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(596 words) ## Articles & Blog Posts - [Craft Beer Polka by Steve Heitzeg - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/craft-beer-polka-steve-heitzeg/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Steve Heitzeg Instrumentation: 2-2-2-2/4-3-3-1/timp, perc(3 players)/piano (dbl 1970s Magnus chord organ)/Harp/electric guitar/youth chorus/strings Duration: Approx. 5 minutes Date Written: 2019 Premiered: Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Giunta, Music Director; Heartland Youth Chorus, Sandy Miller, Artistic Director; Des Moines Civic Center Auditorium, Des Moines, IA on 10/12/2019 Additional Information: From Symphony In Sculpture III – Kusama’s playful polka-dot pumpkin sculpture cried out for me to write a whimsical and slightly tongue-in-cheek polka. Inspired by Strauss’ Champagne Polka, I have composed a ‘craft beer polka’. Percussionists play the usual traditional percussion instruments in a polka such as glockenspiel, triangle and bass drum, but they also play a growler bottle, a crowler aluminum can and 2 beer bottles from a variety of craft beer breweries in Des Moines—for an authentic Des Moines sound. In the middle of the polka I have scored a vamp so that the conductor and the string principals can toast each other, the orchestra, and the audience with either a craft beer or a pumpkin spice latte before starting the polka up again. (330 words) - [Noël - David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/noel-david-evan-thomas/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: David Evan Thomas Instrumentation: Solo piano Duration: Approx. 2 mins Date Written: 2009 Additional Information: N/A (108 words) - [Birds of America - Violin Concerto No. 2 by Scott Wheeler - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/birds-of-america-scott-wheeler/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music If you are interested in a part set for a performance please contact us. Composer: Scott Wheeler Instrumentation: Piccolo, Flute, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in B♭, 2 Bassoons, 4 Horns in F, 3 Trumpets in C, Trombone, Bass Trombone, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion (one player: Suspended Cymbal, Small Cymbal, Bass Drum, Anvil, Slapstick, Rain Stick, Snare Drum, Maracas, Xylophone), Celesta, Harp, Solo Violin, Strings Duration: Approx. 18 minutes Date Written: 2021 Additional Information: Birds of America was commissioned by Bard College for The Orchestra Now with violinist Gil Shaham and conductor Leon Botstein. (198 words) - [Star Bright: 5 Carols for String Quartet by David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/star-bright-5-carols-for-string-quartet-david-evan-thomas.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Arranged by: David Evan Thomas Instrumentation: String Quartet Duration: approx. 14 minutes Date Written: 2020 Premiere: Lux String Quartet: Stephanie Skor, Ellen Hacker, violins; Kristi Petraborg, viola; Rosa Thompson-Viera, cello, St. Paul, Minn., 12/14/23 Program Notes: In the early 2000s, I began to play an annual Christmas party at the Saint Paul home of my friends Rob and Louise Wilcox. Over the years, I made arrangements of many popular carols to play at the party. A selection of them was published by Augsburg Fortress in 2016 as Wassail!: Christmas Carols for Piano. Many of these arrangements suggested a larger format. The Lux Quartet had played my Third Quartet beautifully in 2019, so when I wanted to give the group a gift of carol arrangements, I went to Wassail! for the first three, then added two more elaborate settings. “Once in Royal David’s City” will be familiar as the opening number in the Kings College Festival of 9 Lessons and Carols. The hymn-tune by Henry J. Gauntlett is called IRBY. The finale, a fugue on the theme of “Hark the Herald, Angels Sing,” gains new energy as a triple-meter tune. (342 words) - [Morningside - Scott Wheeler - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/morningside-scott-wheeler/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Scott Wheeler Instrumentation: Solo piano Duration: Approx. 4 minutes Date Written: 2007 Additional Information: N/A (124 words) - [Four Sacred Songs for Bassoon and Piano by Raphael Fusco - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/four-sacred-songs-for-bassoon-and-piano-raphael-fusco.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Raphael Fusco Instrumentation: Bassoon and Piano Duration: Approx. 12 minutes Date Written: 2018 Commissioned: N/A Additional Information: N/A (172 words) - [Coursing River – by Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/coursing-river-carol-barnett/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Carol Barnett Text by: James Gertmenian Instrumentation: SATB Duration: Approx. 3 minutes Date Written: 2011 Composer’s note: Coursing River was written in honor of James Gertmenian and his wife Susan Deborah “Sam” King on the occasion of their retirement from eighteen years of exceptional ministry and outreach at Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis. In addition to their many pastoral activities, they are both excellent and imaginative writers, and it was a privilege to set Jim’s own words, first in a congregational hymn (found on the last page of the score), and in this hymn-based anthem. text THERE IS A COURSING RIVER There is a coursing river Beneath the common sod Whose depth we cannot fathom, Whose source is none but God; And pilgrims on their journeys Are often unaware That freshets rising from below Are welling everywhere. Their course cannot be bounded By book or creed or sign, By certainty or logic, By reason or by rhyme. We cannot claim the knowledge Of where a spring will flow, Or when God’s grace will surface From reservoirs below. But if some thirsty trav’ler Should faint upon the way, Let others come assuring To comfort and to pray That though distressed and doubting The injured one will know How water rises to the need And emptied cups o’erflow. So pilgrims, be encouraged! Though all around you lies A rocky and a barren land Where everything seems dry. There is a coursing river Beneath the common sod Whose depth we cannot fathom, Whose source is none but God. Text © James Gertmenian, 2014 Tune:(Gertmenian) Carol Barnett 7.6.7 (442 words) - [Three Gaelic Melodies - David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/three-gaelic-melodies-arranged-by-david-evan-thomas.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: David Evan Thoma Instrumentation: Solo piano More information: Three Gaelic Melodies The King of Love Morning has Broken Be Thou My Vision Small wonder that these three old Gaelic melodies have found their way into the worship service. As unison hymns, they are gratifying to sing. All the tunes unfold in modal rhythms, with varied and original phrases. Sir Henry W. Baker’s refreshing versification of Psalm 23 was included in the 1868 edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern, to a traditional Irish tune named after a sixth century saint. Vicar of Monkland, Herefordshire from 1851 to his death, Baker (1821–1877) penned many familiar hymns, including “Of the Father’s Love Begotten.” ST. COLUMBA arches like a suspension-bridge and traces a path through death’s dark A-minor vale to a major-mode “transport of delight.” Listeners may remember the popular song “Morning Has Broken” from a 1971 album by folksinger Cat Stevens. But neither the words nor the tune were composed by that artist, known today as Yusuf. The words are by British poet and children’s author Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965). Her brother Harry was a noted composer, and Eleanor collaborated with him on the operas Floretta and A Room at the Inn. BUNESSAN is a Gaelic melody that was first published in Macbean’s Songs and Hymns of the Gael (1888) as a setting for Mary Macdonald’s carol “Child in the Manger.” The tune is named after Macdonald’s birthplace on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. BUNESSAN never repeats itself, yet is instantly memorable. This setting reflects the energy that morning brings. SLANE is an old Irish air, “Bí Thusa ‘mo Shúile,” set to a translation of Irish verses by Mary Byrne, verified by the Irish scholar Eleanor Hull (1860–1935). It is perhaps the most varied setting, with an imitative introduction and treatment quasi barcarola that concludes with pensive harmonies. The Hill of Slane is a famous historical site in County Meath. It was the seat of the Irish kings for centuries. (475 words) - [My love in her attire – by Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/my-love-in-her-attire-carol-barnett/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet musicComposer: Carol Barnett Text by: ANONYMOUS, 1602 Instrumentation: SSAATTBB a cappella Duration: Approx. 2'15'' Date Written: 1994 Composer’s note: The settings of these Elizabethan-era poems are all sound pictures that use an extended tonality to illustrate a few of the works of Shakespeare’s contemporaries. The harmonies are triadic, but the triads have added notes and travel far afield through each phrase before ending on euphonious cadences. Through the use of alternating duplets and triplets, “There is a Lady” suggests the unsettled, can’t-focus feeling of being rapturous love. “My Love in Her Attire” is a rowdy back-of-the-bus-on-the-way-home-from-the-concert song that nonetheless needs finesse in getting the abrupt dynamic changes just right. The unhurried pace of “Care-Charming Sleep” evokes the serene otherworldliness of deep slumber. “Orpheus” is a siciliano in gentle but steady tempo. Voices singing “Orpheus…” are calling to him from the other side of the rive Styx. “Are They Shadows…”, based on double-diminished scales, should be as light and fleeting as possible. These scales are built with alternating whole and half steps, and there are two of them, depending on whether they start with a whole or half step. If you can sing these scales, you can sing the piece. An Elizabethan Garland was written for the Dale Warland Singers in 1994, and premiered by them in February 1995 at the University of St. Thomas Chapel in St. Paul, MN. text There is a lady sweet and kind,Was never face so pleased my mind;I did but see her passing by,And yet I love her till I die. Her gesture, motion, and her smiles,Her wit, her voice, my heart beguiles,Beguiles my heart, I know not why,And yet I love her till I die. Her free behavior, winning looks,Will make a lawyer burn his books;I touched her not, alas! not I,And yet I love her till I die. Had I her fast betwixt mine arms,Judge you that think such sports were harms,Were’t any harm? no, no! fie, fie!For I will love her till I die. Should I remain confined thereSo long as Phoebus in his sphere,I to request, she to deny,Yet would I love her till I die. Cupid is winged and doth range,Her country so my love doth change;But change she earth, or change she sky,Yet will I love her till I die. (514 words) - [Amnesia - Scott Wheeler - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/amnesia-scott-wheeler/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Scott Wheeler Text: Jeffrey Harrison Instrumentation: Voice (soprano) and piano Duration: Approx. 3 minutes Date Written: 2024 Program Notes: The dream memories of this poem by Jeff Harrison somehow brought to mind Grieg's sublime song "Våren," which is quoted and adapted in both the melody and accompaniment of this setting line and in the ending piano accompaniment. The song is dedicated to Megan. Additional Information: N/A (204 words) - [Vignettes, After Pierides – Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/vignettes-after-pierides-carol-barnett/index.html): Composer: Carol Barnett Instrumentation: flute, cello, piano Duration: Approx. 16 minutes Date Written:  2001 Composer’s note:   One day in 1999, shortly after I had been approached by the Minnesota Music Teachers Association to write a trio for their 100th Anniversary concert, I received a book from Theofanis G. Stavr (564 words) - [Lilacs – Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/lilacs-carol-barnett/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Carol Barnett Text by: Walt Whitman Instrumentation: SATB and organ Duration: Approx. 5'30" Date Written: 2009 Commissioned: Springfield Choral Society, Marion van der Loo, Music Director Premiered: May 2, 2009 by the Springfield Choral Society, Marion van der Loo, Director at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Springfield, IL Composer’s note: The text of Lilacs is a brief excerpt from Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” The music mirrors the poet’s passionate engagement with life, and with the momentous events of his time—the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln’s assassination text When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d,And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,I mourn’d—and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.O ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west,And thought of him I love.O powerful western fallen star!O shades of night! O moody, tearful night!O great star disappear’d! O the black murk that hides the star!O cruel hands that hold me powerless! O helpless soul of me!O harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul.In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house, near the white-wash’d palings,Stands the lilac-bush, tall-growing, with heart-shaped leaves of rich green,With many a pointed blossom rising, delicate, with the perfume strong I love,With every leaf a miracle—and from this bush in the dooryard,A sprig with its flower I break.…..Solitary the thrush,The hermit withdrawn to himself,Sings by himself a song.…..Sing on, sing on you gray-brown bird,Sing from the swamps, the recesses, pour your chant from the bushes,Limitless out of the dusk……..With the lustrous and drooping star, with the countenance full of woe,With the lilac tall, and its blossoms of mastering odor;With the holders holding my hand, nearing the call of the bird,Comrades mine, and I in the midst, and their memory ever I keep—for the dead I loved so well;For the sweetest, wisest soul of all my days and lands—and this for his dear sake,Lilac and star and bird, twined with the chant of my soul,There in the fragrant pines, and the cedars dusk and dim. (555 words) - [Carolina Reveille by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/carolina-reveille-paul-schoenfeld/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Violin, Viola, Cello, and Piano Duration: Approx. 12 minutes Date Written: 2001 Commissioned by: N/A Premiered by: N/A Additional Information: N/A (140 words) - [Pocket Concerto by Scott Wheeler - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/pocket-concerto-scott-wheeler/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. If you are interested in a part set for a performance please contact us. Composer: Scott Wheeler Instrumentation: flute/piccolo, oboe, clarinet in Bb, bassoon, horn in F, trumpet in Bb, trombone, percussion - one player (featuring cymbals, high-hat, snare drum, tom-toms, bass drum, bongos, temple blocks, and orchestra bells), piano, and strings. Duration: Approx. 13 minutes Date Written: 1985 Commissioned by: N/A Additional Information: N/A (119 words) - [Prairie Hymn by Steve Heitzeg - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/prairie-hymn-steve-heitzeg/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Steve Heitzeg Text by: Steve Heitzeg Instrumentation: SATB chorus and piano (optional: organ) Duration: Approx. 3 minutes Date Written: 1994 Commissioned by: Prairie Church Choir Premiered by: The Prairie Church Choir; Prairie Church, Eden Prairie, MN on 04/23/1995 (123 words) - [Jerusalem (from Longing for Home) – by Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/jerusalem-from-longing-for-home-carol-barnett/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Carol Barnett Text by: from the gospels of Matthew, Luke and John Instrumentation baritone, piano Duration: approx. 3'30" Date Written: 2018 Composer’s note: Longing for Home is a song cycle written to celebrate Source Song Festival’s fifth season. The texts all reference homecoming in various ways – the enduring wish to return to a place remembered with love and longing, as well as the uncertainty, the impossibility of doing so. “Jerusalem” – a cry of anguish echoes from the 11th century for a once-magnificent city, now in ruins, reduced to rubble. The musical influences of Jerusalem include Jewish liturgical cantillation, middle-eastern scales with their frequent augmented seconds, and word-painting – the soaring of an eagle, the excruciating sting of a scorpion. Physician, poet and philosopher Judah Halevi was born in 11th-century Spain, and died in 1141 shortly after arriving in the Holy Land. He is considered one of the greatest Hebrew poets, celebrated both for his religious and his secular works, many of which appear in present-day Jewish liturgy. Translator Robert Mezey is a contemporary American poet and academic. text JERUSALEM (after Halevi) Beautiful heights, city of a great King,From the western coast my desire burns towards thee.Pity and tenderness burst in me, rememberingThy former glories, thy temple now broken stones.I wish I could fly to thee on the wings of an eagleAnd mingle my tears with thy dust.I have sought thee, love, though the King is not thereAnd instead of Gilead’s balm, snakes and scorpions.Let me fall on thy broken stones and tenderly kiss them—The taste of thy dust will be sweeter than honey to me. Robert Mezey (b. 1935) (440 words) - [Sparks of Glory by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/paul-schoenfeld-sparks-of-glory/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Violin, Clarinet, Cello, Piano and Narrator Duration: Approx. 17 minutes Date Written: 1995 Commissioned by: Premiered by: Additional Information: (171 words) - [Sonata for Horn by Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/sonata-for-horn-carol-barnett/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Carol Barnett Instrumentation: Horn in F and Piano Duration: c: 5'30" Date Written: 1973 Composer’s note: The Sonata for Horn and Piano was written in 1973 for my sister, Elaine Phillips. Hornist Mary Jatko and I premiered it that same year at the Walker Art Center, in Minneapolis, MN, on the very first public concert of the Minnesota (now American) Composers Forum. (176 words) - [ligh-see + dark-hear by Steve Heitzeg - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/ligh-see-dark-hear-steve-heitzeg/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Steve Heitzeg Instrumentation: Solo violin, gemstones, 3 small Tibetan singing bowls, and a recording of migrating birds Duration: Approx. 4 minutes Date Written: 2024 Premiered by: N/A Commissioned: Mark Lammers Additional Information: N/A (556 words) - [Sonata semplice by David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/sonata-semplice-david-evan-thomas/index.html): Title: Sonata semplice Composer: David Evan Thomas Instrumentation: flute and guitar Duration: 16 minutes Date Written: 2022 Program Note:  Sonata semplice was written in 2022 for the Cline/Cuestas Duo (Jenny Cline, flute; Carlos Cuestas, guitar). After writing several guitar works over the years, I decided to get seri (403 words) - [Peccadilloes by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/paul-schoenfeld-peccadilloes/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Solo piano Duration: Approx. 18 minutes Date Written: 1997 Commissioned by: The Schubert Club of St. Paul, Minnesota Premiered by: Christopher O’Riley Additional Information: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Schoenfield) composed the Peccadilloes for Piano Solo in 1997, commissioned by the Schubert Club of St. Paul, Minnesota. In fact, it was specifically written for and premiered by Christopher O’Riley (of 'From the Top'). The suite consists of six movements: Allemande, Fughetta, Rag, Waltz, Shuffle, and Boogie (268 words) - [Scarlatti in Soweto – Julian Grant - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/scarlatti-in-soweto-julian-grant/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. If you are interested in a part set for a performance, please contact us. Composer: Julian Grant Instrumentation: string orchestra Duration: Approx. 16 minutes Date Written: 2021 Additional information: Scarlatti in Soweto, for string orchestra, was commissioned by Rosemary Nalden for the Buskaid Soweto String Project, and written during the pandemic of 2020-21. During these many empty days I had a daily ritual of stumbling through a different sonata by Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757),which proved to be both a great exploration and comfort. When asked by Rosemary to write for Buskaid, I could not get Scarlatti out of my head, so this piece is a failed exorcism of my obsession. I do not quote extended passages, but I work with a few riffs, melodic and harmonic patterns and fingerprints found in so many of these sonatas. With Buskaid in mind, my imagination took flight: what if Scarlatti had not gone to the Spanish court where he had assimilated so many local idioms, but come instead to Soweto, and taken in its incredible wealth of music-making. In that spirit, I sought to evoke elements of Zulu music and Kwela that I had heard, fusing them with my own style, striving to capture the energy and sparkle that so captivates me when I hear both the music of South Africa and the music of Scarlatti The work is in three movements and lasts 16 minutes. The outer movements are both lively and upbeat. The central movement is more elusive, with a lamenting quality that morphs into something possibly resembling a slow night-club dance. The work is dedicated to Buskaid. Premiere: BUSKAID c. Rosemary Nalden. Linder Auditorium, Johannesburg, SA, 17 July 2022 (422 words) - [Klezmer Sonatina by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/paul-schoenfeld-klezmer-sonatina/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Clarinet and Piano Duration: Approx. 12 minutes Date Written: 2013 Commissioned by: Premiered by: Additional Information: (150 words) - [Four Music Videos by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/paul-schoenfeld-four-music-videos/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Violin, Cello, and Piano Duration: Approx. 27 minutes Date Written: 2000 Commissioned by: Premiered by: Additional Information: (159 words) - [String Quartet 1.5 by Julian Grant - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/string-quartet-1-5-julian-grant/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Julian Grant Instrumentation: String quartet Duration: Approx. 12 minutes Date Written: 2013 Additional information: String quartet transcription of the piano work WU DAI TONG TANG (172 words) - [Dances in the Dark – Julian Grant - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/dances-in-the-dark-julian-grant/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Julian Grant Instrumentation: orchestra (2+2+2+2/4231/3 perc/timp/harp/piano/strings) Duration: Approx. 