I love the vocal harmonies in this piece! Very nice.

Bravo! Bravo! wonderful music & performance

Gorgeous! This must be what heaven sounds like...

Where to buy and download? I could listen to more and more and more... <3

Available at NoteNova.com

A recording of members of the Hartt Chamber Choir singing my work "Hand in hand", conducted by Edward Bolkovac from May 2nd, 2014.

Hand in hand

Short three-part motet - lyrics from "Carmina Gadelica", translated from the Gaelic by Alexander Carmichael (1832-1912). Available for ATB or SABar - suitable for small choirs or a trio of mixed voices. 
Sheet music at www.hutchingsmusic.co.uk/scores/scores-for-sale/ 
Recorded by Matthew Curtis of choraltracks.com - thanks!

God to Enfold Me

Winning piece for the Ithaca College Thirty-Sixth Annual Choral Composition Contest, and The Robert Campbell ’40, M.S. ’50, Endowed Choral Composition Prize

Sheet music available at: http://www.caseyrule.com/music/works/berakhot/

Berakhot (ברכות ) is the Hebrew word for “blessing,” and the text for this piece is that of a blessing that appears in the Berakhot Tractate of the Babylonian Talmud.  According to the Tractate, this blessing was spoken by the third century Rabbi Ammi in Tiberias.

Note: This piece can be performed with either piano or harp accompaniment.  The piece was originally written for choir and harp.

Romanized Hebrew pronunciation tips:

“ei” is pronounced like “ay” in “say”, ([εi] in IPA)
“ay” or “ai” is pronouced like “y” in “fly” ([ai] in IPA)
an apostrophe with no vowel indicates an unaccented schwa like the “a” in about ([ə] in IPA)
“ch” is that iconic Hebrew guttural sound, like the “ch” in “chutzpah” ([x] in IPA)
Text

from Talmud Bavli, Tractate Berakhot 17a

Olamcha tireh v’chayecha
V’acharitcha l’chayay haOlam haBa
V’tikvat’cha l’dor dorim
Lib’cha yehge t’vunah
Picha y’daber chachmot
U’lshoncha yarchish r’nanot
Af’apecha yaishiru negdecha
Einecha ya’iru b’me’or Torah
U’fanecha yazhiru k’zohar harakiya
Siftotecha yabiu da’at
V’chliyotecha ta’alozna meisharim
U’fe’amecha yarutzu lishmoa
Divrei Atik Yomin

Translation

May you live to see your world in your lifetime*
May your end be for the life of the world to come
And your hope from generation to generation
May your heart conceive understanding
May you mouth speak wisdom
And may your tongue bring forth song
May your eyelids look straight before you
May your eyes shine in the light of the Torah
And may your face shine like the brightness of the heavens
May your lips express knowledge
And may you rejoice in righteousness**
And may your feet run to hear
The words of the Ancient of Days***

* Or, “may you live to see your world fulfilled”
** Literally: “may your kidneys rejoice in righteousness”
The kidneys were believed to be the emotional center of the body, with a similar metaphorical significance as we give the heart.
*** “Atik Yomin” is an Aramaic title for God meaning “Ancient of Days”

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Berakhot - performed by the Ithaca High School Concert Choir

Winner of the 2014 ACDA-PA Choral Composition Contest

Get the sheet music: www.caseyrule.com/music/works/draw-on-sweet-night/

performed by the Penn State Glee Club
Dr. Christopher Kiver, director
Saturday, November 8th, 2014
Eisenhower Auditorium, Penn State Center for the Performing 

Text:

Draw on, Sweet Night, friend unto those cares
That do arise from painful melancholy.
My life so ill through want of comfort fares,
that unto thee I consecrate it wholly.
Sweet Night, draw on
My griefs when they be told to shades
and darkness find some ease from paining,
And while thou all in silence dost enfold,
I then shall have best time for my complaining.

"Draw On, Sweet Night" - performed by the Penn State Glee Club

"Everywhere"
Music from Lehigh University Choir Tours
Steven Sametz, Director

Including music from:
Tour of Germany and the Czech Republic, 2005
Lincoln Center, 2006
Tour of Austria and Hungary, 2003
Tour of China, 2007

La Villanella

Composed by Stephen Paulus

To purchase sheet music for this piece, use this link:
http://stephenpaulus.com/products/poemas-de-amor


Poemas de Amor: V. Mano a Mano

Poemas de Amor: IV. Si lo dicen, digan

Poemas de Amor: III. Pasas Por Mi Calle

Poemas de Amor: II. De Tu Cama A La Mia

Poemas de Amor: I. Sonaba

The Heroine Triumphant links four songs of the 1890s which together trace the story of a young girl who comes to town in search of her brother (“Mother Was a Lady”); she is cruelly deceived by a drummer, an unscrupulous low-life, claiming to know her brother.  He proposes marriage, but in “Take Back Your Gold we find his intentions are less than honorable.  The heroine finds herself alone and cast out in “She Is More To Be Pitied Than Censured.”  Finally, she rises above her misery and woe to find a new life in “Ta-ra-ra-Boom-de-ay!”

The opening barbershop quartet may be sung by a small ensemble, but the character voices of the narrator and the drummer should be assigned to soloists.  The Heroine Triumphant easily lends itself to some simple staging.

“Mother Was a Lady” (or “If Jack Were Only Here”)
Words by Edward B. Marks; music by Joseph W. Stern
Original copyright by Jos. W Stern & Co, 1896

“Take Back Your Gold”
Words by Louis Pritzkow; music by Monroe H. Rosenfeld
Original copyright by Jos. W Stern & Co, 1897

“She is More To Be Pitied Than Censured”
Words and music by William B. Gray
Original copyright Wm. B. Gray, 1898

“Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay!”
Words and music credited to Henry J. Sayers, 1891

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The Heroine Triumphant - Steven Sametz

Magnificat anima mea Dominum
et exsultavit spiritus meus in Deo salutari meo.
Quia respexit humilitatem ancillae suae:
ecce enim ex hoc beatam me dicent omnet,
Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est:
et sanctum nomen ejus.

Et misericordia a progenie in progenies
in progenies timentibus eum.
Fecit potentiam in brachio suo dispersit superbos
mente cordis sui Deposuit potentes de sede,
et exaltavit humiles.

Esurientes implevit bonis:
et divites inanes.
Suscepit Israel puerum suum
recordatus misericordiae suae.
Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros,
Abraham et semini ehus in saecula.

Gloria Patri, et Filio,
et Spiritui Sancto.
Sicut erat in principio,
et nunc, at semper,
et in saecula saeculorum.

Amen.

I Have Had Singing — Choral Music by Steven Sametz

Magnificat - Steven Sametz

Karen Siegel conducts C4 in a performance of Seawall, by Jamie Klenetsky Fay.

Composer: Jamie Klenetsky Fay
Conductor: Karen Siegel

Soprano
Rebecca Ehren
Noele Flowers
Christina Kay
Melissa Wozniak

Alto
Maya Ben-Meir
Jamie Klenetsky Fay
Erin Halpin
Jane Lawson
Beth Marker
Leonore Nelson

Tenor
Ben Arendsen
Nate Barnett
Mario Gullo
Joseph Prestamo
Casey Rule
Richard Tucker
Grant Yosenick

Bass
Daniel Andor-Ardó
Hayes Biggs
Brian Mountford
Perry Townsend
David See

Composed November 2016, Recorded March 18, 2017
Church of Saint Luke in the Fields, New York, NY

Audio Recording
Noriko Okabe

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Jamie Klenetsky Fay: Seawall

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Berakhot - performed by the Ithaca High School Concert Choir

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