If you have a large advanced mixed divisi chorus this is a must for your next holiday concert! The marriage of text to harmonic language is truly exquisite. This is another winner by composer Dan Forrest.

Dan Forrest magnifies the power of this well-known hymn based on the AVON tune and Isaac Watts text through his creative choral writing. Both the a cappella verse and the climactic statement Here, Lord, I give myself away add drama to the setting. A must for your Lenten season.Available separately: SATB and BonusTrax CD. Performance Time: Approx. 4:25.

Composer: Isaac Watts

The grandeur of Ralph Waldo Emerson's skyborn music text creates a canvas for Dan Forrest's magnificent sonorities in this superb selection for choir and soloist with piano or optional strings. Breathtaking in its beauty and imagery!

The grandeur of Ralph Waldo Emerson's skyborn music text creates a canvas for Dan Forrest's magnificent sonorities in this superb selection for choir and soloist with piano or optional strings. Breathtaking in its beauty and imagery!

The grandeur of Ralph Waldo Emerson's skyborn music text creates a canvas for Dan Forrest's magnificent sonorities in this superb selection for choir and soloist with piano or optional strings. Breathtaking in its beauty and imagery!

Uses: General, Hymn Arrangement, Reformation Scripture: Numbers 12:6; Psalm 16:5-8; Psalm 61:1-5 This sensitive setting of a beloved Irish hymn is truly a worshipful experience. A contrasting a cappella section adds interest and emotional depth, while optional use of harp and cello brings the concept to a beautiful level of expressivity. It is a work that your choir and congregation will ask for again and again, and we are proud to offer this best-selling anthem in a variety of new voicings. Stunning! Instrumental parts (vc, hp) available as a digital download.

Uses: General, Hymn Arrangement, Reformation Scripture: Numbers 12:6; Psalm 16:5-8; Psalm 61:1-5 This sensitive setting of a beloved Irish hymn is truly a worshipful experience. A contrasting a cappella section adds interest and emotional depth, while optional use of harp and cello brings the concept to a beautiful level of expressivity. It is a work that your choir and congregation will ask for again and again, and we are proud to offer this best-selling anthem in a variety of new voicings. Stunning! Instrumental parts (vc, hp) available as a digital download.

Uses: General, Hymn Arrangement, Reformation Scripture: Numbers 12:6; Psalm 16:5-8; Psalm 61:1-5 This sensitive setting of a beloved Irish hymn is truly a worshipful experience. A contrasting a cappella section adds interest and emotional depth, while optional use of harp and cello brings the concept to a beautiful level of expressivity. It is a work that your choir and congregation will ask for again and again, and we are proud to offer this best-selling anthem in a variety of new voicings. Stunning! Instrumental parts (vc, hp) available as a digital download.

Uses: General, Hymn Arrangement, Reformation Scripture: Numbers 12:6; Psalm 16:5-8; Psalm 61:1-5 This sensitive setting of a beloved Irish hymn is truly a worshipful experience. A contrasting a cappella section adds interest and emotional depth, while optional use of harp and cello brings the concept to a beautiful level of expressivity. It is a work that your choir and congregation will ask for again and again, and we are proud to offer this best-selling anthem in a variety of new voicings. Stunning!

Composer: Traditional Irish Hymn

Commissioned by the Indianapolis Youth Chorale for their performance in the Meyerson Symphony Hall in Dallas for the 2013 ACDA convention, this thrilling sacred work showcases mixed voices with piano and organ. Featuring sonorities that move from rhythmically vibrant to expressive and lyrical to a contrasting chorale section, this selection is excellent for festival occasions in worship and concert.

A glorious arrangement of this beloved 17th-century English carol. The orchestration adds rich texture to this piece, making it truly regal. Original melodic material in the introduction and interwoven throughout implores the voice to join in the joyous strain and soars to a triumphant conclusion.Percussion part includes percussion/timpaniThere is also a separate orchestral arrangement which includes: Flute I; Flute II; Oboe; Clarinet I in B-flat; Clarinet II in B-flat; Bassoon; Horn in F I; Horn in F II; Horn in F III; Horn in F IV; Trumpet I in B-flat; Trumpet II in B-flat; Trumpet III in B-flat; Trombone I; Trombone II; Trombone III; Tuba

This perennial favorite is taken to a new level by the skillful touch of Dan Forrest. The four-hand piano accompaniment is challenging, but completely fulfilling. Another performance option is the use of the BonusTrax Accompaniment CD. Available separately: SATB, BonusTrax CD (08748249). Duration: ca. 2:30

This memorial work on a text of Mark Twain is set to the rich harmonic structures found in a number of Dan Forrest pieces. For mixed divisi voices accompanied or unaccompanied. Make sure to read the moving composer's notes.

Poetry By: Mark Twain

This musical elegy by composer Dan Forrest was originally set for mixed voices with optional piano. This new setting for treble voices with piano is a deeply personal expression by the composer. Difficulty Level: Medium Advanced Adult.

Originally for mixed voices, this beautiful work is scored here for TTBB voices with piano accompaniment, but can be performed quite successfully a cappella. The text is taken from the works of Robert Richardson and Mark Twain. Difficulty Level: Medium Advanced Adult.

