Choral Choir (SSA) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.891215 Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Laurie Betts Hughes. Children,Contemporary,Country,Folk. Octavo. 34 pages. Dandelion Music Press #3256941. Published by Dandelion Music Press (A0.891215). Lights of the Western Sky is a compilation of 3 celestial American folk songs collected by Ruth Crawford Seeger, commissioned by Casper Children's Chorale to celebrate the 2017 total solar eclipse visible in Casper, Wyoming in honor of Mick McMurray. The pieces are connected not only by the folk style and the star subject, but also by tracing the course of a day, and by focusing on the connection of the outer world to the inner soul.I. Bright Morning Stars-- An additive processional on the ultimate theme of children singing. Though the traditional verses state that the fathers are down in the valley a-prayin''' and the mothers have gone to heaven a-shoutin' (or vice versa), the lyrics have been freely adapted in the folk tradition of floating verses (adapting lyrics to personal experience) to describe the children's experience. The opening percussion motif is intended to evoke Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man.II. Oh, Watch the Stars-- Oh, Watch the Stars and Great Big Stars, combined in unique ways. The two songs used, Oh, Watch the Stars and Great Big Stars, are distinct in their own right. They have been fused together in this movement, borrowing the text from one and using the tune from the other, and modifying one to partner with the other when presented simultaneously. A fusion of two styles, this movement opens solemnly and culminates in a hoedown showdown.Laurie Betts Hughes, ASCAP | www.LaurieBettsHughes.com 

Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Laurie Betts Hughes. Contemporary Classical, Folk, Old-time, Americana, Bluegrass. Individual Part. 17 pages. Published by Dandelion Music Press (S0.271635). - Individual Part - Contemporary Classical,Folk,Old-time,Americana,Bluegrass - Dandelion Music Press

Choral Choir,Choral (SAB) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.976959 Composed by Pena Young Publishing. A Cappella,Contemporary,Film/TV,Musical/Show,Opera,Standards. 18 pages. Sabrina Peña Young #5803165. Published by Sabrina Peña Young (A0.976959). A beautiful song cycle for Soprano, Baritone, and Piano from the groundbreaking opera Libertaria. Can be adapted to other voice types or sung as a choir or acapella as needed. The teenage girl Libertaria escapes from the GenTech factory to team up with her addict father. Together they overthrow evil geneticists in with a rag tag cyborg army in this dark musical masterpiece.  Dubbed Wagner 2.0 by the Palm Beach Arts Paper, international award-winning Cuban American composer and filmmaker Sabrina Peña Young creates groundbreaking works  like the animated virtual opera Libertaria and her animated film Spiritus, which premiered at the Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival. In 2014 Young gave a TED Talk on the importance of online artistic collaboration at TEDxBuffalo. Inspired by science fiction, electroacoustic music, and graphic novels, Young's works have been presented at the Beijing Conservatory, Art Basil Miami, Turkey's Cinema for Peace, Opera America NYC, Art Miami, Animasyros in Greece, NPR Morning Edition, and festivals on 5 continents. In 2018 Young received the prestigious Cintas Foundation Brandon Fradd Composer Fellowship. The Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival awarded Young the Lois Weber Filmmaker Award in 2019. Young remains very active in the local Western New York film community. Her Filmmaker Boot Camp produces films like Welcome to Space Force and The Cure. Young is the Creative Director of BandWidth Media & Film, a Digital Media and Post Production Studio in Western, New York.