GWYNETH WALKER

Let Us Break Bread TogetherVoice and Piano or String Orchestra

This work is dedicated to Heather Heyer of Charlottesville, Virginia, who gave her life for our mission of tolerance. Using the traditional African American tune LET US BREAK BREAD, this arrangement is scored for high voice and piano. A new verse is added: Let us rise up together all as one, as a call for strength through unity.Moderately Easy

8649 High Voice $7.758650 Low Voice $7.75

I’ve Known RiversTenor or Baritone and Piano

I’ve Known Rivers is a multi-movement work, comprised of songs based on four different poems by Langston Hughes (1902–1967). Though he lived much of his life in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, Hughes was born in Missouri and raised in Kansas, Illinois, and Ohio. At age seventeen, he traveled to Mexico to live with his estranged father. As he crossed the Mississippi River, he was inspired to write The Negro Speaks of Rivers, which begins “I’ve known rivers….,” and is the text for the first movement, “My Soul Has Grown Deep.” It reflects upon rivers of historic and geographical importance—the Euphrates, Congo, Nile, and Mississippi. As the rivers have endured over time, so has the human soul. The waters—the blood—runs deep. In contrast to the universal message of the first song, “Troubled Water,” which uses the poetry of the same title, is contemporary and personal. Water becomes an image of the unsettled and uncertain nature of love. The journey of love is a journey of troubled water. There is no resolution. Undaunted by the elusive nature of love, the poet, heard via the chorus, turns flippant, displaying a persevering and humorous outlook in “Jump Right In!” (to the river) from Hughes’ poem Life is Fine. Romantic misadventures will not conquer the spirit. “I could’ve died for love, but for livin’ I was born.” “In time of silver rain,” once more using the poem of the same title, is a song of healing. With the regeneration of spring, the poet marvels at the wonder of life. Though intended to be performed as the complete multi-movement work I’ve Known Rivers, each song may be performed separately. Duration: 12:00.Moderately Easy

8825 Tenor $12.508826 Baritone $12.50

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2019 VOCAL NEW RELEASES FROM

JOHN CONAHAN John Conahan’s art songs are unique expressions that enable us to understand and explore many things simultaneously. In these collections for Voice and Piano, you will find settings of texts that speak genuinely to express our shared thoughts and questions, expressing in song why a particular poet’s work may mirror our own tragedies and triumphs.Moderately Difficult

Songs for SopranoContents:The Gift; Amor mundi; Song; Any Woman; Daisy Time; Life and Art; Myriad Flowers of Spring; Sunset

8821 $22.95

Songs for Mezzo-SopranoContents:The Gift; Amor mundi; Song; Any Woman; Daisy Time; Life and Art; Oh, Succulent Apple; Sunset

8822 $21.95

Songs for TenorContents:

The Gift; Amor mundi; Song; Daisy Time; When I am dead; Life and Art; Myriad Flowers of Spring; Sunset

8823 $22.95

Songs for BaritoneBaritone and Piano

Contents:The Gift; Amor mundi; Song; When I am dead; Life and Art; Myriad Flowers of Spring; Oh, Succulent Apple; Sunset

8824 $20.95

ERIC CHOATE

. . . and fallHigh Voice, Violoncello, and Piano

Five poems about autumn by 20th- and 21st-century American poets. Each poem draws upon different aspects of the season: the summer drawing to a close; the busy preparations for a cold winter to come; the transparency between the worlds of the living and the dead on All Hallows; children celebrating Halloween by dancing around jack-o’-lanterns; and finally, the falling of leaves.—Eric Choate Duration 14:00Medium

8766 $14.50

PAUL DAVID THOMAS

Beautiful ThingsSoprano, Violin, and Piano

Each song of this work sets an essay from Beautiful Things, a collection of twenty-eight short essays by author Michelle Webster-Hein first published in River Teeth Journal. According to Webster-Hein, the goal of each of these essays was “to pinpoint one beautiful thing each day and write a meditation that enabled me truly to see it.” I was drawn to her writings because, despite their brevity, each of the essays were filled with vivid imagery, insightful observations, and surprising thoughtfulness. The goal in composing each of these songs was to capture the depth of meaning conveyed in the text and to compose a beautiful musical thing, as it were, to reflect the essay. Since each song gives a singular view of a different topic, this set may be sung in any order or individual songs may be performed apart from the whole. —Paul David Thomas Duration: 9:45Moderately Difficult

8767 $15.00

JULIANA HALL

How Do I Love Thee?5 Songs for Soprano and PianoSoprano and Piano

This piece follows a narrative arc, beginning with a proclamation by the speaker against the love she feels, after which that love becomes too great to disavow. Throughout the cycle, the speaker’s love grows, and ends with a declaration of love that will live beyond the lives of the speaker and the object of her love, a love that lives forever. Contents: Unlike; How do I love thee?; Pardon; Say Over; Thank You.Medium

8568 $19.95

Through the Guarded Gate5 Songs for Mezzo Soprano and PianoPoems by American poet Margaret Widdemer (who was awarded one of the earliest Pulitzer Prizes, alongside Carl Sandburg) discuss women’s rights as well as the treatment of children in America under male political leadership, and form the basis of Juliana Hall’s first work on the themes of social justice and women’s rights. Contents: I. The Net; II. A Mother to the War-Makers; III. The Old Suffragist; IV. The Modern Woman To Her Lover; V. The Women’s Litany Duration: 20:00Moderately Difficult

8728 $22.95

Of That So Sweet Imprisonment7 Songs for Contralto and PianoThis song cycle was written for mezzo soprano Stephanie Blythe, who, on accepting composer Juliana Hall’s proposal, requested the work be written for contralto voice. The seven poems contained here were chosen from James Joyce’s early book of poems, Chamber Music. The poems are arranged in a narrative arc that takes the listener from the presence of love in nature, to the human feeling of emptiness when love is not present, to expressions of human love and beyond.Contents: Strings in the Earth and Air; Winds of May; Of That So Sweet Imprisonment; In the Dark Pine-Wood; Bid Adieu; At That Hour When All Things Have Repose; O Cool is the Valley.Medium

8769 $19.95

To God I Give My MelodyWe are pleased to offer a third volume in this popular series of Susan Palo Cherwien’s meditations for hymn festivals, worship services, and for your own private reading. The first volume, Crossings, has received much recognition and has been widely used. The second, From Glory into Glory, includes the same beautiful expressions of faith that have made Susan’s work so well-known. This volume includes suggested hymn festival outlines that served as the inspiration for the meditations found in the book as well as a basic template for structuring such festivals. 348 pages. Paperback.

90-53 $26.00

SUSAN PALO CHERWIEN

LEANNA KIRCHOFF

ScrapbookersA Micro Operetta for Two Sopranos and PianoA 15-minute micro-operetta following sisters Carol and Noelle as they work on an anniversary scrapbook for their parents. They pore over old photos and memories of their childhood, singing in fond remembrance of all the things their family did together.Moderately Easy

8768 $15.95