SATB divisi, a cappella
This work, commissioned in 2013 by Schola Cantorum of Texas (Jerry McCoy, artistic director) as part of their 50th Anniversary season, is a setting of text fragments from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. Continue reading
GM 103 | Little Star
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SATB, piano
This work was written for the Creekview High School A Cappella Choir (Carrollton, TX)–Tara Sikon, director and Brian Murray, associate director–for their performance at the 2013 Texas Music Educators Association Conference. Continue reading
GM 105 | The Music Makers
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SATB, Children’s Choir, oboe, piano
Commissioned by the Highland Park High School Fine Arts Department for the 2014 Highlander Festival Choral Concert in recognition of HPISD’s Centennial Celebration. Continue reading
GM 106B | So Hallow’d the Time, Mvt. II, “Peace”
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SATB, flute, violin and harp
Premiered by the Taylor Festival Choir in September 2017, this is the second in a five-movement choral cycle entitled So Hallow’d the Time. A professional recording of the full work will be released in early 2019. Continue reading
GM 108 | After Me
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SATB, piano
This work was commissioned in 2015 by the West Potomac High School Choral Department (Kye-Won Kopko, director), in honor of Ernest Johnson, a long-time director of the choral program. Continue reading
GM 109 | Jubilate Deo
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SSAATTBB, a cappella
This work was commissioned in 2016 by the Oklahoma State University Concert Chorale (Z. Randall Stroope, conductor), and featured on the College/University Reading Session at the 2017 American Choral Directors Association National Conference. Continue reading
So Hallow’d the Time, Mvt. 3 – Love (“A Child, My Choice”)
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SATB, harp (or piano)
Premiered by the Taylor Festival Choir in December 2014, this is the central movement of a five work cycle entitled So Hallow’d the Time. The full work premiered in 2017, and will be released on a recording in early 2019. Continue reading
WW1552 | Exsultate
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SSAATTBB divisi, a cappella
Written for the Pacific Lutheran University Choir of the West, Richard Nance, conductor, for their performance at the 2013 American Choral Directors Association National Conference. Continue reading
WW1560 | Thy Little Ones
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SATB, piano
Written in collaboration with successful composer J. Edmund Hughes, this arrangement of PROSPECT (Southern Harmony) is dedicated to the memory of young Maari Dickerson, who lost her courageous fight with cancer in August 2013. Maari’s parents, David and Margie, are active musicians in the Puget Sound area, and this is but one way we offer our support during their time of grief.
Both versions of Thy Little Ones (SATB and SSA) are now available through Walton Music. Click here to order directly from the publisher. All royalties from the sale of this work will be donated to the Dickerson Medical Fund, to help the family with the huge medical bills incurred during Maari’s illness.
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WW1564 | Thy Little Ones (SSA)
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SSA, piano
An SSA version of Thy Little Ones, written in collaboration with successful composer J. Edmund Hughes, this arrangement of PROSPECT (Southern Harmony) is dedicated to the memory of young Maari Dickerson, who lost her courageous fight with cancer in August 2013. Maari’s parents, David and Margie, are active musicians in the Puget Sound area, and this is but one way we offer our support during their time of grief.
Both versions of Thy Little Ones (SATB and SSA) are now available through Walton Music. Click here to order directly from the publisher. All royalties from the sale of this work will be donated to the Dickerson Medical Fund, to help the family with the huge medical bills incurred during Maari’s illness. Continue reading
Christmas News
Movements from “So Hallow’d the Time” will be performed by the Pacific Lutheran University Chorale during a series of Christmas Concerts in December 2018. The concerts, entitled “Winter Rose”, will be performed in PLU’s exquisite Lagerquist Concert Hall and Benaroya Hall, Seattle. For more information, visit plu.edu/christmas.
CV 36-20163 | Sleep, My Love
SATB divisi, a cappella
Commissioned by Gar-Field High School in Fall 2005 for their debut performance in Carnegie Hall. I selected the Keats poetry at the request of their conductor, Douglas Burney, to be a thematic set with Eric Whitacre’s Sleep. Continue reading
CV 36-20309 | I Dwell in Possibility
TTBB, piano
Written for the Pacific Lutheran University Men’s Chorus performance at the NW NAfME Conference in February 2011, and dedicated to my father, Edward Galante, on his 60th birthday. Continue reading
CV 42-96830 | In the Bleak Midwinter
SATB divisi, violin, piano
Written for the Taylor Festival Choir in 2005. The opening chords serve as a musical illustration of a cold, snow-glistened wintry landscape. The melody, clearly inspired by famous settings of this text by Gustav Holst and Harold Darke, makes its first appearance amidst a cascading ostinato in the upper voices; the climax of the arch form occurs as the “cherubim and seraphim throng the air.” Continue reading
CV 42-96860 | On Meditation
SATB divisi, a cappella
This was the first work commissioned by the Taylor Festival Choir for their inaugural season. Commissioned in memory of Rob Taylor’s father, an avid reader of the Tao Te Ching, the work is featured on a commercial recording by the Taylor Festival Choir, This is Thy Hour, O Soul, released by Centaur Records in November 2006. The text is from Stephen Mitchell’s translation of the Tao Te Ching. Continue reading
CV 42-96870 | Bright Star
SATB divisi, a cappella
My only piece written without a commission or imminent performance, I wrote this setting while studying composition at LSU. The LSU A Cappella Choir subsequently performed this work. Continue reading