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For Just a Little While: Choral Octavo SoundTrax CD

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For Just a Little While: Choral Octavo SoundTrax CD

For Just a Little While: Choral Octavo SoundTrax CD

Music by Sally K. Albrecht / arr. Jay Althouse

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"For just a little while we were here together...what a special time it was." These touching sentiments, and a beautifully singable melody, make for Just A Little While the perfect number for graduation and year end concerts...or use it as a concert closer any time of year. The opening optional solos could also be sung by small groups for your graduating singers. A new choral classic by Sally Albrecht and Jay Althouse. Sensitive SoundTrax CD.

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Series: Alfred Choral Designs
Publisher: Alfred Music
UPC: 038081187228
SKU: 00-20158

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About the Composer: Sally K. Albrecht

Sally K. Albrecht

Sally K. Albrecht has shaped American choral music for over three decades as a composer, conductor, and educator. Since 1987, she has received the ASCAP Special Music Award annually, with more than 600 choral works and 75 full-length musicals in print. Her conducting has been featured at festivals across the country, including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and The Kennedy Center, and she spent most of her career directing choral publications for major educational music publishers, including Alfred Music.

A Cleveland native, Albrecht holds degrees from Rollins College (B.A. in Music and Theater), the University of Miami (M.A. in Drama and M.M. in Accompanying), and has taught at Oakland University, Jersey City State College, and Meredith College. In 2021, she received the Distinguished Alumna Award from both the University of Miami Frost School of Music and Rollins College, where she serves on the Board of Trustees. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, composer and arranger Jay Althouse.

Why we love this

The opening optional solos give graduating singers a chance to shine individually while the full choir joins in on a melody that sticks. Albrecht and Althouse have crafted something genuinely moving here, and it reads as both accessible and emotionally mature enough to feel like a real moment, not a throwaway closer.

What to expect

Warm, unhurried, and genuinely tender. The melody flows in a way that feels natural to sing, never forced or contrived. There's gratitude in this piece, mixed with a touch of bittersweet awareness that good moments pass.

Who it's for

Choirs looking for a genuine, emotionally authentic choice for graduation, year-end concerts, or any moment that calls for closure and reflection. The optional solos work especially well when you want to honor departing singers with a personal spotlight.

How to get the most out of it

  • Let the opening soloists breathe naturally through the text. These opening moments set the reflective tone, so encourage a conversational delivery rather than a formal one.
  • Balance the recorded accompaniment carefully in rehearsal; this piece has space, and the singers need room to be heard without fighting the track.
  • Work the phrase "what a special time it was" as a gentle peak. The melody invites a swelling moment here, but resist oversinging, the power comes from sincerity, not volume.

How to use it

Anchor the final block of a graduation concert with this as your closing number, or use it mid-program as a reflective interlude before something lighter returns. It also serves beautifully as a farewell moment at winter or spring concerts when you want to acknowledge the year that's passed without needing an explicitly seasonal piece.

Skills your students will build

  • Legit legit line singing with natural phrasing across longer phrases
  • Emotional communication through subtle dynamic shaping
  • Ensemble balance when navigating optional solo passages into full choir entrances
  • Breath management in a slow, sustained melodic context

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