"Mother, Please Explain", No. 2 from "Bergerettes". Traditional French country song, from a setting by J. B. Weckerlin, arr. John Lewers. English translation by Sigmund Spaeth. Recorded live on Sunday, May 5, 2013, at All Saints Episcopal Church in For...  more"Mother, Please Explain", No. 2 from "Bergerettes". Traditional French country song, from a setting by J. B. Weckerlin, arr. John Lewers. English translation by Sigmund Spaeth. Recorded live on Sunday, May 5, 2013, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Gayle Giese. Mother, please explain, what is love? Won't you tell me? Does one feel joy, or is it sad? How am I to know what of late befell me? For now my life no more is glad. Oh, tell me, is loving always kind? Suppose a gentle swain is sighing, Should I be denying? Not long since, to me came a shepherd fair Handsome as could be, and promptly he did swear That he loved me well. How could I tell? How could I tell? If he should come and say the same again, What shall I answer then? What shall I answer then? No one in the village compares with his beauty Whatever he may do or say Is so ful...    less

"Music Down in My Soul" by Moses Hogan. Recorded live on June 25, 2009, at Central Lutheran Church in Eugene, Oregon. Performed at the Sharing Our Songs concert during the Pacific International Children's Choir Festival (PICCFEST) by the Touring Choir ...  more"Music Down in My Soul" by Moses Hogan. Recorded live on June 25, 2009, at Central Lutheran Church in Eugene, Oregon. Performed at the Sharing Our Songs concert during the Pacific International Children's Choir Festival (PICCFEST) by the Touring Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Susan Dodd.  

"Full Fathom Five" by Paul Carey. Text from "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare. Commissioned by the 2012 Women's Choir Commission Consortium of the American Choral Directors Association. Recorded live on Friday, March 15, 2013, at First Presbyterian ...  more"Full Fathom Five" by Paul Carey. Text from "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare. Commissioned by the 2012 Women's Choir Commission Consortium of the American Choral Directors Association. Recorded live on Friday, March 15, 2013, at First Presbyterian Church, Pompano Beach, Florida. Performed by the Saint Mary's College Women's Choir and the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Conductor: Nancy Menk, Accompanist: Hyeja Chong Ganahl. http://www.saintmarys.edu/music-womens-choir  

"Full Fathom Five" by Paul Carey. Text "Ariel's Song" from "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare. Recorded live on Friday, May 17, 2013, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir ensemble o...  more"Full Fathom Five" by Paul Carey. Text "Ariel's Song" from "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare. Recorded live on Friday, May 17, 2013, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Gayle Giese. Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong. Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.  less

"Some Hums, by Pooh" by Ron Jeffers. Text from "Winnie-the-Pooh" by A. A. Milne. 1. Honey Hum 2. Cottlestone Pie 3. Noise, by Pooh Recorded live on Sunday, May 4, 2014, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the C...  more"Some Hums, by Pooh" by Ron Jeffers. Text from "Winnie-the-Pooh" by A. A. Milne. 1. Honey Hum 2. Cottlestone Pie 3. Noise, by Pooh Recorded live on Sunday, May 4, 2014, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Chamber Singers ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Susan Dodd, Clarinet: Gayle Giese. 1. Honey Hum It's very, very funny, 'Cos I know I had some honey: 'Cos it had a label on, Saying HUNNY, A goloptious full-up pot too, And I don't know where it's got to, No, I don't know where it's gone -- Well, it's funny. 2. Cottlestone Pie Cottleslone, Cottlestone, Cottleston Pie. A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly. Ask me a riddle and I reply: "Cottlestone, Cottlestone, Cottlestone Pie." Cottleslone, Cottlestone, Cottleston Pie. A fish can't whistle and neither can I. Ask me a riddle and I reply: "Cottlestone, Cottlestone, Cottlestone Pie." Cottleslone, Cottlestone, Cott...    less

"Lux Arumque" by Eric Whitacre. Text "Light and Gold" by Edward Esch, Latin translation by Charles Anthony Silvestri. Recorded live on December 8, 2013, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Chamber Singers and Me...  more"Lux Arumque" by Eric Whitacre. Text "Light and Gold" by Edward Esch, Latin translation by Charles Anthony Silvestri. Recorded live on December 8, 2013, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Chamber Singers and Men's Auxiliary ensembles of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson.  

"The Seeds of Stars" by Bob Chilcott. Text by Charles Bennett. Written for the 2011 combined choir of Festival 500 in Newfoundland, Canada. Recorded live on May 3, 2015, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Conce...  more"The Seeds of Stars" by Bob Chilcott. Text by Charles Bennett. Written for the 2011 combined choir of Festival 500 in Newfoundland, Canada. Recorded live on May 3, 2015, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir and Men's Auxiliary ensembles of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Gayle Giese. Stars that spill on a melting stem of brilliance down to earth, make landfall here like swans who are burnt by flight. We find an orphan of ashes, a child of chilled obsidian: in the middle of winter we nurture the seeds of stars. On days of silver light at the end of summer, they’ll lift away to resume their long migration. You who’ve been told There’s nothing, nothing to be done, you who have come to a place of broken stones, remember us who have sparked a star from dust, and seen its wings ignite the darkling sky.  less

"We Are the Music-Makers" by Patti Drennan. Text from "Ode" by Arthur O'Shaughnessy with additional verses by Patti Drennan. Recorded live on May 3, 2015, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Chamber Singers ense...  more"We Are the Music-Makers" by Patti Drennan. Text from "Ode" by Arthur O'Shaughnessy with additional verses by Patti Drennan. Recorded live on May 3, 2015, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Chamber Singers ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Gayle Giese. We are the music makers, And we are the Dreamers of Dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;— World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems.  less

"Homeland," arr. Z. Randall Stroope. Tune from the "Jupiter" movement of "The Planets" (Op. 32) by Gustav Holst. Text by Sir Cecil Spring-Rice and Z. Randall Stroope. Recorded live on May 5, 2016, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Flor...  more"Homeland," arr. Z. Randall Stroope. Tune from the "Jupiter" movement of "The Planets" (Op. 32) by Gustav Holst. Text by Sir Cecil Spring-Rice and Z. Randall Stroope. Recorded live on May 5, 2016, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Student Conductor: Sofía Castañeda, Accompanist: Gayle Giese.  

"Today, this spring", No. 1 from "Today, This Spring" by Libby Larsen. Text by Janice Kimes. Recorded live on Friday, May 16, 2014, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir ensemble of th...  more"Today, this spring", No. 1 from "Today, This Spring" by Libby Larsen. Text by Janice Kimes. Recorded live on Friday, May 16, 2014, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Gayle Giese. Today, this spring Is time for walking on the soft earth In sounds that sweeten the air And reach beyond the long dark sleep; For sun to warm the cheek, And quicken breath; A time to shed the griefs That brown the spirit of beginning; To trust the restless energy Demanding space and speak of life, My own, which recreates itself in you.  less