Thank you to the 26 colleagues that contributed ideas and some actual
music to my query. This list is priceless. Thank you all.

THERE WILL BE STARS FOREVER - - treble chorus and piano 4 -hands
Lee Kesselman / Boosey
ISLAND IN SPACE - -Kirke Mechem -- G Schirmer SATB
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Stars I Shall Find (David Dickau) - SATB (the version by Victor
Johnson is lovely too, SATB and is a little easier)
Stars, Songs, Faces - Nick Page
Child With a Starry Crayon - Eleanor Daley - exquisite!!! SSA
Stars (very short but so fun!) - SSA
L. Kuzmenko (Boosey & Hawkes - part of the Doreen Rao choral series)
Ask the Moon - Ron Nelson (I think... it was quite a few years ago)
is a wonderful unison (maybe some two part) selection.
Ruth Artmans' ssa Stopping by the Woods is nice.
The Bells - Frank Ahrold (I think) is a fun satb setting.
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Sure on this Shining Night (Barber - can be done unison but there's a
lovely SATB and SA arrangement by Emily Crocker). You can order it
(and listen to a sample recording here: http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/store/smp_detail.html?itemI96984&cart4445846721001343&cm_re(9.1.4-_-Results+Item-_-Title
Perhaps they Are not Stars by Sametz (gorgeous SSAA, based on an inuit
poem, in English) There's a recording on sheetmusicplus.comhere: http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/store/smp_detail.html?itemu41493&cart4445846721001343&cm_re(9.1.4-_-Results+Item-_-Title
Nukapianguaq (Hatfield - SSAA or SATB, Inuit chants - lovely, no text,
just syllables). You can listen to a sample on the composer's website
- the selections are in alphabetical order, so scroll down to find it:http://www.stephenhatfield.com/MixedVoicesSATB.asp
Revontulet/ "Northern Lights" by Kostiainen (advanced SSAA - very
exciting and has choreography, available on iTunes, in Finnish or
English)
Hanget Soi (by Sarmanto - Finnish, SA, awesome piano part, translation
"Singing Snow", available on iTunes)
I also did the whole Swedish "Sankta Lucia" ceremony with them (can be
done in SATB or SSA) - Lucia is the patron saint of light and these
are gorgeous pieces done by candlelight all about beckoning light to
break in through the darkness.
Stig in Lucia, stig in (Come In, Lucia, Come In) - from the balcony in
darkness

Sankta Lucia - processional

Staffansvisan (I Rå)

Jul, Jul Strålande Jul

Det är en ros entsprungen

You can hear these on youtube (here's one link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_gvPdsNxe8)
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Lux Aurumque (Golden Light) Eric Whitacre SATB
Choose Something Like a Star Randall Thompson SATB
I used Carl Sandberg's poem "Special Starlight" read at 4 points in my
program to put a "Special Starlight" holiday program together....
followed the first read portion with solo then SATB group on "We Three
Kings"--no special version--
Star Carol John Rutter SATB (& SA)
for SA children:
Songs of a Starry Night (Texas Folk Songs) arr. by Emiy Crocker
Firefly Lullaby by Biff Fink
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A couple of years ago I did "Holly Days and Starry Nights." We did
holiday
music that mentioned day or night, but also non-holiday stuff like
Schubert's Die Nacht, and his Standchen, Greg Gilpin's Home On the
Range,
and an arr. Of Bridge Over Troubled Water. We included Holst's Christmas
Day, Rene Clausen's O Holy Night, Brightest and Best, Silent Night,
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Vincent (Starry Starry Night)" is a beautiful song, as I'm sure you
know. There is an arrangement available through Hal Leonard. I know
it's not really wintery.
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Denise Rippentrop - (Beautiful Star Publishers) - For Sun, Moon, and
Stars - great piece for advanced level!
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Jonathan Dove's "Seek him that maketh the seven stars" is a killer.
Ecstatic and gorgeous. The text is from the old testament: "Seek him
that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death
into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night" Pub by Peters.
SATB. The accomp is organ, but could be done piano 3 hands.

SA -- Sure on this Shining Night Samuel Barber. Easy and beautiful.
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STARLIGHT by Dave and Jean Perry

A few others that come to mind are STELLA BY STARLIGHT, STAR DUST and
STARY, STARY NIGHT.
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Dream Songs (three Wintu texts) SATB divisi with 2 part treble chorus
(could be taken by soli)
Commissioned by the Lancaster Chorale, Ohio, and will be premiered
this May. The songs relate to the Wintu Indians' belief that after
death their spirits travel along the Milky Way to their final resting
place.

The Great Nativity SSAATB a cappella
Setting of traditional Gaelic sayings about Christmas night

Maker of the stars above us SATB a cappella
Simple arrangement of a Hungarian song collected by Kodaly; English
words by Thomas Rajna (as published in Bicinia Hungarica).

Star of Purity SAB a cappella
SImple arrangement of a Shaker hymn

Starlight (No. 2 of a short cantata The WInter Wood) SSAA piano

Not starry but about twilight:
Unter de stora traden (Under the tall trees) SATB a cappella, in Swedish
You can view the music online at http://www.canasg.com/zstora.htm

There are some good 'Ave maris stella' and 'Velut maris stella'
options too for this theme! I have done 'Velut maris stella' by
Holst, and a lovely 'Ave maris stella' by the Finnish composer Heikki
Klemetti (available from Sulasol)

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SSAA unaccompanied: Mark Gresham: "The Young Galileo" (text by Ray
Bradbury) ca. 4 minutes
publisher: Lux Nova Press
(Since I'm the composer, I offer a non-composer objective
reference who has directed it many times in multiple countries: Paige
Mathis, dir. Atlanta Young Singers of Callanwolde)

SATB w/divisi, string septet and celesta (or piano): James Eakin:
"Stargaziing," 15 minutes, 3 movements
1) "Creator of the Universe" (text from Plato)
2) "We Are the Stars" (text from Agonquin Native Americans)
3) "Twinkle" (the famous "Twinkle, twinkle..." by the Taylor
sisters)
publisher: Lux Nova Press
(Originally conceived for TTBB, the SATB version was composed at
the same time. The last movement has been very successful as a
standalone, is the most "public natured" and sentimental music of the
three, and has been performed at the White House.)
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Mountain Nights - Kodaly (a cappella, challenging)
Boosey & Hawkes #9790060035777
Also available SATB

Beau Soir - Debussy, arr. Spevacek
Hal Leonard #08765903
(medium difficulty, piano acc. You might want to "fill out" some of the
chords in some places. I'd be glad to send my edits)

Song of the Stars from "Scottish Folk Song Suite" - Raminsh
Boosey & Hawkes M-051-46270-4
Fast, irregular meters; piano acc

Let Evening Come - Gweneth Walker
ECS Publishing - #5946
With soprano soli, piano acc
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A beautifully simple piece: "Stars Are For Those Who Lift Their
Eyes." Don't remember the composer. I've done it in middle school,
high school, and plan to do it next year with my elementary chorus.
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Bruce C. Lengacher
Director of Choral Activities
VAPA Department Chair
Acalanes High School
1200 Pleasant Hill Rd.
Lafayette, CA 94549
925.280.3970 ext. 7325
blengacher(a)acalanes.k12.ca.us