Soprano voice,Vocal Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.915698 Composed by Christina Rossetti and Amanda Hill. Arranged by Richard Joseph Barber. Christian,Contemporary,Easter,Sacred,Standards. 6 pages. Barber Music Company #4405090. Published by Barber Music Company (A0.915698). This haunting poem by Christina G. Rossetti offers hope at the end of every verse and would be a contemplative close to your Easter Sunday service. Note from the ComposerMy daughter gave me a melody that she had composed for one of her favorite poems, A Better Resurrection, and asked me to arrange it for her. As always, contact me with any questions you might have at barberpianoserv@gmail.com. -Richard Joseph Barber.

Soprano voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.873026 Composed by Sally Whitwell. Contemporary. 6 pages. Sally Whitwell #3867191. Published by Sally Whitwell (A0.873026). Composer’s Note - Warm Where Snowflakes LieThrough my music, I try to bring to people a sense of optimism about the world. Music has the power to uplift, to exalt, to fill people with joy and hope, so I am drawn to texts that do a similar thing. Christina Rossetti’s poem ​The Key-Note​ has this optimism, even with a gentle sting in the proverbial tail. She appreciated that everything has a season, that life happens in cycles, that in the face of the darkest Winter there is always the hope of Spring, a hope made real by the appearance of the red-breasted robin in the snow. This song is for anyone who has ever felt hopeless, disenfranchised, or unable to see the light at the end of the tunnel.-- Sally Whitwell

Soprano voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.869367 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. 20th Century,Baroque,Classical,Contemporary,Romantic Period. 39 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #33637. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.869367). Love poems by Arthur Gorges (1557-1625), Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) and Philip Booth (1925-2007).  Summer Lilies by Mary Oliver (1935-2019).   Commissioned by Peter Papesch for his wife, Barbara. Premiere performance of original version by Peggo Horstmann Hodes and Calvin Herst.Audio link: https://thomasoboelee.bandcamp.com/album/love-songs-summer-lilies-1998-and-2000-rev-2016Video link: https://youtu.be/7n0B0XQkJy8

Soprano voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.873025 Composed by Sally Whitwell. Contemporary. 14 pages. Sally Whitwell #3867185. Published by Sally Whitwell (A0.873025). Composer’s Note - The BirdsI lived for a couple of years in a little top floor Art Deco apartment in Sydney’s Kings Cross. There were always birds sitting on my window sill because of the huge Jacaranda tree outside. I was at a bit of a crossroads in my life at that time, and would spend at least an hour daily walking in the neighbourhood, along those twisting, sloping streets and slowly eroding sandstone staircases so typical of Sydney’s harbourside suburbs. On the wall by such a staircase very close to my home was a tiny red spray painted bird with little music notes emanating from his beak. His was a constant presence in my life, I really rather liked him.Birds seemed to be making appearances everywhere in my life at that time, which I took as some kind of message from the universe. I was reading quite a lot of Christina Rossetti that year too, enjoying her writings about birds and all that they symbolised for her; beauty and sadness, hope and joy. There was a quiet optimism in her words, sometimes veiled but always present, which propelled me to write this song cycle T​ he Birds.​-- Sally Whitwell