SATB /Organ and Optional Trumpet, recorded here at St bees Priory with the Masterworks chorale https://www.Timknightmusic.com/product-page/c1412-how-they-so-softly-rest-satb-organ

This is based on the anonymous English poem (with added 2nd verse by David Dunning) about a centipede who loses her concentration: Verse 1 A Centipede was happy quite Until a frog in fun said "Pray tell which leg comes after which?" (with a left r...  moreThis is based on the anonymous English poem (with added 2nd verse by David Dunning) about a centipede who loses her concentration: Verse 1 A Centipede was happy quite Until a frog in fun said "Pray tell which leg comes after which?" (with a left right right left right) This raised her mind to such a pitch she lay distracted in a ditch Considering how to run. Verse 2 She stopped and thought and, mystified, Soliloquized on this; Put right foot first and found it left Her left leg wrong right side This raised her mind to such a pitch she lay distracted in a ditch Considering how to run.  less

SHEET MUSIC: https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/se/I... ABOUT THE MUSIC: This arrangement is split into four ideas all linked together generationally. The first verse is meant to symbolize a departed parent comforting their grown child from the great b...  moreSHEET MUSIC: https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/se/I... ABOUT THE MUSIC: This arrangement is split into four ideas all linked together generationally. The first verse is meant to symbolize a departed parent comforting their grown child from the great beyond. To be more specific, the parent is singing this lullaby to their child in a dream. I felt the Latin word “Lux” (Light) was an appropriate fit for the imagery of sunlight and heavenly light. The second verse represents the grown child waking up from the dream (first verse). This verse is meant to be bittersweet rather than strictly sad or angry. While there is grieving, the melody imparts comfort through nostalgia and memories. When the second verse gloriously blooms into the third, this represents everlasting love shining through even the darkest of Times. Although gone, one will live in the heart and memory of another forever. Finally, the reiteration of the first verse represents the grown child singing the same lullaby to their own baby, impartin...    less

PROGRAM NOTES: With the growing hate and division in our world, love must prevail. Too often today, it can feel easier to unfriend, unfollow, or simply part ways with others when they seem unworthy of our effort. Yet to truly understand and love one ano...  morePROGRAM NOTES: With the growing hate and division in our world, love must prevail. Too often today, it can feel easier to unfriend, unfollow, or simply part ways with others when they seem unworthy of our effort. Yet to truly understand and love one another requires fierce determination. It demands listening with openness rather than tuning out in order to respond defensively. It asks us to compromise—even when that means agreeing to disagree. UlTimately, all of this is only possible if we choose to live with the will to love. Musically, I sought to capture both determination and collective unity through texture and rhythmic drive. The use of canonic writing on the text “I sing” symbolizes individual voices rising together toward a shared purpose. Likewise, the primary rhythmic motive in the secondo piano part reflects the persistence and passion of the human heart—the unyielding fire that propels us forward through hardship. CREDITS: "The Will to Love" For SATB and Four Hand Piano Music by Zachary J. ...    less

Sheet Music: https://musicspoke.com/downloads/when-i-rise-up/ Choir: Cantala Conductor: Dr. Phillip A Swan Poet: Georgia Douglas Johnson Composer: Zachary J. Moore

The Ocean Grove Great Auditorium Choir Tim Sharp, Composer/Conductor/Banjo Susan Heerema, Fiddle Justin Gonzalez, Tenor Carol Hamersma, Guitar Stephen Burke, Bass Mason Tramm, Drums Recorded on the Sacred Masterworks Concert Aug. 28, 2022 The G...  moreThe Ocean Grove Great Auditorium Choir Tim Sharp, Composer/Conductor/Banjo Susan Heerema, Fiddle Justin Gonzalez, Tenor Carol Hamersma, Guitar Stephen Burke, Bass Mason Tramm, Drums Recorded on the Sacred Masterworks Concert Aug. 28, 2022 The Great Auditorium (Ocean Grove, NJ)  

Many years ago David Marsh kindly created a video for this work, composed and sung by me as the multitrack one-man choir dwschorale. The video is based on a caricature of me as a choirboy. This is an improved version using that video but following the w...  moreMany years ago David Marsh kindly created a video for this work, composed and sung by me as the multitrack one-man choir dwschorale. The video is based on a caricature of me as a choirboy. This is an improved version using that video but following the words more clearly and also including the words on screen. The choir sings the 12 days of Christmas but it all goes horribly (or hilariously) wrong.  

Ensemble: Inspirare Conductor: Mark Stamper Arranger: Zachary J. Moore Sheet Music: http://www.sbmp.com/SR2.php?CatalogNumber=1451

Short Motet on the text Blessed are the dead who die in Christ, even so said the spirit for they rest from their labours, part of the Concert choir series from Spartan Press

Written for, and performed by the St Eligius singers, sheet music available either as PDF download or printed copy from www.Timknightmusic.com