Format : Vocal Score
This powerful original ballad by Greg Gilpin is stunning in lyric and song. A simple unison beginning builds to an ending with full choral presence and moving descant. “A sound of hope a sound of peace a sound thatcelebrates and speaks what we believe ... this is why we sing why we lift our voice.” This will be your power ballad for the year and with the full orchestration available or CD accompaniment track your singers andaudience will literally be moved to tears. An outstanding choral work! Available separately: SATB SAB TBB SSAA 2-part Orchestration StudioTrax CD.
SKU: AP.49831
UPC: 038081571454. English. Words by Robert Frost.
A lesser known yet deeply poignant Robert Frost poem. Greg's emotional choral setting is full of expressive rubato that invites time to thoughtfully process the meaningful words. Changing time signatures make space for effortless phrasing and sensitive syllabic stress. A consistently warm harmonic palette and several fully realized suspensions leave us with a feeling of resolution. An exquisite selection for SATB or TTBB choirs and their responsive accompanists.
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: HL.35030548
ISBN 9781495035913. UPC: 888680082222. 6.75x10.5 inches. Pamela Stewart/Greg Gilpin.
Premiered at Carnegie Hall for the Shawnee Press 75th Anniversary, this powerful and inspirational work, now set for TTBB voices, sings of “hope” described through the phases of life, such as a newborn's cry, the laughter of children, the ashes of the fire of love that has died, the quiet comfort of a dream. Set to haunting and dynamic music with piano or optional orchestra, the work comes to a moving conclusion of “hope is not lost...hope will arise.” Gorgeous, moving and timely.
SKU: AP.49830
UPC: 038081571447. English. Words by Robert Frost.