24 minutes Date Written: 2013 Additional information: Dances in the Dark has the most complex compositional history in my entire output. Rossen Milanov asked me if I had a work for the Princeton Symphony Orchestra to perform, and I selected a suite from an opera that had been premiered by the Royal Opera in 1998 - Heroes Don't Dance. This opera was the closest I had ever come to writing a musical. The culmination of the somewhat tragic story was a fancy-dress ball, and so the whole opera was written in ballroom dance rhythms. Various set pieces from the opera have been re-used in a few chamber works, in particular a rumba that is an encore piece that exists in versions for violin, or viola and piano. It is a curious thing when confronted with one's work of years - fifteen in this case - earlier. Either it stands up on its own and you wonder how on earth you ever did, or you find it needs improving, and you start to tinker. The latter is perilous, as there is danger in throwing out the baby with the bath water. After a few weeks, I found I was bored with my straightforward dance-suite, and I withdrew it from my work-list. In May 2013, I was invited by the Hermitage Artists Retreat for a residency on the gulf coast of Florida where I was supposed to be working on a new opera project. At the last minute contractual problems delayed the opera and I was left with a gap in my schedule and the luxury of time. Doodling with some of the ideas from the dance suite, I discovered that they took on a life of their own, and started down a totally new path. Like ghosts from a vanished landscape, they suggested a new title - Dances in the Dark - and the work was quickly finished in the summer. There are four discernible sections that run on without a break, three of which are explicit dance rhythms - 1. A waltz - or rather, various species of waltz: 2: a rumba, and 4: a kind of lopsided conga. The third section is harder to pin down, and contains allusions to an old Connie Francis number, and a rather dreamlike barcarolle, mixed with threatening birdcalls and a series of deep brass chorales. The most explicit remnants from Heroes Don't Dance include a silky, slightly Hollywood-ish waltz, and a rumba: but most of the work, particularly the atmosphere and mood, is brand new. The whole piece is a compendium of anything you might get up up to after dark - a mix of the sensual, the scary, scented, drunken, wild, sated, nightmarish, overdosed; and there is an after hours illegal rave in the last section which jumps the tracks and brings the work to a shuddering and spectral conclusion. Though the work use the orchestra in a virtuoso way, it is scored for conventional forces, with the addition of a prominent piano part. First performed 30 March 2014 by The Princeton Symphony Orchestra c. Rossen Milanov in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall, Princeton NJ (690 words) - [Piano Trio by Julian Grant - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/piano-trio-julian-grant/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Julian Grant Instrumentation: Violin, Violoncello, Piano Duration: Approx. 16 minutes Date Written: 2023 Commissioned: N/A Additional Information: N/A (167 words) - [Violin Concerto No. 1 by Scott Wheeler - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/concerto/products/violin-concerto-no-1-scott-wheeler/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. If you are interested in a part set for a performance please contact us. Composer: Scott Wheeler Instrumentation: Piccolo, Flute, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in B♭, 2 Bassoons, 4 Horns in F, 3 Trumpets in C, Trombone, Bass Trombone, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion (one player: Suspended Cymbal, Small Cymbal, Bass Drum, Anvil, Slapstick, Rain Stick, Snare Drum, Maracas, Xylophone), Celesta, Harp, Solo Violin, Strings Duration: Approx. 25 minutes Date Written: 2001 Commissioned by: Sharan Leventhal and the Toledo Symphony Orchestra Additional Information: Birds of America was commissioned by Bard College for The Orchestra Now with violinist Gil Shaham and conductor Leon Botstein. (193 words) - [The Tin Forest by Steve Heitzeg - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/orchestral/products/the-tin-forest-steve-heitzeg/index.html): If you are interested in a parts set for a performance, please contact us. Composer: Steve Heitzeg Based on Text by: Helen Ward Instrumentation: Full Orchestra: Narrator and orchestra, 2 (pic)-3-3-3/4-3-3-1/timp, 4 perc, hp, piano, guitar/strings Chamber Ensemble: Narrator and Chamber Ensemble (fl/bsn/horn in F/trb/per (153 words) - [Three Intermezzi by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/paul-schoenfeld-three-intermezzi/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Solo piano Duration: Approx. 17 minutes Date Written: 2004 Commissioned by: The Schubert Club of St. Paul, Minnesota Premiered by: Information Not Available Additional Information: From program notes by Christina Dahl: "Schoenfeld has described his Three Intermezzi (for Piano Solo) as one of a very few works he has written simply to please himself. In his words, 'Here is music my hands feel like touching with sounds my ears enjoy perceiving.' Its three movements were written at different times, but coalesced into a single work. The Three Intermezzi explore an interior world devoid of anything ostentatious. Schoenfeld's signature counterpoint--echoing both Bach and Brahms--is evident throughout. The music is intimate, serene and contemplative. 'It's the sort of music I improvise at night with the lights out and the house empty,' he says. The first Intermezzo quotes a bit of a Bach prelude, then develops it in waves and spirals that course up and down the keyboard. The second Intermezzo emerges from a single repeated note into an oscillating minor third and finally into a dark and soulful Sicilienne. The third Intermezzo, as long as the other two combined, explores the boundaries where decidedly crafted music and mediation combine." 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Composer: Steve Heitzeg Instrumentation: 3-3-3-3/4-3-3-1/timp, 4 perc, hp/str Duration: Approx. 5 minutes Date Written: 2002 Commissioned by: Minnesota Orchestra and the City of Plymouth by the Plymouth Civic League with funding from the Builder's Consortium in honor of the dedication of the Hilde Performance Center at the 30th anniversary of Music in Plymouth 2002 Premiered by: Minnesota Orchestra; Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor, Hilde Performance Center, Plymouth, MN on 07/01/2002 Additional Infomation: As I reflect on 15 years of performances of Blue Liberty, I am most grateful to Barbara Willis and Music in Plymouth for commissioning the piece and to the Minnesota Orchestra and its remarkable conductors and musicians for their excellent performances throughout the years. In many ways, Blue Liberty has become for me a marker of coming and going, of liberty’s fragile promise and potential loss. I composed Blue Liberty in the spring after 9/11 and before our daughter Zadie was born in 2005. It has been performed during the terms of two U.S. Presidents—G.W. Bush and Barack Obama. It has been performed too after the loss of my mom, my mother-in-law and our Weimaraner, Heddy. For some in the audience, Blue Liberty has become part of the July 4th tradition or for others simply a backdrop to the ongoing celebration. Either way, here are a few additional thoughts of mine about the piece. With Blue Liberty, I aspired to compose a lyrical piece that would address the true multidimensional spirit of liberty—both patriotic (expressing love of country) as well as matriotic (expressing love for the world) in its sonic representation. I chose to pair the word blue with liberty in honor of water—the blue lakes in Plymouth and Minnesota and the oceans. It honors too the greenish blue hue of the Statue of Liberty. There are different hues of blue evoked in the piece—the opening and optimistic sky blue-like chords, the celebratory dance sections, the dusky blue elegy with solo trumpet, and the brilliantly bright chords [chords that I composed as I imagined what immigrants must feel upon seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time] that close the piece. Blue Liberty is ultimately a sonic metaphor in honor and celebration of the richly diverse cultures, people, and places that make the notion of liberty even possible in America and the world. It is a beautiful vision that must be nourished and renewed, with “a mighty woman with a torch”* passing it to each new generation. *from the poem The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus, which is graven on a tablet within the pedestal on which the Statue of Liberty stands. —Steve Heitzeg February 4, 2017 Minneapolis-Saint Paul (630 words) - [Digital Sheet Music – Opus Imprints](/content/collections/types/index.html): Opus Imprints is a modern and digitally-forward classical music publisher focused on preserving, elevating, and promoting the work of contemporary composers such as Paul Schoenfeld. Our primary goal is to help our composers' music get performed, enjoyed, and cherished for generations to come. (673 words) - [Cafe Music by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/paul-schoenfeld-cafe-music/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Violin, Cello, and Piano Duration: Approx. 17 minutes Date Written: 1987 Commissioned by: St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Premiered by: St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, January 1987 Additional Information: Perhaps Paul's most widely performed and revered composition, Café Music is beloved worldwide Paul Schoenfeld: “The idea to compose Café Music first came to me in 1985 after sitting in one night for the pianist at Murray’s Restaurant in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Murray’s employs a house trio that plays entertaining dinner music in a wide variety of styles. My intention was to write a kind of high-class dinner music — music which could be played at a restaurant, but might also (just barely) find its way into a concert hall. The work draws on many of the types of music played by the trio at Murray’s. For example, early 20th-century American, Viennese, light classical, gypsy, and Broadway styles are all represented. A paraphrase of a beautiful Chassidic melody is incorporated in the second movement. Café Music was commissioned by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO) and received its premiere during an SPCO chamber concert in January 1987.” Excerpted program note from a 1989 performance by 21st Century Consort Cafe Music took root in the composer's experience in filling in for a friend as the pianist of a trio that played regularly in a restaurant in St. Paul. Primarily intended as live background music for diners, the trio performed pieces from early 20th-century America and late 19th-century Vienna. The idea presented itself to use the thematic styles, harmonies, and typical gestures of this thrice-familiar music as the basis for an original work for the same ensemble -- violin, piano, and cello. --Written by Steven Ledbetter (488 words) - [Art, Lies, and Dances by Julian Grant - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/dark-summer-julian-grant/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Julian Grant Instrumentation: Clarinet in Bb, Horn in F, and Piano Duration: Approx. 11 minutes Date Written: 2006 Additional information: These transcriptions of piano pieces from the album SHIVEREENS were made for the Bordeaux Conservatoire chamber music programme, commissioned by Simon Lebens, where they were first performed in 2000. (286 words) - [MARCH: We Take the Golden Road – Julian Grant - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/orchestral/products/march-we-take-the-golden-road-julian-grant/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. If you are interested in a part set for a performance, please contact us. Composer: Julian Grant Instrumentation: orchestra (3+222/2230/3 percussion/timp/harp/strings) Duration: Approx. 8 minutes Date Written: 2005 Additional information: The title alludes to a line in James Elroy Flecker's (1884-1915) play 'Hassan', which concludes with the line 'We take the Golden Road to Samarkand' - here it alludes to a crowd of graduating students about to embark on a golden road of their own. First performed 8 July 2005 by St Paul's Girls' School Symphony Orchestra, St Paul's Girls School, Brook Green, London W6 For orchestra (3+222/2230/3 percussion/timp/harp/strings) (224 words) - [The Lord Bless You and Keep You by David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/the-lord-bless-you-and-keep-you-david-evan-thomas/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: David Evan Thomas Text by: Numbers 6: 24-26 Instrumentation: SATB chorus unaccompanied Duration: approx. 1 minute Date Written: 2020 Additional Info: N/A (120 words) - [Carol of the Bells - David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/piano/products/carol-of-the-bells-david-evan-thomas/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Arranged: David Evan Thomas Instrumentation: Solo piano Duration: Approx. 2 minutes Date Written: 2023 Additional Information: An arrangement of Carol of the Bells" with "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” as a counterpoint at an intermediate-advanced difficulty level. (148 words) - [Song For Everyone by Steve Heitzeg - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/song-for-everyone-steve-heitzeg/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Steve Heitzeg Text by: Desmond Tutu Instrumentation: Children’s Choir and Piano (optional: organ) or SATB chorus and piano (optional: organ) Duration: Approx. 3 minutes Date Written: 2004/2005 Commissioned by: Philip Brunelle Premiered by: Plymouth Congregational Church Choir; Philip Brunelle, conductor and organ; Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis, MN on 05/22/2005 (156 words) - [O, Colored Earth (Ensemble Score with Parts) by Steve Heitzeg - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/orchestral/products/o-colored-earth-ensemble-score-with-parts-steve-heitzeg.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Steve Heitzeg Text by: Steve Heitzeg Instrumentation: For the SA Chorus, Piano, Strings, and Percussion (optional guitar) version click here. Duration: Approx. 5 minutes Date Written: 1993 (and 2022) Premiered by: House of Hope Children's Choir and members of the University of Saint Thomas Earth Ensemble; Elizabeth Shepley, conductor; University of Saint Thomas, Saint Paul, MN on 04/13/1994 (154 words) - [collections/concerto/products/birds-of-america-scott-wheeler/index.html](/content/collections/concerto/products/birds-of-america-scott-wheeler/index.html) (186 words) - [Peccadilloes by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/piano/products/paul-schoenfeld-peccadilloes/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Solo piano Duration: Approx. 18 minutes Date Written: 1997 Commissioned by: The Schubert Club of St. Paul, Minnesota Premiered by: Christopher O’Riley Additional Information: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Schoenfield) composed the Peccadilloes for Piano Solo in 1997, commissioned by the Schubert Club of St. Paul, Minnesota. In fact, it was specifically written for and premiered by Christopher O’Riley (of 'From the Top'). The suite consists of six movements: Allemande, Fughetta, Rag, Waltz, Shuffle, and Boogie (192 words) - [The Persistence of Memory by Steve Heitzeg - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/the-persistence-of-memory-steve-heitzeg/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music.Composer: Steve Heitzeg Instrumentation: String Orchestra (Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Cello (divis) Duration: Approx. 3' Date Written: 1986 Premiered by: The Florida Orchestra, Tsung Y eh, conductor Tampa Bay , FL 11-6-1987 Additional Information: Perhaps the most famous of Dalí’s paintings, The Persistence of Memory is a world of ‘soft’ watches in a nis mundi (land’s end) symbolizing the apparent collapse of time and space or Camembert of time and space, as Dalí described them. I approached this painting as a meditation on timelessness vividly conveyed by the ethereal, and at times nostalgic, strains of the string section (233 words) - [Ani Maamin by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/all/products/paul-schoenfield-ani-maamin/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Alto flute and piano Duration: Approx. 7 minutes Date Written: 2011 Commissioned by: Dr. Christine Potter Premiered by: Dr. Christine Potter, 2011 National Flute Association's convention in Charlotte, NC Additional Information: "Ani Ma'amin" (Hebrew: "I Believe") was commissioned by Dr. Christine Potter and premiered at the 2011 National Flute Association's convention in Charlotte, NC. Like other 20th-21st Century composers, Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Schoenfield) looks for his inspiration in the national spirit, enjoying the mixing of ideas that grew up in entirely different worlds, making them converse, and delighting in the surprises that their interaction evokes. (212 words) - [I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes (Psalm 121) by David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/i-will-lift-up-mine-eyes-psalm-121-david-evan-thomas.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: David Evan Thomas Instrumentation: Mixed chorus SATB, organ Duration: approx. 4 minutes Date Written: 2025 Premiere: Choir of St Mary’s Priory, Abergavenny, Tim Pratt, cond. June 22, 2025 Program Note: Commissioned by St Mary’s Priory, Abergavenny in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the appointment of Tim Pratt as Director of Music at St Mary’s Priory (178 words) - [Night Echoes - David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/piano/products/night-echoes-david-evan-thomas/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: David Evan Thomas Instrumentation: Solo piano Duration: Approx. 7 minutes Date Written: 2005 Additional Information: Night Echoes pays homage to Chopin and to Stephanie Wendt, my piano teacher. In addition to her considerable gifts as a pianist, Stephanie is an actor and playwright of a wonderful monodrama about Clara Schumann (Clara's Visitor), an engaging radio commentator, an elegant prose stylist, and a most gracious and generous human being. She lives in Sweden now and is missed very much by all her Minnesota students. Like many nocturnes, it begins at a subconscious level, rises to a lyrical expression (which in this case is echoed in the left hand), proceeds unquietly to a grand statement, and subsides in refrain. Night Echoes was premiered by Stephanie Wendt in Saint Paul, Minnesota, March, 2008. (274 words) - [Adagietto (from Birds of America)- Scott Wheeler - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/all/products/adagietto-from-birds-of-america-scott-wheeler/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Scott Wheeler Instrumentation: Solo piano Duration: Approx. 3 minutes Date Written: 1992 Additional Information: N/A (185 words) - [collections/piano/products/a-little-lighte-music-julian-grant/index.html](/content/collections/piano/products/a-little-lighte-music-julian-grant/index.html) (82 words) - [Double Trouble for piano four-hands by Julian Grant - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/piano/products/double-trouble-for-piano-four-hands-julian-grant/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Julian Grant Instrumentation: Piano (four-hands) Duration: Approx. N/A Date Written: 2004/2006 Commissioned: N/A Additional Information: N/A (109 words) - [Elegy for a Singer by David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/orchestral/products/elegy-for-a-singer-david-evan-thomas/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: David Evan Thomas Instrumentation: Strings, harp, celesta Duration: 7-8 minutes Date Written: 1997 Premiere: 1997, by the Minnesota Orchestra, Eiji Oue, cond. Program Note: A meditative work in ternary form for strings dedicated to the memory of a lyrical conductor (137 words) - [Leonard Peltier is Freed! by Steve Heitzeg - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/piano/products/leonard-peltier-is-freed-steve-heitzeg/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music.Composer: Steve Heitzeg Instrumentation: piano Duration: N/A Date Written: 2025 Premiered by: N/A Additional Information: N/A (119 words) - [Three Graces for Hildur by Steve Heitzeg - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/three-graces-for-hildur-steve-heitzeg/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Steve Heitzeg Text Author: Emily Dickinson Instrumentation: Soprano and Piano Duration: Approx. 6 minutes Date Written: 1997 Commissioned by: Linda and Jack Hoeschler Premiered by: Maria Jette, soprano; Tom Linker, piano, Saint Paul, MN on 03/01/1998 Additional Information: (174 words) - [Always (Quartet for Cellos) by David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/all/products/always-quartet-for-cellos-david-evan-thomas/index.html): Title: Always Composer: David Evan Thomas Instrumentation: Cello Quartet Duration: 18:30 minutes Date Written: 2026 Program Note:  Always, a quartet for cellos, was commissioned by Ray and Leola Schreurs in honor of an extraordinary event: the 75th anniversary of their marriage in 2026. I wrote a trio, Diamond, for the (359 words) - [Four Souvenirs by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/paul-schoenfeld-four-souveneirs/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Flute and Piano or Violin and Piano Duration: Approx. 14 minutes Date Written: 1990 Commissioned by: Lev Polyakin Premiered: 1990 Additional Information: "Four Souvenirs for Flute and Piano" was originally composed by Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Schoenfield) in 1990 for violin and piano, commissioned by Lev Polyakin. In this edition for flute and piano, the solo part has been transcribed and arranged for flute by Stephanie Jutt. The work consists of four movements (Samba, Tango, Tin Pan Alley, Square Dance), each a modern interpretation of a more traditional folk or popular music genre. In fact, when commissioning the work, Lev Polyakin specifically requested works which could be performed in a local jazz nightclub in Cleveland, Ohio. From the composer: "Four Souvenirs was commissioned by the Soviet emigré Lev Polyakin. Although a classical violinist by training, Lev has had a proclivity for jazz since coming to this country. In addition to being a member of the Cleveland Orchestra, he frequently performs at Cleveland's jazz clubs. Specifically, he asked for some short pieces that could be played at "Night Town," a local jazz spot that specializes in bringing old jazz styles to the fore. Thus these pieces are in fact actual souvenirs, music that one could hear during the great radio days of the 1920s." Performance video: (448 words) - [Three Chorales for Piano Solo - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/piano/products/three-chorales-for-piano-solo-raphael-fusco/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Raphael Fusco Instrumentation: Solo piano Duration: 12 minutes Date Written: 2018 (235 words) - [Wu Dai Tong Tang – Julian Grant - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/string-orchestra/products/wu-dai-tong-tang-julian-grant-1/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. If you are interested in a part set for a performance, please contact us. Composer: Julian Grant Instrumentation: string orchestra Duration: Approx. 