Candles In Our Hearts

text by Patricia McKernon
2-part treble choir, piano

An imagined scene on an imagined Christmas Eve in which the children's choir of the village church is roused from their beds to process through the streets by candlelight and sing for the midnight service. Giddy, excited, and playful.

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Joyful Noises

1. Fireflies
2. Whirligig Beetles
3. The Digger Wasp
4. Cicadas

Text Paul Fleischman (Eng.)
2-part treble choir, soprano recorder or flute, 2 gtrs, strings, piano

Written for a high school music camp sponsored by The Saint Paul Conservatory of Music, this is a group of four musical settings of poems from Paul Fleishman's Newbery Award-winning collection "Joyful Noise." These are wonderfully inventive poems for two spoken voices about the inner lives of insects. The instrumental parts were written for teenage musicians of moderatly advanced abilities, although the third movement features a guitar solo with a more developed emotional range.

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