Alice Parker is an internationally-recognized composer, conductor and teacher. A graduate of Smith College and the Juilliard School of Music, she first became known in collaborations with Robert Shaw. Their many settings of American folksongs, hymns and spirituals form an enduring repertoire for choruses all around the world. Through the years she has continued composing in all the choral forms from opera to cantata, from sacred anthems to songs on texts by distinguished poets. She travels in the United States and abroad, conducting workshops, concerts and SINGS in which all participants, children or adults, professional or amateur, learn to make music with remarkable joy and clarity. Her techniques have encouraged a generation of music teachers and choral conductors to think in new ways about creating and re-creating music.

Hark I Hear the Harps Eternal is Parker’s arrangement of the tune originally found in The Southern Harmony, a compilation of hymns, tunes, psalms, and songs published by William Walker in 1834.

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