18 minutes Date Written: 2013 Additional information: During the time I lived in Beijing, from 2007-2010, I was bought, as a consolation prize for not mastering Mandarin, a yang-qin (butterfly harp), because I had admired it in a shop window. The sight of such a handsome instrument residing at home, unplayed, was a reproach, and so I got a very rigorous teacher who taught me the basics, so I was able to play duets with her, and later even joined in with a traditional ensemble. Strangely it is the one staple instrument of a Chinese opera band that probably originated in Eastern Europe, as it resembles a dulcimer. For a family birthday, I managed to compose and play a piece for my yang-qin, which I later transcribed for piano. I surrounded the piece with satellite pieces, using similar restricted pitches and textures, rather like Satie’s Gymnopédies, to create a small suite. The pieces were composed haphazardly and in no particular order. Because I ended up with five, I allude in the title to the strange inedible fruit, that resembles a lemon with five‐fingers ‐ or an inflated rubber glove ‐ that appears at Chinese New Year to celebrate continuity: Wu Dai Tong Tang: five generations one house – here, five aspects of the same material. Later, I transcribed the whole piece for string quartet, and then reworked the material for this string orchestra version, which incorporates new music from an abandoned orchestra piece. So even though the five movements remain, the string orchestra piece is slightly more varied and dramatic. The original yang-qin piece is the third movement, and the simple song-like material is the basis for the whole work. Only in the fifth piece is there a noticeable change in tonality, though it is firmly anchored to the whole by an unchanging refrain. © Julian Grant 2013 First performed 8 January 2014 by Manitoba Chamber Orchestra c. Judith Yan in St John's Church, Winnipeg, Manitoba (493 words) - [Occasionally Yours Album - David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/piano/products/occasionally-yours-album-david-evan-thomas/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Occasionally Yours: Album of 12 Piano Pieces Composer: David Evan Thomas Instrumentation: Solo piano Intermediate to Advanced Each piece in this album of occasional pieces is linked to a person and an occasion. They were composed over the span of some forty years. Some of the pieces are monogrammed with the names of the dedicatees. For instance, the first four notes of The Belford Waltz are B–E–L–L, where L stands for la, the note A. The theme of Valse Brunelle is a little further removed, as B-(R=re=D)-(U=ut=C)-(L=la=A)-L-E becomes B-D-C-E-A-A-E. The Belford Waltz The American Composers Forum commissioned The Belford Waltz in 1996 as a one-page piano solo in honor of Elinor Watson Bell, a fine pianist and music lover in the Twin Cities. Ann’s Mazurka Ann Buran is the liveliest person I know. In 2020 she was learning a Chopin mazurka every week. I didn’t think that was enough, so I wrote one more for her birthday. Chimes Chimes, also composed in 2020, is dedicated to Mimi Tung. Waltzing in Flats Benediction Benediction was commissioned by Diane Neimann in 2002 in honor of Penny George, who has a particular interest in integrated healing. There is also a version for string quartet and a version for flute, viola and harp, called A Healing Benediction. Melody for Michael Melody for Michael was written to celebrate the 80th birthday of treasured Minnesota poet Michael Dennis Browne in 2020. Like Valse Brunelle, it’s a valse lent, a slow waltz. Noël My friend Rebecca Lindholm was born near Christmas, so she celebrates her half-birthday as well as the real one. Noël was a present for her real birthday. Valse Brunelle The Brunelle of Valse Brunelle is conductor and organist Philip Brunelle, the Founder-Director of VocalEssence and organist of Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis. Forget-me-not My brother Jeff began to teach himself the piano as an adult. I brought him this little flower in 1977. Milonga for Madge Madge Briggs celebrated her 90th birthday in New York City in 2022. I longed to be there, but couldn’t. Sitting on Freud’s Lap Deb Ford is a therapist and was a member of my Piano Club, which met monthly to share piano literature. When I heard Deb say something about “sitting on Freud’s lap,” a funky, little, symmetrical piece was born. Dave’s Reel In 2014 the Twin Cities lost Dr. David Buran, a physician, singer, parent and grandfather, a proud supporter of the arts and a long-time member of Plymouth Church. I wrote Dave’s Reel in David’s memory for Ann, his wife, who is a fine pianist. The work was the winner of a Renée B. Fisher Composer Award for 2017. As the last movement of Suite Populaire, it has been orchestrated. (629 words) - [collections/orchestral/products/blue-liberty-steve-heitzeg/index.html](/content/collections/orchestral/products/blue-liberty-steve-heitzeg/index.html) (626 words) - [The King of Yellow Butterflies – by Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/the-king-of-yellow-butterflies-carol-barnett/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Carol Barnett Text by: Vachel Lindsay Instrumentation: SATB a cappella (some divisi in STB) Duration: Approx. 3 minutes Date Written: 2011 Composer’s note: Vachel Lindsay’s poem “The King of Yellow Butterflies” is subtitled “a poem game;” the musical setting is a kind of game as well, a game of skill, full of tongue-twisting, deft turns for the singers. Word painting is used in the setting of “shiver,” “whimper,” and “each pool is like a looking glass,” where the vocal lines make a mirror image. The work as a whole should leave a hovering, insubstantial impression, like a cloud of butterflies. “The King of Yellow Butterflies” was co-commissioned in 1993 as a special project of the Minnesota Music Educators Association and the American Choral Directors Association of Minnesota. text THE KING OF YELLOW BUTTERFLIES(A Poem Game) The King of Yellow Butterflies,The King of Yellow Butterflies,The King of Yellow Butterflies,Now orders forth his men.He says, “The time is almost hereWhen violets bloom again.”Adown the road the fickle routGoes flashing proud and bold,Adown the road the fickle routGoes flashing proud and bold,Adown the road the fickle routGoes flashing proud and bold.They shiver by the shallow pools,They shiver by the shallow pools,They shiver by the shallow pools,And whimper of the cold.They drink and drink. A frail pretense!They love to pose and preen.Each pool is but a looking glass,Where their sweet wings are seen.Each pool is but a looking glass,Where their sweet wings are seen.Each pool is but a looking glass,Where their sweet wings are seen.Gentlemen adventurers! Gypsies every whit!They live on what they steal. Their wingsBy briars are frayed a bit.Their loves are light. They have no house.And if it rains today,They’ll climb into your cattle-shed,They’ll climb into your cattle-shed,They’ll climb into your cattle-shed,And hide them in the hay,And hide them in the hay,And hide them in the hay,And hide them in the hay. --Vachel Lindsay (1917) (548 words) - [collections/orchestral/products/mad-moonight-mezzo-soprano-and-orchestra-carol-barnett.html](/content/collections/orchestral/products/mad-moonight-mezzo-soprano-and-orchestra-carol-barnett.html) (313 words) - [Symphony in Sculpture II by Steve Heitzeg - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/symphony-in-sculpture-2-steve-heitzeg/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. If you are interested in a part set for a performance please contact us. Composer: Steve Heitzeg Instrumentation: 2 (pic)-2-2-2/4-3-3-1/timp, 3 perc, hp/strings Duration: Approx. 23 minutes Date Written: 2012 Commissioned by: John and Mary Pappajohn Premiered by: The Des Moines Symphony Orchestra; Joseph Giunta, conductor; Des Moines, IA on 05/23/2015 Additional Information: Symphony is Sculpture is dedicated to John and Mary Pappajohn in gratitude for their gift to the Des Moines Art Center and the citizens of Des Moines, Iowa, of the sculptures in the John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park; for their generosity and for their vision and deep understanding of the power of art to change a culture and community in a positive way (261 words) - [Sancho's Dance Mix – Julian Grant - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/string-orchestra/products/sanchos-dance-mix-julian-grant/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. If you are interested in a part set for a performance, please contact us. Composer: Julian Grant Instrumentation: string orchestra Duration: Approx. 12 minutes Date Written: 2014 Additional information: In creating this suite of dances for the Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble to perform at Boughton House on July 13th 2014, the composer Julian Grant has also created a tribute to an inspiring British African, Ignatius Sancho (c.1729-80) It is based on Sancho’s " Minuets &c. &c. for the Violin, Mandolin, German-flute and Harpsichord. Compos'd by an African. Book 2nd.Humbly Inscribed to the Right Honble. John Lord Montagu of Boughton”.(London, c 1770) Ignatius Sancho arrived in Britain from Africa as a very young child slave, and was rescued from a life of servitude by the enlightened John, second Duke of Montagu, who helped educate him. He became popular in fashionable London society and was painted by Gainsborough. Bequests from the Montagu family enabled Sancho to publish his music and to establish a grocery shop in Westminster, close to the Montagu mansion. He was the first British African to vote, to own a shop, to have his own music, letters and memoirs published, and the first African to have an obituary in the British press. Through his accomplished, witty and well-informed letters, which also highlighted the immorality of the slave trade, Sancho's life became a symbol of the humanity of Africans. He left a legacy of four volumes of music - a set of songs and three sets of dances. "The latter part of my life has been - thro' God's blessing, truly fortunate, having spent it in the service of one of the best families in the kingdom" COMPOSER'S NOTEThe second book of 'Minuets &c. &c. by Ignatius Sancho consists of 11 minuets, an Air, and a few assorted jigs, reels and a hornpipe. The first movement of this suite strings together five minuets, and there is a tiny snatch of Sancho's original Minuet no. 5 in G major - just melody and bass line - close to the beginning. The central Air is an almost straight transcription, and the Finale weaves together Marianne's Reel, Richmond Hill (a jig) and Who'd a thought it (a reel) into a drunken and exuberant counterpoint. 1. Many Minuets2. Air3. Who'd a thought it: Reeling on Richmond Hill with Marianne First performed 13 July 2014 by Buskaid Soweto Strings c. Rosemary Nalden in Boughton House, Northants (548 words) - [collections/string-orchestra/products/scarlatti-in-soweto-julian-grant/index.html](/content/collections/string-orchestra/products/scarlatti-in-soweto-julian-grant/index.html) (422 words) - [Rainbow Variations by Steve Heitzeg - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/orchestral/products/rainbow-variations-steve-heitzeg/index.html): If you are interested in a parts set for a performance, please contact us. Composer: Steve Heitzeg Instrumentation: 2 (pic)-2-2-2/4-3-3-1/timp, 3 perc, hp/strings Duration: Approx. 5 minutes Date Written: 2015 Premiered: Des Moines Symphony, Joseph Giunta, Music Director & conductor Des Moines, IA May 23, 2015 Addi (707 words) - [Green Hope After Black Rain by Steve Heitzeg - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/green-hope-after-black-rain-steve-heitzeg/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. If you are interested in a part set for a performance please contact us. Composer: Steve Heitzeg Instrumentation: 2 (pic)-2-2-3/4-2-3-1/timp, 3 per/harp/str Duration: Approx. 15 minutes Date Written: 2021 Commissioned by: Commissioned by The Saint Paul Civic Symphony, Jeffrey Stirling, Music Director, in celebration of the orchestra’s 75th season Premiered by: The Saint Paul Civic Symphony Jeffrey Stirling, Music Director & conductor Landmark Center Saint Paul, MN May 8, 2022 Additional Information: NOTES: I. Pilgrimage to Manzanar (a set of variations against injustice) Marked “Forced Removal,” the piece opens with an ominous procession for full orchestra heralded by the sound of stones from Manzanar and a Taiko drum. Building in intensity, we reach the brutal “At the Entrance to the Manzanar Internment Camp.” What follows is the more ethereal and introspective “Ireito (Soul Consoling Tower) involving harp, flute, glockenspiel, temple bell and sandpaper blocks in 5/8 meter. “At the Grave of Baby Toshiro ‘Jerry’ Ogata” is a deep and soaring elegy for the lives lost at Manzanar Internment Camp. The next variation “Remembering Manzanar (Nidoto Nai Yoni: ‘Let it not happen again’)” brings back the opening theme, this time more troubled and with a sense of urgency and protest. The movement closes with “the ghosts of Manzanar”—an eerie section for static strings, twittering woodwinds, stones, and xylophone with the timpanist slowly dropping dried mushrooms and dried cherry blossoms from an A-Bombed tree in Hiroshima on the drumhead of one of the timpani—this being an organic and natural act of protest against the unnatural act of dropping the Atomic bombs (and the ensuing mushroom clouds) in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. II. Wind of No Return (for the Hibakusha—the A-bombed People) A simple and lyrical adagio for solo flute, solo clarinet, a string of origami peace cranes, two stones from Hiroshima and strings, this movement’s title takes its name from the hauntingly beautiful sculpture “A-bomb Victim—the Monument of Hiroshima” by Hisashi Akutagawa. One percussionist gently rustles origami peace cranes throughout this movement. The movement is in two panels, the first being marked “Nuclear Shadows”—a reference to the black shadows of humans and objects created by the atomic blasts over both Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. Here the solo flute and clarinet are in call and response, as if a shadow of each other, over the strings’ sustained and timeless chords. In a symbolic gesture to the inspirational story of Sadako Sasaki—the young Japanese girl who was two when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and who died of Leukemia when she was 12— there are 1000 notes in this movement (the strings and stones account for 921 notes with the remainder of notes coming from the free-flowing rustling of the paper cranes). In Japanese folklore the crane, a sacred bird, is believed to live for a thousand years. The folklore holds that people who are sick might become well again if they fold 1000 origami cranes. While sick in the hospital, Sadako folded 644 origami cranes before she died. Her classmates and friends folded the remainder and all of the 1000 origami cranes were buried with her. The movement closes with “Toward One Thousand Origami Cranes” (a sonic protest against nuclear weapons), an intense string pattern pitched in A minor (for A-bombed), marked fff and with the percussionist tapping and rubblng two stones from Hiroshima. III. Seeds of Peace (for the Hibakujumoku—the A-bombed Trees of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) This movement is in four sections. The opening section, “Dance of the Seeds”, is a hopeful, mixed meter dance for full orchestra honoring the seeds from A-bombed trees in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Percussionists play Gingko seed pods, fallen branches and Eucalyptus leaves from A-bombed trees in Hiroshima. “Among Sacred Trees” and “Witness of the Trees” are two processions with a button gong, Tam-tam and chimes marking time with the full orchestra. A brief 21-note interlude, “Kayoko’s Cherry Trees”, honors Tsue Hayashi’s 21-day search for her daughter Kayoko, who was killed in the bombing of Nagasaki. The closing coda, “The Healing of Leaves”, is a gentle and reflective passage for solo flute, harp and strings. The piece concludes with the sound of Gingko seeds, fallen branches, Eucalyptus leaves and low strings spelling out a D-flat major chord. (1,003 words) - [Camptown Races by Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/camptown-races-arrg-carol-barnett/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Arranger: Carol Barnett Text by: Stephen Foster Instrumentation: leader and unison group (optional 2- and 4-part sections) Duration: 3' Date Written: 2009 Commissioned: "A Community that Sings!" North Central American Choral Directors Association Premiered: March 4, 2010 at the North Central American Choral Directors Association Conference at Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN Composer’s note: In 2009, Alice Parker, concerned about the waning tradition of singing folk songs together, persuaded the North Central American Choral Directors Association to commission A Community that Sings!, a collection of folk song arrangements, for their biennial conference. The deceptively simple requirements turned out to be unexpectedly challenging: “not complicated, interesting, musical, singable as a unison piece, optional harmony, optional obbligato instrument, relatively short…” I chose “Camptown Races,” and took the requirements to mean an arrangement that could be sung anywhere, without an accompanying keyboard instrument. Hence, the “Rules of the Game:” - singers are divided into Leaders and Group- Group members can become Leaders as soon as they feel comfortable doing so- there are optional two- and four-part settings for the later verses and choruses The original Camptown Races was first published by Stephen Foster (widely considered the father of American music or popular music) in 1850, who specifically tailored it for use in blackface minstrel shows, a disconcertingly popular form of entertainment in which white performers painted their faces brown and imitated what they thought of as Black mannerisms, culture, and behavior. In Foster’s case, these depictions were almost entirely fantasy; most sources say that Foster had only been to the South once in his later life. Nevertheless, Foster only found commercial success with his musical depictions of the South. His songs depict African-American slaves with a strange mix of condescension, mockery, and affection, reflecting a white society solidifying and reinforcing the idea of race in the time leading up to the civil war. Most modern performances of Foster’s work use modified lyrics and no performance should be given without including the historical context of the music. Surprisingly, this particular song was probably not set in the South at all; Camptown was a town near Foster’s home in Pennsylvania. The “dialect” of the original lyrics, however, still suggest that Foster is portraying the speaker as African-American. (551 words) - [Sing to Me by David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/sing-to-me-david-evan-thomas/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: David Evan Thomas Text by: Ella Wheeler Wilcox Instrumentation: SATB chorus unaccompanied Duration: approx. 4 minutes Date Written: 2019 Premiere: 2019, by Kantorei, Axel Theimer, cond. St. Paul, Minn. Program Notes: “Sing to Me” (2019) was commissioned by the Twin Cities-based chamber choir Kantorei in honor of its director and founder Axel Theimer. The poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, grew up on a farm east of Janesville, Wisconsin, the youngest of four children. Her most famous poem, “Solitude,” which opens with the lines “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; / Weep, and you weep alone,” was published in the The New York Sun in 1883. After marrying Robert Wilcox that year, Wheeler Wilcox became interested in theosophy. “Sing to Me” appeared in Poems of Reflection, published in 1905. Ella Wheeler Wilcox died of cancer on October 30, 1919 in Short Beach, Connecticut. Text: Sing to me! Something of sunlight and bloom,I am so compassed with sorrow and gloom,I am so sick with the world’s noise and strife,Sing of the beauty and brightness of life—Sing to me, sing to me! Sing to me! Something that’s jubilant, glad!I am so weary, my soul so sad.All my earth riches are covered with rust,All my bright dreams are but ashes and dust.Sing to me, sing to me! Sing me a song full of hope and of truth,Brimming with all the sweet fancies of youth!Say, though my sorrow I may not forget,I have not quite done with happiness yet.Sing to me, sing to me! Lay your soft fingers just here, on my cheek;Turn the light lower—there—no, do not speak,But sing! My heart thrills at your beautiful voice;Sing till I turn from my grief and rejoice.Sing to me, sing to me! 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Composer: Carol Barnet Text by: Traditional text Instrumentation: SATB a cappella Duration: Approx. 1:45 minutes Date Written: 2022 Composer’s note: Based on the traditional Gregorian chant, these new settings of the seven traditional Advent antiphon texts each implore God to “Come, teach us, redeem us, deliver us, shine upon us.” All seven of these texts are similar in structure; each is addressed to, and describes, an aspect of the messianic hopes found in the Old Testament – O Wisdom, O Leader of the House of Israel, O Root of Jesse, O Key of David, O Radiant Dawn, O King of the Nations, O Emmanuel. And all of the antiphons end with the supplication “Come” – to teach, redeem, deliver, save us. The music follows this same two-part structure. The first part of each antiphon describes the particular messianic aspect: for example, Radiant Dawn is supported by a light 16th -note ostinato; mirroring melodic lines describe the shape of the Key of David; the King of the Nations treads with measured steps. The second part in all the settings features the plaintive supplication “Come,” and often ends in E major with a minor sixth scale degree. Musical influences include Arvo Pärt’s gorgeous setting of the same texts, the Gregorian chant itself (similar in melodic contour for all of the antiphons and heard most clearly in the second movement), and in the final movement, a hint of the hymn “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel.” – Carol Barnett Liturgical note: The Magnificat is sung daily throughout the year at vespers or evensong, which is a traditional daily evening service of the Western and Eastern Churches. A brief antiphon (which varies according to the days and seasons of the Church year) was historically sung along with it – twice, as bookends to the Magnificat itself. These antiphons cast the canticle into view from various angles, over time encouraging greater understanding and wonder at the richness of Mary’s words. The O Antiphons, dating from the fourth century, are assigned as the Magnificat antiphons on December 17-23, the week before Christmas. – Nathan Skinner, Director of Music, Park Street Church text O Radix Jesse. O Root of Jesse, which stands as a sign among the people, before whom kings will fall silent, unto whom the nations will make their prayers: Come and deliver us; tarry no longer. 
