Piano music for choir? Why not! Written originally for solo vocalist, I turned this into an SATB choral tongue-twister--a cappella--and then added a piano part, which was further orchestrated for choirs performing with orchestra during the holiday season....

From the prizewinner-consert at Malta international choir Festival, 2009

The Samford University A Cappella choir singing "I am the secret fire in all things" by John Ratledge at the Florilege Vocal de Tours: International Song Competition, May 25-27, 2012. Philip Copeland, conductor. This piece was commissioned for Philip Cope...  moreThe Samford University A Cappella choir singing "I am the secret fire in all things" by John Ratledge at the Florilege Vocal de Tours: International Song Competition, May 25-27, 2012. Philip Copeland, conductor. This piece was commissioned for Philip Copeland and the Samford A Cappella choir and premiered at the competition.  

Do You Hear the People Sing? choir performing Somebody to Love in rehearsal http://www.doyouhearthepeoplesing.net/

Thomas Rossin conducts excerpts from oratorio. Azure Anderson, Alto, Andrew Barrett, Tenor and Robert Sunderlin, Baritone

Thomas Rossin conducts Quick's lively arrangement of this familiar Scottish Folk Song, Phillip Rossin, Tenor

A part of the concert held on November 23rd 2012 in Žilina (Slovakia) on the occasion of the 1150th anniversary of the arrival of Saints Cyril and Methodius to Great Moravia. Participants: Mixed choir "Vox Animae", conductor: Tomislav Veršić (Split, C...  moreA part of the concert held on November 23rd 2012 in Žilina (Slovakia) on the occasion of the 1150th anniversary of the arrival of Saints Cyril and Methodius to Great Moravia. Participants: Mixed choir "Vox Animae", conductor: Tomislav Veršić (Split, Croatia) Cantica - Collegium musicum, conductor: Štefan Sedlický (Martin, Slovakia) Mixed choir of Žilina, conductor: Štefan Sedlický (Žilina, Slovakia) Organized with finanical support of the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic.  

Lyrics: Mark Lowry Recorded at Vestibule in Split, Croatia, on May 29, 2021. www.facebook.com/m.marulic.choir m.marulic_choir@yahoo.com recording and production: Bernard Kahle www.facebook.com/BKrecordings kahle.bernard@gmail.com

2020 Great Auditorium Virtual choir Jason C. Tramm, Dir. of Music Ministries Gordon Turk, Organ JoAnn Lamolino, Trumpet Noreen Baer, Trombone Scott Simpson, Timpani The Great Auditorium Quaret Quinton Tramm, Audio/Video Engineer Premiered: June ...  more2020 Great Auditorium Virtual choir Jason C. Tramm, Dir. of Music Ministries Gordon Turk, Organ JoAnn Lamolino, Trumpet Noreen Baer, Trombone Scott Simpson, Timpani The Great Auditorium Quaret Quinton Tramm, Audio/Video Engineer Premiered: June 28, 2020 www.OceanGrove.org  

for SATB Chorus unaccompanied Words by Mary Elizabeth Frye: Public Domain Music by Stanley M. Hoffman © Copyright 2018 by Stanley M. Hoffman. www.stanleymhoffman.com All rights reserved. The poem above is sometimes called “I Am” due to its repet...  morefor SATB Chorus unaccompanied Words by Mary Elizabeth Frye: Public Domain Music by Stanley M. Hoffman © Copyright 2018 by Stanley M. Hoffman. www.stanleymhoffman.com All rights reserved. The poem above is sometimes called “I Am” due to its repetition of the phrase. Was the poem inspired? The Hebrew name for God, YHWH, means “I am” or “I am that I am.” And there does seem to be something magical about the poem, as it was written by a woman who, to our knowledge, had never written a poem before. Mary Elizabeth Frye was an orphan with no formal education. In 1932 she and her husband hosted a young Jewish woman, Margaret Schwarzkopf, who was fleeing the Holocaust. When she received news that her mother had died in Germany, the heartbroken houseguest told Frye in despair that she had never had the chance to “stand by my mother’s grave and shed a tear.” Frye found herself composing the poem above on a ripped-off section of a brown paper shopping bag. She said the words “just came to her.”  less