SKU: A0.1360643

For SATB (with soprado div.) and organ.
With Lyrics by Edgar Allan Poe, Shadows Rise and Fall comes from The Sleeper (a larger work for soloists, choir, and orchestra).  In this passage, the narrator is haunted by the shadows whilst pining for his lost Irene.

SKU: A0.781588

White Moon by Luke Flynn
Commissioned by Choral Arts Initiative, Brandon Elliott, artistic director

Perfect SATB piece for advanced high school and college choirs; beautiful lullaby with soaring, memorable melodies.
Set to text by Carl Sandburg:

White moon comes in on a baby face.
The shafts across her bed are flimmering.

Out on the land White Moon shines,
Shines and glimmers against gnarled shadows,
All silver to slow twisted shadows
Falling across the long road that runs from the house.

Keep a little of your beauty
And some of your flimmering silver
For her by the window tonight
Where you come in, White Moon.
-Baby Face by Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

SKU: H1.A604DP

Timothy Dudley-Smith.

Original anthem Choral Piece by Timothy Dudley-Smith and John Carter.

SKU: A0.1319175

Eventide is powerfully narrative in style: a yearning and intimate prayer that our Shepherd would be near in the night (symbolic of difficult times). The piece uses M.L. Hofford's lyrics, which he penned in response to the human cost of war. On a personal level, Hofford's lyrics struck me as especially comforting after an unusually sobering death in the community. The verses are decidedly minimalist and have a chant-like beauty to them, so as to emphasize pondering. The refrains fill out in texture (up to 7 parts) as the prayer shifts to beckoning.

1. Abide with me; 'tis eventide. The day is past and gone; the shadows of the evening fall; the night is coming on. Within my home a welcome guest, within my home abide.
2. Abide with me, 'tis eventide. Thy walk today with me has made my heart within me burn as I communed with thee. Thy earnest words have filled my soul and kept me near thy side.
3. Abide with me, 'tis eventide. And lone will be the night if I cannot commune with thee, nor find in thee my light. The darkness of this world, I fear, would in my home abide.

Refrain: O Savior, stay this night with me; behold, 'tis eventide. Amen.