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Composer: Steve Heitzeg Text Author: Mother Teresa Instrumentation: Mezzo-Soprano and Piano Duration: Approx. 4 minutes Date Written: 2006 Premiered by: Lisa Drew, soprano; Sonja Thompson, piano; Sundin Music Hall, Hamline University, Saint Paul, MN on 03/05/2006 Additional Information: The original version is for soprano and strings: see Nobel Symphony (131 words) - [Are they shadows.... – by Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/are-they-shadows-carol-barnett/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music Composer: Carol Barnett Text by: Samuel‬‭ Daniel‬‭ (c.‬‭ 1563-1619)‬ Instrumentation: SSAATTBB a cappella Duration: Approx. 2 minutes Date Written: 1994 Composer’s note: The settings of these Elizabethan-era poems are all sound pictures that use an extended tonality to illustrate a few of the works of Shakespeare’s contemporaries. The harmonies are triadic, but the triads have added notes and travel far afield through each phrase before ending on euphonious cadences. Through the use of alternating duplets and triplets, “There is a Lady” suggests the unsettled, can’t-focus feeling of being rapturous love. “My Love in Her Attire” is a rowdy back-of-the-bus-on-the-way-home-from-the-concert song that nonetheless needs finesse in getting the abrupt dynamic changes just right. The unhurried pace of “Care-Charming Sleep” evokes the serene otherworldliness of deep slumber. “Orpheus” is a siciliano in gentle but steady tempo. Voices singing “Orpheus…” are calling to him from the other side of the rive Styx. “Are They Shadows…”, based on double-diminished scales, should be as light and fleeting as possible. These scales are built with alternating whole and half steps, and there are two of them, depending on whether they start with a whole or half step. If you can sing these scales, you can sing the piece. An Elizabethan Garland was written for the Dale Warland Singers in 1994, and premiered by them in February 1995 at the University of St. Thomas Chapel in St. Paul, MN. text ‭ Are‬‭ they‬‭ shadows‬‭ that‬‭ we‬‭ see?‬‭ And‬‭ can‬‭ shadows‬‭ pleasure‬‭ give?‬‭ Pleasures‬‭ only‬‭ shadow‬‭ be,‬‭ Cast‬‭ by‬‭ bodies‬‭ we‬‭ conceive,‬‭ And‬‭ are‬‭ made‬‭ the‬‭ things‬‭ we‬‭ deem‬‭ In‬‭ those‬‭figures‬‭ which‬‭ they‬‭ seem.‬ ‭ But‬‭ these‬‭ pleasures‬‭ vanish‬‭ fast‬‭ Which‬‭ by‬‭ shadows‬‭ are‬‭ expressed.‬‭ Pleasures‬‭ are‬‭ not,‬‭ if‬‭ they‬‭ last;‬‭ In‬‭ their‬‭ passing‬‭ is‬‭ their‬‭ best.‬‭ Glory‬‭ is‬‭ most‬‭ bright‬‭ and‬‭ gay‬‭ In‬‭ a‬‭flash,‬‭ and‬‭ so‬‭ away.‬ ‭ Feed‬‭ apace‬‭ then,‬‭ greedy‬‭ eyes,‬‭ On‬‭ the‬‭ wonder‬‭ you‬‭ behold‬‭ Take‬‭ it‬‭ sudden‬‭ as‬‭ it‬‭flies,‬‭Though‬‭ you‬‭ take‬‭ it‬‭ not‬‭ to‬‭ hold‬‭ When‬‭ your‬‭ eyes‬‭ have‬‭ done‬‭ their‬‭ part,‬‭Thought‬‭ must‬‭ length‬‭ it‬‭ in‬‭ the‬‭ heart.‬‭ (576 words) - [Desert Prelude by Steve Heitzeg - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/desert-prelude-steve-heitzeg/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Steve Heitzeg Instrumentation: Solo Trombone Duration: Approx. 4 minutes Date Written: 2022 Premiered by: N/A Commissioned: Mark Lammers Additional Infomation: N/A (97 words) - [Birdsongs and Bells by Steve Heitzeg - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/birdsongs-and-bells-steve-heitzeg/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Steve Heitzeg Instrumentation: Carillon Duration: Approx. 12 minutes Date Written: 2022 Premiered: 2022/23 Additional Information: I Aequa (Equality Rings, Birds Sing) [Fall] Part I: Prelude Part II: Dance Dedicated to Lisa Heldke, Gustavus Adolphus College Professor of Philosophy, affiliated faculty in Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, and Director of Nobel Conference Aequa in Latin is “equal”. Our commitment to equality must be all inclusive, and this movement celebrates that through the sonic reverberations of the bells. [world premiere at Nobel Conference ‘Mental Health (In)equity and Young People” Chad Winterfeldt, carillonneur, 12:20pm on September 28, 2022] Glass Birds (in Memory of Anders Bjorling) [Winter] Glass Birds is a reference to the beautiful glass birds made by the Nordic designer Oiva Toikka and available at Anders Bjorling’s store Swedish Kontur Imports in downtown Saint Peter [WorldpremiereatChristmasInChristChapel December1-4,2022] III. I saw thousands of birds carrying away the sorrows and injustices of the world (in Memory of Ray and Florence Sponberg, co-founders of the Mayday Peace Conference, which they started in 1981) [Spring] [World premiere at May Day Peace Conference—May 3, 2023] Birds at Dawn (dedicated to Edna Spaeth Granlund and the late Paul Granlund) [Summer] Part I: Bird Chords Part II: Hymn to the Birds Edna Spaeth Granlund has been a lifelong supporter of the arts and steward of the environment. Paul Granlund was Sculptor-in-Residence at Gustavus Adolphus College from 1971 to 1996. Over 30 of his works are on campus, including sculptures on the doors and inside of Christ Chapel. His sculpture “Constellation Earth” is in the Nagasaki Peace Park, Nagasaki, Japan. [World premiere at Baccalaureate—May 27, 2023] (444 words) - [WIND OF NO RETURN by Steve Heitzeg - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/wind-of-no-return-steve-heitzeg/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Steve Heitzeg Instrumentation: 2 Violin, Piano, and Percussion Duration: Approx. 7 minutes Date Written: 2022 Commissioned by: Chamber version of WIND OF NO RETURN commissioned by Ariana Kim Premiered by: LIQUID MUSIC series The Parkway Theater Minneapolis, MN June 17, 2022 Additional Information: Wind of No Return (for the Hibakusha—the A-bombed People) is a simple and lyrical adagio for solo flute, solo clarinet, a string of origami peace cranes, two stones from Hiroshima and strings. Taking its name from the hauntingly beautiful sculpture “A- bomb Victim—the Monument of Hiroshima” by Hisashi Akutagawa, one percussionist gently rustles origami peace cranes throughout. The piece is in two panels, the first being marked “Nuclear Shadows”—a reference to the black shadows of humans and objects created by the atomic blasts over both Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. Here the solo flute and clarinet are in call and response, as if a shadow of each other, over the strings’ sustained and timeless chords. In a symbolic gesture to the inspirational story of Sadako Sasaki—the young Japanese girl who was two when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and who died of Leukemia when she was 12—there are 1000 notes in this movement (the strings and stones account for 921 notes with the remainder of notes coming from the free-flowing rustling of the paper cranes). In Japanese folklore the crane, a sacred bird, is believed to live for a thousand years. The folklore holds that people who are sick might become well again if they fold 1000 origami cranes. While sick in the hospital, Sadako folded 644 origami cranes before she died. Her classmates and friends folded the remainder and all of the 1000 origami cranes were buried with her. The piece closes with “Toward One Thousand Origami Cranes” (a sonic protest against nuclear weapons), an intense string pattern marked fff and with the percussionist tapping and rubblng two stones from Hiroshima. (514 words) - [Song Without Borders by Steve Heitzeg - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/song-without-borders-steve-heitzeg/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Steve Heitzeg Instrumentation: String Quartet (2 Violin, Viola, and Cello) Duration: Approx. 18 minutes Date Written: 2008 Premiered: Daedalus Quartet; United Nations, New York City, NY on 08/19/2008 Additional Information: The Emmy Award-winning composer Steve Heitzeg said in an interview with the UN News Centre that he was inspired to compose Song Without Borders after hearing of the “senseless act” that took place at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad on 19 August 2003. Being a pacifist and a believer in the work of the UN, Mr. Heitzeg said it was “extremely emotional” for him to write the piece of music. “Even though these people’s lives were taken, their spirit and what they have worked their entire lives for will never be killed,” Mr. Heitzeg said. Song without Borders will premiere at the UN Headquarters ceremony in New York in front of survivors of the attack. Mr. Heitzeg said that in its second movement, “Blue Meditation” (in remembrance of members of the UN family killed in the pursuit of peace), a voice can be heard crying for peace. He added that he hoped the piece would heal wounds for survivors and others. Tomorrow morning, UN officials including Mr. Ban are set to gather in New York for the solemn ceremony marking the anniversary of the terrorist bombing. The ceremony has been organized by the Standing Committee on the Security and Independence of the International Civil Service. — United Nations News Service, August 18, 2008 (544 words) - [WOUNDED FIELDS by Steve Heitzeg - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/wounded-fields-steve-heitzeg/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. If you are interested in a part set for a performance please contact us. Composer: Steve Heitzeg Instrumentation: String Orchestra Duration: Approx. 4 minutes Date Written: 2003 Commissioned by: The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Minnesota Orchestra Premiered by: he Philadelphia Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia,PA January4and13,2003 Minnesota Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor, OrchestraHall,Minneapolis,MN March18,19,23,2003 Additional Information: WOUNDED FIELDS was performed as an encore at the final concert of the Minnesota Orchestra’s European Tour in Sibelius Hall, Lahti, Finland. On that occasion, Music Director Osmo Vänskä made these dedicatory remarks before conducting the piece: “Ladies and Gentlemen, we would like to play the next piece for Ken and Judy Dayton. They have helped the Orchestra in so many ways and during so many years. Judy Dayton is here tonight, but unfortunately, Ken Dayton passed away last summer. So, this piece is for the memory of Ken.” (316 words) - [O Lord of Life – David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/o-lord-of-life-david-evan-thomas/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: David Evan Thomas Instrumentation: medium voice, piano Duration: 4' Date Written: 1988, 2016 Additional Information: The familiar British folk song, also known as “The Water is Wide,” in an arrangement with a wide-ranging and descriptive accompaniment. Dedicated to Maria Jette. (226 words) - [Valediction by Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/valediction-carol-barnett/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. This is a hand-copied manuscript. Composer: Carol Barnett Text by: John Donne Instrumentation: TTBB, cello, piano Duration: c: 8' Date Written: 1989 Commissioned: for the Dale Warland Singers 25th Anniversary with funds provided by Meet the Composer and the Readers Digest Consortium Commission. Members of the consortium included the Gregg Smith Singers; the Ars Nova Singers, Tom Morgan, conductor; and the New Classic Singers, Lee Kesselman, conductor Composer’s note: This setting of John Donne’s A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning was written for the Twin Cities’ Men’s Chorus during the early years of the AIDS epidemic that deeply affected our arts community. Although Donne wrote the poem in the early 17th century for his wife Ann on the eve of a trip to the Continent, it could easily be read as a final farewell to a dear friend or lover lost to the plague. The poem’s main conceit is the idea of two lovers as two legs of a drafting compass; although they move apart at times, they are always connected, and the stationary leg brings the circling one back to where it began. As I studied the poem, I was intrigued with the way the sentence structure spilled past its iambic tetrametric borders. And I loved how the pause produced by the missing strong syllable at the end of the third line of stanza six showed “...an expansion, /Like gold to airy thinness beat.” Text: A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING As virtuous men pass mildly away,And whisper to their souls to go,Whilst some of their sad friends do sayThe breath goes now, and some say, No: So let us melt, and make no noise,No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;'Twere profanation of our joysTo tell the laity our love. Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears,Men reckon what it did, and meant;But trepidation of the spheres,Though greater far, is innocent. Dull sublunary lovers' love(Whose soul is sense) cannot admitAbsence, because it doth removeThose things which elemented it. But we by a love so much refined,That our selves know not what it is,Inter-assured of the mind,Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss. Our two souls therefore, which are one,Though I must go, endure not yetA breach, but an expansion,Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two soAs stiff twin compasses are two;Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no showTo move, but doth, if the other do. And though it in the center sit,Yet when the other far doth roam,It leans and hearkens after it,And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must,Like th' other foot, obliquely run;Thy firmness makes my circle just,And makes me end where I begun. (624 words) - [Day Is Spent – by Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/day-is-spent-carol-barnett/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music Composer: Carol Barnett Text by: Charles Anthony Silvestri Instrumentation: SATB Duration: Approx. 2 minutes Date Written: 2024 Composer’s note: Last year, I set a text that turned out not to be available for use. Award-winning poet and lyricist Tony Silvestri graciously consented to write a replacement text, and came up with this lovely meditation that invites contemplation of the hours between sunset and dawn. The melody is based in F Lydian; the first verse is sung in unison by sopranos and altos. The tenors and basses take the melody for the second verse, enhanced by the women’s two-part descant. The final verse is in four-part harmony, and strays momentarily to A major before returning to its F Lydian home. text DAY IS SPENT Day is spent; the scent of jasmine hangs o’er the vale. Shadows long; a song begins-- the nightingale. Sun of splendor, at thy setting, Daylight burdens all forgetting; Banish sorrow and regretting ‘neath evening’s veil. Glows the fire, its light inspiring spirits to mend, Fill our hearts ere retiring, sweet slumber send. Silver moon through darkness gliding, Find the pain that we are hiding, Grant that we in dreams abiding seek to transcend. Comes the morn; reborn in waking rises the sun. Bright new day of our own making now has begun. May our minds be ever learning; May our hearts be ever yearning; May our souls be ever turning, turning to You. 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I tried writing words to fit the bright B major c (421 words) - [three waltzes and three lullabies by Julian Grant - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/piano/products/three-waltzes-and-three-lullabies-julian-grant/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Julian Grant Instrumentation: Solo piano Duration: Approx. 14 minutes Date Written: 2000-2013 Commissioned: N/A Additional Information: These miniatures were written on three different continents at various times, and were compiled in 2013 when I discovered I had three examples of each genre that would fit together into a tiny cycle. Dame Anna Neagle was a sensationally popular film star and actress in 1940's and 1950's Britain, who had a genteel and elegant persona; Morpheus is the Greek god of dreams who appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Pico is a girl I was asked to write a piece for. (246 words) - [Cliff Notes – by Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/cliff-notes-carol-barnett/index.html): Composer: Carol Barnett Text by: Marg Walker Instrumentation: SATB and piano Duration: Approx. 3'30" Date Written:  2021 Composer’s note: Poet Marg Walker wrote “Cliff Notes from Your Mother as You Leave Home” five years ago in empathy with friends and their children who were going off to college. Loosely modeled on Po (390 words) - [collections/piano/products/a-shaggy-dog-story-for-piano-julian-grant/index.html](/content/collections/piano/products/a-shaggy-dog-story-for-piano-julian-grant/index.html) (149 words) - [collections/choral/products/an-die-musik-david-evan-thomas/index.html](/content/collections/choral/products/an-die-musik-david-evan-thomas/index.html) (471 words) - [Morning Meditation - David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/morning-meditation-david-evan-thomas/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: David Evan Thomas Instrumentation: Solo piano Duration: Approx. 2 minutes Date Written: 2012 Additional Information: N/A (98 words) - [When All Falls Silent – by Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/when-all-falls-silent-carol-barnett/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Carol Barnett Text by: Charles Anthony Silvestri Instrumentation: SATB Duration: Approx. 3 minutes Date Written: 2020 Composer’s note: Ma In 2019, I was invited to participate in the first King’s Singers New Music Prize competition; this resulting piece earned a commendation from the jury. The text, one of several choices offered to the contestants, is by Charles Anthony Silvestri, regular collaborator with Eric Whitacre and many other contemporary composers. It was a pleasure to transform his evocative words (“the song’s amber light”; “My heart-song...rises from the mist”) into choral beauty.. text When all falls silent,And the breath of lifeFlows from the sourceAnd calms the stormy sea,My heart-song,Always sung but seldom heard,Rises from the mist,Calling, calling… Then, slowly,I turn my gaze,Drawn toward beautyAnd the song’s amber light;I open my soul,And I am at peace,I am in harmony,Listening, listening… (353 words) - [Triad - David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/piano/products/triad-david-evan-thomas/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: David Evan Thomas Instrumentation: Solo piano Duration: 12 minutes Date Written: 1997 Additional Information: Triad is a work in three connected movements, a triptych in which a toccata and chaconne elaborate ideas which are united in a concluding fugue as countersubject and episode material. The individual movements are inseparable from the whole; thus, a triptych (or triad) is formed. Tonally, the movements progress from E through A to C, outlining a triad of another kind. Shannon Wettstein gave the premiere in 2005, and has performed it many times since. “[A]n excellent listen…. This latter composition makes no secret of its old-fashioned manner of handling material, casting its three sections into clear versions of toccata, passacaglia, and fugue. The most tonally focused work heard tonight—though not always triadic in nature—it manages to avoid mustiness by exhibiting a punchy, tight, memorable manner of speech and emotional sincerity one encounters all too rarely.” – David Cleary, New Music Connoisseur (310 words) - [Ghosts of the Grasslands by Steve Heitzeg - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/orchestral/products/ghosts-of-the-grasslands-steve-heitzeg/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. If you are interested in a part set for a performance please contact us. Composer: Steve Heitzeg Instrumentation: 2-2-2-2/4-0-3-1/timp, perc (3 players), acoustic guitar (amplified)/strings Duration: Approx. 9 minutes Date Written: 2002 Premiered by: Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Giunta, Music Director, Des Moines Civic Auditorium, Des Moines, IA on 10/19/2002 Commissioned: Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Giunta, Music Director (307 words) - [Sonata for Violin and Piano by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/paul-schoenfeld-sonata-for-violin-and-piano/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Violin and Piano Duration: Approx. 24 minutes Date Written: 2009 Commissioned: Additional Information: (186 words) - [collections/piano/products/a-lowry-triptych-david-evan-thomas/index.html](/content/collections/piano/products/a-lowry-triptych-david-evan-thomas/index.html) (550 words) - [collections/piano/products/many-songs-i-ve-heard-melodies-from-eastern-europe-carol-barnett.html](/content/collections/piano/products/many-songs-i-ve-heard-melodies-from-eastern-europe-carol-barnett.html) (320 words) - [Shining Shore - Scott Wheeler - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/products/shining-shore-scott-wheeler/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music.Arranger: Scott Wheeler Composer/Text: George F. Root Instrumentation: Solo piano Duration: Approx. 3 minutes Date Written: 2021 Additional Information: N/A (104 words) - [Meditations on an American Hymn by David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/piano/products/meditations-on-an-american-hymn-david-evan-thomas/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: David Evan Thomas Instrumentation: solo piano Duration: approx. 10 minutes Date Written: 2020 Program Note: Meditations on an American Hymn was composed in February 2020 for my friend Sonja Thompson. I had long wanted to write a piano work that would be useful as service music and attractive as a piece of piano music. Sonja’s beautiful playing and keen musicianship has been an inspiration to me for many years, beginning with the premiere of Blessings: 5 Poems of James Wright, which she gave with Vern Sutton in 2000. I wrote Meditations as the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic began to spread. As the United States suffered under the dual handicaps of incapable leadership and novel virology, I sought a focus that was positive in both emotional and civic senses. Katharine Lee Bates (1859 –1929) wrote the poem “Pikes Peak” after visiting Colorado in 1893. It was published in the Fourth of July edition of The Congregationalist in 1895. Here are several versions of the text. Many composers suggested music for the text over the next decade, but the tune that is now traditionally associated with it is MATERNA, by Samuel A. Ward (1847–1903), the organist at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey, who had composed the tune in 1888 for another text. It was published with Bates’s poem in 1910 under the title “America the Beautiful.” I could have called my treatment Variations, but rather than varying the tune as a whole, I’ve taken select phrases of Katharine Lee Bates’s poem and worked fancifully with the underlying tones. The effect is to meditate on each phrase of the poem: Spacious Skies: after locating the tune in a constellation of tones, a treatment with the tune singing in the soprano. Amber Waves: continuous step-wise notes create a liquid texture. Above the Fruited Plain: a steady flow of quintuplets proliferates. America! America!: a waltz treatment in “Sousa-ian” style. Purple Mountain Majesty: rocking pairs develop a brooding meditation that may reflect Russian interference in the 2016 American election. From Sea to Shining Sea: a fugal finale, with a pause to recollect the entire tune as a chorale and a brilliant close. (504 words) - [collections/concerto/products/pocket-concerto-scott-wheeler/index.html](/content/collections/concerto/products/pocket-concerto-scott-wheeler/index.html) (193 words) - [Anima: A Portrait of Susan Napier- Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/all/products/anima-a-portrait-of-susan-napier-scott-wheeler/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Scott Wheeler Instrumentation: Solo piano Duration: Approx. 3 minutes Date Written: 2018 Additional Information: N/A (118 words) - [Vaudeville in Teal – Julian Grant - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/concerto/products/vaudeville-in-teal-julian-grant/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. If you are interested in a part set for a performance, please contact us. Composer: Julian Grant Instrumentation: bass clarinet in Bb, bassoon harpsichord, and strings Duration: Approx. 22 minutes Date Written: 2025 (178 words) - [Five Days from the Life of a Manic-Depressive by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/piano/products/paul-schoenfeld-five-days-from-the-life-of-a-manic-depressive.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Piano Duet (Piano Four Hands) Duration: Approx. 24 minutes Date Written: 2006 Commissioned: Not available Premiered: 2006 Additional Information: Not available (147 words) - [collections/piano/products/three-gaelic-melodies-arranged-by-david-evan-thomas.html](/content/collections/piano/products/three-gaelic-melodies-arranged-by-david-evan-thomas.html) (475 words) - [Micah 6:8 arranged by Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/micah-6-8-carol-barnett/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Lisa Fuglie/Mark Anderson arranged by Carol Barnett Text by: Lisa Fuglie and Mark Anderson Instrumentation: SATB and Bluegrass Band Duration: Approx. 