Preview: Church Calendar: Holy Week, Easter Men’s Quartet score: $ US Accompaniment track: $ US In March 1988, Les Nederveld, our baritone, and I were talking about the upcoming Easter service at De Anza College’s Flint Center. Les thought it would be great to for the quartet to sing there, and decided to ask our …
Category: Choral music
Far Beyond – TTBB ensemble
Preview: Men’s Quartet score: $ US Accompaniment track: $ US I said temporary goodbyes to a lot of friends in 1991. Paul Steele, our pastor, died of a particularly virulent and manifestly inoperable cancer, and high school friend had a painful passing from the same. My grandmother passed away due to congestive heart failure. Although …
Access – TTBB ensemble
Preview: Men’s Quartet score: $ US Accompaniment track: $ US Short and simple: Doumer Liu, our bass, once commented that there wasn’t much men’s quartet music with solos for the lowest part. So I wrote him one. “Access” tells of the Old Testament times when the children of Israel were denied direct access (and Internet …
Jesus Paid It All – SSA ensemble
The message of Jesus Paid It All goes far beyond the title. True enough, He gave Himself to pay the penalty of our sins, but the hymn text also intimates that we have an infinite debt to Him that goes along with receiving the free gift that He offers. Of course… it’s impossible to repay …
Angels We Have Heard on High – SSA ensemble
Angels We Have Heard on High is based on the nineteenth-century French song Les Anges dans nos Campagnes and is traditionally sung to the hymn tune GLORIA. The lyric tells us of how the angels came from heaven to celebrate the birth of the Christ Child. Preview: Price: $ US Church Calendar: Christmas I’ve arranged …
Once in Royal David’s City
12/14/03: It’s six days before we sing at another church’s Christmas program, and Geri just wrote to ask if we could get our hands on an arrangement of Once in Royal David’s City. I responded with “I’ll see what I can do in two hours (because that’s all I had before having to head out), …
I See the Power of God
I See the Power of God Written for Barb Keller Preview: Choral score: $ US Accompaniment track: $ US Barb is a friend who’s seen God allowing some very difficult things in her life, and also has seen Him working through them to cause her to grow in her faith. It truly has been a …
Be the Thought That Won’t Fade Away
Be the Thought That Won’t Fade Away Dedicated to Amy Puryear I Corinthians 2:2 Preview: Choral score: $ US Accompaniment track: $ US Amy was our accompanist for a few months during the 1989-1990 season. I knew she had to be a special friend – we share the same birthdate! Her time with us coincided …
Anchored On You
Anchored On You Dedicated to David Tom Psalm 91:14-16 Preview: Choral score: $ US Accompaniment track: $ US David is one of those great guys you meet only every once in a long while – and he was that was when he was a teenager! The depth of his faith and the clarity with which …
All Things Are Possible
All Things Are Possible Dedicated to Joe Howard Matthew 19:26 Preview: Choral score: $ US Accompaniment track: $ US Joe’s one of those once-in-a-lifetime musicians who makes everything look easy. As some friends have observed, the only time you hear him play what’s on the score is when he’s sight reading… after that point (or …
