26/27 · STATE PREMIERE Read this if you want to score a State Premiere for your choir (without blowing your budget) By Santiago Veros If you are a choral director, you already know the struggle. You want to offer your singers the thrill of...

"In Flanders Fields" by John Jacobson and Roger Emerson. Text by John McRae. Recorded live on May 7, 2016, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Lyric Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Di...  more"In Flanders Fields" by John Jacobson and Roger Emerson. Text by John McRae. Recorded live on May 7, 2016, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Lyric Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Susan Dodd. In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.  less

"The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy". Trinidadian carol, arr. Stephen Hatfield. Recorded live on December 8, 2013, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Chamber Singers ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Art...  more"The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy". Trinidadian carol, arr. Stephen Hatfield. Recorded live on December 8, 2013, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Chamber Singers ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson.  

"The Green Man" by Martin Donnelly, arr. Ron Jeffers. Recorded live on May 4, 2014, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peters...  more"The Green Man" by Martin Donnelly, arr. Ron Jeffers. Recorded live on May 4, 2014, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Gayle Giese. Among the many figures carved on medieval cathedrals, one may find examples of foliate heads—a figure in which leafy foliage sprouts and elaborately ornaments a frieze, façade, or column. This figure is known as "The Green Man" and was mainly a northern European and Celtic symbol of the regeneration of life, a symbol of May, and the return of spring. The Eostre Sun It cuts my eyes Open to the wind and rain All around, the Earth breathes deep I come alive again I am the Green Man of the woods The wounded and the broken land I am the fire in the red stag's eye The touch of lover's hand Of a lover's hand Oh, let me speak Lend me your tongue To sing the trees and streams Sing the dark blood of the hills The Moon ...    less

The Concert Choir of the Girl Choir of South Florida performs "Ubi Caritas" by Eleanor Daley live during the 2010 Winter Concert "Timbrel and Harp" on December 11, 2010, at Second Presbyterian Church of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis ...  moreThe Concert Choir of the Girl Choir of South Florida performs "Ubi Caritas" by Eleanor Daley live during the 2010 Winter Concert "Timbrel and Harp" on December 11, 2010, at Second Presbyterian Church of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Soli: Alexandra Colaizzi and Jyothy Thomas.  

The Apprentice Choir of the Girl Choir of South Florida performs "Little David, Play on Your Harp" by Ken Berg live during the 2010 Winter Concert "Timbrel and Harp" on December 11, 2010, at Second Presbyterian Church of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Artistic...  moreThe Apprentice Choir of the Girl Choir of South Florida performs "Little David, Play on Your Harp" by Ken Berg live during the 2010 Winter Concert "Timbrel and Harp" on December 11, 2010, at Second Presbyterian Church of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson.  

"And Miriam Sang (Shiru L'Adonai)" by Zebulon M Highben. Text from Exodus 15:21. Recorded live on June 4, 2013, at Christ Lutheran Church in Oakland Park, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Dir...  more"And Miriam Sang (Shiru L'Adonai)" by Zebulon M Highben. Text from Exodus 15:21. Recorded live on June 4, 2013, at Christ Lutheran Church in Oakland Park, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson. "Sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted. Both horse and driver he has hurled into the sea."  

SHEET MUSIC: https://musicspoke.com/downloads/the-... PROGRAM NOTES: “I breathed a song into the air, it fell to earth I knew not where.” Ten years ago, I wrote a composition called Always Keep This Close with little idea of where it would go or wh...  moreSHEET MUSIC: https://musicspoke.com/downloads/the-... PROGRAM NOTES: “I breathed a song into the air, it fell to earth I knew not where.” Ten years ago, I wrote a composition called Always Keep This Close with little idea of where it would go or what it would come to mean for others. To find that song living in the hearts of other musicians is both humbling and surprising. For me, it’s a reminder of how powerful our actions and words can be. Something that feels insignificant to one person can be life-changing to another. While creating The Heart of a Friend, I knew from the start that I wanted to shape a melodic arc that captured the trajectory of both the arrow and the song. I felt strongly that the first two stanzas needed to end at a high point, preserving the uncertainty of where each might land. Only in the third stanza does the melody turn downward, revealing the rest of its path. I then combine these two halves to symbolically represent reflection—looking back on an action and seeing the journe...    less

"Fancie" by Benjamin Britten. Text from "The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare. Recorded live on Friday, May 17, 2013, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Apprentice Choir ensemble of the...  more"Fancie" by Benjamin Britten. Text from "The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare. Recorded live on Friday, May 17, 2013, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Apprentice Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Associate Director: Robert Todd, Accompanist: Susan Dodd. Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engender'd in the eyes, With gazing fed; and fancy dies In the cradle, where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell; I'll begin it -- Ding, dong, bell. Ding, dong, bell.  less

"Scântei solare (Solar Flares)" by Jonathan R. Pieslak. Text Sabina Păuţa Pieslak. Performed by the Chamber Singers ensemble of The Girl Choir of South Florida on May 18, 2012, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Artistic Direct...  more"Scântei solare (Solar Flares)" by Jonathan R. Pieslak. Text Sabina Păuţa Pieslak. Performed by the Chamber Singers ensemble of The Girl Choir of South Florida on May 18, 2012, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson. Translation (Romanian): Sun and stars, many tiny ones A game of light on the mountain peak, The snow has melted easily, It flows clearly towards the spring. The warm wind carried the spring, The doe once again leaps through the valleys. She drinks from the pure, crystal river That pours itself smoothly into the sea; Springtime is fully born, The sea is rising, waves with foam, Migratory birds are gathering, A siren sings sweetly to them, "la da lo ..."  less