Author: Sandi Parks

An earnest and accessible anthem of prayer by Tom Keesecker for adult or youth choirs. The inspired text from Nancy Kraft calls for the healing of our world through compassion, forgiveness, and understanding. The score includes a reproducible page repurposing the anthem’s refrain as a congregational prayer response.

This is exactly what young and developing choirs need and want to sing! Based on the melody Alleluia from the Exsultate Jubilate motet, A Mozart Canon is voiced comfortably and embellished with optional flute obbligato. Your singers will really shine on this! Highly recommended!

If you have a young SATB choir, consider this attractive setting of the traditional Latin text, scored for three-part mixed voices with optional baritone.  Light, melodic and easy to learn, it’s very pretty and is an excellent choice for festivals and adjudications.

An excellent work for building confidence in young singers, Jubilate! skillfully combines a rhythmic ostinato with legato singing. After a brief, slower middle section, the work returns to the original tempo and ends with a forceful unison statement of “Jubilate Deo!” This will be easy to prepare and very effective in performance!

From the very first measures of this energetic work your choir and congregation will sense the confidence and resolve of this exceptional anthem!  Quoting directly from Psalm 27, Craig Courtney has fashioned a wonderfully singable new work with a piano accompaniment your pianist will absolutely love to play.  Exuberant and at times beautifully lyric, this anthem is just a glorious musical rendition of a foundational scripture passage.