Choral Music
Compositions are aranged alphabetically by title within each category. Click on the titles for audio previews, texts, score samples, reviews, past performances, commissioning ensembles and more!
SATB • Women's Chorus • Men's Chorus • Liturgical
A Psalm of Penitence
SATB • 6 min. • Text: Psalm 51
But perhaps God needs the longing
SATB, piano • 6 min. • Text: Nelly Sachs
Circling Katahdin
SATB, flute, violoncello • 5 min. • Text: Kathleen Ellis
Child listen
SATB • 5 min. • Text: W.S. Merwin translations of Quechua and Crow poetry
Coming Home (A Choral Meditation)
SATB • 10 min. • Texts: Jean Greenwood
Effortlessly, Love flows from God into Man
SATB, strummed piano • 5 min. • Text: 13th c. German poet Mechtild of Magdeburg
Grace to you
SATB • 3 min. • Text: Revelation
Grant us Peace
SATB • 24 min. • Text: A Contemporary Setting of the Mass
In the Turning of the Season
SATB • 4 min. • Text: Jean Greenwood
Let that day be darkness
SATB, West African Drum, Balangi (xylophone) • 40 min. • A Setting of Job in Krio
NightChants (Settings of American Indian, African and Sanskrit texts)
Mixed vocal ensemble • 40 min. • Text: American Indian, African and Sanskrit texts
One Evening - A Setting of South Indian Poetry
SATB • 24 min. • Text: South Indian poetry (set in Tamil with pronunciation guide)
PrayerChant "Don't let me fall..."
SATB, soprano and alto solo • 4 min. • Text: Kadya Molodowsky
That the dove may rest
SSAATB • 20 min. • Texts: "No puedo", Sara de Ibáñez; Traditional Navajo prayer
The Revelation of John
Chamber singers, mixed choir, soprano solo, clarinet, narrator • 40 min. • Text: The Book of John
Un coup de Dés: A Chant for chorus
SATB • 15 min. • Text: Mallarmé, "A throw of the dice" (French)
Windsong (Settings of Women's Spiritual Poetry)
SATB, organ • 20 min. • Texts: Owl Woman, Izumi Shikibu, Lal Ded, Li Quingzhao, Kadya Molodowsky
Wood Floor Dreams
SATB • 3 min. • Text: Cheyenne poet Lance Henson
SATB • Women's Chorus • Men's Chorus • Liturgical
Dark young pine
SSSAAA • 8 min. • Text: Gladys Reichard's translation of a traditional Navajo ceremonial text
Thillana for Women's Voices
SSA • 6 min. • Text: Set in Hindi
Three Antiphons
SSA • 4 min. • Text: 13th c. German poet Mechtild of Magdeburg (English)
SATB • Women's Chorus • Men's Chorus • Liturgical
Linden Lea (arrangement of R. Vaughan Williams)
TTBB • 3 min. • Text: "Linden Lea"
Song for Sarah
Soprano solo, Men's choir (TBB), viola, harp • 6 min. • Text: "Song at the Skirts of Heaven" Uri Zvi Greenberg (Hebrew and English)
SATB • Women's Chorus • Men's Chorus • Liturgical
A Contemporary Advent Carol
SATB, bell choir • 7 min. • Text: Diane Glancy, Owl Woman
Arcs of Light
Baritone solo • 5 min. • Text: Medieval poet Yehuda Halevi (Hebrew)
Communion Service
Choir and congregation • 5 min. • Text: A setting of the Methodist Liturgy
Faithsong
SATB, organ • 10 min. • Texts: Ruth 1:16-17; John 8: 12; 12:35; Hildegard von Bingen "Song to the Creator"
Grace to you
SATB • 3 min. • Text: Revelation
Let all mortal flesh keep silence
Children's choir, bells, flute, oboe, violin, cello, drum • 4 min. • Text: Hymn "Let all mortal flesh keep silent"
Let us break bread together
SATB • 5 min. • Text: Traditional spiritual with additional text by Gwendolyn Brooks
Psalm 8
SATB • 6 min. • Text: Psalm 8
Shall we gather at the river
Congregation, trumpet, bells, organ • 6 min. • Text: Hymn "Shall we gather at the river"
The Lord's Prayer
SATB • 3 min. • Text: The Lord's Prayer
SATB • Women's Chorus • Men's Chorus • Liturgical