New SATB Choral Music from The Lygonia Press
Featuring SATB choral anthems by Charles Kaufmann
Charles Kaufmann is a juried member of the MaineArtsAccess of the Maine Arts Commission,
featuring "Maine artists recommended for use by the public as professional artists demonstrating high artist merit."
The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry poem for SATB choir a cappella)
This setting of Wendell Berry's poem was chosen as one of the final entries in the 2003 Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest.
Listen to The Peace of Wild Things
sung by the Ward Melville High School Chamber Chorus of Setauket, Long Island, Linda Contino, Director.
Send an order inquiry to the Lygonia Press.
The Sky Sings
(a Denise Duhamel poem for SATB choir)
Accompanied by wineglasses tuned with water, claves, Latin shakers and piano, this anthem is dedicated to any child, young or old, who has found music in objects at holiday dinner tables.
I felt like I was hearing my muse singing back to me. I could never have imagined such a beautiful song springing from the text - Denise Duhamel
Listen to The Sky Sings performed by The Choral Art Society of Portland, Maine, Robert Russell, Director.
View a pdf file of the partial score.
Send an order inquiry to the Lygonia Press.
Listen to SNOW-FLAKES, as Charles Kaufmann conducts The Longfellow Chorus in the premiere performance of his SATB setting of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1859 poem.
A snowfall over the New England countryside seems to acknowledge a private feeling of grief. This is the sort of Longfellow poem that would later inspire another New England poet, Robert Frost. Pianist Shirley Curry accompanies.
NEW: Snow-Flakes won the second prize in 2007 at the eminent Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest.
View a pdf file of the partial score.
Send an order inquiry to the Lygonia Press.
The more popular second section had several highlights, including a surprising "Snow-Flakes," by Charles Kaufmann, based on an uncharacteristic Longfellow poem that expresses a real, unromantic, Maine feeling about snow.
- Christopher Hyde, Portland Press Herald, December 3, 2007; review of "Christmas in the Cathedral," Choral Art Society
The Azalea Variations, ten pages of SSAATTBB choral settings of the poetry of David Ray, was first published in CHELSEA 77, Alfredo de Palchi, editor.
To order send $13 to:
CHELSEA
P. O. Box 773
Cooper Station
New York, NY
10276-0773
SPHERES, a cantata for Alto and Bass soloists, SATB Chorus and Piano. Text: twelve short poems, 2004, by Maine poet Constance Hunting, 1925-2006.
Commissioned by the Community Chorus at South Berwick, Maine, Dr. Harry Moon, director
One of Hunting's final minimalist series of poems, Spheres takes the cognizance of human existence to the highest and most delicate spiritual level.
Listen to eight of twelve movements of Speres. The Community Chorus at South Berwick, Dr. Harry Moon, director; Marlene Hudson-Moon, contralto; William Wieting, bass:
2. O bravo overnight
3. In august
4. Because our minds were bent on earthly things
8. In winter the locomotive's lament
9. Talking to the deaf
10. Runes (An ice waltz)
11. If all things dim and fail (Based on a chant of Hildegard von Bingen)
12. Slowly and mournfully (A pavane after Thomas Tomkins)Kaufmann's wonderful choral setting of my mother's poems, "Spheres", makes her poetry speak, and her speaking, music.
- Sam Hunting, Puckerbush Press
The Best Thing in the World
(an Elizabeth Barrett Browning poem for SATB choir and simple 'inside the piano' sounds)
Plucked and strummed piano strings provide the accompaniment as the choir lists E. B. Browning's possible answers to an enigmatic question
The Biography of a Tree
(a Pamela Alexander poem for SATB choir a cappella)
A Pentatonic melody and D Dorian harmonies reflect such lines of poetry as 'The sails of the forest are open and green'
Rumors from an Aeolian Harp
(a Henry David Thoreau poem)
The organ imitates an aeolian harp in this song about a place where 'poetry is yet unsung.' Available as Soprano Solo and organ, and SSA and organ
NEW:
Learn about the third annual
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Birthday Choral Concert
and
Longfellow Chorus Composers' Competition
3 PM, Saturday, February 21, 8:00 PM, and Sunday, February 22, 2009, at First Parish Church, U. U. A., Portland, Maine.
e-mail: Charles Kaufmann; The Lygonia Press
About the Composer
featuring "Maine artists recommended for use by the public as professional artists demonstrating high artist merit."
