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...performing music composed or arranged for vocal quartet

...commissioning new music for vocal quartet

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The Phoenix Quartet

Vocal music is an especially powerful form of communication that can encourage a better understanding of the struggles and achievements that define people and can develop values that sustain people in life’s experiences.  It has a unique power to create community.  Throughout its rich cultural history and directly because of its melding of poetry and music, vocal music has had a place in all celebrations of life - to herald new life, mourn the passing of life, mark holidays, and to explore the human condition.

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sings

Ching-A-Ring-Chaw

by Aaron Copland

Ching-a-ring-a ring ching ching

Ho-a ding-a ding kum larkee,

Ching-a-ring-a ring ching ching,

Ho-a ding kum larkee.

Brothers gather round,

Listen to this story,

"Bout the promised land,

An' the promised glory.

You don't need to fear

If you have no money,

You don't need none there,

To buy you milk and honey.

There you'll ride in style,

Coach with four white horses,

There the evenin' meal,

Has one, two, three, four courses.

Ching-a-ring-a ring ching ching

Ho-a ding-a ding kum larkee,

Ching-a-ring-a ring ching,

Ho-a ding kum larkee.

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Nights we all will dance,

To the harp and fiddle,

Waltz and jig and prance,

"Cast off down the middle."

When the mornin' come,

All in grand and splendor,

Stand out in the sun,

And hear the holy thunder.

Brothers hear me out,

The promised land's a-come-in,

Dance and sing and shout,

I hear them harps a-strummin'.

Ching-a-ring-a ching ching ching,

Ching-a-ring-a ching ching ching,

Ching-a-ring-a ching ching,

Ching-a-ring-a ching ching,

Ching-a-ring-a, ching-a-ring-a, ching-a-ring-a,

Ring ching ching ching Chaw!