3 minutes Date Written: arrangement 2017 Text: MICAH 6:8The wrongs of one to another can seem too much to understand.We hate in turns, we never learn.An eye for an eye leaves both blind. It's a pound of flesh for an ounce of crime and no one wins, the wheel just spins.CHORUSHe has shown you, oh man, what is good;what does Yahweh require of you?Act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with your God.Let mercy fall like gentle rain, without compulsion, without strain. When grace is real, we all can heal. When we forgive another's debt, we free ourselves to love, and yet we honor those we miss the most.CHORUSThis light of mine is not my own;it shines from these few seeds I've sown. On just terrain will mercy reign.—Lisa Fuglie and Mark Anderson (390 words) - [The Four Freedoms by David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/the-four-freedoms-david-evan-thomas/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: David Evan Thomas Text by: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) Instrumentation: SATB chorus and piano Duration: approx. 4 minutes Date Written: 2012 Commissioned by: Plymouth Congregational Church in celebration of the "Summer of the First Amendment" embroidery. Premiere, July 15, 2012, by Maria Jette, Lisa Drew, Dan Dressen, James Bohn and James Lee Bobb Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Text: This nation has placed its destinyin the hands and heads and heartsof its free men and women;and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms: freedom of speech and expression;freedom of every person to worship God in his own way;freedom from want—everywhere in the world.freedom from fear—anywhere in the world. This is no vision of a distant millennium.It is attainable in our own time. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (243 words) - [Transformations: 6 Paintings of Carolyn Brunelle - David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/piano/products/transformations-6-paintings-of-carolyn-brunelle-david-evan-thomas.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: David Evan Thoma Instrumentation: Solo piano Duration: ca. 15' Date Written: 2020 Program note: Carolyn Brunelle’s April-May 2020 show at the Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis, Transformations, presented 22 paintings suggestive in their shape and dynamic in their bold and opposing colors. Because the 2020 pandemic had locked us all down, the show went up online. Carolyn’s pieces were so vivid, I immediately started thinking of them in musical terms. The musical process of layering harmonies and sculpting time is a set of transformations of its own. I chose six paintings, keeping Carolyn’s titles. “Happy to Be Here” is all affirmation, a set of continuous variations on a short idea. “Night Owl” marches forth in ever more cheeky dotted rhythms. “Twist” is a saucy cha-cha that recalls the early 60s, with a few Beatles references thrown in. “Swiftly” is a whirring scherzo with one hand on the white keys, one on the black. I have swifts in my neighborhood, and I was also fascinated by a video of swifts swirling by the thousands, then pouring into a school chimney in Portland, Oregon. “Piano” sings in a voice of deep, vibrant red, cast in that quintessential piano form, the nocturne. “Barn Dance” is an uncomplicated rondo, alive with movement and cheer. (360 words) - [collections/all/products/amnesia-scott-wheeler/index.html](/content/collections/all/products/amnesia-scott-wheeler/index.html) (145 words) - [ANALECTA – suite for violin and piano by Julian Grant - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/all/products/analecta-suite-for-violin-and-piano-julian-grant/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Julian Grant Instrumentation: Violin and Piano Duration: Approx. 18 minutes Date Written: 1998 Additional information: Analecta literally means a collection of short literary or philosophical extracts. This suite for violin and piano is made up of sketches and re-workings of material from theatre pieces and operas. There is a version of the whole suite for viola and piano, and movements 3 & 4 are transcribed for 'cello and piano First performed 4 July 2002 by Miranda Fulleylove, the dedicatee, and Clive Williamson at the Warehouse Waterloo, Theed St, London SE1 in a series of British Music Information Centre concerts. (250 words) - [Listen, Sweet Dove by David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/listen-sweet-dove-david-evan-thomas/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: David Evan Thomas Text by: George Herbert (1593–1633) Instrumentation: SATB chorus, unaccompanied Duration: approx. 3 minutes Date Written: 2023 Commissioned by: Carolyn Brunelle in honor of Philip Brunelle Premiere, 2023, by the Plymouth Congregational Church Choir, Philip Brunelle,cond., Minneapolis, MN. Text: Listen sweet Dove unto my song,And spread thy golden wings in me;Hatching my tender heart so long,Till it get wing, and fly away with thee. Such glorious gifts thou didst bestow,That th’ earth did like a heav’n appear;The stars were coming down to knowIf they might mend their wages, and serve here. Lord, though we change, thou art the same;The same sweet God of love and light:Restore this day, for thy great name,Unto his ancient and miraculous right. George Herbert (1593–1633)), from “Whitsunday” Program notes: Whitsunday is the name used in Britain and other countries for the Christian holy day of Pentecost. It falls on the seventh Sunday after Easter and commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Christ’s disciples (as described in Acts 2). George Herbert’s poem, “Whitsunday,” invokes the spirit of the dove which signifies the Holy Spirit. Herbert (1593–1633) was an English poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. Born in Montgomery, Wales, Herbert attended Trinity College, Cambridge, became the University’s Public Orator and sat in Parliament in 1624 and 1625. Often considered a “metaphysical” poet, his lyrics are characterized by a deeply personal tone and mastery of conceit and metaphor. “Listen, Sweet Dove” was commissioned by Carolyn Brunelle in 2023 in honor of her husband, Philip Brunelle, founder-director of VocalEssence and Choirmaster-organist at Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis, in honor of his 80th birthday. The anthem is appropriate for Pentecost or general use. (487 words) - [An Elizabethan Garland – by Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/all/products/an-elizabethan-garland-carol-barnett/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music Composer: Carol Barnett Text by: Thomas Ford (c. 1580-1648), Anonymous (1602), John Fletcher (1579-1625), John Fletcher (1579-1625), Samuel Daniel (c. 1563-1619) Instrumentation: SSAATTBB a cappella Duration: Approx. 15 minutes Date Written: 1994 Composer’s note: The settings of these Elizabethan-era poems are all sound pictures that use an extended tonality to illustrate a few of the works of Shakespeare’s contemporaries. The harmonies are triadic, but the triads have added notes and travel far afield through each phrase before ending on euphonious cadences. Through the use of alternating duplets and triplets, “There is a Lady” suggests the unsettled, can’t-focus feeling of being rapturous love. “My Love in Her Attire” is a rowdy back-of-the-bus-on-the-way-home-from-the-concert song that nonetheless needs finesse in getting the abrupt dynamic changes just right. The unhurried pace of “Care-Charming Sleep” evokes the serene otherworldliness of deep slumber. “Orpheus” is a siciliano in gentle but steady tempo. Voices singing “Orpheus…” are calling to him from the other side of the rive Styx. “Are They Shadows…”, based on double-diminished scales, should be as light and fleeting as possible. These scales are built with alternating whole and half steps, and there are two of them, depending on whether they start with a whole or half step. If you can sing these scales, you can sing the piece. An Elizabethan Garland was written for the Dale Warland Singers in 1994, and premiered by them in February 1995 at the University of St. Thomas Chapel in St. Paul, MN. text For an easy-to-read version of the text – please contact us. (447 words) - [collections/piano/products/an-die-musik-david-evan-thomas/index.html](/content/collections/piano/products/an-die-musik-david-evan-thomas/index.html) (471 words) - [An die Musik arr. by David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/all/products/an-die-musik-david-evan-thomas/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music Composer: Franz Schubert arranged by – David Evan Thomas Text by: Franz von Schober Instrumentation: SATB soli or chorus, piano 4-hands Duration: approx. 2 minutes Date Written: 2008 Commissioned: The Schubert Club Premiere: 2008, Saint Paul Summer Song Festival Program Note: Schubert’s song An die Musik is perhaps the finest and most famous ode to music. Schober’s poem is simple and direct, and Schubert’s setting is perfectly clear and sincere. This arrangement preserves Schubert’s accompaniment, expands the solo line in a polyphonic setting, and adds a primo piano part, making it compatible with the accompaniment of Brahms’s Liebeslieder Waltzer. And for Schubert connoisseurs, there’s a sly reference at the end. Commissioned in 2008 by the Schubert Club for its Saint Paul Summer Song Festival, this arrangement has been performed by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Text: Du holde Kunst, in wieviel grauen Stunden,Wo mich des Lebens wilder Kreis umstrickt,Hast du mein Herz zu warmer Lieb’ entzunden,Hast mich in eine beßre Welt entrückt,In eine beßre Welt entrückt! You, noble Art, in how many grey hours,When life’s mad tumult wraps around me,Have you kindled my heart to warm love,Have you transported me into a better world,Transported into a better world! Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf’ entflossen,Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir,Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,Du holde Kunst, danke dir dafür,Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir! Often has a sigh flowing out from your harp,A sweet, divine harmony from youUnlocked to me the heaven of better times,You, noble Art, I thank you for it.You, noble Art, I thank you! (475 words) - [collections/all/products/american-nomad/index.html](/content/collections/all/products/american-nomad/index.html) (745 words) - [Among Friends – Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/all/products/among-friends-carol-barnett/index.html): Composer: Carol Barnett Instrumentation: clarinet, violin, cello, piano Duration: Approx. 19 minutes Date Written:  2004 Composer’s note:  While looking for ideas for Among Friends, I happened to hear a performance of a piano sonata by Alfred Schnittke. I had admired Schnittke’s Concerto for Choir and was hoping for so (426 words) - [Allemansrätten (Freedom to Roam) by Steve Heitzeg - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/all/products/allemansratten-freedom-to-roam-steve-heitzeg/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Steve Heitzeg Instrumentation: String Quartet (2 Violin, Viola, and Cello) Duration: Approx. 3 minutes Date Written: 2021 Premiered: Young-Nam Kim, violin Leslie Shank, violin Sally Chisholm, viola Anthony Ross, cello Sundin Music Hall, Hamline University Saint Paul, MN October 17, 2021 Additional Information: Allemansrätten is a Swedish word referring to “everyone’s rights”—a cherished concept and legal position in Sweden and other Nordic countries. Allemansrätten declares that every person has the right to access and roam through the countryside and wilderness. (These access rights are mainly intended for travel on foot.) With this right comes the responsibility to respect nature; there is the maxim “do not disturb, do not destroy” and people are obligated to not litter or harm or disturb wildlife. This short fanfare is inspired by the notion of “freedom in nature” and intended to evoke a kind of brightness, hopefulness and egalitarianism in its sound. It is dedicated to the late Judy Dayton, one of the greatest champions of the arts our city has ever known. In my conversations with her, I always found Judy to be forward-looking and full of positive energy, and I’m grateful for the access to the arts that she has made possible for so many of us. My sincerest thanks to Young-Nam Kim and Ariana Kim for commissioning this piece and to the musicians of the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota for their exceptional talents. Steve Heitzeg September 22, 2021 (343 words) - [wu dai tong tang by Julian Grant - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/piano/products/wu-dai-tong-tang-julian-grant/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Julian Grant Instrumentation: Solo piano Duration: Approx. 11 minutes Date Written: 2009 Commissioned: N/A Additional Information: During the time I lived in Beijing, from 2007, I was bought, for my birthday, a Yangqin – a butterfly harp, by my partner and daughters, because I admired it in a shop window. The sight of such a handsome instrument residing at home unplayed was a reproach, and even though my battles with the Chinese language gave me a run for my money, I was able to learn to play the Yangqin after a fashion, and even duet with my teacher, and later, a guzheng player. For my partner’s significant birthday, I managed to compose and play a piece on the Yangqin, which I later transcribed for piano – a very ornamented version of which is the fourth piece in this collection. I then surrounded it with simple satellite pieces that use the same restricted pitches and textures. The pieces were composed haphazardly and in no particular order. Because I ended up with five, I allude in the title to the strange inedible fruit, that resembles a lemon with five‐fingers ‐ or an inflated rubber glove ‐ that appears at Chinese New Year to celebrate continuity: five generations one house – here, five aspects of the same thing. (408 words) - [interiors in shadow by Julian Grant - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/piano/products/interiors-in-shadow-julian-grant/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Julian Grant Instrumentation: Solo piano Duration: 16 minutes Date Written: 2023 Commissioned: N/A Additional Information: This cycle of four pieces was compiled from sketches and doodles made during and after the great pandemic of 2020-1. The mood is mostly austere and reserved and the textures simple, as if to reflect the austerity of those days. While working on these pieces, I became fixated on the celebrated series of interiors by the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864-1916) which provided a visual correlative to the withdrawn and muted world I was conjuring in sound (238 words) - [Amaryllis - Scott Wheeler - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/all/products/amaryllis-scott-wheeler/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Scott Wheeler Text: Megan Marshall Instrumentation: Voice (soprano) and piano Duration: Approx. 2 minutes Date Written: 2021 Program Notes: In January of 2021, Megan Marshall wrote her sonnet "Amaryllis" in memory of her late partner Scott Harney, also a wonderful poet. It's Megan's first poem since her days as a student of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. In my musical setting I refer to the classic Caccini song "Amarilli Mia bella," both in the opening vocalline and in the ending piano accompaniment. The song is dedicated to Megan. 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Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Flute and Chamber Orchestra Duration: Approx. 22 minutes Date Written: 1989 Commissioned by: National Endowment Consortium Commission Grant Premiered by: New York Philharmonic Additional Information: Written for flutist Carol Wincenc in 1989 on commission from the National Endowment Consortium Commission Grant, Klezmer Rondos was intended to portray the typical Eastern European klezmer style as a concert work in Western classical instrumentation. The piece was revised in 1995 for its premiere by the New York Philharmonic and became a concerto for flute, tenor, and symphony orchestra. (237 words) - [collections/chamber-music/products/paul-schoenfeld-camp-songs/index.html](/content/collections/chamber-music/products/paul-schoenfeld-camp-songs/index.html) (160 words) - [Mystic Trumpeter by Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/mystic-trumpeter-carol-barnett/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Arranger: Carol Barnett Text by: Walt Whitman Instrumentation: SSAATTBB, trumpet Duration: c: 12' Date Written: 1997 Commissioned: for the Dale Warland Singers 25th Anniversary with funds provided by Meet the Composer and the Readers Digest Consortium Commission. Members of the consortium included the Gregg Smith Singers; the Ars Nova Singers, Tom Morgan, conductor; and the New Classic Singers, Lee Kesselman, conductor Composer’s note: I never really appreciated Walt Whitman’s poetry – too much O this and O that. And yet, I am occasionally captivated by its evocative, incantatory quality, and in 1997 found myself setting a rather large chunk of The Mystic Trumpeter, happy to find so many opportunities for word painting, which I love to do. More than that, I tried to capture the poetic spirit of Whitman himself: a big, bold American Romantic who loved the voluptuous sound of words and whose poetry rumbles on at length through whole lists of subjects. Consequently, the music is not all that refined; it takes what it needs from various styles and tosses them all together, going from one to anther quickly, without graceful transitions. It is not only a setting of the poetry, but a portrait of the poet. (380 words) - [If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking by David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/if-i-can-stop-one-heart-from-breaking-david-evan-thomas.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music.Composer: David Evan Thomas Text by: Emily Dickinson (v. 1, P.D.) Additional verses by the composer Instrumentation: SAB mixed chorus and piano Duration: approx. 3 minutes Date Written: 2017 Commissioned by: Plymouth Congregational Church in celebration of the "Summer of the First Amendment" embroidery. Premiere: StreetSong MN, Teri Larson and Bill Mathis, Directors, 11/19/17. Text: If I can stop one heart from breaking,I shall not live in vain;If I can ease one life the aching,Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robinUnto his nest again,I shall not live in vain. If I can keep the river flowing,I shall not live in vain;If I can plant a tree (or two, or three)And bring the rain Or sow the seeds that handsWill harvest as autumn grainI shall not live in vain. If I can care for those who need me,and listen when they call;If I can lend a hand to others,help them stand tall, And lift a voice for freedom,justice and peace for all,We’ll build a bridge, a human bridgeand so take down a wall. Emily Dickinson, F. 982 (v. 1, 2)David Evan Thomas (additional verses) (420 words) - [Peace Is Like a Flower by Steve Heitzeg - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/peace-is-like-a-flower-steve-heitzeg/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music Composer: Steve Heitzeg Text by: Steve Heitzeg Instrumentation: SATB Chorus Duration: Approx. 4 minutes Date Written: 2014 Premiered by: VocalEssence Ensemble Singers; Philip Brunelle, conductor; American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, MN on 02/07/2015 Commissioned by: The Minnesota Commissioning Club (250 words) - [Adonai, Adonai by Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/adonai-adonai-carol-barnett/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Carol Barnett Text by: (translation of Exodus 34 :6-7, 9) Instrumentation: a round for a cappella choir; unison to 4-part Duration: N/A Date Written: 1979 Commissioned by The Cantata Singers in honor of Elmira, the place Twain thought was an Eden worthy of Adam. Composer’s note: Often used for the Jewish High Holy Days, this brief prayer is appropriate year-round. Surprisingly easy to learn, this hauntingly modal setting gives a taste of an ancient sonic tradition that continues into the present. Adonai, Adonai was written for the B’nai Emet Synagogue choir of St. Louis Park, MN, Steve Barnett, conductor. “Adonai”, the name of God in Hebrew, is properly used only when recited as a prayer; in all other contexts, the word “Adoshem” is substituted. But this text is itself a prayer, whatever the context, and so there is a choice. If in doubt as to which word to use, consult a local rabbi. – Carol Barnett Text: God, the Lord our God,is gracious and merciful,slow to anger and abounding in goodness and truth,assuring love for a thousand generations,forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin.Pardon our iniquity and our sin,and take us for Thine inheritance. (263 words) - [Into the Fire arranged by Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/into-the-fire-arranged-by-carol-barnett/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Lisa Fuglie arranged by Carol Barnett Text by: Lisa Fuglie Instrumentation: SATB and Bluegrass Band Duration: Approx. 4 minutes Date Written: arrangement 2017 Text: For an easy-to-read version of the text – please contact us. (140 words) - [Ozymandias – Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/voice-art-song/products/ozymandias-carol-barnett/index.html): Composer: Carol Barnett Instrumentation: Baritone, piano Duration: Approx. 4 minutes Date Written:  1970 Composer’s note:   This Romantic setting of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Ozymandias was an assignment for Dominick Argento’s Advanced Materials and Structures class at the University of Minnesota back in the early 70s. It (326 words) - [collections/chamber-music/products/carolina-reveille-paul-schoenfeld/index.html](/content/collections/chamber-music/products/carolina-reveille-paul-schoenfeld/index.html) (128 words) - [Rock and Roll by Eric Stokes - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/horspfal-music-concern/products/rock-and-roll-eric-stokes-copy/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Eric Stokes Instrumentation: 5 Percussion Duration: Indeterminate – Date Written: 1980 Additional Information: N/A (110 words) - [collections/chamber-music/products/paul-schoenfeld-four-music-videos/index.html](/content/collections/chamber-music/products/paul-schoenfeld-four-music-videos/index.html) (183 words) - [Sonata for Violin and Piano by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/chamber-music/products/paul-schoenfeld-sonata-for-violin-and-piano/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Violin and Piano Duration: Approx. 24 minutes Date Written: 2009 Commissioned: Additional Information: (158 words) - [Fast and Flowing by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/chamber-music/products/fast-and-flowing-paul-schoenfeld/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: String Quartet Duration: Date Written: 2002 Commissioned: N/A Premiered: N/A Additional Information: N/A (140 words) - [Klezmer Sonatina by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/chamber-music/products/paul-schoenfeld-klezmer-sonatina/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Clarinet and Piano Duration: Approx. 12 minutes Date Written: 2013 Commissioned by: Premiered by: Additional Information: (146 words) - [Nocturne by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/chamber-music/products/paul-schoenfeld-nocturne/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Cello and Orchestra (piano reduction) Duration: Date Written: 2001 Commissioned: For Peter Howard and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra by Rhoda Redleaf in honor of her husband Paul's 70th birthday Premiered: 2001 Additional Information: Not Available (178 words) - [Three Bagatelles by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/chamber-music/products/paul-schoenfeld-three-bagatelles/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Flute, Cello, and Piano Duration: Approx. 