Sacred Music by Sheena Phillips
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ALSO Christmas & Advent
Amazing Grace
SATB divisi
Jazz arrangement
Written for Rudsambee company of
singers, Edinburgh, Scotland, c. 1998
Published by Canasg (www.canasg.com)
Amazing Grace
SATB and alto solo
Commissioned and first performed by
the Lancaster Chorale, Ohio, 2002
"Simply outstanding. I highly recommend it for unaccompanied choirs--and it won't take long to learn it." Philip Copeland, Director of Choral Activities, University of Alabama (Birmingham)
recording of Amazing Grace (mp3) by the University of Alabama (Birmingham) Concert Choir, dir. Philip L. Copeland. Solo by Sarah Green
Aurora rutilat (Dawn glows red)
(i) SATB
divisi
(ii) SATB and two part treble choir
Setting of a medieval Scottish
plainchant hymn
Version (i) written for Rudsambee
company of singers, Edinburgh, Scotland
Version (ii) commissioned by the Lancaster Chorale and Lancaster-Fairfield Youth Choir, Ohio
aurora rutilat (SATB) (mp3) from the Rudsambee Company of Singers CD citrus and honey
Blest be the love
SATB piano
Setting of a hymn text by Charles
Wesley, using tunes from the Scottish Psalter
Commissioned and first performed by the choir of St Andrew's Episcopal Church, San Antonio, Texas, 2004
Calvary
SATB keyboard
Setting of the spiritual
Written for and first performed by
the choir of Summit United Methodist Church, Columbus, Ohio, for Palm Sunday
2004
Come Down, O Love Divine
SATB, soprano solo, violin, violincello
Setting of the tune DOWN AMPNEY by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Words by Bianco di Siena (trans. Richard Littledale)
Written for and first performed by the Magpie Consort, Columbus, Ohio, for holiday concerts in December, 2010.
Deep Peace
SATB organ and optional congregation
Setting of traditional Celtic
blessings
First performed by Worthington United Methodist Church, Worthington, Ohio, 2003
Easter Service
Commissioned by First Congregational Church, Columbus, Ohio, Music Director Tim Smith, for Easter 2006
1. Introit: Christ will rise
SATB organ 2 trumpets 2 trombones timpani
Words by Phillips Brooks
recording of Christ will rise by the choir of First Congregational Church with Tim Smith, organ
2. Anthem: Easter Carol
SATB organ
Words by Christina Rossetti
3. Offertory: Thanks be to God
SATB organ 2 trumpets 2 trombones
Based on words from the Easter Proclamation
4. Communion: The Voice of Jesus
SATB flute
Words by Horatius Bonar
recording of The Voice of Jesus by the choir of First Congregational Church with Sarah Lange, flute
5. Postlude: Rejoice O Earth
SATB organ 2 trumpets 2 trombones timpani
How can I keep from singing?
SATB
Setting of the 19th c.
American hymn by Robert Lowry
Commissioned and first performed by
the Lancaster Chorale, Ohio, dir. Robert Trocchia, May 2005
Foresta spessa e viva
(i) SATB divisi, soprano solo, viola
da gamba or cello, cymbal
(ii) SATB divisi and soprano solo
Depiction of the sacred forest from
the end of Dante's Purgatorio
Written for The Magpie Consort,
Columbus, Ohio for Visions of Heaven, 2002
Healing river
(i) SATB a cappella
(ii) SSAA a cappella
Arrangement of a song by Fred Hellerman and Fran Minkoff
Published by Santa Barbara Music Press
View the SSAA version, listen to a recording, and order the music here
View the SATB version, listen to a recording, and order the music here
I know that Jesus loves me
SATB piano
Words by Lynne Reid
Written for Summit United Methodist
Church, Columbus, Ohio, 2006
I shall light a candle
SATB divisi
Setting of an Apocryphal text and a
Bengali folk song about finding the right path
Written for Rudsambee company of
singers, Edinburgh
Lesson of love
SATB, flute, viola
Setting of texts by Julian of
Norwich
Commissioned for the ordination of
Kathryn Clausen, Columbus, Ohio, June 2001
Love triptych
SATB divisi
Setting of three medieval English
devotional lyrics
Premiered by the Lancaster Chorale,
Ohio, dir. Robert Trocchia in Contemporary Choral Currents, February 2002
Duration c 6'00
extract from first movement (mp3) performance by the Lancaster Chorale, Ohio, dir. Robert Trocchia, 2003
extract from third movement (mp3)
A Medieval Christmas Story
SATB chorus, soloists, handbell choir, drum, 2 oboes, SATB recorder consort, viola da gamba
Music drama based on medieval mystery plays
Written for and first performed by the Magpie Consort, Columbus, Ohio, December 2001
Shaker movements
SATB divisi
Suite of three movements based on
Shaker tunes
Commissioned by the Cerritos Center
for the Arts, California, 2003
Winner of 'American traditional'
competition run by Zephyr: Voices Unbound
First performed by Zephyr in Los
Angeles, June 2003
Duration c 6'00
We open our hearts
SATB, organ and congregation
A sung prayer, commissioned by First Congregational Church, Columbus, for the Region V Convention of the AGO (American Guild of Organists), 2007. Words by T E Smith
Recording of We Open Our Hearts (aifc) performed by First Church Choir, directed by Tim Smith from the organ, June 26, 2007