if there is
Choral Music
chorus with piano
work detail
instrumentation: SSA or TBB and piano
completion date: april 2016
duration: 3 minutes
texts: Traditional Scottish blessing, adapted DiOrio
events
CORDUS ACCOMPANIED
Cordus Mundi - Rick Rosen
Trinity Episcopal Church - Solebury, PA
4:00 pm
Cordus Mundi's spring concert draws on two main inspirations - spirit and love; we are joined by guest instrumentalists on several pieces, including for the long-awaited live premiere of Ola Gjeilo’s “The Lamb”, commissioned by Cordus Mundi in 2019. Also featuring my If There Is and You Do Not Walk Alone. Purchase tickets here.
COMMONWEALTH YOUTHCHOIRS SPRING SING
Commonwealth Youthchoirs and Dominick DiOrio, guest conductor
St. Paul's Episcopal Church Chestnut Hill - Philadelphia, PA
4:00 pm
As part of a community sing event, I conducted the Commonwealth Youthchoirs and community members in a performance of Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with piano, as well as my two original works if there is and An Irish Blessing.
videos
if there is (TBB)
Hal Leonard - purchase the score
image gallery
Fairfax County All-County Choral Festival
Dominick DiOrio, guest conductor
April 2017
Talking about my commissioned work "if there is" at the 2017 FCPS All-County Choral Festival
April 2017
performances
Fairfax General Music Educators Association All-County Choral Festival
Dominick DiOrio, guest conductor
Hayfield Secondary School - Alexandria, VA
Canto Vivo of Young Naperville Singers
R. Brett Goad, conductor
Neuqua Valley High School - Naperville, IL
Let Your Voice Be Heard
Cincinnati Youth Choir
Robyn Lana, conductor
Carnegie Hall - Stern Auditorium - New York, NY
Threefold Cord Women's Choir
Rachel Cornacchio, conductor; Renee Siegrist, piano
Slate Hill Mennonite Church - Camp Hill, PA
published:
Mark Foster (SSA version): click to purchase.
Note: This work is also available in an arrangement for TBB, in "Brothers Sing On!" the Jonathan Palant Choral Series, and can be purchased here.
commission and dedication
Commissioned by the Fairfax General Music Educators Asociation and dedicated to the singers of the 2017 Fairfax County Public Schools All-County Choral Festival
composer's note
if there is was written at the request of my dear friend Sean Cator and his colleagues in the Fairfax General Music Educators Association. The work is a rousing anthem about the power of each person to make positive change with our actions: even the smallest but most committed of our convictions can lead to a better world, and it starts with the “courage in the heart.”
This work is dedicated fondly to the singers of the 2017 Fairfax County Public Schools All-County Choral Festival, so that they too may have a positive impact on their world.
text
if there is courage in the heart,
there will beauty in the soul.
if there is beauty in the soul,
there will be harmony in the home.
if there is harmony in the home,
there will be order in the nation.
if there is order in the nation,
there will be peace in the world.
so let it be
-- Traditional Scottish blessing, adapted DiOrio
information
events
CORDUS ACCOMPANIED
Cordus Mundi - Rick Rosen
Trinity Episcopal Church - Solebury, PA
4:00 pm
Cordus Mundi's spring concert draws on two main inspirations - spirit and love; we are joined by guest instrumentalists on several pieces, including for the long-awaited live premiere of Ola Gjeilo’s “The Lamb”, commissioned by Cordus Mundi in 2019. Also featuring my If There Is and You Do Not Walk Alone. Purchase tickets here.
COMMONWEALTH YOUTHCHOIRS SPRING SING
Commonwealth Youthchoirs and Dominick DiOrio, guest conductor
St. Paul's Episcopal Church Chestnut Hill - Philadelphia, PA
4:00 pm
As part of a community sing event, I conducted the Commonwealth Youthchoirs and community members in a performance of Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with piano, as well as my two original works if there is and An Irish Blessing.
videos
if there is (TBB)
Hal Leonard - purchase the score
image gallery
Fairfax County All-County Choral Festival
Dominick DiOrio, guest conductor
April 2017
Talking about my commissioned work "if there is" at the 2017 FCPS All-County Choral Festival
April 2017
performances
Fairfax General Music Educators Association All-County Choral Festival
Dominick DiOrio, guest conductor
Hayfield Secondary School - Alexandria, VA
Canto Vivo of Young Naperville Singers
R. Brett Goad, conductor
Neuqua Valley High School - Naperville, IL
Let Your Voice Be Heard
Cincinnati Youth Choir
Robyn Lana, conductor
Carnegie Hall - Stern Auditorium - New York, NY
Threefold Cord Women's Choir
Rachel Cornacchio, conductor; Renee Siegrist, piano
Slate Hill Mennonite Church - Camp Hill, PA
press
published:
Mark Foster (SSA version): click to purchase.
Note: This work is also available in an arrangement for TBB, in "Brothers Sing On!" the Jonathan Palant Choral Series, and can be purchased here.
commission and dedication
Commissioned by the Fairfax General Music Educators Asociation and dedicated to the singers of the 2017 Fairfax County Public Schools All-County Choral Festival
composer's note
if there is was written at the request of my dear friend Sean Cator and his colleagues in the Fairfax General Music Educators Association. The work is a rousing anthem about the power of each person to make positive change with our actions: even the smallest but most committed of our convictions can lead to a better world, and it starts with the “courage in the heart.”
This work is dedicated fondly to the singers of the 2017 Fairfax County Public Schools All-County Choral Festival, so that they too may have a positive impact on their world.
text
if there is courage in the heart,
there will beauty in the soul.
if there is beauty in the soul,
there will be harmony in the home.
if there is harmony in the home,
there will be order in the nation.
if there is order in the nation,
there will be peace in the world.
so let it be
-- Traditional Scottish blessing, adapted DiOrio
