The Legacy Series Has Arrived

It’s here.

A few months back I announced plans to release a series of “legacy” titles – music from my earlier years that had gone P-O-P! Permanently Out of Print.   Now I will admit there have been creative efforts from my past that I’ve been okay – happy even – seeing them taken off the market.  Looking back, I’d just as soon some of my early work not hang around and sully my reputation.

But there is a group of anthems that were taken out of circulation simply because they no longer met some sales threshold, making them more expensive to keep in inventory than they were deemed worth to the publisher. But – these anthems are worth more to me than they are to the publisher.  And I believe they are worthy of being made available still.  So, I sought the right to print my own work.  And now the first group of those anthems is available at my website.

Every one of these choral pieces is 20+ years old. But what’s crazy is this: They will be considered brand new by any choir leader that has taken over a program for his or her first time since 2015.  What’s more – most of them are what I describe as “timeless” arrangements, music that doesn’t lean on any current music trend or pop styling.

Even better – as I prepared these anthems for publication, I was able to “dust them off” (as my friend Heather Sorenson described it). I found room for improvement in every one of them.  Most of the changes I made were small but significant.  All the changes made the anthems easier to sing and/or play – without harming the creative integrity of the original arrangements and orchestrations. (I’ve learned a lot over the years, and I’m better at my craft now than I was then.)

You can read a brief description of how I approached each anthem on their individual product pages. You can find the anthems at the head of the Home Page, and at the top of the Choral Anthems page. Or you can click the links below.  However you choose to get there, I hope you’ll check them all out.

I plan to release more of these in the future.  In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this first offering.

Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty

What Wondrous Love is This

On the Wings of the Morning

God So Loved

Blessed Are They

Breathe on Me, Breath of God