15 minutes Date Written: 2006 Commissioned by: The Mallarmé Chamber Players and Keowee Chamber Music Premiered: 2006 Additional Information: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Schoenfield) composed the Three Bagatelles for Flute, Cello and Piano in 2006. It was co-commissioned by both the Mallarmé Chamber Players and Keowee Chamber Music. (162 words) - [Sextet by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/chamber-music/products/paul-schoenfeld-sextet/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano, and Percussion Duration: Approx. 27 minutes Date Written: 1993 (revised in 2000) Commissioned: Additional Information: (113 words) - [Cowbird by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/chamber-music/products/cowbird-paul-schoenfeld/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: String Quartet Duration: Approx. 5 minutes Date Written: 2002 Commissioned: N/A Premiered: N/A Additional Information: N/A (123 words) - [Lake Stone Moon by Steve Heitzeg - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/solo-instrument/products/lake-stone-moon-steve-heitzeg/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Steve Heitzeg Instrumentation: Solo Violin, a Lake Superior beach stone, driftwood and a Tibetan singing bowl Duration: Approx. 6 minutes Date Written: 2006 Commissioned by: Ariana Kim in honor of Young-Nam Kim Premiered by: Ariana Kim, violin; Sundin Music Hall, Hamline University, Saint Paul, MN on 02/12/2017 (272 words) - [Psychobird by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/chamber-music/products/paul-schoenfeld-psychobird/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Piccolo and Piano Duration: Approx. 10 minutes Date Written: 2008 Commissioned by: The National Flute Association Premiered: 2008 Additional Information: Psychobird, a Sonatina for Piccolo and Piano by Paul Schoenfeld, was commissioned by The National Flute Association and was the imposed piece in the 2009 NFA Piccolo Artist Competition. It consists of three movements (Nigunim, Doina, and Psychobird) to be played without breaks between movements. (212 words) - [O, Colored Earth by Steve Heitzeg - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/steve-heitzeg-o-colored-earth/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Steve Heitzeg Text by: Steve Heitzeg Instrumentation: Voices and Piano OR SA Chorus, Piano, Strings, and Percussion (optional guitar) Duration: Approx. 5 minutes Date Written: 1993 (and 2022) Premiered by: House of Hope Children's Choir and members of the University of Saint Thomas Earth Ensemble; Elizabeth Shepley, conductor; University of Saint Thomas, Saint Paul, MN on 04/13/1994 String version Premiered by: Berkshire Children’s Chorus, Ryan LaBoy, Artistic Director and Conductor; Stockbridge Sinfonia, Tracy Wilson, Artistic Director Old Parish Church Sheffield, MA June 12, 2022 (179 words) - [collections/chamber-music/products/paul-schoenfeld-sparks-of-glory/index.html](/content/collections/chamber-music/products/paul-schoenfeld-sparks-of-glory/index.html) (150 words) - [The Healing Fountain by David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/the-prayer-of-st-francis-david-evan-thomas/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music Instrumentation: Violin, cello, piano Duration: approx. 11 minutes Date Written: 2002 Commissioned by the Schubert Club Premiere: Kyu Young Kim, Sarah Lewis, Layton James, St. Paul, MN 9/2002 Program Note: When I was asked by txhe Schubert Club to write a work commemorating September 11 I demurred, remembering Mme. Merle’s words in Portrait of a Lady: “There are times in life when even the music of Schubert has nothing to say to us.” But then I remembered Auden’s lines, which close his poem on the death of Yeats, words which suggested to me a growth in feeling, a melting of sorrow. This is where I began: In the deserts of the heart, let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days, teach the free man how to praise. The work begins at the end, as the cello walks down its four last steps. Strings engage in a prolonged and muted duo. The piano enters and the three develop the material, which quickens and comes to a peak, then falls through sighing, descending fifths. The fountain which begins in the piano is of the “drop, drop slow tears” variety, and its waters pool in thickening harmonies. The final section is athematic: the music has been drained of content, and what remains arches and falls. (312 words) - [Confirmatum est cor eius by David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/confirmatum-est-cor-eius-david-evan-thomas/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: David Evan Thomas Instrumentation: Mixed chorus SSATTB, unaccompanied Duration: approx. 3 minutes Date Written: 2013 Premiere: 2013 by the Madison Choral Project, Albert Pinsonneault, cond. Program Note: Commissioned in honor of the births of Barrett Marion Pinsonneault and the Madison Choral Project by Ona and Wayne Pinsonneault. (335 words) - [Due Canti Meridionaliby – Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/voice-art-song/products/due-canti-meridionali-carol-barnett/index.html): Composer: Carol Barnett Text by: mezzo-soprano, piano Instrumentation: mezzo-soprano and  piano Duration: Approx. 8 Date Written:  1989 Composer’s note: Mina Ferraguti, violinist and teacher in Rome, wrote these poems in memory of her husband Mario. He had been the Italian minister of agriculture during World War II an (605 words) - [Will's Ladies – Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/voice-art-song/products/wills-ladies-carol-barnett/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Carol Barnett Text by: Shakespeare Instrumentation: Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra (2 Fl, Picc, 2 Ob, EH, 2 Cl, B Cl, 2 Bsn. C Bsn, 4 Hn, 3 Trp, 2 Trb, B Trb, Tuba, Timp, Glock, Mba, Perc (hi wdbk, hi & low toms, s dr, b dr, cast, fing cym, tri, bell tree, sus cym, sizz cym, glass wind chimes, t-tam, sleigh bells), Harp, Pno, Mezzo Sop, Str) Duration: Approx. 20 minutes Date Written: 2020 Composer’s note: Will’s Ladies illuminates five of Shakespeare’s most memorable women: A brass flourish announces PORTIA’s courtroom speech. Two horns mimic the preliminary dialog: “Then must the Jew be merciful.” “On what compulsion must I? Tell me that.” Then, gently at first: “The quality of mercy is not strained.” JULIET enters, joyfully impatient for the day to run its course. Eagerness deepens into sensual yearning as she anticipates the onset of night and the arrival of Romeo. The movement is an homage to my teacher, Dominick Argento, who set the same text in his Variations for Orchestra (The Mask of Night). LADY MACBETH reads a letter from her husband telling of the three witches who have addressed him as “king that shall be.” The music turns increasingly foreboding as she ruthlessly assesses his inadequacy and plots to realize the witches’ prediction herself. Deranged OPHELIA sings disconsolately of loss, the death of her father, Hamlet’s seeming betrayal, and herbals for thoughts and memories. CLEOPATRA mourns Antony’s death and, knowing that Caesar will soon capture her, prepares herself for a royal death, taking up the asp – “poor venomous fool” – determined to rob him of that triumph. texts PORTIA The Merchant of Venice: Act IV, Scene 1 [Portia: Then must the Jew be merciful.Shylock: On what compulsion must I? Tell me that.]Portia: The quality of mercy is not strained.It droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the place beneath. It is twice blest:It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomesThe thronèd monarch better than his crown.His scepter shows the force of temporal power,The attribute to awe and majestyWherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;But mercy is above this scepter’d sway.It is enthronèd in the heart of kings;It is an attribute to God himself;And earthly power doth then show likest God’sWhen mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,Though justice be thy plea, consider this:That in the course of justice none of usShould see salvation. We do pray for mercy,And that same prayer doth teach us all to renderThe deeds of mercy. JULIET Romeo and Juliet: Act III, Scene 2 Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,Towards Phoebus' lodging; such a waggonerAs Phaeton would whip you to the westAnd bring in cloudy night immediately.Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night,That rude day’s eyes may wink, and RomeoLeap to these arms, untalk’d of and unseen.Lovers can see to do their amorous ritesBy their own beauties: or if love be blind,It best agrees with night. Come, civil night,Thou sober-suited matron, all in black,And learn me how to lose a winning matchPlay’d for a pair of stainless maidenhoods:Hood my unmann’d blood, bating in my cheeks,With thy black mantle; till strange love, grown bold,Think true love acted simple modesty.Come, night; come, Romeo, come, thou day in night;For thou wilt lie upon the wings of nightWhiter than new snow upon a raven’s back.Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow’d night,Give me my Romeo; and when he shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the face of heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with night… LADY MACBETH Macbeth: Act I, Scene 5 (reading a letter) They met me in the day of success; and I have learned they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desire to question them further, they made themselves air, into which they vanished. Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me, ‘Thane of Cawdor;’ by which title, before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred me to the coming on of time, with ‘Hail, king that shall be!’ This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou mightest not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant of what greatness is promised thee. Lay it to thy heart, and farewell. Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt beWhat thou art promis’d. Yet do I fear thy nature;It is too full o’ the milk of human kindnessTo catch the nearest way; thou wouldst be great,Art not without ambition, but withoutThe illness should attend it…Hie thee hither,That I may pour my spirits in thine ear,And chastise with the valour of my tongueAll that impedes thee from the golden round,Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seemTo have thee crown’d withal…Come, you spiritsThat tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,And fill me from the crown to the toe top fullOf direst cruelty; make thick my blood,Stop up the access and passage to remorse,That no compunctious visitings of natureShake my fell purpose…Come, thick night,And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,To cry, ‘Hold, hold.’ OPHELIA Hamlet: Act IV, Scene 5How should I your true love knowFrom another one?By his cockle hat and staff,And his sandal shoon. ***** He is dead and gone, lady,He is dead and gone,At his head a grass-green turf,At his heels a stone. ***** White his shroud as the mountain snow—Larded all with sweet flowers,Which bewept to the ground did goWith true-love showers. ***** Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be. ***** Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s day,All in the morning betime,And I a maid at your window,To be your Valentine. Then up he rose and donned his clo’esAnd dupp’d the chamber door;Let in the maid, that out a maidNever departed more. Quoth she, “Before you tumbled me,You promised me to wed.”“So would I ha' done, by yonder sun,An thou hadst not come to my bed.” We must be patient; but I cannot choose but weep, to think they should lay him i’ the cold ground. ***** They bore him barefac’d on the bier,Hey no nonny, nonny, hey nonny.And on his grave rain’d many a tear,Down, a-down, an you call him a-down-a. ***** His beard was as white as snow,All flaxen was his poll.He is gone, he is gone,And we cast away moan,God ha' mercy on his soul! ***** There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance…And there is pansies, that’s for thoughts…There’s a daisy. I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died. CLEOPATRA Antony and Cleopatra: Act IV, Scene 4; Act V, Scene 2 Noblest of men, woo’t die?Hast thou no care of me? shall I abideIn this dull world, which in thy absence isNo better than a sty? O, see, my women,The crown o’ the earth doth melt. My lord! ***** Our lamp is spent, it’s out! Good sirs, take heart:We’ll bury him; and then what’s brave, what’s noble,Let’s do it after the high Roman fashion,And make death proud to take us. Come, away:This case of that huge spirit now is cold:Ah, women, women! Come; we have no friendBut resolution and the briefest end. ***** Give me my robe, put on my crown; I haveImmortal longings in me: now no moreThe juice of Egypt’s grape shall moist this lip:Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. Methinks I hearAntony call; I see him rouse himselfTo praise my noble act; I hear him mockThe luck of Ceasar, which the gods give menTo excuse their after wrath. Husband, I come:Now to that name my courage prove my title!I am fire and air; my other elementsI give to baser life.…Come, thou mortal wretch,With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicateOf life at once untie: poor venomous fool,Be angry and dispatch.…O Antony! (1,586 words) - [The Owl and the Pussycat (Ensemble) – Julian Grant - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/voice-art-song/products/the-owl-and-the-pussycat-ensemble-julian-grant/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Julian Grant Instrumentation: voice, Eb clarinet, Bb clarinet, viola, 'cello, double-bass Duration: Approx. 8 minutes Date Written: 1998 / 2000 Additional information: Edward Lear’s poem The Owl and the Pussy Cat has occupied me many times over my composing life; first as a suite for piano, the very first piece I managed to write down, at the age of nine. At eleven, I turned a tune from that suite into a setting of the poem for voice and piano - this I was to arrange many years later (2003) for female chorus and piano, when I was music director at St. Paul’s Girls’ School. I set the poem for soprano and piano as a gift for a colleague who had a daughter in 1989, but withdrew it a few years later. In 1998 I attacked it again, as a present for my elder daughter, Hattie, to whom this work is dedicated. I decided against a simple strophic setting of the three-verse poem, turning it instead into a miniature opera, with continuous, but discernible set numbers. The overture consists of three crashes, which traditionally heralded the rise of the curtain in nineteenth century theatre. I later made not one, but two different ensemble versions of the score, both of which have been widely performed. This mini-opera has been sung by all voice types – so far – except a tenor! There is also a version for chamber orchestra. First performance of Ensemble Version1 9 February 2001 by Mary Wiegold (soprano) and the Composer's Ensemble c. Dominic Muldowney. The Warehouse, London SE1 Ensemble Version 2 12 March 2000 by Adey Grummet (soprano) Ensemble of Music Theatre Wales c. Michael Rafferty, Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff Ensemble version 1 - Eb clarinet, Bb clarinet, viola, 'cello, double-bass Ensemble version 2 - Flute+picc, Clarinet+bass cl., piano, violin, 'cello Version for chamber orchestra (2+2+2+2/2100/timp/celesta/1 perc [cym,glock, xylo, tubular bells]/strings) (464 words) - [Cantate, Laudate - Scott Wheeler - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/cantate-laudate-scott-wheeler/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Scott Wheeler Text: Psalm 148 Instrumentation: SATB chorus and organ Duration: Approx. 6 minutes Date Written: 1990 Text: Cantate Domino.Laudate Dominum. Praise God from the heavens;Praise God in the heights;Praise God, all you angels;Praise God, all you heavenly hosts.Praise God, sun and moon; Laudate Dominum.Praise God, stars that glow;Cantate Domino. Praise God, you highest heavens,And you waters above the heavens.Laudate Dominum.Let them praise the name of God,Who commanded and they were created.God established them forever and ever and gave a law which shall not pass away.Cantate, Laudate.Cantate Domino. Praise God all the earth, you sea monsters and all the seas,Fire and hail, mist and snow,Storm winds, at God's will you blow.Cantate Domino.You mountains and all you hills,You fruit trees and flying birds.All things that grow,Cantate Domino. Let the rulers of the earthYoung men and maidens, elders and children praise the name of God whose name alone is exalted;Whose majesty is above earth and heaven,And who has raised up strength for the peopleAnd praise, praise for all God's saints. Laudate, Cantate Domino.Praise for all God's saints.May God be praised by the faithful,By the children of Israel, the people near to God.Cantate Domino. Laudate Dominum.Alleluia. Additional Information: Cantate, Laudate was commissioned to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the choir of Christ's Church in Rye, New York. My wife Christen Frothingham, herself an alumna of this choir, supervised the choice and adaptation of the text. As it happened, Psalm 148, the psalm appointed for the Sunday of the premiere, was also the psalm at our wedding at Christ's Church. The psalm's emphasis on the importance of faithful worship and praise seemed apt for the occasion. For the anthem, Christen helped me to combine a contemporary paraphrase of the psalm with bits of older translations, adding Latin psalm titles as refrains, and rearranging a few words to create rhymes ("storm winds at God's will you blow/Cantate Domino"). The title of the piece reflects both the "Laudate Dominum" opening of Psalm 148 and the "Cantate Domino" that the Christ's Church choir uses as its warmup exercise and as the title of its newsletter Musically, the work reflects various traditions of church chant and hymnody. The alternations of English and Latin in the text find a corresponding (though not always exact) alternation of "chant" and "hymn-tune" melody in the music. For the occasion of this centennial, the line "Praise to all God's saints" seemed particularly germane, so it is repeated to begin a unison hymn to end the anthem. In this respect, Cantate, Laudate follows the musical tradition of acknowledging the congregation, as Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams do at the end of their large choral works. I was especially conscious of one hundred years of Christian saints both in the choir and in the parish that has nurtured my wife and has welcomed me. So though the dedication of Cantate, Laudate is to the choir, it extends especially to their director Stephen Rapp, and more generally to the parish as a whole Mr. Rapp also deserves special acknowledgement for his astute and generous assistance regarding numerous practical details of the anthem's composition and notation. In particular, I have gratefully adopted his various indications of organ registration for this edition Performance note: The use of the treble choir (children) is optional. Though suggestions for treble and descant are provided in the score, they may be rearranged at the discretion of the director. (813 words) - [Leaves Are My Flowers Now – Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/voice-art-song/products/leaves-are-my-flowers-now-carol-barnett/index.html): Composer: Carol Barnett Text by: Michael Dennis Browne Instrumentation: Soprano and piano Duration: Approx. 4:30 Date Written:  2007 Composer’s note:  Leaves Are My Flowers Now is one of two songs (along with The Blonde Assassin) written for the The Schubert Club Songbook, a project initiated by the American Composers (419 words) - [One Light by David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/one-light-david-evan-thomas/index.html): Title: One Light Composer: David Evan Thomas Instrumentation: Mixed Chorus SATB, piano Duration: 4 minutes Date Written: 2006 Commissioned: in honor of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the First Universalist Church of Minneapolis (1859-2009).   Premiere: Choir of First Universalist Church, Minneapolis, Janice H (312 words) - [collections/chamber-music/products/paul-schoenfeld-trio-for-violin-clarinet-and-piano/index.html](/content/collections/chamber-music/products/paul-schoenfeld-trio-for-violin-clarinet-and-piano/index.html) (296 words) - [MOONSTONE SONGS by Julian Grant - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/voice-art-song/products/moonstone-songs-julian-grant/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Julian Grant Text: poems from the CARMINA GADELICA, translated from the Gaelic by ALEXANDER CARMICHAEL, adapted by the composer. Instrumentation: high voice and piano Duration: Approx. 18 minutes Date Written: 1998 Additional information: Moonstone Songs were sketched on the isle of Iona in September 1997, where I stayed for a short time directly after the sudden death of my mother, and completed in April 1998. The four songs are settings of poems from the 'Carmina Gadelica', an anthology - or rather, the anthology of oral Gaelic hymns, spells, charms and songs collected and translated into English by Alexander Carmichael and published in 1897, thus opening a door onto the Gaelic world, and doubtless preserving many poems that would otherwise have been lost or forgotten. Most of the poems exist in many variants, so I have adapted, pruned and occasionally clarified the texts I set, and in the case of the last song, combined elements of two separate poems. The first and third songs are elemental and melancholy, the second song, The Farmer's Food and Footwear, is a preposterous boast, which is mirrored by a mounting, and ultimately preposterous crescendo, and the final song is simple and almost folk-like. Moonstone Songs are dedicated to the memory of my mother, Lori. 1. Power of Moon 2. The Farmer's Food and Footwear 3. Voice of the Swan 4. I am Going Home with Thee (375 words) - [God Bless the Young Folk (duet) by Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/voice-art-song/products/god-bless-the-young-folk-carol-barnett-1/index.html): Composer: Carol Barnett Text by: W. E. B. Du Bois Instrumentation: mezzo-soprano, baritone, piano Duration: Approx. 3 Date Written:  2008 Composer’s note: Written in 2008 for the VocalEssence Talented Tenth Apprentice Program, this setting of W. E. B. DuBois texts celebrates “the young folk, they that seek and seldom f (331 words) - [Slovakian Children's Songs by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/chamber-music/products/paul-schoenfeld-slovakian-childrens-songs/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Flute and Piano Duration: Approx. 