Category: CHILDREN & YOUTH
Composer: Mexican Carol
Arranger: Nancy Grundahl
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Edition: 08743793
Voicing: SSAA
Setting: Accompanied
Reviewer:
Deborah Lamp
Park Spanish Immersion School 2012
R&R Chair Children & Youth
Though a carol, Estrella Brilliante has a message of peace that is appropriate at any time of year. […]
Category: COMMUNITY CHOIRS
Composer: Morten Lauridsen
Arranger: –
Publisher: Peer Music
Edition: 229310
Voicing: SATB div
Setting: Accompanied
Reviewer:
Steven Boehlke
Minnesota Valley Men’s Chorale 2010
R&R Chair Community Choirs
Most of us have heard Lux Aeterna, a beautiful extended work by Lauridsen. “Agnus Dei” is the final movement from […]
Category: HIGH SCHOOL CHOIRS
Composer: Edward Elgar
Arranger: NA
Publisher: Novello
Edition: 29-0164
Voicing: SATB
Setting: Accompanied
Reviewer:
Robert Peterson
Edina High School 1991
R&R Chair High School Choirs
This is a wonderful setting and very accessible for high school voices. It begins with a soprano solo that is continued […]
Category: COMMUNITY CHOIRS
Composer: Stephen Mager
Arranger: NA
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition: 9780193804784
Voicing: SATB
Setting: Accompanied
Reviewer:
Steven Boehlke
Minnesota Valley Men’s Chorale 2009
R&R Chair Community Choirs
Stephen Mager has taken a traditional Dutch carol and created excitement in his fresh orchestration of the composition. If Ye […]
Category: COMMUNITY CHOIRS
Composer: Michael Bedford
Arranger: NA
Publisher: Canticle Distributing
Edition: 6207
Voicing: SATB
Setting: Accompanied
Reviewer:
Steven Boehlke
Minnesota Valley Men’s Chorale 2008
R&R Chair Community Choirs
Michael Bedford’s setting of Psalm 96 is for SATB chorus, Trumpet in C and Organ. It was the winner of the […]
Category: COMMUNITY CHOIRS
Composer: Daniel E. Pinkham
Arranger: NA
Publisher: Robert King Music Company
Edition: 602
Voicing: SATB
Setting: Accompanied
Reviewer:
Steven Boehlke
Minnesota Valley Men’s Chorale 2006
R&R Chair Community Choirs
The “Christmas Cantata” is composed for chorus and double brass choir or chorus, brass quartet and organ. The […]
Category: COMMUNITY CHOIRS
Composer: Randol Alan Bass
Arranger: NA
Publisher: Randol Bass Music
Edition: ram 101
Voicing: SATB
Setting: Accompanied
Reviewer:
Bruce Phelps
Concordia College, Moorhead 2005
R&R Chair Community Choirs
Most of us have sung the exciting Rutter Gloria. This setting of the text will thrill your singers and […]
Category: COMMUNITY CHOIRS
Composer: Daniel Pinkham
Arranger: NA
Publisher: E.C. Schirmer
Edition: 2962
Voicing: Unison
Setting: Accompanied
Reviewer:
Rick Kvam
Choral Arts Ensemble 2002
R&R Chair Community Choirs
Another unison chant, this text by Robert Hillyer. The melody is easy (if singing half and whole steps in unison is ever […]
Category: ETHNIC MUSIC
Composer: Lena J McLin
Arranger: NA
Publisher: Kjos
Edition: GC48
Voicing: SATB
Setting: Accompanied
Reviewer:
Lorraine Martin
Performing Arts High School, St. Paul 1995
R&R Chair Ethnic Music
Lena McLin, African- American composer, has created a fanfarelike “attention-getter” that sounds best with a large chorus. Contrasting dynamics, […]
Category: COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY
Composer: William Mathias
Arranger: NA
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edition: A331
Voicing: SATB div
Setting: Accompanied
Reviewer:
Christopher Cock
Valparaiso University (formerly of Concordia College, Moorhead)
R&R Chair College & University
Great rollicking fun, utilizing cross rhythms, hemiola, etc, that British composers loved. Fairly challenging organ […]