Category Archives: Choral

Just As He Said (SATB)

This joyous Easter anthem was inspired by Matthew 28:6. The words draw a parallel between the original Easter story and our response today. It closes with a fragment of the chorus of “Low in the Grave He Lay.”

LengthApprox 5 minutes
InstrumentationSATB with piano


Item #C-010
Price1.70

Autumn (poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Project Encore

This poem is an ode to the season of autumn heralding wind and rain and the bright colors of the leaves. The composer enjoys some “word painting” including a hymn style when the text references such things as “blessing the farms” and “the farmer’s prayers.” The poet refers to an old German tradition that a prosperous harvest will find Emperor Charlemagne crossing a bridge of gold and giving a blessing to the land. The work begins with an ostinato pattern on the word “Autumn” in the men’s voices with the women’s rising above with the opening words of the poem. Then the voices exchange places. The composition closes quietly with the same ostinato pattern.

Length3 minutes and 54 seconds
InstrumentationSSAATB a cappella


Item #C-034
Price2.75

Shine As A Light

This anthem was commissioned by the Western Pennsylvania Conference Ministers’ Chorus in memory of Rev. Paul and Claire Halstead. The Ministers’ Chorus premiered the work in April, 2011. The anthem is based on the Scripture passages, Philippians 2:15b-16a and Ephesians 5:8-9 (both from the Contemporary English Version). Here is a vibrant call to Christians to take Christ’s message to everyone on earth– to “shine as a light to all the peoples of the world.”

Item #C-037
Price2.20