Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.916130

By Frank Sinatra. By George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin. Arranged by David Rosborough. 20th Century. Octavo. 5 pages. David Rosborough #3594579. Published by David Rosborough (A0.916130).

A light-hearted catalogue song from the Gershwin's classic musical Shall We Dance, celebrates an unlikely romance that has turned out well in the end - beating the odds when everyone around predicted failure.  This SATB arrangement opens with an introductory solo (or unison section), and gives the whole choir a chance to shine in the chorus.  A fun concert closer.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1000880

Composed by Charles Griffin. 20th Century,A Cappella,Contemporary,Spiritual. Octavo. 6 pages. Coriolis Press #5996667. Published by Coriolis Press (A0.1000880).

SATB a cappella, ca 3' - Text by Richard Eberhard (see below)

Commissioned as part of Faith Partners, a residency underwritten by the American Composers Forum with funds provided by the Wolfensohn Family Foundation, and supplemental funding from St. Bartholomew's Church, St. Ignatius-Loyola and Temple Emanu-el. Premiered by St. Bartholomew's Church, William Tully, Rector, under the direction of William Trafka.

Text:

In after time, when all this dream
Becomes pure dream, and roughest years
Lie down among the tender grass,
And spring up sentient upon the meadow;

In that after time of great-born Aprils,
Beyond a century of tatters and malice,
When love has thrown out fear and madness
The eyes will see the sun as wonder.

In after time, when rage and chaos
Lose their sov'reign force, new dream
Will lift the shining life to spirit
And mate the make of man to merit.

Then shall holy summers come; then laughter
Godlike shake upon a dewy morning;
Then fullness grow - big with purpose,
And man shall know again his richness.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1256869

Composed by Nicholas White. 21st Century,Christmas,Folk,Singer/Songwriter. Octavo. 8 pages. Nicholas White Music #850256. Published by Nicholas White Music (A0.1256869).

A gentle setting for chorus and keyboard, rich in melody and harmony, of Dorothy Parker's poem. 

The things she knew, let her forget again-
The voices in the sky, the fear, the cold,
The gaping shepherds, and the queer old men
Piling their clumsy gifts of foreign gold.

Let her have laughter with her little one;
Teach her the endless, tuneless songs to sing,
Grant her her right to whisper to her son
The foolish names one dare not call a king.

Keep from her dreams the rumble of a crowd,
The smell of rough-cut wood, the trail of red,
The thick and chilly whiteness of the shroud
That wraps the strange new body of the dead.

Ah, let her go, kind Lord, where mothers go
And boast his pretty words and ways, and plan
The proud and happy years that they shall know
Together, when her son is grown a man.