Here are three whimsical settings of Ogden Nash poems that are perfect for a lighter portion of your program or as an encore. They are easily-learned and fun to perform! Includes: The Canary, The Eel, The Kangaroo.
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Newly engraved and with a sparkling new orchestration, this Schirmer classic is a delightful choice for holiday and winter programs. Easily learned, impressive-sounding and ideal for choirs of all levels. Available for SATB, SAB, SSA, TTBB, SA, Orchestral Pak and ShowTrax CD. Performance Time: Approx. 1:00.
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Now available for SATB, composer Jim Papoulis created this uplifting Spanish original as a result of his work with children in Mexico. The message that the Mexican children wanted to convey to the world: “Listen.” With optional percussion and bass.
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Concert choirs and vocal ensembles will shine in this warm setting of the classic '80s song by Cyndi Lauper. A wonderful selection as part of a set of lighter selections or an encore!
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Sing of the joy, the peace, the hope and the love and let it ring! This original concert work in the gospel style will showcase your choir at their finest. Ideal for community events, worship and concerts for mixed choirs from high school through adult!
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Add some spice to your holiday concert this year! Driving with Latin/pop energy and a touch of jazz harmonies throughout, this new arrangement is alive and kicking with the instrumental parts or accompaniment CD. Famous for generations and covered by a host of top performers, now's your chance to also create a hit for your holiday performance.
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“The sleigh bells jingle, the shoppers mingle, I get a tingle from watching such a show!” This holiday novelty will be the hit of your concert! The tango-style music set with smart and fun lyrics will create a standout selection for your program. Add some costumes and movement for a real showstopper!
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This season present the holiday classic by Clement Clark Moore, set to music by Ken Darby and wonderfully arranged by Harry Simeone. A timeless favorite for all. The demo recording is courtesy of Sandi Patty and her family.
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Written to invoke the feeling of a simple, old-fashioned holiday carol or hymn, this brief, two-verse tune invites all people to bring to mind thoughts and remembrances of the season and to reflect on this meaningful time of year.
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The great and legendary arrangement by Bob Chilcott of this classic Beatles song for The King's Singers has been adapted for 4 part choir and piano. Now nearly all choirs can enjoy this iconic arrangement which was for so long limited to choirs who could sing 6 part, a cappella music.
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The haunting song by U2, recorded on the King's Singers Good Vibrations album, and later covered on the 50th anniversary triple album GOLD, is a fitting tribute to Martin Luther King for a cappella choirs.
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To Shiver the Sky is an oratorio about the history of flight, and mankind's quest to conquer the heavens. Told through the words of 11 of our greatest astronomers, inventors, visionaries and pilots, it charts our relentless need to explore the universe, defy our earthly bonds, reach for the face of God, and ultimately claim our place among the stars. It is sung in English, Latin, Italian, German, French, Polish, Russian, and Sanskrit. This is the first movement of the work entitled, “Sogno di Volare.”
“Sogno di Volare” is a setting of modern-Italian adaptations of Leonardo da Vinci's writings on flight. It was originally composed as the theme song to the video game Civilization VI. The piece is based around the concept of exploration: both physically, in seeking out new lands, but also intellectually, in seeking out new frontiers of science, technology, and humanities. (Originally published under Item #00275228)
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Written with poet Charles Anthony Silvestri, this twelve-movement work chronicles the rich life of Tony and his late wife Julie Silvestri.
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What a fun song to add to your holiday program! This Johnny Marks favorite made popular by Burl Ives will add sparkle, fun and maybe a bit of humor when adding the optional kazoos, all in a hip 50's style that invites choreography.
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for boys' or female voices and harp (piano in extremis but with alterations and omissions)
There is also a version for SATB and harp arranged by Julius Harrison
Texts: Latin and English
1. Procession (using a variant of the Magnificatantiphon for the second Vespersof the Nativity of Our Lord)
2. Wolcum Yole! (anon.)
3. There is no rose (anon.)
4a. That yongë child (anon.)
4b. Balulalow (James, John and Robert Wedderburn)
5. As dew in Aprille (anon.)
6. This little babe (Robert Southwell)
7. Interlude (harp solo)
8. In Freezing Winter Night (Robert Southwell)
9. Spring Carol (William Cornish)
10. Deo gracias (anon.)
11. Recession (as for Procession)
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Difficulty level: 3
The Ceremony of Carols is one of Britten's best-known and most-performed works. It is a brilliantly conceived and dramatic concert work which sees the voices process to their places singing unaccompanied plainsong and, at the end, processing out again to the same chant. These movements can also be accompanied but strictly only if the voices do not process. The final Alleluia can be repeated as many times as necessary to get the singers to and from their destination.
The carols are for three-part childrens voices (though, of course they can be sung by female adults as well) and they form a two-part work around a central Interlude for harp which is based on the plainsong from the Procession. Variety is the key word here as all the carols have such individual identities. The forthright Wolcum Yole!, the deliciously lyrical There is no Rose, the swinging Balulalow, the fiery and dramatic This little Babe all contribute to a work which is a feast of discovery throughout. Lovely solos and duos add further colour and the harp part, an inspired choice of accompaniment, enriches, colours and surrounds the voices with its pictorial musical imagery. If anything shows Britten's genius for writing for voices it must be this work.
The challenges here are in creating a real equality between voice parts, fielding a confident pair of soloists, and making the most of the wonderfully colourful poems Britten has chosen to set. Pronunciation is not really an issue, but when I recorded this work with the Finzi Singers I decided to follow the example of Sacred and Profane and use authentic medieval pronunciation for which an expert coach was necessary. It brings an added element of colour to a familiar aural experience.
Duration: 22 minutes
Paul Spicer, Lichfield, 2011
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