Two Year College

Suzanne VanDyke, Two Year College

Ubi Caritas with Piano Improvisation(Pianist/Conductor Score)

This edition features Ola Gjeilo's piano improvisation over his original Ubi Caritas for SATB voices. I was introduced to this added piano improvisation at a community college mass choir weekend. It came together really quickly and the students responded well musically to the almost jazz like quality of the piano.

Walton Music WW1386A

This is paired with:

Ubi Caritas SATB

Walton Music WW1386

I would also strongly recommend downloading his piano Improvisations album on iTunes that includes not only Ubi Caritas but several other of his choral compositions including  Tota Pulchra Es and Prelude.

I Shall Not Live In Vain

SATB

J. Reese Norris

Musicspoke.com

Commissioned by the Sycamore Arts Council in honor of the NWCC Singers in the Spring of 2017, the composer offers the following description on his website:

The profound text from American poet, Emily Dickinson is married perfectly to the scripture found in Matthew 25. This SATB setting features a soloist and is set for string quartet and suspended cymbal. This is a powerful, compelling song of statement and purpose.  

I Shall Not Live in Vain is available for SATB and piano or SATB, piano, string quartet, and percussion. If you are doing the version with string quartet, purchase one copy of the full score and parts and as many copies of the piano/vocal version as you need to print for the choir.

I Love You/What A Wonderful World

TTBB

arr. Craig Hella Johnson

Hal Leonard 00138213

A beautiful juxtaposition of two haunting melodies with equally compelling texts arranged for TTBB choir. Challenging with the need for an ensemble that can divide and sing independently of each other. This took considerable rehearsal time but was well worth the effort. My men's ensemble loved singing this!

Resource:

My choir is collaborating with others in our community to present the Christmas portion of the Messiah in late November. It has been several years since I have conducted this work so I was glad to see a new resource for the rehearsal process. It offers not only a Director score with full text and warmups with piano accompaniment but also a code for accessing downloadable singer parts online. There is also an SATB Singer's Edition that includes a folder-sized print edition of the warmups

Messiah: Warm-ups for Successful Performance by Ryan Kelly and Jason Paulk

Director's Score 00152409 $39.99 

Singer's Edition 00152410 $2.95

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