Category: COMMUNITY CHOIRS
Composer: Traditional Spiritual
Arranger: Diedre Robinson
Publisher: GIA Publications
Edition: G-7441
Voicing: SATB
Setting: –
Reviewer:
Rick Kvam
Choral Arts Ensemble
R&R Chair Community Choirs
Many of us first heard Diedre Robinson’s terrific arrangement of Steal Away as sung by The Aeolians at the […]
Category: COMMUNITY CHOIRS
Composer: Stephen Chatman
Arranger: NA
Publisher: E. C. Schirmer
Edition: 8801
Voicing: SATB
Setting: with piano
Reviewer:
Rick Kvam
Choral Arts Ensemble
R&R Chair Community Choirs
Stephen Chatman was born in Faribault, but music studies took him first to Oberlin, then Michigan, then straight […]
Category: COMMUNITY CHOIRS
Composer: Daniel Kallman
Arranger: NA
Publisher: Self-Published
Edition: –
Voicing: SATB
Setting: with piano and cello
Reviewer:
Rick Kvam
Choral Arts Ensemble
R&R Chair Community Choirs
Dan Kallman, one of our many marvelous Minnesota choral composers, has poured out an enormous amount of great […]
Category: COMMUNITY CHOIRS
Composer: Marta Keen
Arranger: Mack Wilberg
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Edition: AP-38070
Voicing: SATB
Setting: with piano four hands
Reviewer:
Rick Kvam
Choral Arts Ensemble
R&R Chair Community Choirs
Like all Mack Wilberg arrangements, Homeward Bound is straightforward, well-crafted, and effective. Originally scored for […]
Category: COMMUNITY CHOIRS
Composer: Christine Donkin
Arranger: NA
Publisher: Graphite Publishing
Edition: GP-D030
Voicing: SATB
Setting: with piano
Reviewer:
Rick Kvam
Choral Arts Ensemble
R&R Chair Community Choirs
Sorrow into Song by Christine Donkin is the second work commissioned by that same Graphite-sponsored consortium. Christine grew up […]
Category: COMMUNITY CHOIRS
Composer: Christopher Harris
Arranger: NA
Publisher: Graphite Publishing
Edition: GP-H023
Voicing: SATB
Setting: with piano
Reviewer:
Rick Kvam
Choral Arts Ensemble
R&R Chair Community Choirs
This is one of two pieces recently commissioned by a consortium of 23 choirs through Graphite Publishing. Award-winning composer […]
Category: COMMUNITY CHOIRS
Composer: Rosephanye Powell
Arranger: NA
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Edition: 10455802
Voicing: SATB
Setting: Piano
Reviewer:
Mark Johnson
Minnesota Boychoir
SON Star Program Author
msj@boychoir.org
Minnesota Boychoir Adult Choir
Link: https://www.jwpepper.com/I-Will-Sing/10455802.item#.YIwWxrVKjIU
Category: COMMUNITY CHOIRS
Composer: Traditional Spiritual
Arranger: Moses Hogan
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Edition: 8059864
Voicing: SATB divisi
Setting: unaccompanied
Reviewer:
Rick Kvam
Choral Arts Ensemble
R&R Chair Community Choirs
Keeping with this theme, why not sing This Little Light of Mine as arranged by Moses Hogan? […]
Category: COMMUNITY CHOIRS
Composer: Rollo Dilworth
Arranger: NA
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Edition: 00334668
Voicing: SAT(B)
Setting: –
Reviewer:
Rick Kvam
Choral Arts Ensemble
R&R Chair Community Choirs
Another piece with text by that great American treasure, Maya Angelou, is Why A Caged Bird Sings by Rollo Dilworth, […]
Category: COMMUNITY CHOIRS
Composer: Bob Chilcott
Arranger: NA
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition: 10981710
Voicing: SATB
Setting: soloists, unaccompanied
Reviewer:
Rick Kvam
Choral Arts Ensemble
R&R Chair Community Choirs
Bob Chilcott sang tenor in the King’s Singers from 1985 to 1997, and then turned, quite successfully, to […]