Shawnee Press
Founded 1939 by bandleader Fred Waring at his Delaware Water Gap retreat — built around the radio chorus the country had been listening to. Today the house remains the choral specialist for school, church, and community ensembles.
A house for singers.
Fred Waring built Shawnee Press to put his Pennsylvanians' arrangements into the hands of every glee club, church choir, and school choral programme in America. The mission has not shifted in eighty-five years: singable, teachable, performable.
The catalogue spans SATB anthems, SAB and two-part work for young voices, sacred and secular concert pieces, holiday choral, musical theatre, and Broadway choral editions. Voicings are practical; piano accompaniments are well-written; the editorial standard is consistently high.
Built for singers.Shawnee Press · the house mission
SATB, SAB,
two-part, unison.
Concert choral; sacred anthems for Sunday morning; cantatas and musicals; school chorus for middle and high school; children's choir; community choral society repertoire; Christmas and Easter collections. Voicings are written for the rooms they're actually sung in.
Distributed by Hal Leonard since the 2010 acquisition — one ordering system, the same editorial line Waring established in 1939.
