Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.982072 Composed by James Gardner. Contemporary. Score. 12 pages. James Gardner #6136181. Published by James Gardner (A0.982072). In 1988 my wife and I were sent by our church to take part in the World Conference on Liturgical Music in Rome at the Vatican.  It was so exciting for us to go on our first trip to the Eternal City!!  We took a taxi to the Vatican and it let us off right within walking distance of St. Peter's Basilica!  It was so overwhelming, exciting, and beautiful all at once; it was almost too much to take in!  After that wonderful week when I returned I set down and began to improvise at the piano to see what I might be able to express about the experience.  What came to me almost immediately was the memory of the sound of chant in that great space!  I came up with a very contemporary combination of old and new in a jazz framework.

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1370587 By James Gardner St Thomas choir. By James Gardner, lyrics Deborah Lea Page. 21st Century,Christian,Religious. 6 pages. James Gardner #908686. Published by James Gardner (A0.1370587). The Way is a powerful choral song expressing a distincly catholic understanding of a close follwing of Jesus!  Deborah's words have been set to a strong but simple melodic style.  St. Thomas choir performs the piece on mp3.

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1370593 By James Gardner St. Thomas Choir. By James Gardner, lyrics Deborah Lea Page. 20th Century,Christian,Contemporary. 6 pages. James Gardner #954933. Published by James Gardner (A0.1370593). ONE LAST CRY is a very powerful vocal plea to save the children lost to drugs and street exploitation! My setting of Deborah Lea Page's text is available in this simple choir setting as well as an anthem setting for more advanced choirs available here as well.

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1368760 By James Gardner St Thomas choir. By James Gardner. Christian,Classical,Religious. 7 pages. James Gardner #953131. Published by James Gardner (A0.1368760). We Rejoice in Hope was created as an opening song for a diocesan wide celebration. It is a wonderful anthem for any powerful, uplifting moment in worship.

Organ - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.982060 Composed by James Gardner. Christian,Contemporary. Score. 9 pages. James Gardner #5968263. Published by James Gardner (A0.982060). This piece for organ is written as an emotional sound painting of sadness and great joy!  Legend looks at Michelangelo's incredible sculpture at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and interprets it in the light of Mary's assumed understanding of her son's passion and it's eventual meaning.  The powerful elegance of that work of art speaks through the centuries of Mary's broken, but loving and hopeful heart as she holds her dead son.  I have endeavored to compose a fitting tribute to Mary's own passion as the Mother of our Lord!