Title from container. Westminster Choir College of Rider University ; The Westminster Williamson Voices ; James Jordan, conductor ; USC Thornton Chamber Singers ; Jo-Michael Scheibe, conductor. Notes on conductors and ensembles (8 unnumbered pages : portraits) inserted in container.
Contents:
Disc 1. Level 1. The road home / Stephen Paulus (4:33) ; The ways of love / Norman Luboff (2:16) ; Velvet shoes / Randall Thompson (4:01) ; And I'll kiss thee yet / Jackie O'Neill (3:29) ; Jubilate Deo / anonymous, arr. Spevacek (3:04) ; Soldier's elegy / Michael Kregler (3:20) ; Tshotsholoza / Jeffery Ames (2:00) -- Level 2. And dream awhile / Blake Henson (5:59) ; Fa una canzona / Orazio Vecchi ; arr. Parker, Shaw (1:16) ; Hine ma tov / Cindy McTee, arr. Ginsberg (3:04) ; Kyrie : from Requiem / Tomás Luis de Victoria (6:34) ; Th spheres / Ola Gjeilo (4:29) ; Shenandoah / arr. Paul Basler (2:44) ; Bright morning stars / arr. Paul Carey (3:51) ; Follow the drinking gourd / arr. Dan Davidson (3:11) ; Good-night / Matthew Emery (2:56) ; Christmas dance of the shepherds / Zoltán Kodály (2:00) ; Sound the trumpet / Henry Purcell, arr. Hermann (2:36) ; De animals a-comin' / Maginel Wright-Barney, arr. Bartholomew, Heath (1:36) ; Down in the valley / arr. George Mead (3:48) -- Disc 2. Level 3. Alleluia / Robert "Ralph" Manuel (5:14) ; A red, red rose / James Mulholland (3:08) ; As I walk the silent Earth / Thomas LaVoy (6:12) ; At the river / Aaron Copland, arr. Wilding-White (3:10) ; Da pacem Domine / Arvo Pärt (4:02) ; Earth song / Frank Ticheli (3:25) ; Good night, dear heart / Dan Forrest (5:16) ; I carry your heart with me / David Dickau (4:24) ; I hear a voice a-prayin' / Houston Bright (2:32) ; It was a lover and his lass / Matthew Harris (2:35) ; Canticle of Mary / Jeffery Ames, Scott Leaman (5:10) ; Tota pulchra es / Maurice Duruflé (1:33) ; Veni, Domine : from Drei Motetten, op. 39 / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (4:39) -- Level 4. Tantem ergo / Maurice Duruflé (2:52) ; Pilgrim's hymn / Stephen Paulus (3:36) ; Rise up, my love, my fair one / Healey Willan (1:42) ; She weeps over Rahoon / Eric Whitacre (4:47) ; Hark, I hear the harps eternal / arr. Alice Parker (2:48) ; Locus iste / Anton Bruckner (3:43).
Summary:
"This two-CD set contains premier recordings of 39 of the most significant works composed for choir, levels 1-4, as selected by leaders in the choral art ... For more information about each piece, as well as conducting insights ... refer to the book, Teaching Music through Performance in Choir, Volume 4 ... published by GIA Publications, Inc."--Container.
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