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Children’s Choirs

Craig Knapp

Craig Knapp
Joseph A. Edgar Intermediate School

children@nyacda.org

Craig’s Recommendations

If you look carefully in the NYSSMA Manual, you can find selections that your elementary choir can perform with musical integrity and joy. My choirs have successfully performed these pieces from Level I of the NYSSMA Manual

Donkey Carol
John Rutter
Oxford University Press
Unison

Dormi, Dormi (Sweetly Slumber)
arranged by Mary Goetze
Boosey and Hawkes
Unison

Haida (Chassidic Round)
arranged by Henry Leck
Colla Voce Music
2-part

Hine Ma Tov
Allan E. Naplan
Boosey & Hawkes
SA

O Music
Lowell Mason
Boosey and Hawkes
3-Part Canon

Oh, How My Heart Sings!
Barbara Wolfman
Boosey and Hawkes
SA

Sakura, Sakura (Japanese Melody)
arranged by Douglas E. Wagner
Lorenz Corporation
SA

Two Childhood Songs
Randall Thompson
Thorpe Music Publishing
Unison/2-part

Velvet Shoes
Randall Thompson
ECSPublishing
SA

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