The Papoulis Foundation for Small Voices advocates for school music programs in many ways with proceeds from sheet music sales of this piece going directly to the Music Changes the World project. This selection is high energy with a positive message and full of world music rhythms allowing you and your choir to contribute their […]
Written with the Mississippi Boychoir, here is a song with energy and driving rhythms. The phrase living what I believe is repeated over and over, almost like a mantra and represents the struggle that young people have as they discover what is important in their lives. The syncopated verse feels like a spoken phrase with […]
Jim Papoulis: Give us hope (SSA) Jim Papoulis is donating his composer royalties to the Foundation For Small Voices, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing awareness and funding to programs supporting the empowerment of children throughout the world by fostering their creativity through music and role models
Jim Papoulis: Music Makes Me (SA) With a belief that music can give to us everything we need, this work celebrates the understanding that music has the power to enhance many aspects of a young life, creating a bridge of honest feeling and inspiration between singer and listener. With percussion
Composer Jim Papoulis has created an energetic and uplifting work that fuses the rhythms from African, American and Latin cultures, and uses a text primarily in Swahili interspersed with phrases in Spanish. Supported by shaker, djembe and agogo bell, the middle section has the feel of a real celebration with layers of spoken word that […]