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CHOIR MUSIC
Choral compositions by Elise Letourneau
Elise Letourneau’s compositional style blurs the lines between classical, jazz, and popular music. Her mastery of various genres and instruments informs her innovative work, with an unflinching attention to melodic beauty. Her deep sensitivity to lyrical poetry, and to the voice itself, imbues her music with a sense of singability and intuitiveness. She writes and chooses texts that embody groundedness and goodwill, and sets them in motion through her music. Her instrumental music also reflects this lyrical sense.
"Elise Letourneau capitalizes on her active background in the jazz field, while also displaying considerable skill writing academically/classically oriented music. Letourneau writes with vivid imagination, confidence, and a willingness to try new things in the choral idiom."
- Giselle Wyers, Chair of Voice & Choral, University of Washington School of Music
Arrangements by Elise Letourneau
Choir - SATB SAB SAAB
[click on a title to view scores, listen to recordings, and order PDFs]
A la claire fontaine SATB a cappella
Ave Maria SATB + piano (winning selection of the Ruth Watson Henderson competition)
Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind SATB a cappella
A Canadian Folk Song SATB + piano, optional spoons
A Christmas Wish SATB a cappella
Dust of Snow SATB + piano
The Glimmer Mass SATB a cappella
Long Time Sun SAB + piano
A Mid-Winter Night's Dream SATB + piano (winning selection of the Atlantic Voices competition)
My Symphony
Our Father
Peace Prayer SATB + piano (winning selection of the ACCC-Choral Canada competition and the Diane Loomer award)
Prayer (O Light Eternal)
Shenandoah SAB a cappella
Star In His Pocket SATB + piano
Choir - SSAA SSA SAA
[working on it - contact Elise for more info on the following titles]
Jack So Loved the Birds
Nature Boy
A Mid-Winter Night's Dream
O Winter, Wilt Thou Never Go
A Canadian Folk-Song
All Shall Be Well
Home Again
Green Grows The Holly
Mercedes Benz
Light of a Clear Blue Morning
Hard Times Come Again No More
Song For A Winter's Night
O Come Emmanuel
A Child Is Born
Smile
I Can See Clearly Now
Sparrow
Wichita Lineman
Trains and Boats and Planes
Multi-movement & Extended works
Elise's longer works include the following. Please contact Elise directly for more information and purchase.
• The Great Turning: Eight Sabbat Songs
• Carolinian: An Ode to the Canadian South
• Salute for Service: Prayer for Victory
• Sara Teasdale poems
• The Virgin Mary to the Child Jesus
• Requiem for Fourteen Roses: December 6, 1989 + 25 years
• The Glimmer Mass
• Emily's Garden
• The Hours: Poems by Bliss Carman
• Four Poems by Emily Dickinson
• Poems to the Moon
• Four Poems by Tony Cosier
• Four Love Poems by e.e. cummings
• Four Poems by Langston Hughes
Alphabetical Listing of Arrangements
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - SAB - Paul Simon
Alfie - SSA - Burt Bacharach & Hal David
A la claire fontaine - SATB - traditional
(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me - SSA - Burt Bacharach & Hal David
Green Grows the Holly - SSA - traditional
I Love a Rainy Night - TTBB - Eddie Rabbitt
Lazy Afternoon - SSA - Jerome Moross & John Latouche
Mercedes Benz - SAA - Janis Joplin
Nature Boy - SSA - Eden Ahbez - Nat "King" Cole
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head - SSA - Burt Bacharah & Hal David
Shenandoah - SATB - traditional
The Sweetheart Tree - SAA - Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer
Trains and Boats and Planes - SSA - Burt Bacharach & Hal David
Up On the Roof - SSA - Carole King & Gerry Goffin
Vincent (Starry Starry Night) - SSA - Don McLean
We Just Disagree - TTBB - Jim Krueger - Dave Mason
Wishin' and Hopin' - SAA - Burt Bacharach & Hal David
You Gotta Be - SSA - Des'ree & Ashley Ingram