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This is a mixed chorus arrangement collection of "Happy Birthday to You" which everyone had known from
children to adults. Arrangements are by 10 Japanese famous composers, Kyoko UOJI, Chieko MATSUNAMI,
Kaori MORITA, Naoto AIZAWA, Masaya ISHIWAKA, Norikazu OMOKAWA, Noboru KITAGAWA, Tatsuya TANAKA,
Toyotaka TSUCHIDA, and Noritaka MORIYAMA. This collection has an arrangements of very attractive and
full of individuality. This is a must-have collection for mixed chorus around the world.

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From "Everyone sang" to "Everyone WILL sing", a peaceful Hymn of Ko Matsushita's latest work.

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Comments from Ko Matsushita

Commissioned by The Co-Curricular Activities Branch of The Ministry of Education, Singapore, I composed this choral work as an assigned piece for the secondary school choral division of The Singapore Youth
Festival Central Judging 2007.

I chose the text from a poem written by Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), an English poet who is well known for his antiwar poems born from his experience of fighting in the front line during World War I.
"Everyone Sang"depicts vividly and emotively the joy of people who were liberated when the war ended.

The song proceeds lightly and powerfully in the 6/8 rhythm, delicately reflecting the contents of the poem.The fundamental rhythm, essential to the music, was inspired by Joget, a typical Malaysian dance.

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Title: Everyone Sang [SATB]
Composer: MATSUSHITA, Ko
Publisher: Pana Musica
Panamusica Code: GZMTKOQ
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: Piano
Language: English
Duration: 2'30"

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Title: Everyone Sang [SAB]
Composer: MATSUSHITA, Ko
Publisher: Pana Musica
Panamusica Code: GZMTKOQ
Voicing: SAB
Accompaniment: Piano
Language : English
Duration: 2'30"

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Title: Everyone Sang [SSAA]
Composer: MATSUSHITA, Ko
Publisher: Pana Musica
Panamusica Code: FZMTKHI
Voicing: SSAA
Accompaniment: Piano
Language: English
Duration: 2'30"

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Title: Everyone Sang [TBB or SSA]
Composer: MATSUSHITA, Ko
Publisher: Pana Musica
Panamusica Code: FZMTKHI
Voicing: TBB or SSA
Accompaniment: Piano
Language: English
Duration: 2'30"

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This book is a collection of folk songs and children's songs inherited in the Lake Biwa district, which takes one sixth of entire Shiga Prefecture.
One of the important subject of the composer is to preserve traditional Japanese music as lively as possible, and this album is dedicated to it. He tried to complete these songs with his own creative ideas, while respecting the original mentality and mood.

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Japanese folksong of Fukushima Prefecture. One of the most famous Japanese choral arrangement in the world.

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The Japanese Requiem, using Japanese ancient Shinto requiem, elegies and parting songs of the poet Kakinomotono Hitomaro who represents the anthology Manyo-syu, and several Latin requiems as texts. Composed and first performed as a ceremonial music for victims of the Great Hanshin/Awaji Earthquake in 1995.

[Hideki CHIHARA]
Born in 1957. Graduated Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.
Awarded and honorable mention : Japan Music Competition, Premio Citta di Trieste (Italy), Carl Maria von Weber Preis (Germany), Guido d'Arezzo (Italy), and so on.
His music, written in varieties up to now, is mainly based on Japanese classical literatures, traditional art forms and Asian thought or religions.

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The theme song of "The 7th World Symposium on Choral Music" in Kyoto 2005. Composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, internationally known for musical activities with his band YMO and his score for the film "The Last Emperor".

The theme song has been arranged for and will be sung in various voicings and orchestrations - there will be an a cappella version, an arrangement for choir and organ, and a version for solo voice.

The text for this song, also the theme for the 7th Symposium, is: "Cantus populi, cantus mundi. Cantus omnibus unus." (Songs of the people, songs of the world. One song unto all.) Thus, a "song" uniting the people of the world is about to be born.

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"Carmina mundi" the new international choral series from Carus, offers choirs exciting and challenging music to add to the current repertoire.These volumes provide insight into little-known but highly interesting choral music traditions from selected regions all around the world. Each region is introduced by a volume for mixed choir, a second for female choir, and a CD. Under the motto "overbridged continents" the series are illustrated by paintings by Max Ackermann (1887-1975), the coloured areas being artistically linked so that they can be interpreted as bridges between the continents, nations and cultures.

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