Libretto by Ray Alston
Recorded by the BYU-Idhao Alumni Symphony Orchestra, Kameron Kavanaugh, conductor

Jonah, the Prophet - Overture

This is a hymn arrangement I did of two of my favorite LDS hymns, "If You Could High To Kolob" and "I Know Heavenly Father Loves Me." I'm dedicating it to Kailee Capps and the battle she has been fighting. It shows the power that Heavenly Father can have on a family's life while showing the tender innocence of a little girl.

If You Could Hie To Kolob

The University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir, conducted by Thomas LaVoy, sings the world premiere of "The Heart Burns" in St. Asaph's Cathedral in Wales. 

                On the wide fields the water gleams like snow,
		And snow like water pale beneath pale sky,
		When old and burdened white clouds are stooped low.
		Sudden as thought, or startled near bird's cry,
		The whiteness of first light on hills of snow
		New dropped from skiey hills of tumbling white
		Streams from the ridge to where the long woods lie;
		And tall ridge-trees lift their soft crowns of white
		Above slim bodies black or flecked with snow.
		Warm as old fire the Red House burns yet bright
		Beneath the unmelting snows of pine and larch,
		While February moves as slow, as slow
		As Spring might never come, never come March.

		Amid such snows, by generations haunted,
		By echoes, memories and dreams enchanted,
		That old house called The Heart burns, burns, and still
		Outbraves the mortal threat of the hanging hill. 

	- Adapted from "The Red House," by John Frederick Freeman

The Heart Burns

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream? 
-Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

A Dream Within A Dream

Been wanting to do this piece for a long time..
Also around 100 years since it was written so it's as good a time as any :P

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Maurice Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin, Prelude (2a03Mix)

Recorded Live at the Basilica of St. Mary in Downtown Minneapolis on 30 April 2017.

Celestial Light - Basilica of St. Mary Cathedral Choir

Ben Stiller does Zoolander as Trump

This is a rousing call to gather! Written in the tradition of the Sacred Harp (or shape note / fasola singing), this composition by Andrew Maxfield borrows a melodic fragment from the classic Wondrous Love. It is a "fuguing tune" in a brilliant, cheerful minor key. Text by beloved Kentucky author, Wendell Berry.

Published by Santa Barbara: https://sbmp.com/SR2.php?CatalogNumber=1436

Featured on the award-winning album, Celebrating Wendell Berry in Music: https://www.andrewmaxfield.org/product/celebrating-wendell-berry-in-music/

One Household, High And Low (Excerpts, SATB in Sacred Harp style)

Live, raw, uncut recording of a rehearsal on May 10, 2019 at St Patrick's / St. Anthony Church, Hartford, CT, USA.  Voce, New England's Chamber Choir, led by Artistic Director Mark Singleton, wraps up its 13th season with a program entitled "With One Voice" on May 11, 2019.  Voce is a Signum Records Artist, and will be premiering their first album on Signum in 2020.  www.voceinc.org

Jonah, the Prophet - Overture

Mike Merrill