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The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry poem for SATB choir a cappella) This setting of Wendell Berry's poem was chosen as one of the final entries in the 2003 Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest. Listen to The Peace of Wild Things sung by the Ward Melville High School Chamber Chorus of Setauket, Long Island, Linda Contino, Director. Send an order inquiry to the Lygonia Press. |
The Sky Sings (a Denise Duhamel poem for SATB choir) Accompanied by wineglasses tuned with water, claves, Latin shakers and piano, this anthem is dedicated to any child, young or old, who has found music in objects at holiday dinner tables. I felt like I was hearing my muse singing back to me. I could never have imagined such a beautiful song springing from the text - Denise Duhamel Listen to The Sky Sings performed by The Choral Art Society of Portland, Maine, Robert Russell, Director. View a pdf file of the partial score. Send an order inquiry to the Lygonia Press. |
Listen to SNOW-FLAKES, as Charles Kaufmann conducts The Longfellow Chorus in the premiere performance of his SATB setting of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1859 poem. A snowfall over the New England countryside seems to acknowledge a private feeling of grief. This is the sort of Longfellow poem that would later inspire another New England poet, Robert Frost. Pianist Shirley Curry accompanies. NEW: Snow-Flakes won the second prize in 2007 at the eminent Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest. View a pdf file of the partial score. Send an order inquiry to the Lygonia Press. The more popular second section had several highlights, including a surprising "Snow-Flakes," by Charles Kaufmann, based on an uncharacteristic Longfellow poem that expresses a real, unromantic, Maine feeling about snow. - Christopher Hyde, Portland Press Herald, December 3, 2007; review of "Christmas in the Cathedral," Choral Art Society
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The Azalea Variations, ten pages of SSAATTBB choral settings of the poetry of David Ray, was first published in CHELSEA 77, Alfredo de Palchi, editor. To order send $13 to: CHELSEA P. O. Box 773 Cooper Station New York, NY 10276-0773 |
SPHERES, a cantata for Alto and Bass soloists, SATB Chorus and Piano. Text: twelve short poems, 2004, by Maine poet Constance Hunting, 1925-2006. Commissioned by the Community Chorus at South Berwick, Maine, Dr. Harry Moon, director One of Hunting's final minimalist series of poems, Spheres takes the cognizance of human existence to the highest and most delicate spiritual level. Listen to eight of twelve movements of Speres. The Community Chorus at South Berwick, Dr. Harry Moon, director; Marlene Hudson-Moon, contralto; William Wieting, bass: 2. O bravo overnight 3. In august 4. Because our minds were bent on earthly things 8. In winter the locomotive's lament
9. Talking to the deaf 10. Runes (An ice waltz) 11. If all things dim and fail (Based on a chant of Hildegard von Bingen) 12. Slowly and mournfully (A pavane after Thomas Tomkins) Kaufmann's wonderful choral setting of my mother's poems, "Spheres", makes her poetry speak, and her speaking, music. - Sam Hunting, Puckerbush Press |
The Best Thing in the World (an Elizabeth Barrett Browning poem for SATB choir and simple 'inside the piano' sounds) Plucked and strummed piano strings provide the accompaniment as the choir lists E. B. Browning's possible answers to an enigmatic question |
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The Biography of a Tree
(a Pamela Alexander poem for SATB choir a cappella) A Pentatonic melody and D Dorian harmonies reflect such lines of poetry as 'The sails of the forest are open and green' |
Rumors from an Aeolian Harp (a Henry David Thoreau poem) The organ imitates an aeolian harp in this song about a place where 'poetry is yet unsung.' Available as Soprano Solo and organ, and SSA and organ |
NEW: Learn about the third annual Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Birthday Choral Concert and Longfellow Chorus Composers' Competition 3 PM, Saturday, February 21, 8:00 PM, and Sunday, February 22, 2009, at First Parish Church, U. U. A., Portland, Maine. |
e-mail: Charles Kaufmann; The Lygonia Press
About the Composer