A beautiful affirmation of our Shepherd as protector, provider, comforter, and forgiver with a final stanza of our devotion as followers. This Eileen Berry text is beautifully set by Dan Forrest. Duration: ca. 3:55.

William Rees' timeless text affirms the song title with the phrase, Tho, Thyself, has set me free. Dan Forrest's music is moving and passionate, a perfect anthem for Holy Week or a reflective Easter morning moment. Available separately: SATB, ChoirTrax CD. Score and Parts for Strings available digitally (88442). Duration: ca. 4:00.

Hymn of Hope is an original text and tune by Dan Forrest, commissioned for the 150th Anniversary of First Baptist Church, Lapeer, Michigan, and is sure to be another fine Forrest addition to your choral library. Duration: ca. 4:30.

Scored for mixed chorus (divisi) with percussion ensemble, the text by Emily Dickinson for this second of three nocturnes comes alive in Dan Forrest's lush harmonic writing and colorful use of the percussion. Difficulty Level: Medium Advanced Adult.

Commissioned by Florida State University to Celebrate the 65-year history of the university singers, this nineteenth century American parlor song arrangement preserves the nostalgic mood of the original but casts it in a more modern harmonic idion. This would be great as part of a set for American music month. Consider coupling it with Stephen Foster. Difficulty level: Medium Adult.

Composer: Thomas Bayly

Bob Kauflin's modern worship song is given a more classical setting by Dan Forrest, professing, O Great God of highest heaven, glorify Your life through me. Duration: ca. 3:30.

Composer: Bob Kauflin

The collaboration of Charles Anthony Silvestri and Dan Forrest is a winner, no matter the medium. This advanced, unaccompanied work of nine minutes in length for mixed chorus with divisi is descriptive, narrative and colorful. The work evokes some of the profound feelings a young Norwegian experiences while leaving home and traveling to America. Difficulty Level: Medium Advanced Adult.

Composer Dan Forrest has combined the prayers from the timeless Te Deum text and woven them into an artistic and emotional offering entitled Prayers. Available with optional chamber and full orchestrations, Prayers is well-suited for both concert and liturgical settings. Prayers is excerpted from Forrest's larger work, Te Deum.

Commissioned by ACDA for the 2011 National Childrens Honor Choir conducted by Henry Leck this majestic setting of Psalm 8 is absolutely gorgeous! Emerging from silence, the ethereal opening moves into more flowing phrases, with violin obbligato and the djembe adding a subtle world music flavor. Inspirational! Includes parts for Violin and Djembe. Available separately: SATB, SSA. Duration: ca. 5:00.

Now available in an SATB edition, this gorgeous, majestic setting of Psalm 8 was originally commissioned by ACDA for the 2011 National Children's Honor Choir conducted by Henry Leck in the SSA voicing. Emerging from silence, the ethereal opening moves into more flowing phrases, with violin obbligato and the djembe adding a subtle world music flavor. Inspirational! Includes parts for violin and djembe. Available separately: SATB, SSA. Duration: ca. 5:00.

This arrangement of the traditional American folk song in the Folk Songs of America series by composer Dan Forrest is scored for mixed chorus. The work can be performed a cappella or with piano and creative percussion accompaniment. Try it with high school or university voices or community chorus. Great for American Music month! Difficulty Level: Medium Advanced Middle School. High School or Medium Adult.

Country: American Folk

Dan Forrest's breathtaking treatment of this beloved hymn is filled with emotion as heard in the flowing piano accompaniment, the violin obbligato, and the masterful choral writing. Together they boldly express the depth and magnitude of God's love for us. A strong selection for the Lenten season or Holy Week. Instrumental parts available digitally (Solo vn, vn 1 & 2, va, vc, b).

This powerful inspirational piece with a dynamic piano accompaniment is another exuberant work by Dan Forrest. Optional violin, horn, timpani and percussion.

Dan Forrest sets this anonymous text for male voices TTBB with piano. High School men or maore mature voices would find success and enjoyment with this piece. Difficulty Level: Medium Advanced Middle School, High School or Medium Adult.

Folk Songs of America is a choral cycle by Dan Forrest and this is the first installment in this ongoing series. The characterization and dialogue between the male and female singers provide a sweet dramatic element - all wrapped in the lovely lyrical writing of Dan Forrest. Consider programming it with a group of early American pieces.

Country: American Folk

The text for this work is taken from Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. For mixed chorus and piano, the notes indicate that the setting uses the piano to provide the river's endlessly flowing current, while the voices 'float' along on it, somewhat mysteriously, toward their destination. Try it as a graduation anthem. Difficulty Level: Medium Adult.

Poetry By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Scandinavian immigrants longing for home might have sung this Swedish folksong, although the theme of the text is applicable to other partings. Scored for mixed chorus with piano (4 hands), the lyrical work could be used as a graduation anthem or could find a place on your spring concert. Difficulty Level: Medium Advanced Middle School, High School or Medium Adult.

The text of this reflective and expressive work provides a rich metaphor for healing as it suggests that difficulty and sorrow can be used redemptively in our lives. At the point in the text where the phrase a frail bell posed a chime is heard, the unmetered voices evoke the sound of a wind chime, building to a forte, then gradually diminishing to a quiet conclusion. With piano, wind chimes and finger cymbal.