Sakura: Vocal score

for SSAA and harp or piano A beautiful and simple setting of a haunting Japanese pastoral folksong with Japanese and English texts.

Michael Neaum was the accompanist for the world-famous Cantamus Girls Choir. He has also worked with nationally and internationally renowned singers, taken masterclasses in accompaniment and he has broadcast frequently on radio and television. His arrangements are eminently singable. Through his work with Cantamus he understands what lies comfortably in the various voices and he gives each part in a choir its share of the melodic material and interest. His searching for colour and flavour within a conventional harmonic idiom - with the addition of some unexpected nuances - makes his arrangements greatly appealing to audiences.