Format : Score and Parts
SKU: HL.374935
UPC: 196288017301. 6.75x10.5x0.004 inches. Deuteronomy 31:8, Isaiah 52:12b, Psalm 139:5-10.
Simple and yet so perfect for the closing of a worship gathering, this small but mighty blessing will enfold your church in the arms of assurance and grace. The images of Christ's surrounding and indwelling love will be an important moment for your community of faith. Easy enough to become a treasured ritual, this benediction is an indispensable incidental for your choir folders. Superb!
SKU: GI.G-008817
UPC: 641151088174. English.
Orlando composer Bob Schaefer always brings out the best in choirs with his musically compelling liturgical works. The images he portrays in each unique composition serve to support the particular liturgical day or ritual action. In this eucharistic anthem he makes use of staggered vocal entrances, creating a wash of sound as the melody first emerges from the lower voices.
SKU: LO.99-2897L
UPC: 000308130249.
No Stone Could Hold Him is a spirited witness to the ministry, passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus, the Rock of our Salvation. Written by celebrated composer Lloyd Larson, this powerful work is filled with scripture-based images of Jesus as A Rock in a Weary Land, even when tempted by Satan to turn these stones to food; as the Solid Rock on which we stand through Winds of Change and Shifting Sand; as Jerusalem's triumphant King who commands the rocks to keep silent; as the Cornerstone of our faith, betrayed and crucified; and as the risen Savior whom no stone could hold in the tomb. Inspired by these images, the music is bold and enlivening with rousing original music alongside energetic spirituals and gospel songs. This dramatic work is an exceptional choice for Easter worship with its seven choruses and options for duets and solos. It can also be performed during the Lenten season or Holy Week by omitting the final chorus.
SKU: GI.G-8657
ISBN 9781622770649.
Edited and Photographed by Michael Stillwater Waldron Island Reflections offers images and words from Shining Night, the award-winning documentary film about the life and music of Morten Lauridsen. Morten Lauridsen, among the leading American composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, draws his inspiration from the serenity of nature. In his summer residence on remote Waldron Island in the San Juan Archipelago many of his greatest works are composed. For anyone who appreciates nature as inspiration for creativity, Waldron Island Reflections provides a glimpse into a unique Pacific Northwest haven where timeless words are given a musical voice through Lauridsen’s sublime artistry. About the music of Morten Lauridsen: In 2007 Morten Lauridsen received the National Medal of Arts, the highest artistic award in the United States, from the President in a White House ceremony “for his composition of radiant choral works combining musical beauty, power, and spiritual depth.” He is Distinguished Professor of Composition at the USC Thornton School of Music, Los Angeles. www.mortenlauridsen.net/ “For those of us who need great music to live and feel more fully, these works speak clearly to the soul and illuminate our greater hope.”– St. Louis Post-Dispatch “This is celestial and spine-tingling stuff. Contemporary choral music really doesn’t come any better than this.” – Daily Express Michael Stillwater is a filmmaker and music educator whose award-winning documentary, Shining Night: A Portrait of Composer Morten Lauridsen, was deemed “a heartening rarity” by Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal. www.shiningnightfilm.net.
SKU: AP.41722
UPC: 038081468020. English.
Elegant. Expressive. Evocative. The poetry elicits icy images of winter; the music sends shivers up the spine. Listen closely for the voice of winter, sung by a soloist or small group, to appear halfway through the piece. Your audience will sit silently in awe before applauding.
About Alfred Choral Designs
The Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.
SKU: AP.35679
UPC: 038081398754. English.
A crisp, detached accompaniment supports the playful attitude of an evocative text, and articulate voice parts provide vivid images of wintertime. The F-minor tonality makes for a haunting and delightful greeting. Innovative.
SKU: AP.39732
UPC: 038081443935. English. Words based on Ecclesiastes 3:1-8; music by Jay Althouse. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8.
Jay's contemporary setting based on this timeless and poignant text deserves a place in your upcoming concert season. Superb choral literature, guaranteed to touch all who hear it. As a special addition, project animated images from the VideoTrax DVD on a large screen during performance.
SKU: SU.47000330
ELEPHANT STEPS has been described as mixed-means theater, where music and language, sound and light, images and movement, graphics and films, incense and machinery, props and performers are incorporated into a spectacular mix. The action of the opera according to Richard Foreman, who wrote the libretto, concerns a quest. Hartman, who is ill, is warned he must free himself from the spiritual influence of a mysterious guru by the name of Reinhardt. Sneaking off to Reinhardt’s house, he faints upon finding the front door locked. After visiting Night-town, he is abducted and grilled in a radio station by his enemies. They try to broadcast his public confession over the radio. Back home, safe in his kitchen, Hartman dreams of Reinhardt, as Elephant-Angels appear and lead him into the street, up a ladder to Reinhardt’s second floor window. The window quivers with light, and what he sees brings him illumination. 2(2) 0 2(2) 1(1); 1111; 3 perc, hp, cel, pno, gtr; stgs; rock band Duration: Full Evening Composed: 1968 Published by: Ben Rena Music Performance materials available on rental only:.
SKU: AP.39733
UPC: 038081443942. English. Words based on Ecclesiastes 3:1-8; music by Jay Althouse. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8.
