ChristmasTide : David Michael Hyde

** This consortium is now open! Enrollment ends August 2025. **

Program Concept

Libretto

Turn ye away from your hearth fires bright,
Women and men of the world, tonight;
Cease for a moment, your jest and mirth,
Hark to the message of “Peace on Earth”.

Join ye the shepherds who watch their sheep
Tending their fires lest they fall asleep;
Under the arch of the star-lit sky,
Hear ye, the “Glory to God on High”.

Take just a glimpse of the heavenly throng
Joyously chanting the glad, new song.
Out of the midst of those realms of light,
Know that your Savior is born tonight.

— Christmas Tide by Lottie Brown Allen

Package Details

- ~6 minute duration
- Grade 4 difficulty
- Brief soloistic passages for cello
- Optional Harp
- PDF Score and parts with perpetual license
- 45-minute Zoom session meet-n-greet/run-through with composer
- Co-premiere performance promoted on composer’s website and social media
- Credit on score to all co-premiere performing groups for all perpetuity

Package Options

- Co-premiere music performance for orchestra
  and choir (December 2026)……………………………………………. $300
  - PDF Score and parts with perpetual license
  - 45-minute Zoom session meet-n-greet/run-through with composer
  - Concert performance promotion on composer’s website and social media
  - Co-premiere credit on score for all perpetuity

Consortium is conditional on the participation 20+ performing groups;

Milestones

- Consortium enrollment period*……………………….. March-August 2025
- Director progress review ……………………………….. September 2025
- Composition complete ………………………………….. October 2025
- First reading release …………………………………….. November 1st, 2025
- World premiere performance …………………………. December 2025
- Co-premiere performances ……………………………. December 2026
- Distribution of final score and parts for libraries .. January 2027

*Package fee to be invoiced and paid by the end of the enrollment period.

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