21 minutes Date Written: 1995 Commissioned by: Carol Wincenc Premiered: 1995 Additional Information: "Slovakian Children's Songs" was composed by Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Schoenfield) in 1995 for flutist Carol Wincenc. It incorporates Slovakian folk quotes from Béla Bartók’s "For Children" (Volume II, Based on Slovakian Folk Tunes) with layers of Slovakian folk elements used in the overall texture. The work consists of six movements (Overture, Hopfrog, Lullaby, Furiant, Romanza, Hopak). Paul on Slovakian Children's Songs: Slovakian Children's Songs were composed in 1993 as a result of a close collaboration with flutist Carol Wincenc and my great friends from Minnesota, Jack and Linda Hoeschler. Carol and I met over 30 years ago when we were both students at Chautauqua and have enjoyed a close musical association ever since. I have had the pleasure of accompanying her several times in concert, and it was for Carol that I wrote the flute concerto, Klezmer Rondos. We share a common love of folk music, and Carol, being of Slovac descent, had frequently discussed my composing a flute and piano work based on Slovakian folk elements. Several years ago, Linda Hoescher (née Lovas), who is also of Slovac descent, had asked that I compose something in honor of the Lovas family. The Hoeschlers have commissioned four works from me and have long admired Carol's playing since her days at the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. When they heard Carol's idea, they encouraged me to write the sonata. The birth of Carol's child, Nicola, nourished the decision to base the work on children's music, and in the end, this suite, Slovakian Children's Songs, was the result. In technical terms, these pieces fall between arrangements and original compositions. Certain folk tunes are quoted verbatim, but more often than not, isomorphic images are presented or the tunes are simply imbedded in an overall texture which masks their presence. (511 words) - [Small Tall Stories – Julian Grant - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/voice-art-song/products/small-tall-stories-julian-grant/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Julian Grant Instrumentation: contralto (or mezzo-soprano), 3 clarinets (3 = bass cl.) and double bass Duration: Approx. 6 minutes Date Written: 2003 Additional information: Five songs to anonymous texts; three of which were later used in TALL TALES (2007). 1. I saw 2. What a wonderful bird the frog are 3. Yer auld man's a dirty auld man 4. Man United are short sighted 5. A handsome young airman lay dying (218 words) - [Six British Folksongs by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/chamber-music/products/paul-schoenfeld-six-british-folksongs/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Cello and Piano Duration: Approx. 28 minutes Date Written: 1995 Additional Information: (182 words) - [Green Thoughts in a Green Shade by David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/voice-art-song/products/green-thoughts-in-a-green-shade-david-evan-thomas/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: David Evan Thomas Text: Andrew Marvell Instrumentation: High voice, piano Duration: approx. 8 minutes Date Written: 2015 Premiere: Premiere–Jim Reilly, Beatrice Giere, Minneapolis, MN, 12/2016 Program Note: Commissioned by St Mary’s Priory, Abergavenny in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the appointment of Tim Pratt as Director of Music at St Mary’s Priory (202 words) - [collections/solo-instrument/products/birdsongs-and-bells-steve-heitzeg/index.html](/content/collections/solo-instrument/products/birdsongs-and-bells-steve-heitzeg/index.html) (441 words) - [Eretz Hefetz by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/chamber-music/products/eretz-hefetz-paul-schoenfeld/index.html): Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Two Clarinets and Piano Duration: Approx. 17 minutes Date Written: 2023 Co-commissioned by Corey Mackey and Jeremy Reynolds Consortium members: Corey Mackey Jeremy Reynolds Thiago Ancelmo Joshua C. Anderson David C. Blumberg Chad Edward Burrow Stas (241 words) - [Tales from Chelm by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/chamber-music/products/tales-from-chelm-paul-schoenfeld/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: String Quartet Duration: Approx. 21 minutes Date Written: 1991 Commissioned: Commissioned by Jack and Linda Hoeschler in honor of their children Premiered: N/A Additional Information: Schoenfield’s Tales from Chelm—Four Pieces for String Quartet, completed in 1991, is a programmatic work that depicts humorous incidents, scenes, and characters from eastern European Jewish folklore centered around the Polish city of Chelm and its imaginary Jewish inhabitants. The very mention of the city of Chelm can evoke laughter, owing to the large body of humorous stories connected to its mythical former Jewish residents. Since at least the 19th century, generations of eastern European Yiddish-speaking Jews and their descendants have been entertained by those sometimes satirical, sometimes nonsensical stories mocking Chelm’s supposed population of fools—sarcastically in folklore as khelmer khakhomim (the wise men of Chelm). Learn more: https://www.milkenarchive.org/music/volumes/view/intimate-voices/work/tales-from-chelm/ (309 words) - [Burlesque by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/chamber-music/products/paul-schoenfield-burlesque/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Alto saxophone, (C) trumpet, contrabass, percussion (drum set), piano Duration: Date Written: 1995 Commissioned: Premiered: 1995 Additional Information: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Schoenfield) - Burlesque for Alto Saxophone, Trumpet, Bass, Percussion and Piano. A frenetic romp incorporating a wide range of musical influences, including jazz, blues, ragtime, and rock and roll. This gives the piece a distinctive and eclectic sound, in many ways reminiscent of the moto perpetuo (perpetual motion) style. (245 words) - [Three Ladies Besides the Sea - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/voice-art-song/products/three-ladies-besides-the-sea-julian-grant/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Julian Grant Text: Rhoda Levine Instrumentation: soprano, two violins, baroque cello (5 strings), harpsichord, and theorbo Duration: Approx. 17 minutes Date Written: 2018 Additional information: Three Ladies Beside the Sea was commissioned by Sarasa, a period instrument ensemble based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for their 20th anniversary season. The text is a slightly abridged setting of a 1963 children’s book of the same name by Rhoda Levine, a notable opera director, and a great friend for over thirty years. The original book had illustrations by Edward Gorey. Rhoda has now retired, and as we never collaborated on the stage, this was the next best thing. First performed March 2 2019 by Kristen Watson (soprano) and Sarasa at Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church, Cambridge, MA. (291 words) - [Achat Sha'alti and Ufaratsta by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/chamber-music/products/paul-schoenfield-achat-shaalti-and-ufaratsta/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Flute and Piano Duration: Approx. 5 minutes Date Written: 1991 Commissioned: For Carol Wincenc Premiered: 1991 Additional Information: Achat Sha'alti and Ufaratsta are two movements from Paul Schoenfeld's suite of Six Improvisations on Hassidic Melodies. The suite was originally composed for solo piano, however, at the request of Carol Wincenc, Schoenfeld arranged these two movements for solo Flute and Piano. (269 words) - [Mad Moonight (mezzo-soprano and orchestra) – Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/voice-art-song/products/mad-moonight-mezzo-soprano-and-orchestra-carol-barnett.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Carol Barnett Text by: Louis Jenkins Instrumentation: Mezzo-Soprano and orchestra Duration: Approx. 6'30" Date Written: 2022 (orchestrated 2024) Commissioned: Commissioned by Schubert Club for mezzo-soprano Georgia Jacobson with funding provided by Barbara Brown and John Michel in memory of soprano Ruth Jacobson Composer’s note: It all began when John Michel asked me to set three poems from Louis Jenkins’ The Mad Moonlight, published by Will o’ the Wisp Books in 2019. The project, under the auspices of Schubert Club and funded by John Michel and Barbara Brown, has since mushroomed into the commissioning of a dozen composers for settings of almost all of the poems in the volume. John and Louis, both from Duluth, MN, were dear friends until Louis’s death in December of 2019. The poems are light-hearted and wry; deeper meaning lurks beneath the surface. After the initial performance at the Landmark Center in St. Paul, John suggested an orchestrated version – a wonderful opportunity to enhance the peculiar spookiness of these poems (313 words) - [Shower, O Heavens– Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/voice-art-song/products/shower-o-heavens-carol-barnett/index.html): Composer: Carol Barnett Instrumentation: SATB, Baritone Voice Duration: Approx. 3:00 Date Written:  2025 Composer’s note:   Shower, O Heavens is one of a series of anthems that Philip Brunelle has commissioned for each of the section leaders in his Plymouth Congregational Church Choir. Since the premiere was to be in s (316 words) - [collections/voice-art-song/products/love-songs-from-a-third-floor-walk-up-raphael-fusco.html](/content/collections/voice-art-song/products/love-songs-from-a-third-floor-walk-up-raphael-fusco.html) (279 words) - [collections/voice-art-song/products/a-woman-of-her-time-coco-chanel-sings-scott-wheeler.html](/content/collections/voice-art-song/products/a-woman-of-her-time-coco-chanel-sings-scott-wheeler.html) (245 words) - [collections/chamber-music/products/paul-schoenfeld-four-souveneirs/index.html](/content/collections/chamber-music/products/paul-schoenfeld-four-souveneirs/index.html) (448 words) - [Give Her the River by David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/voice-art-song/products/give-her-the-river-david-evan-thomas/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music Composer: David Evan Thomas Instrumentation: Mezzo-soprano, flute, cello, piano Duration: approx. 13 minutes Date Written: 2017 Premiere: September 28, 2017, Minneapolis, Minnesota by: Monica Murray, soprano; Jennifer Kinnard, flute: Daryl Carlson, cello; Mimi Tung, piano Program Note: Thursday Musical, founded in Minneapolis in 1892 as The Ladies Thursday Musicale, is one of Minnesota’s oldest musical organizations. For a work celebrating the 125th anniversary of the founding of Thursday Musical, I chose one instrument from each of the instrumental families represented in the Thursday Musical membership: voice, woodwind, string, keyboard. I also chose a poet, Michael Dennis Browne (b. 1940), who was born in England but has made his home in Minnesota since 1971. The text of Give Her the River comes from Michael’s picture-book of that name with paintings by Wendell Minor (New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Simon & Schuster, 2004.) The setting is the Mississippi River as it floats past Riverside Park and West River Road in Minneapolis. I have set every word of Michael’s beautiful poem and have repeated words sparingly. As I paged through the book I realized I was reading a litany, a responsorial prayer with the same formula beginning each line. The resonance with a traditional form appealed to me and is reflected in the music’s structure. The book bears a subtitle, “A Father's Gift to his Daughter,” that was not a part of Michael’s original poem. I like to think that my musical work will celebrate the gift that Thursday Musical has been to the Minnesota musical community over 125 years. (421 words) - [Last Silence by Paul Schoenfeld Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/chamber-music/products/last-silence-paul-schoenfeld/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Flute, Violin, and Piano Duration: Approx. 21 minutes Date Written: 2020 Commissioned by: N/A Premiered by: N/A Additional Information: N/A (230 words) - [Out in the Cold – Julian Grant - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/voice-art-song/products/out-in-the-cold-julian-grant/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Julian Grant Instrumentation: soprano or mezzo soprano, violin, viola and 'cello Duration: Approx. 17 minutes Date Written: 2002 Additional information: An anthology of poems of abandonment, dedicated to Peter Lighte. A piece that I felt too personal to release to the world when I wrote it - it was premiered many years later. 1. Voice (after Giovanni Pascoli, 1855-1912) 2. Encountering a Snowstorm (after Liu Ch'ang Ch'ing, 709-c.80) 3. She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways (William Wordsworth, 1770-1850) 4. Unicorn (from The Book of Songs, c.600 BC) 5. Don't Say a Word (after Osip Mandelstam, 1891-1938) 6. Orfano [Orphan] (Giovanni Pascoli) First performed 14 October 2018 by Lucy Schaufer (mezzo-soprano), Miranda Fulleylove, Clara Biss and Zoë Martlew at Smedmore House, Dorset, UK as part of the Purbeck Arts Festival (278 words) - [Partita by Paul Schoenfeld Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/chamber-music/products/partita-paul-schoenfeld/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Violin and Piano Duration: Approx. 26 minutes Date Written: 2002 Commissioned by: Premiered by: Additional Information: (191 words) - [Six Improvisations on Chasidic Melodies by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/chamber-music/products/paul-schoenfeld-six-improvisations-on-chasidic-melodies.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Flute and Piano Duration: Date Written: 1991 Commissioned: For Carol Wincenc Premiered: 1991 Additional Information: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Schoenfield) composed the Six Improvisations on Hassidic Melodies for Piano Solo in 1985. They are presented here by the composer in this edition for Flute and Piano. There are six movements: Ufaratsta, Achat Sha'alti, Vah'hi Vishurun Melech, Kozatske, Nigun, and Rikud. Paul on Six Improvisations on Chasidic Melodies: "I was introduced to Hassidic music in 1985, having been given a book of Hassidic melodies and asked to provide dinner music for a synagogue banquet. The tunes -- some ecstatic, others reflective -- enchanted me; being absorbed in them eventually led to the composition of a piano suite, "Six Improvisations on Hassidic Melodies." Although three of the movements are based on Biblical texts, much Hassidic song is wordless, employing only vocalized syllables. This is because according to Hassidic Rebbes, melody was of primary significance; it was the melody that brought one to the heights of ecstasy and true religious fervor. There is a philosophy behind Hassidic music quite distinct from traditional Western of synagogue music. Hassidism regarded the expression of exuberant joy and union with God as primary religious duties. The intangible facets of music were recognized as higher worlds, and one finds expressions such as "Song is the soul of the universe," "Impurity knows no song, because it knows no joy" and "Music originates from the prophetic spirit with the power to elevate one to prophetic inspiration." Not surprisingly, in modern times the significance of these melodies is such that they are becoming a form of religious exercise, even when not joined to the set occasions of religious service or joyous gatherings. In 1989 Carol Wincenc collaborated with me on a flute concerto that eventually became "Klezmer Rondos." An upcoming recording of this piece left five vacant minutes on the projected CD, so I arranged the first two of the "Improvisations" for flute and piano. Eventually, in 2005, with Carol's urging, the suite contained all six was completed. I. Ufaratsta: And you shall spread forth to the west adn to the east, to the north and to the south. (Genesis 27:14) II. Achat Sha'alti: One thing I ask from the Lord, one thing I desire -- that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the pleasantness of the Lord and to meditate in His Temple. (Psalm 27:4) III. Vay'hi Vishurun Melech: And He was King in Jeshurun. (Deuteronomy 33:5) IV. Kozatzke: Cossack Dance V. Nigun: Melody VI. 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Composer: Carol Barnett Text by: Louis Jenkins Instrumentation: Mezzo-Soprano and Piano Duration: Approx. 6'30" Date Written: 2020 Commissioned: Commissioned by Schubert Club for mezzo-soprano Georgia Jacobson with funding provided by Barbara Brown and John Michel in memory of soprano Ruth Jacobson Composer’s note: It all began when John Michel asked me to set three poems from Louis Jenkins’ The Mad Moonlight, published by Will o’ the Wisp Books in 2019. The project has since mushroomed into the commissioning of a dozen composers for settings of almost all of the poems in the volume. John and Louis, both from Duluth, MN, were dear friends until Louis’s death in December of 2019. The poets are light-hearted and wry; deeper meaning lurks beneath the surface. 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The suite was originally composed for solo piano, however, at the request of Carol Wincenc, Schoenfeld arranged these two movements for solo Flute and Piano. (272 words) - [collections/all/products/a-woman-of-her-time-coco-chanel-sings-scott-wheeler.html](/content/collections/all/products/a-woman-of-her-time-coco-chanel-sings-scott-wheeler.html) (245 words) - [A Tree Telling of Orpheus – by Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/all/products/a-tree-telling-of-orpheus-carol-barnett/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Carol Barnett Text by: Denise Levertov Instrumentation: SATB a cappella Duration: Approx. 16 minutes Date Written: 2010 Composer’s note: I first discovered “A Tree Telling of Orpheus” in the early ‘90s, and spent the next 20 years searching for an opportunity to set it – not an easy task given its length. Thanks to the generous spirit of C. Thomas Brooks and the Gordon College Music Department, this setting, a choral narrative of Orphic events from an arboreal point of view, finally came to life in 2010, and was revitalized in a new BorderCrosSing recording in 2023. A couple of technical details: the altos should get their initial pitch in some way inaudible to the audience. And the “x” notation in mm. 179-218 is not Sprechstimme, but rather a stylized chanting of the text; the varying positions of the “x”s are to guide inflection and intensity, not pitch.– Carol Barnett text For an easy to read version of the text – please contact us. (398 words) - [a shaggy dog story for piano by Julian Grant - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/all/products/a-shaggy-dog-story-for-piano-julian-grant/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Julian Grant Instrumentation: Solo piano Duration: Approx. 11 minutes Date Written: 2009 revised 2014 Commissioned: N/A Additional Information: ......a shaggy dog story is an extremely long-winded anecdote characterized by extensive narration of typically irrelevant incidents and terminated by an anticlimax or a pointless punchline.......... (146 words) - [Melted Into Dreams – by Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/melted-into-dreams-carol-barnett/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music Composer: Carol Barnett Text by: William Shakespeare Instrumentation: SSSAAATTTBBB choir Duration: Approx. 5 minutes Date Written: 2001 Composer’s note: This setting of Shakespeare’s iconic text transitions from Prospero’s valedictory speech to images of towers and palaces that are built and dissolved within extended phrases. At the end, the voices divide into 12 parts, shimmering in a myriad of colors. Melted into Dreams was written thanks to the Commissioning Club of the Choral Arts Ensemble of Rochester, MN, Rick Kvam, director. (Commissioning Club members include Joseph & Lois Duffy, Randall & Marcia Edson, Tom & Lynne Gaffey, Andrew & Alison Good, Mary Ellen Malkasian, John & Joyce Penniston, Ed & Jayne Pompeian, and David & Jane Toft.) The work was premiered by the Choral Arts Ensemble on March 24, 2001, at Christ United Methodist Church, Rochester, MN. Texts Our revels now are ended: these our actors…were all spirits andAre melted into air, into thin air;And, like the baseless fabric of this visionThe cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,The solemn temples, the great globe itself,Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuffAs dreams are made of, and our little lifeIs rounded with a sleep. The Tempest; IV, iWilliam Shakespeare (439 words) - [Home Is – by Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/home-is-carol-barnett/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Carol Barnett Text by: Mia Lopez, Lucy Raymond, Charlotte Warren Jonathon Bailey, Alexia Miller, Caroline Baxter, Sophia Kisler Instrumentation: SATB divisi Duration: Approx. 4 minutes Date Written: 2019 Composer’s note: Home is…many things: a place (or places), the things in those places, the people and pets that you love and who love you, the familiar sounds, smells and tastes. The music is a kaleidoscope of styles – waltz, gentle syncopation, rap-style chanting, and the evocation of a place “where love is endless, everlasting and eternal.” Texts HOME IS… Home is where love is…Where you can be sad,Where you can be happy.Home is the place you leave every day,Where you fall and where you rise,Where you can do anything,Where you can be anything.Home is where you feel safe,Safe and loved. Home is the blanket my mom pulls out of the dryer.Home tastes like the cake that my mom cooks.Home feels like my dog cuddling with me.Home looks like organized books on a bookshelf.Home sounds like someone saying, “I love you.” For me, home is in two different places.For me, I am part of two different races.My first home was across the land and sea.That’s where half my heart will always be.My second is here.Oh, can you hearThe instant chatter,The silverware’s clatter,The call to homeFor the days to come?Even with your heart in two different placesYou can always call both home. Home is love.Home is family,Rich in kindness and joy,Where your heart abides,And where all your hopes flourish,Where love is endless, everlasting and eternal. (496 words) - [Four Motets by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/choral/products/four-motets-paul-schoenfeld/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: SATB chorus (divisi) unaccompanied Duration: Approx. 12 minutes Date Written: 1995 Commissioned by: Chanticleer, The Dale Warland Singers, The Phoenix Bach Choir, and La Vie with a grant from the Meet the Composer/Reader's Digest Commissioning Program, in partnership with the NEA and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund. Program Notes Based on Psalm 86, the neo-renaissance Four Motets was written by Paul Schoenfield in 1995. Each motet describes an aspect of a servant of God. In the first motet, the psalmist refers to his destitution, which is a poverty of good deeds. Despite his lack of merit, the psalmist seeks Divine favor. The expectation itself is an expression of service. As the noted 19th century scholar, Rabbi S.R. Hirsch, comments, the goal of prayer is not so much to attain the desired help as to reassure oneself of God's nearness. In the second verse, the psalmist declares: "for I dedicate myself to you." The "dedicated" one includes attributes of the Divine in his or her personality. The person who is dedicated, selfless, does not assert his or her own rights, but seeks the welfare of others. This brings us to the "joy of the soul" expressed in the second motet. This joy, the feeling of the soul as it grows in moral and spiritual strength, does not depend on external circumstances. It is attainable when a person finds the power to bear hardships with dignity, and when he or she succeeds in so doing. The third motet refers to the central idea of Psalm 86. The psalmist declares "in the day of my trouble I will call upon You, so that You will answer me," as a child who is reassured by the presence of a parent. In the fourth motet, a request is made: "make my heart one," i.e., reconcile my inclinations so I fear nothing but the possibility of violating the sanctity due Your Name. Occasionally, a person is of "two hearts." Here, the psalmist seeks help in choosing the path of holiness. Four Motets was commissioned by a consortium consisting of Chanticleer, The Dale Warland Singers, The Phoenix Bach Choir and La Vie. The commissioning of Four Motets was made possible by a grant from the Meet the Composer/Reader's Digest Commissioning Program, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund. Notes by Dvorah Branse Rechasim, Israel Used by permission (580 words) - [On the Day You Were Born by Steve Heitzeg - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/orchestral/products/on-the-day-you-were-born-steve-heitzeg/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. If you are interested in a part set for a performance please contact us. Composer: Steve Heitzeg Text: Debra Frasier Instrumentation: Narrator and orchestra 2 (pic)-2-2-2/4-3-3-1/timp, 3 perc, hp/str Duration: Approx. 