What Sweeter Music

World renouned Canadian composer, Eleanor Daley, along with the Choirs of Fairlawn Heights United Church, Toronto, have just released a compact disk entitled What Sweeter Music. This delightful recording showcases twenty-one of Ms. Daley’s original Christmas choral compositions and is a long awaited companion to the 2000 premiere recording of her works, Canticle to the Spirit.

The recording, conducted by Ms. Daley, encompasses compositions for the senior choir, Intermediate Treble Choir,
Triple Quartet, Men’s Choir and her Woman’s Quartet, “El’s Angels”. Guest artists include two acclaimed Canadian musicians – harpist, Erica Goodman, and pianist, Lydia Adams, Conductor and Artistic Director of the highly regarded Elmer Iseler Singers and Amadeus Choir.

Born and raised in Parry Sound, Ontario, Eleanor Daley has been the director of Music at Fairlawn Heights United Church since 1982. A prolific composer, Ms. Daley has a remarkable gift for melody. Her works are most notable for their sensitive interweaving of text and music. She has well over 80 choral works published and is commissioned extensively throughout North America. Her compositions have been widely performed, recorded, and aired throughout North America, Great Britain, Europe, South Africa, Korea and Japan.

1. Jesus Christ the Apple Tree

2. Once, As I Remember

3. Angelus Ad Virginum

4. Gloria In Excelsis Deo II

5. I Sing of a Maiden

6. Sweet was the Song

7. O My Dear Heart

8. Bethlehem’s Star

9. Ave Maris Stella

10. What Sweeter Music

11. The Huron Carol

12. Gloria in Excelsis Deo

13. There is no Rose

14. Gabriel’s Message

15. Each Child

16. Balulalow

17. This Blessed Christmas Night

18. Dormi, Jesu

19. Strange Places

20. The Size of your Heart

21. Rejoice and Sing This Christmas Morn