If you buy this book, I get a quarter!! From my Friday Evening Shabbat Service, (whose original seven movements currently live separately as Four Prayers for Shabbat and Three Other Pieces for Superhuman Singers), Transcontinental Music Publications chose my setting of V'sham'ru for the third volume of its popular Shabbat Anthology Series.
As time separates me from the composer I was when I wrote my Friday Evening Service in 2002, I am amused by the range of difficulty of its movements. The V'sham'ru was chosen by TMP for its appropriateness in congregational singing, a rondo in D minor. The fugal Mi Chamocha, on the other hand, was feared by my performers because of its big-interval melodies, odd time signatures, fast tempos and weird cadences. I have been at times conflicted about the Friday Evening Service -- some movements are appropriate as service music and others are more suited as virtuosic concert music. And only the V'sham'ru and perhaps one other movement are even suited for performance by an amateur Temple choir.
Since about 2001, I have been writing music a bit more practical, say, but I am still puzzled about how to package or repackage the movements of the Friday Evening Service. Perhaps you'd like to offer your two cents. Or, if you buy the Shabbat Anthology Vol. III -- with two dozen composers splitting a 12% royalty -- you could offer your two dimes!! Link