18 minutes Date Written: 1995 Premiered by: Minnesota Orchestra; William Eddins, conductor; Jane Alexander, narrator, Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN on 10/22/1995 Commissioned: The Minnesota Commissioning Club Additional Information: N/A (140 words) - [Russian Sketches by Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/string-orchestra/products/russian-sketches-carol-barnett/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Carol Barnett Instrumentation: Violin I & II, Viola, Cello, Bass Duration: Approx. 14 minutes Date Written: 1995 Additional Information: Russian Sketches was written in 1995 in response to a request from the Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota (WARM)-International for a piece to celebrate the opening of a show by their Russian sister organization, ART-MISSIA, at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Its three movements are short fantasies, each based on a Russian folk song. The first tune, “Up the Hill I Climb,” is lively but elusive; it doesn’t appear intact until the very end of the movement. The second, a mournful lament entitled “Where Have You Been,” is heard immediately after a short introduction. The brief, repetitive melody of “The Rustic Castle” is first heard in the bass some sixty measures into the energetic last movement. (289 words) - [A Monument to Adam by Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/all/products/a-monument-to-adam-info-sheet-carol-barnett/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Carol Barnett Text by: Mark Twain Instrumentation: SATB , fiddle, mandolin, banjo, guitar, bass Duration: Approx. 4'15" minutes Date Written: 2020 Composer’s note: composer’s note: The Cantata Singers of Elmira, NY, and their director, will wickham, programmed The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass, and wanted to commission another bluegrass work to round out the concert. By happy coincidence, Mark Twain spent several years in Elmira and was well acquainted with several of the town’s leading citizens – a perfect excuse to set one of his texts. How it happened – Mark Twain’s account: “The matter started as a joke… Mr. Darwin’s Descent of Man had been in print five or six years, and the storm of indignation raised by it was still raging in pulpits and periodicals. In tracing the genesis of the human race back to its source, Mr. Darwin had left Adam out altogether… Jesting with Mr. Beecher [Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, of Elmira, New York] and other friends in Elmira, I said there seemed to be a likelihood that the world would discard Adam and that in the course of time Adam’s very name would be forgotten… [T]his calamity ought to be averted; a monument would accomplish this, and Elmira ought not to waste this honorable opportunity to do Adam a favor and herself a credit. “Then the unexpected happened. Two bankers came forward…not for fun, not for sentiment, but because they saw in the monument certain commercial advantages for the town… One of the bankers subscribed five thousand dollars…the other one subscribed half as much... We got designs made – some of them were from Paris. “In the beginning – when it was as yet a joke – I had framed a humble and beseeching and perfervid petition to Congress begging the government to build the monument… I sent it to General Joseph R. Hawley, who was then in the House, and he said he would present it. But he did not do it. He explained that when he came to read it he was afraid of it; it was too serious, too gushy, too sentimental – the House might take it for earnest.” – Carol Barnett Text: The text for A Monument to Adam is adapted from Mark Twain’s petition: A MONUMENT TO ADAM ( To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the United States In Congress Assembled) WHEREAS, A number of citizens of the city of Elmira in the state of New York, determined to erect a monument to Adam, and moved by a sentiment of love and duty, beg to lay before you the following facts. 1. As far as we know, no stone has ever been raised to commemorate the services rendered to our race by this great man. 2. The father of mankind has lain in entire neglect (though the Father of our Country has had for many years a monument in progress.) 3. No right-feeling human being should see this neglect continued; rather, we should rejoice that he will have reverent recognition at the hands of the people of Elmira. 4. If this monument be here set up, it will be to the eternal credit of the United States, one of the youngest of nations to spring from his loins after eons of unappreciation. 5. This idea having originated in the city of Elmira, she will be always grateful if the government shall secure to her a certain advantage. THEREFORE, We humbly petition that your honorable body restrict to Elmira the right to build a monument to Adam, and inflict a heavy penalty on any other community that shall propose or erect a monument to the said Adam. (861 words) - [A Lowry Triptych - David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/all/products/a-lowry-triptych-david-evan-thomas/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: David Evan Thomas Instrumentation: Solo piano Duration: Approx. 10 minutes Date Written: 2025 Additional Information: Robert Lowry (1826–1899) was one of the most prolific and lyrical hymn-writers of the nineteenth century. Raised Presbyterian, a religious experience at seventeen sent him into the Baptist fold. He studied at the University of Lewisburg (now Bucknell University), was ordained in 1854, and went on to serve congregations at several churches in the East. Lowry considered preaching his main vocation, and he was a spellbinding orator. Hymn-writing was a sideline, but he penned more than 500 hymn tunes, often writing text as well as music. And his rhetoric infects his music. His tunes are splendid, full-throated melodies that are great fun to sing. Though he was essentially self-taught as a musician, music was always nearby: “My brain is a sort of spinning machine,” he said, “for there is music running through it all the time.” Lowry pursued the study of music later in life, and he shaped the American-style gospel hymn as the editor of more than two dozen hymnals. The arrangements here treat three of Lowry’s most popular hymns. “How Can I Keep from Singing?” echoes in tones what those words express. “I Need Thee Every Hour” presents the tune in the left hand between the hours of eleven and midnight, with Verdi’s ingenious bell-harmonies from Falstaff worked into the coda. “Shall We Gather at the River” was conceived during a heat wave while Lowry was pastor of the Hanson Place Baptist Church in Brooklyn. It was inspired by the text from the Book of Revelation: "And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb." Lowry dismissed “Shall We Gather…” as “brass band music.” I’ve taken him at his word, recasting the tune as a brash revival march with a saucy countermelody. I have Lowrys on my father’s side of the family. In 1892, my great-great-uncle Charles Doak Lowry encountered Robert Lowry aboard the SS City of Paris, finding him quite affable. “He is far from young, is quite deaf, but he has a new-oldish bride.” A direct connection between these Lowrys has yet to be confirmed, but both share roots in Northern Ireland. (550 words) - [A Letter to Marianne Moore (from Longing for Home) – by Carol Barnett - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/all/products/a-letter-to-marianne-moore-from-longing-for-home-carol-barnett.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Carol Barnett Text by: Mohja Kahf (b. 1967) Instrumentation baritone, piano Duration: approx. 4' Date Written: 2018 Composer’s note: Longing for Home is a song cycle written to celebrate Source Song Festival’s fifth season. The texts all reference homecoming in various ways – the enduring wish to return to a place remembered with love and longing, as well as the uncertainty, the impossibility of doing so. “A Letter to Marianne Moore - Eugene McCarthy’s fanciful invitation to Marianne Moore, who died in 1972, references several familiar landmarks of the city of which she was a long-time resident. The boats, the piers, the ferry, the bridges, the gargoyles and the lions at the New York Public Library all afford opportunities for sonic pictures – horns, still waters or ripples, and those library lions processing down the street. Eugene McCarthy (1916-2005) was an American politician, poet, and long-time Congressman from Minnesota. text LETTER TO MARIANNE MOORE (in tribute to Joseph Grucci) Come quickly to your city.All the boats at the piersare quiet, waiting for you. Only their flags and pennants moveand those gently as tongues whisperingyou down from the sky.The horns and whistles all are silent,so that you can hear our softer call. The Staten Island Ferry leaves no wake.All the waters are stillmirrors waiting for your face.If another looks, they erasewith quick ripples and regret. The bridges are bowed,waiting, and the tunnels call.The gargoyles hold their stern faces,but like children waiting to openpresents, threaten to smile. The lions at the library, one can seein peripheral vision, twitch their tails,eager to follow you down the street.We have promised them your coming to quiet them. Everyone knows that there are brown butter-flies in your hair, and agatesand small mirrors in your purseand words. Come quickly to your city. Eugene McCarthy (1916-2005) (487 words) - [25 preludes for piano by Julian Grant - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/all/products/25-preludes-for-piano-julian-grant/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Julian Grant Instrumentation: Solo piano Duration: Approx. 65 minutes Date Written: 2014 Commissioned: N/A Additional Information: These were written in the summer and autumn of 2014, as a result of a delay with a new opera commission. The catalyst was a request from MELVYN TAN for a virtuoso addition to his ongoing ‘Variations for Judith’ project, which resulted in the ninth Prelude in Ab - 'Bist du bei mir....aber halte dich fest'. The other pieces followed swiftly. Though abstract, unusual in my work as a whole, the whole set shares thematic links, and material resurfaces and repeats throughout, resulting in a tight knit cycle of related pieces. (200 words) - [EcoSaga - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/orchestral/products/ecosaga-steve-heitzeg/index.html): If you are interested in a parts set for a performance, please contact us. Composer: Steve Heitzeg Instrumentation: Instrumentation: solo cello, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in B-flat, 2 bassoons, 2 horns in F, 2 trumpets in C, trombone, tuba, timpani, percussion, and strings. Percussion requires 3 players and includ (297 words) - [a little lighte music by Julian Grant - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/all/products/a-little-lighte-music-julian-grant/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Julian Grant Instrumentation: Solo piano Date Written: 2006 Commissioned: N/A Additional Information: N/A (99 words) - ["Wildflower Chorus" Postcard – Steve Heitzeg (ecoscore) – Opus Imprints](/content/collections/all/products/wildflower-chorus-postcard-steve-heitzeg-ecoscore/index.html): Postcards featuring Steve Heitzeg's ecoscore – "Wildflower Chorus". These are printed and shipped on demand. (171 words) - ["Waawaate (Skyscape song)" Postcard – Steve Heitzeg (ecoscore) – Opus Imprints](/content/collections/all/products/waawaate-skyscape-song-postcard-steve-heitzeg-ecoscore.html): Postcards featuring Steve Heitzeg's ecoscore – "Waawaate (Skyscape song)". These are printed and shipped on demand.   (173 words) - ["VOTE (Fanfare for Democracy)" Postcard – Steve Heitzeg (ecoscore) – Opus Imprints](/content/collections/all/products/vote-fanfare-for-democracy-postcard-steve-heitzeg-ecoscore.html): Postcards featuring Steve Heitzeg's ecoscore – "VOTE (Fanfare for Democracy)". 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It is certainly a landscape, the apparent contours of which change with the season and time of day. Landscape of Shadow and Light traces a Chopinesque path from F minor to A-flat major, but it moves through many other keys on its way, touching each of the 88 keys and even implying some that aren’t there. And is that a Hardanger fiddle tune that pops up en route? It’s a tribute to the dedicatee, Thelma Hunter (1925–2015), who was proud to be “100% Norwegian.” Thelma’s contributions to musical life in the Twin Cities were many and legendary, from teaching at the University of Minnesota to appearing as soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra. Landcape was commissioned by her family and friends for her 88th birthday; she requested that it include every key of the modern piano. Pianist Ann DuHamel included Landscape on her Prayers for a Feverish Planet tour, performing the work in dozens of programs, including at the10th Porto Pianofest in Portugal. 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Composer: David Evan Thomas Instrumentation: Solo piano Duration: Approx. 7 minutes Date Written: 1993, 2001 Additional Information: In a letter some years ago, Jane Van Dyk wrote of the winter doldrums: “My mother always called it the ‘januaries’ and tried to think of something fun to do.” Various impressions appear in the winter fantasy I call Januaries: alphorns I once heard on Lake Louise; bugling elk in Yellowstone, a solitary whistler, gusts of wind and crackling ice. Januaries was written for Jane’s January birthday in 1993. (171 words) - [Soft Summer Airs - David Evan Thomas - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/piano/products/soft-summer-airs-david-evan-thomas/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: David Evan Thomas Instrumentation: Solo piano Duration: ca. 9' Date Written: 2011 Program Note This 2010 collection brings together five small pieces on summery themes as a piano suite. To the Summer House was presented as a gift to the wonderful Twin Cities pianist Thelma Hunter after a 2003 Music in the Park concert. It turns out that Thelma and her late husband Sam did indeed have a summer house on their Mendota Heights property. You may recognize a paraphrase of Mendelssohn’s famous bit “Oh, for the wings, for the wings of a dove” in Bright Wings!, for Nell Slater. It takes as a point of departure lines from Hopkins’s poem “God’s Grandeur”: There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;. . . .Because the Holy Ghost over the bentWorld broods with warm breast and with, ah! bright wings. Seated in the Rain was composed in the wake of a tragic event many years ago. Now the Heart Sings was a present for Amy Roach. The close and introduction from my song, “The Gateway,” frames the tune from that song, part of my song cycle, Grace and Stir. If the song and piano piece were performed in tandem, they would create a ring. The Clear Water of Our Hearts was a wedding present for pianist Shannon Wettstein and William Sadler. The title borrows a line from one of Billy’s poems. The suite, while not virtuosic, has some subtle difficulties, making it appropriate for a mature performer (407 words) - ["AHIMSA" Postcard – Steve Heitzeg (ecoscore) – Opus Imprints](/content/collections/all/products/ahimsa-postcard-steve-heitzeg-ecoscore/index.html): Postcards featuring Steve Heitzeg's ecoscore – "AHIMSA". These are printed and shipped on demand. (171 words) - ["Love Notes" Postcard – Steve Heitzeg (ecoscore) – Opus Imprints](/content/collections/all/products/love-notes-postcard-steve-heitzeg-ecoscore/index.html): Postcards featuring Steve Heitzeg's ecoscore – "Love Notes". These are printed and shipped on demand (173 words) - ["PEACE MARCH'" Postcard – Steve Heitzeg (ecoscore) – Opus Imprints](/content/collections/all/products/peace-march-postcard-steve-heitzeg-ecoscore/index.html): Postcards featuring Steve Heitzeg's ecoscore – "PEACE MARCH". These are printed and shipped on demand (173 words) - [Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/catalog/products/paul-schoenfeld-trio-for-violin-clarinet-and-piano/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Clarinet (in B-flat), Violin, and Piano Duration: Approx. 19 minutes Date Written: 1990 Commissioned by: Information Not Available Premiered: Information Not Available (1990) Additional Information: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Schoenfield) composed the Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano in 1990. Clarinetist David Shifrin first invited Schoenfeld to compose a trio for this combination of instruments in 1986, however, being engaged at the time with a number of other composition projects, it wasn't until 1990 that this work came to fruition. It is in four movements: Freylakh, March, Nigun, and Kozatske. (295 words) - [Refund policy – Opus Imprints](/content/policies/refund-policy/index.html): Opus Imprints is a modern and digitally-forward classical music publisher focused on preserving, elevating, and promoting the work of contemporary composers such as Paul Schoenfeld. Our primary goal is to help our composers' music get performed, enjoyed, and cherished for generations to come. (94 words) - [Three Intermezzi by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/schoenfeld-piano-works/products/paul-schoenfeld-three-intermezzi/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Solo piano Duration: Approx. 17 minutes Date Written: 2004 Commissioned by: The Schubert Club of St. Paul, Minnesota Premiered by: Information Not Available Additional Information: From program notes by Christina Dahl: "Schoenfeld has described his Three Intermezzi (for Piano Solo) as one of a very few works he has written simply to please himself. In his words, 'Here is music my hands feel like touching with sounds my ears enjoy perceiving.' Its three movements were written at different times, but coalesced into a single work. The Three Intermezzi explore an interior world devoid of anything ostentatious. Schoenfeld's signature counterpoint--echoing both Bach and Brahms--is evident throughout. The music is intimate, serene and contemplative. 'It's the sort of music I improvise at night with the lights out and the house empty,' he says. The first Intermezzo quotes a bit of a Bach prelude, then develops it in waves and spirals that course up and down the keyboard. The second Intermezzo emerges from a single repeated note into an oscillating minor third and finally into a dark and soulful Sicilienne. The third Intermezzo, as long as the other two combined, explores the boundaries where decidedly crafted music and mediation combine." (391 words) - [Peccadilloes by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/schoenfeld-piano-works/products/paul-schoenfeld-peccadilloes/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Solo piano Duration: Approx. 18 minutes Date Written: 1997 Commissioned by: The Schubert Club of St. Paul, Minnesota Premiered by: Christopher O’Riley Additional Information: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Schoenfield) composed the Peccadilloes for Piano Solo in 1997, commissioned by the Schubert Club of St. Paul, Minnesota. In fact, it was specifically written for and premiered by Christopher O’Riley (of 'From the Top'). The suite consists of six movements: Allemande, Fughetta, Rag, Waltz, Shuffle, and Boogie (230 words) - [Schoenfeld Piano Works – Opus Imprints](/content/collections/schoenfeld-piano-works/index.html): Opus Imprints is a modern and digitally-forward classical music publisher focused on preserving, elevating, and promoting the work of contemporary composers such as Paul Schoenfeld. Our primary goal is to help our composers' music get performed, enjoyed, and cherished for generations to come. 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Each of the three movements features a different American Dance style: Charleston, Hunter Rag, and Jig. (277 words) - [Achat Sha'alti and Ufaratsta by Paul Schoenfield - Sheet Music | Opus Imprints](/content/collections/catalog/products/paul-schoenfield-achat-shaalti-and-ufaratsta/index.html): Buy digital sheet music with instant PDF downloads or physical sheet music. Composer: Paul Schoenfeld (formerly Paul Schoenfield) Instrumentation: Flute and Piano Duration: Approx. 5 minutes Date Written: 1991 Commissioned: For Carol Wincenc Premiered: 1991 Additional Information: Achat Sha'alti and Ufaratsta are two movements from Paul Schoenfeld's suite of Six Improvisations on Hassidic Melodies. The suite was originally composed for solo piano, however, at the request of Carol Wincenc, Schoenfeld arranged these two movements for solo Flute and Piano. 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Commissioned: Paul Grangaard Additional Information: American Nomad, a new trumpet concerto by composer Steve Heitzeg, received its world premiere by Charles Lazarus, trumpet, with Mischa Santora conducting the Minnesota Orchestra, on Thursday, April 30, and Friday, May 1, 2015 at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis. The 22-minute concerto—described by the composer as a “sonic meditation across the nation”—evokes distinct American landscapes, incorporates jazz improvisation into the concerto format and showcases percussion instruments including an iron armature bar from the Statue of Liberty, New York subway spikes and fallen branches from a Joshua tree. “I wanted to create a series of soundscapes across America, moving from Manhattan to the Great Plains to the High Desert, Joshua Tree National Park, and the Pacific,” said Heitzeg. “The soloist becomes a sort of troubadour, reporting to us sonically about his travels, the people and the land. 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The 22-minute concerto—described by the composer as a “sonic meditation across the nation”—evokes distinct American landscapes, incorporates jazz improvisation into the concerto format and showcases percussion instruments including an iron armature bar from the Statue of Liberty, New York subway spikes and fallen branches from a Joshua tree. “I wanted to create a series of soundscapes across America, moving from Manhattan to the Great Plains to the High Desert, Joshua Tree National Park, and the Pacific,” said Heitzeg. “The soloist becomes a sort of troubadour, reporting to us sonically about his travels, the people and the land. The word ‘nomad’ resonated with me because we are all travelers on this beautiful planet.” The work—which was commissioned by Minnesota Orchestra Board Member Paul Grangaard—was written in close collaboration with Charles Lazarus, a member of the Minnesota Orchestra as well as a gifted jazz musician. “Chuck’s hope was to premiere a concerto that would organically merge jazz and classical elements, and I wanted to write a piece that would showcase his versatility,” said Heitzeg. The resulting work unfolds in three movements. The first is Avenue of the Americas (for those who are without a home), an exploration around immigration: what is your avenue to America? Percussionists in this movement play New York City subway spikes and an original iron armature bar from the Statue of Liberty—as a riff on Gershwin’s An American in Paris in which percussionists play Parisian taxi horns. 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