Hal Hopson, well known composer and arranger of choral and handbell music for the church, has stepped into the secular world with a lovely setting for 3-5 octave of bells of the American sea chanty SHENANDOAH.
The name "Shenandoah" means "land of big mountains." It's actually a corruption of the name used by the Iroquois Indians for the mountains on both sides of the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.