Singing Is So Good a Thing

An Elizabethan Re-creation

1. Praeludium
2. Corranto
3. Canzonet
4. Gigg
5. Pastoral and Catch
6. Variations on a Popular Tune
7. Villanella and Ballet
8. Lament
9. Ayre (Pavane)
10. Dialogue (Galliard)
11. Verse Anthem
12. Postludium

Singing Is So Good a Thing is often used to celebrate anniversaries of choral organizations. (The Elgin Choral Union also commissioned Mechem to write a work for its 50th anniversary: Earth My Song.

Press

“What a superb setting Mechem has composed! The score abounds in musical allusions to the Elizabethan style…skillfully wedded to his own contemporary style. The final movement brings the work to a glorious conclusion”
— NOTES magazine

“…a zesty choral work, marvelously vocal. It received an ovation…Every note seems to have been written with fresh, vibrant voices in mind.”
— San Francisco Chronicle