetto and Yulia Van Doren (track 3) and soprano Mary Sullivan and alto C. Heather Holland (track 5).

The members of the Philovox Ensemble were sopranos Adriana Repetto, Mary Sullivan and Yulia Van Doren,
altos Mary Gerbi, C. Heather Holland and Martin Near, tenors Eric P. Esparza, David McSweeney and Steven Soph and basses Glenn Billingsley, Jacob A. Cooper, Marc DeMille and Darrick Yee. The producer was Robert Schuneman and the recording engineer was Antonio Oliart Ros; editing and mastering was by Robert Schuneman, Arsis Audio, Boston, MA.

RECORDING CREDITS - Guest Artists
Track 1, Peace for the Nations by Craig DeAlmeida, was recorded on June 9, 2002 at the Duke University Chapel, by the Vocal Arts Ensemble of Durham, Rodney Wynkoop, Conductor. The organist was Jane Lynch and the recording engineer was Rob Musser. Permission to use this track was kindly given by Rodney Wynkoop.

Track 4, An Echoing Song by David Evan Thomas, was recorded in concert on April 29, 2005 at the Cathedral of St. Paul, Minneapolis, MN, by the combined choirs of Westminster Presbyterian Church and the Cathedral of St. Paul, Marilyn Biery, Conductor. The organist was James Biery and the recording engineer was Bill Lund.
This trackis used with the kind permission of given by Marilyn Biery and Melanie Ohnstad.

Track 6, Into the Hour of New Life by Robert Kyr, was recorded in June, 2003, at Rogers Hall, Wilamette University, by the Oregon Repertory Singers, Gil Seeley, Conductor. The soprano soloist was April Vanderwal and the recording engineer was Joel Gordon. Permission to use this track was kindly given by Robert Kyr and Gil
Seeley. This is a pre-revision recording.

Track 8, In Dreams by John David Earnest, was recorded on April 27, 2003 at the Chism Recital Hall, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, by the Whitman College Chamber Singers, Robert Bode, Conductor. The recording engineer was Peter Crawford. This track is used with the kind permission of Robert Bode. This is a pre-revision
recording.

Tracks 9-11, Three Days by the Sea by Gwyneth Walker, were recorded on April 7-10, 2006, at the Chism Recital Hall, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, by the Whitman College Chorale, Robert Bode, Conductor. Lee D. Thompson was the pianist. The recording engineers were Al and Betsy Giles and the producer was Carson Cooman. Permission to use this track was kindly given by Robert Bode and Carson Cooman.