Celebrate the sacred sounds of America with Kaleidoscope. This is the music that has lofted through church rafters across the United States since its founding, and continues to bring comfort and strength to its faithful people today. Features a new arrangement of "Amazing Grace"; classics by some of America's great composers such as Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Leo Sowerby and Paul Manz; and beloved hymns from Appalachia and the South, arranged by Alice Parker and others. Also features the brass quintet Gabriel V in a new arrangement of the spiritual "Let Us Break Bread Together".
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| 1 | Amazing Grace  | arr. Michael Hale, James Jordan, Timothy McKendree | 5:46 |
| 2 | I Will Arise | arr. Alice Parker | 1:04 |
| 3 | Foundation | arr. Alice Parker | 2:42 |
| 4 | The Eyes of All Wait Upon Thee | Jean Berger | 2:26 |
| 5 | The Morning Star | Virgil Thomson | 1:17 |
| 6 | The Twenty-Third Psalm | Arthur Foote | 3:23 |
| 7 | Holy Manna | arr. John Carter | 2:31 |
| 8 | Let Us Break Bread Together  | traditional | 3:05 |
| 9 | Ching-A-Ring-Chaw | Aaron Copland, arr. Irving Fine | 1:43 |
| 10 | The Boatmen's Dance | Aaron Copland, arr. Irving Fine | 3:02 |
| 11 | Zion's Walls | Aaron Copland, arr. Glenn Koponen | 2:08 |
| 12 | What a Friend We Have in Jesus! | William Bolcolm | 6:53 |
| 13 | Psalm 136 | Virgil Thomson | 2:23 |
| 14 | Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal | arr. Alice Parker | 2:22 |
| 15 | Come, Holy Ghost | Leo Sowerby | 4:46 |
| 16 | At the River | Aaron Copland, arr. R. Wilding White | 3:05 |
| 17 | The Best of Rooms | Randall Thompson | 4:31 |
| 18 | Simple Gifts | Aaron Copland, arr. Irving Fine | 1:33 |
| 19 | E'en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come  | Paul Manz | 2:20 |
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“Annotations and texts are integrated into a single, listener-friendly sequence, an approach that I wish was much more widely adopted in the industry. And the graphic design of the booklet is appealingly lavish without becoming tacky. Still more attractive, to my taste, is the program’s alternation of explicitly composed works with others of folk origin, which works rather more persuasively than you might imagine. If you think you’ve long since overdosed on Amazing Grace, you need to re-open the subject until you’ve heard the enchanting new choir-and-solo-strings arrangement that opens this program. And the rest of it, too, is warmly recommended.” James Carson, Fanfare Magazine