[ninenot]

Pinkham's 'Christmas Cantata' is an outstanding work which you could do easily in a Parish setting (I know--my church choir did it 20 years ago.)

Of course, this piece is quite old. Perhaps Pinkham suffers from Schoenberg Syndrome--start good (Friede auf Erde) and end bad...(dodecaphonics.)

[AnAmericanMother]

Perhaps Pinkham suffers from Schoenberg Syndrome--start good (Friede auf Erde) and end bad...(dodecaphonics.)

I think that must be what happened to Pinkham. The assistant choirmaster said something about Pinkham's "harmonious period" -- and that this piece didn't belong there. But the short anthem we're doing now and one other piece that is slightly less ugly are the only works of his that I'm familiar with, so I really can't say. I did find a website that had sheet music excerpts from his "Christmas Cantata" and at least the part they put up looks fairly normal!