We know some of you will flinch at this post, but equally others like to plan early (Leeds Male Voice Choir have their concert dates booked in right up until Christmas 2024!!).... if you are in the latter camp you can filter our Choral Music list by music...

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"The Land of Nod" by Stephen Paulus. Text by Robert Louis Stevenson. Recorded live on May 13, 2011, 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...  more"The Land of Nod" by Stephen Paulus. Text by Robert Louis Stevenson. Recorded live on May 13, 2011, 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. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Susan Dodd. This piece was first debuted by the Girl Choir of South Florida as part of the festival chorus at the Keynote Arts Festival in June 2006. From breakfast on through all the day At home among my friends I stay, But every night I go abroad Afar into the land of Nod. All by myself I have to go, With none to tell me what to do — All alone beside the streams And up the mountain-sides of dreams. The strangest things are there for me, Both things to eat and things to see, And many frightening sights abroad Till morning in the land of Nod. Try as I like to find the way, I never can get back by day, Nor can remember plain and clear The curious music that I hear.  less

"Life is a Circle" by Swiss/Italian composer Ivo Antognini - August 8, 2011 in la Iglesia Sagrado Corazon, Puerto Madryn, Patagonia Argentina, Dr. Brady Allred, conductor, at the 9th World Symposium on Choral Music. Life is a Circle was written for th...  more"Life is a Circle" by Swiss/Italian composer Ivo Antognini - August 8, 2011 in la Iglesia Sagrado Corazon, Puerto Madryn, Patagonia Argentina, Dr. Brady Allred, conductor, at the 9th World Symposium on Choral Music. Life is a Circle was written for the Salt Lake Vocal Artists and had its official world premiere at the symposium. Life is a Circle By Black Elk ~ Oglala Sioux ~1863-1950 Everything the power of the world does, is done in a circle. The sky is round and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind in its' greatest power whirls. Birds make their nests in circles; for their's is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing and always come back to where they were. The life of a man is a circle, from childhood to childhood. and so it is with everything where power moves.  less

The Salt Lake Vocal Artists perform "Dos Palabras" by Ivo Antognini in Cattedrale di Sant'Andrea, city of Tortoli, Sardegna, Italy, under the direction of Dr. Brady Allred, live in concert on September 12, 2011 as part of the Cagliari Festival Internazion...  moreThe Salt Lake Vocal Artists perform "Dos Palabras" by Ivo Antognini in Cattedrale di Sant'Andrea, city of Tortoli, Sardegna, Italy, under the direction of Dr. Brady Allred, live in concert on September 12, 2011 as part of the Cagliari Festival Internazionale di Musica Vocale. Italy Tour: September 7-15, 2011 Text (English translation): Poetry by Alfonsina Storni Two Words Tonight you murmured two simple words into my ear. Two words shopworn from use. Words so old, they are new. Two words so sweet the moon floating beyond the trees' branches pauses to fill my mouth. Words so melodious, when an ant inches up my neck, I make no move to brush it off. A pair of words so sweet that despite myself I say "How lovely life is." Calming, gentle, they are like scented oils poured over my body. So sweet and beautiful and my nervous fingers rise toward heaven in imitation of scissors. Yes, tonight my fingers would cut out the stars.  less

Written by Robert Applebaum, this jazzy piece has unpredictable meters and an exotic soprano solo.