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Libby Larsen I will sing

Libby Larsen I will sing and raise a psalm SATB and organ Vocal score 9780193860438 I will sing and raise a psalm has a text from St Francis of Assisi and works well as a concert piece or as an anthem. The music is rewarding for organist and choir alike. The conclusion, with its evocative radiance, is especially attractive. 4 minutes Is God, our endless day SATB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193864092 This is an affirmation of faith through music, which Larsen describes as ‘perhaps the strongest means we have to recall the moment of God’s touch’. 3 minutes Lord, before this fleeting season SATB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193864085 3 minutes Natus est Emmanuel SSAA unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193865730 This works sets an anonymous text from Piae Cantiones (1562), with a poetic translation by Philip Freeman. 3.5 minutes Psalm 121 SSSAAA unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193863644 A setting of the familiar psalm text with interpolations from nature writings by the American naturalist John Muir and by Patricia Hennings. 9 minutes So Blessedly it Sprung SATB and piano or oboe, viola, and harp Vocal score 9780193861299 Score and parts 9780193861954 This is a setting of two twelfth-century poems where the choral parts flow in a chant-like way, interrupted by ecstatic bursts, sometimes of purely instrumental colour. Both the singer and the audience will be swept up in the ecstasy of the birth and the peacefulness of renewal. 8 minutes 30

Choral Works Secular The Ballerina and the Clown SAA and harp Vocal score 9780193866737 Seven songs for children’s chorus (SAA) and harp to texts by Sally M. Gall. The Ballerina and the Clown develops a completely new story inspired by some of Hans Christian Andersen’s charming papercuts. 17 minutes Eleanor Roosevelt Speaker, mezzo-soprano solo, SATB Chorus (playing percussion), and ensemble Hire conductor’s score and parts 9780193860384 Hire vocal scores 9780193371231 A dramatic cantata, based on the life of Eleanor Roosevelt, which is vibrant, varied, and in the end deeply moving. This is a striking programming choice for a dedicated chorus and an accomplished speaker. Text by Sally M. Gall. Vocal score available on sale from Banks Music Publications 35 minutes I It Am: The Shewings of Julian of Norwich Soprano, countertenor, baritone soli, SSAATTBB chorus, and orchestra Hire conductor’s score and parts 9780193866768 Hire vocal scores 9780193866775 A cantata, in five movements, is an exposition of human experience revealed to us through the writings of Julian of Norwich and her European contemporaries. Focussing on a theme of unity (one is all = all is one), Larsen researched periods of history where cultures coexisted in a civilisation of respect and admiration leading her to the Andulusian and European culture of the period around 750- 1492, and the teaching that within each person is dark and light, and through experiences, as humans we ultimately love. 17 minutes Love Songs SATB and piano Vocal score 9780193861336 Five songs for SATB chorus and piano on texts by twentieth-century women poets. Each has a unique perspective on love, ranging from reflections on loss, to the delights of everyday familiarity, and the thrill of spring and new passions. Contents: Looking at each other (Muriel Rukeyser) Clinging (Jeanne Shepard) Dirty No Gooder Blues (Bessie Smith) Dear Love (Willa Cather) At April (Angelina Weld Grimke) 18 minutes Seven Ghosts Soprano solo, SATB chorus, and brass ensemble Vocal score 9780193860087 Hire conductor’s score and parts 9780193860094 A brilliant choral celebration of seven American legends (Phillis Wheatley, George Washington, Jenny Lind, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Clyde William Thornbaugh, Charles Lindbergh, Louis Armstrong). Energetic and appealing, the music culminates in a wordless finale which celebrates Louis Armstrong and the jazz clubs of the 1930s by mixing up six familiar classics. 25 minutes Song - Dances to the Light Narrator, children’s chorus, full orchestra, and Orff instruments Chorus part (including speaker) 9780193859951 Hire conductor’s score and parts 9780193859975 Hire Orff instrumental parts 9780193859968 Hire vocal scores 9780193859944 A setting of specially-written texts by children, the subject matter is the sun, the moon, and the stars. The songs are linked by spoken narration, resulting in a rich and vivid tapestry. 19 minutes Libby Larsen Sweet and Sour Nursery Rhymes SATB and french horn Vocal score 9780193862760 French horn part 9780193862777 Using as its basis two traditional nursery rhymes and an achingly nostalgic poem by Eugene Field, Larsen deftly captures the essence of childhood in her clever setting of the three texts whilst offering her own, more adult, interpretations to the moral of each. 9 minutes 31