These songs gives your choir the chance to sing something different and have lots of fun while doing so! 'A Song Of Rain' gives your chorus a chance to play with sound: tone clusters build, and the choral wind machine cranks up, to herald the storm. Then the choral 'pitter-patter,' using hocket and overlapping rhythms, portrays the rain falling on parched Australian towns. Elizabeth Barrett Browning meets Mae West in this swing setting of the immortal love poem 'How Do I Love Thee?', paraphrased by the composer. 'Boh-doo' and 'wah-wah' scat passages put an original spin on this text, and bring the house down when it is performed with gusto. Winner of the Diva Complex 1996 Composition Contest. The utterly silly text free-associates from 'Tango Dada' ('A tutu and also a tattoo') as the chorus sings sultry tango rhythms. With castanets, of course! Written for Diva Complex. With pentatonic tunes backed by syncopated repeated patterns 'Make Melody', in 4/4 throughout, recalls Alice Parker's leading of improvisatory sings.