The Music of

Russell Roden

Sing We Now of Christmas is an attainable arrangement of and ancient Christmas Carol. It is uniquely scored for SATB voices as well as guitar, flute, and tambourine.

Who Was Watching? is inspired by the “Shoes on the Danube Bank” in Budapest, Hungary, which memorializes the horrific events which occurred during the winter of 1944-1945. As relevant today as it was almost 80 years ago, it poses a question regarding freedom and human rights which we hold so dear.

“Watching but not seeing, allows cruelty to reign.”

Names Etched in Stone is a new composition inspired by the graves of the "Greatest Generation" in and around Normandy. Especially inspiring were the graves who simply were described, not with the soldiers' names, but the inscription "known unto God." Dedicated to the my great-uncle who lost his life after coming ashore in Normandy and is buried at the Brittany-American Cemetery in St. James, France.