Newsletter for Men’s Choir – August 2019 – Cypress Choral Music

Dear Men’s Choir Director, please click on a title to listen to a quality recording – while studying the score,

 

Did you know that I sang in Chor Leoni for 5 years? (pictured above) What a privilege! It was during those years that Diane Loomer asked me to write and arrange many pieces for her men; including Four Strong Winds, Royal Hudson, All the Diamonds, The Storm is Passing Over, and In the Bleak Mid-Winter

 

Chor Leoni brought the house down at a National ACDA convention with We Rise Again and became admired internationally.

 

Of course the most popular score in our catalogue (commissioned by Chor Leoni) is Jonathan Quick’s Loch Lomond.

 

Ron Smail also sang in and wrote for the choir: please check out The Field Behind the Plow, Northwest Passage, Barrett’s Privateers, and Fogarty’s Cove Ron’s “There’s a Meetin’ Here Tonight” has been an exciting opening for many Men’s Choir programs.

 

Our big hit last year was All God’s Critters Got a Place in the Choir. Dr. Loewen’s Peaceful Niagara is gorgeous.

 

Recently we’ve added Cotton Jenny to the TTBB list. Also Fisherman’s Son, Canadian Pacific and A Kind Heart.

 

I highly recommend the new Sempre Vicino– which was made quite famous by the Canadian Tenors.

 

Caccini’s Ave Maria has recently been set for TTBB sweet-spot registers. Also Don MacDonald’s Tabula Rasa.

 

Christmas Angel has been a timeless classic – also Frobisher Bay and Chi Mi Na Mórbeheanna. Diane Loomer’s Goin’ Home and Ave Maris Stella continue to sell each year.

 

Music for Memorial and Remembrance Day: Long Black Arm, We Shall Remember, After the War, Dulce et Decorum (which had the TTBB premiere at a national ACDA convention)

 

Here is our complete list for Men’s Choir.
Here’s the complete list of music released over the last two years.

 

warm regards,

Larry