SKU: WD.080689397233
UPC: 080689397233.
Drawing parallels between the spiritual battles we fight and actual battles of physical warfare, the shades-of-patriotic score and picturesque soundscape of this dramatic arrangement conjures up images of wounded soldiers coming home from battle. With cries of it is finished, the war is over, the conflict is won, we Christian soldiers are preparing to go home. Poignant and moving, the somber tones of this great song rise with ambitious hope toward our final act of coming home.
SKU: HL.35032127
UPC: 888680736200. 5.0x5.0x0.147 inches. Isaiah 26:12, Job 37:6-10, John 1:9-14, Matthew 1:23, Song of Solomon 2:11.
This graceful original song for Advent is extracted from the best-selling cantata Winter's Grace. Invoking the images of winter as a spiritual metaphor, the text conveys a deep yearning spirit. Unison singing delivers the poetry of the verse with clarity before surrendering to the harmonic richness of the refrain. Precious and powerful, this anthem can also be used as a prayer response. Highly recommended! Score and Parts (fl 1-2, ob, cl 1-2, bn, hn 1-2, tpt 1-3, tbn 1-2, btbn/tba, timp, perc 1-2, hp, pno, vn 1-2, va, vc, db) available as a digital download.
SKU: AP.41724
UPC: 038081468044. English.
SKU: AP.39735
UPC: 038081443966. English. Words based on Ecclesiastes 3:1-8; music by Jay Althouse. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8.
SKU: FG.55011-755-6
ISBN 9790550117556.
Finnish composer Helvi Leiviskä (1902-1982) created a broad-based output of orchestral works, solo songs and chamber music. Her style could be described as moderate modernism, deriving influences from multiple sources such as late Romanticism, Symbolism, Expressionism, Existentialism and Neo-Classicism. Leiviskä's output is characterised by philosophical and religious themes, images of nature and narrative structures. Many of her works focus on human existential angst and spiritual searching and growth.Helvi Leiviskä originally completed her Piano Quartet in A major op. 1 in 1926 but revised it a decade later, in 1935. Written for the traditional piano quartet lineup (violin, viola, cello and piano), the work is in three movements and has a duration of about 25 minutes. It features religious and ecstatic imagery such as may be found in French, German or Russian neo-Romantic styles.Leiviskä's Piano Quartet is considered one of the cornerstones of her chamber music output. Its early version was premiered in two parts at student recitals of the Helsinki Music Institute (the 1st movement in 1925 and the 2nd and 3rd movements in 1926). The revised version was performed in full by Timo Mikkilä (piano), Sulo Aro (violin), Ilmo Ranta (viola) and Pentti Rautawaara (cello) on Finnish radio in 1939. The work was also on the programme of Leiviskä's second composition concert in 1945, being performed on that occasion by Jussi Jalas (piano), Erik Cronvall (violin), Erik Karma (viola) and Yrjö Selin (cello). Two commercial recordings have been released (Finlandia Classics 2012 and Telos Music 2016). It is published for the first time 2022 with an extensive foreword by Susanna Välimäki. The product includes the full score (piano part) and a set of string parts.Duration: c. 25'. Have a look inside by clicking sample.
SKU: HL.14033692
1. The Native Land of Light (for mixed chorus, SATB) 2. Come lift me up (for mixed chorus, SATB -) -) the second movement may be performed by a children's chorus or by the female voices (SSA) from a mixed chorus Programme Note From my very first aquaintance with these Andersen poems, I was deeply moved by the simple, almost naive, yet evocative imagery, with which Andersen realized his visions, images like: The Melody of the Heart, The Poem of Beauty, A Spiritual Hindustan, Fly, Death, over the Sea of Time, fly to Eternal Summer. Along with this childishness Hans Christian Andersen's poetry encompasses enormous - almost Willim Blake-ish - cosmic visions, in theinterpolations between e.g. reaching the Heaven as opposed to you'll find it in a Rosebud, or the juxtaposition of Everyday Life and Eternal Poetry - which become one. Thus the music came to life in my immediate encounter with these words, which almost sang themselves into my Musical Furnace - if you will. Per Norgard.
SKU: AP.34761
UPC: 038081384870. English.
This stirring concert work evokes images of great sailing ships on an expansive sea. Sweeping melodies and full chords should be sung with purpose to achieve the rich musical potential. A symbolic text appropriate at any time of sailing on. Featured on PianoTrax 3 Accompaniment CD (00-34744).
SKU: AP.38176
UPC: 038081426471. English.
The candle is a universal symbol of peace and hope. This seasonal selection honors the tradition with its captivating music and heartwarming text. At the end, four spoken greetings embrace various holidays. As a special touch, project animated images from the VideoTrax DVD on a large screen during performance.
SKU: AP.40022
UPC: 038081446813. English. Words based on Ecclesiastes 3:1-8; music by Jay Althouse. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8.
SKU: FL.FX070744
Two little fishes were in love and started a Tango dance... This was a Tango in their own images: spontaneous, mischievous, funny and sarcastic, to which interleaves the mischievousness of xylophone. This is a small light and spiritual entertainment.
