Children's and "chancel" operas for use in schools and worship
Music by Susan Hulsman Bingham
Winner, 2017 National Opera Association Sacred in Music
Lifetime Achievement Award
what we do
We sell downloadable PDF files of Susan Hulsman Bingham's children's fairytale, folktale and fable operas, chamber operas, operas for adults and children, and church ("chancel") operas for use in schools and worship. We also have mass settings, psalm settings, anthems, song cycles, ballets, and miscellaneous sacred and secular works.
Susan Hulsman Bingham is the 2017 winner of the National Opera Association's Sacred in Music Lifetime Achievement Award.
Home page photo: David Finley, tenor, as one of the Magi in the opera "Old Befana". Line drawing by William Bingham, age 9, for the program of the chancel opera "Namaan the Leper".
To inquire about scores, please contact us at [email protected].
About Us
The Children's and Liturgical Opera Company began as a community of musicians and artists in the New Haven, CT area dedicated to making sure children had music and arts in the public schools. Susan Bingham wrote children's operas with and for students at the Worthington Hooker Elementary School for 23 years.
The company has since expanded to include chancel operas for use in worship, mass settings, psalm settings, anthems, song cycles, and other sacred and secular works. Susan Hulsman Bingham is the composer of all works offered here.
NOTE: a number of Bingham's works can be seen on YouTube. Type SUSAN HULSMAN BINGHAM in the search bar to find these. Feel free to request a libretto of any of them by contacting us at [email protected].
Much of the art work for this website is by Susan Bingham, as she tends to doodle when not composing.
To inquire about scores, please contact us at [email protected].
Free Downloads of a few of Bingham's musical WORKS
- Priest's Benediction (traditional blessing for solo and piano or organ) (pdf)
- Peace Be With You (for trebles, sung in 12 languages, with piano and flute accompaniment) (pdf)
- May the Road Rise to Meet You (traditional Irish prayer) (pdf)
- Peace Parade (long version) (pdf)
- Peace Parade (short version with piano) (pdf)
- Fairest Lord Jesus (pdf)
- Tiny Creed (child's version of traditional Nicene Creed) (pdf)
- Hope is a Thing with Feathers (Dickinson poem) (pdf)
- Baby (George MacDonald poem set as a duet for adult and child) (pdf)
- To Any Reader (setting of poem by Robert Lewis Stevenson) (pdf)
- In Winter I Get Up at Night (setting of poem by Robert Lewis Stevenson) (pdf)
- Int'l day Parade (pdf)
- Ave Maria (simple acapella SATB) (pdf)
- Threefold Alleluia - Score (pdf)
- Psalm 63 - Score (pdf)
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