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09/17/2026

Resplendent and joy-filled, Dr. David Hurd's "Sing to the Lord a New Song" belongs in the library of every strong choir-and-organ program. Commissioned for the 64th Annual Christmas Festival of Lessons and Carols at Trinity College, Hartford, this setting of verses from Psalm 96 works beautifully for a carol service or Christmas Eve, but is just as at home opening a concert program, a choir's season launch, or any occasion calling for exuberant, celebratory music.

Hear the Trinity College Chapel Singers premiere on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trinitycollege/sing-to-the-lord-a-new-song-by-david-hurd-sung-by-the-chapel-singers

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09/06/2026

Happy 159th birthday to Amy Beach!

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09/03/2026

Hear the Kyrie and Gloria from David Hurd's remarkable Saint Mark's Mass at its premiere at Saint Mark's Church, Philadelphia. https://www.youtube.com/live/J9872cikx0k?si=4ymifa9YiNIl7inP

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Digital scores are available now at $4.40 per copy. Beautifully printed large-format octavo scores ($8.30 per copy) will ship starting September 10.

Solemn High Mass on Feast of St. Mark the EvangelistSermon by Mot...

09/02/2026

From his Mass in Honor of Saint Cecilia to the New Plainsong, a staple of Episcopal and Roman Catholic repertoire since its first publication in 1980, David Hurd's settings of the mass ordinary have shaped the sound of congregational worship for two generations of American parishes. Catchword Music Press is honored to announce the publication of the Saint Mark's Mass, a landmark contribution from this most distinguished of composers in the genre.

Commissioned by Saint Mark's Church, Philadelphia, for its 175th anniversary, this splendid and spacious setting was first heard at High Mass on Saint Mark's Day, April 25, 2024.

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Digital scores are available for immediate download; print scores ordered this week will ship starting September 10.

08/27/2026

As a coda to our summer Christmas publication series, we are delighted to offer the latest in the Gallus Carniolus Edition, Jacob Handl's Epiphany motet "Omnes de Saba venient" for SATTB. Transposed down to a key more comfortable for today's choirs, this work is a perfect introduction to this highly original polyphonist. Easy-medium difficulty; keyboard reduction and translation included. Thank you to Maggie Burk and the Lincoln Chamber Singers of Carthage College for commissioning this edition!

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08/25/2026

She's even more of a help than her brother.

08/25/2026

Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867–1972) began composing at age twelve and went on to write over 150 works. In 1893, the Boston Symphony Orchestra premiered her Dramatic Overture, marking the first time a major American orchestra performed a work by a woman. She stopped composing in 1919, in her early fifties, and was famously self-critical of her own output—she is known to have destroyed several of her orchestral scores herself, and none survive today.

She lived another fifty-three years and remained a fixture of Boston's musical life. She held a subscription to the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 91 consecutive seasons, the longest in the orchestra's history, occupying the same first-balcony seat for decades. In 1967 the orchestra marked her hundredth birthday with a concert in her honor.

Catchword has brought two of Lang's sacred works, both of easy-medium difficulty, back into print for the first time since the 1910s: "Grant, we beseech thee" (SATB and organ, 1912) and her Te Deum in E-flat (SATB and organ, 1899). These are colorful, inventive, memorable works, introducing a composer of individuality and vision.

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08/19/2026

August Newsletter: new titles from Neswick, Beach & Handl - https://mailchi.mp/9da098af123e/august-newsletter-new-titles-from-neswick-beach-handl

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08/18/2026

We are so excited to present the first fruits of our summer archival research in England, John Stainer's "Seven Greater Antiphons." These short, evocative settings can be performed as a set, forming the basis of an Advent concert or carol service, or excerpted for use as regular anthems during the Advent season. They are almost unique among the Great O Antiphon repertoire in being both in English and well within the reach of any SATB Sunday morning choir, with simple four-part hymn texture writing and straightforward organ accompaniment.

Ours is the only complete edition of these antiphons available today, and represents their first-ever publication as a collection in a single octavo-format booklet. Our edition is formatted in short score and includes inclusive language alternatives, making this beautiful music more accessible to today's choirs. And we are offering this complete edition of seven anthems for a lower price per copy than other publishers are charging for single movement excerpts from the set!

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