You Don't Know Nothing Performed by MLADA choir Conductor: Olga Vyguzova Пермский хор «Млада», Пермь Художественный руководитель: Ольга Выгузова (Заслуженный деятель искусств РФ)

I Thank You God was commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and premiered at the National ACDA Convention in February, 1999. The text is adapted from the E.E. Cummings poem of the same name. Composer Gwyneth Walker writes: "Thi...  moreI Thank You God was commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and premiered at the National ACDA Convention in February, 1999. The text is adapted from the E.E. Cummings poem of the same name. Composer Gwyneth Walker writes: "This is a poem of grandeur and of praise. Therefore it might be expected that this musical setting would aim at vastness, grandeur and awakening." Walker accomplishes this through a variety of means. First, the piano introduction includes slowly unfolding piano arpeggios which focus on open intervals of octaves, fifths and fourths, exploiting the full range of the piano keyboard. The composer also takes the singers on a harmonic journey which begins in a low register in C minor, and then travels through a number of other key areas until it reaches the distant key of G-flat. At this point, the voices are drawn closely together into a tone cluster containing the pitches G-flat, A-flat and B-flat, only to open apart into the glorious C major chords which conclude the ...    less

Performed by Angelus from Mt. Vernon Sr. High School in Mt. Vernon,IN at Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, San Francisco, CA

Performed by Universitair Koor Antwerpen at a Provincial Choir Competition on March 12, 2017.

The community choir I direct recently Performed at an assisted living facility in San Diego.   After the performance, one of the choir members asked me how I thought we’d done.  I went over in my mind the usual choir stuff:  We c...

"In His Care" Performed at Calvary Evangelical Free Church in Rochester, MN on 10-1-2011. Director - Al Reesnes

Ov'é, lass', il bel viso -- No. 1 from Madrigali: Six Fire Songs by Morten Lauridsen. Performed by the TUKS Camerata (University of Pretoria, South Africa), conducted by Walter Butt

The Voice of the Rain Performed by Acappellago, March 17, 2013 in Batavia, Illinois