A Child’s Carol (SSA)

• A tender Christmas ‘manger’ song containing an extended ‘Alleluia’ (for choir or solo) leading to a final climactic verse.

Waiting on a Dream (SSAA/SSATB)

• A touchingly romantic love song that would make a fitting grand finale for a love-filled (Valentine’s Day?) concert!

Carol of the Field Mice (SA)

• Wind in the Willow writer Kenneth Graham says it all – “As the door opened, their shrill little voices uprose in the air, singing one of the old-time carols that their fathers composed in fields that were fallow and held by frost, and handed down to be sung in the miry street to lamp-lit windows at Yule-time.” Good Christmas fun!

Il est ne le divin enfant (SATB a cappella)

• This traditional carol, well known in France and French Canada, has been given a new spin in this lively and lightly jazzy a capella arrangement.

Reflections on Walden Pond (SATB)

• This coloristic twenty minute ‘environmental’ suite evokes the wilderness flora and fauna of Henry David Thoreau’s time. Each of its five movements may be performed on its own, in which case the suite’s Introduction may be used to introduce any given movement.

These Hands (SATB/SA)

• This energetic arrangement derives much of its energy from Canadian East Coast song-writers Dave Gunning and George Canyon who won the East Coast Music Award’s Song of the Year for this remarkable, impelling piece of music.

Make Me a Channel of Your Peace (SATB/SA)

• The well-known text, often attributed to St. Francis, is set to a dramatic ‘descant’ rising out of J.S. Bach’s accompanying Prelude in C. The vocal parts include Gounod’s Ave Maria which may be performed simultaneously with the ‘St. Francis’ melody. The same score may be used for S, SA, and SATB choirs.

Tsimshian Welcome Chant (SATB/SA/TTBB a cappella)

• This vibrant ‘potlatch’ song of welcome comes from British Columbia’s Tsimshian First Nations. Appropriately, this arrangement is often performed as a concert opener.

Come and See the Little Child (SA/SABar/SATB)

• With both text and music by the composer, this energetic ‘calypso’ recalls the Christmas Story from the star in the east, through Mary and Joseph’s problems in finding a room, to “that night as all the angels sang The Son of God is born for you and the heavens fairly rang!” The same score may be used for SA, SABar, and SATB choirs

• This arrangement of one of the most beautiful slow melodies in all of Western world music is challenging only in interpretation. As such, it is a wonderfully rewarding piece of music to spend time with.