Ideas for Spring Concerts

Underlined titles are links to miniature scores or a description written by the Dare Team.
For full details on these titles and playback files for some of them click one of the catalog links at the bottom.

Ideas for full choirs (listed in order of difficulty)

Oriental Breeze — mostly chordal piece; lovely on choir chimes (L1)
Sunrise Suite — every octave gets melodic material somewhere in the suite (L1)
On an Indian Trail — suggests young Indian braves moving along a wooded path (L1)
Seaside Suite — every octave gets melodic material somewhere in the suite (L1)
Morning Chimes — our most popular easy piece (L1)
Misty Fields — was an instant favorite with the group for which it was written (L1)
Essay for Bells — low bells get the melody in the A section (L1)
Ballad of Somerset Vale — melody is in the middle range (L1+)
Prairie Days — 2 octaves; melody moves around the range (L1)
Prairie Morn — easy 2 octave piece for bells and chimes (L1+ due to changes from bells to chimes)
Mountain Sunrise — scored for chimes and bells (L1+)
Chant to the Great Spirit — for handchimes and Indian drum; my special favorite (L1+)
Balloons— a thin, light setting suggests balloons floating up in a summer sky (L1+)
Festival Day — the melody dances all around the three octaves (L2)
Legend — a five octave piece with lots of drive (L2)
Soundscape — full sounding piece with interesting harmonic progression (L2)
Concert Piece in C Minor— interesting release from Flagstaff (L2)
Lilacs — chromatic passages add challenge (L3)

Novelty numbers for fun

Abilene Rag — an original ragtime tune bu John Dare (L2)
Jubilation — chordal melody over malleted bass line; has a "trolley car" feel; our choir had fun with this (L2)
Leprechauns in the Garden — hear the leprechauns dance in this setting for bells and chimes (L2)
Popcorn — mallets and thumb damps add to the effect (L2)

Complete list of titles published by the Dare Team Press
(All Dare Team Press titles have links to playback files.)

Link to catalog list of titles published by other companies
(Titles published by GIA have links to playback files.)

Page updated on March 15, 2011