"Brown Eyed Girl" was released by Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison in 1967, and it became an instant hit, spending 16 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. It was soon well known as Van Morrison's signature song, and it has since become a staple of classic rock radio and one of the most covered songs in rock history. If you need a song in your gig binder that is beloved by everyone of every age and is sure to get your audience singing along, this is the one! This arrangement of "Brown Eyed Girl" for violin & cello duet is a lively, upbeat chart that is as fun to play as it is to listen to. Rated intermediate, this chart will be easily sightreadable for professionals and quickly learnable for students -- both parts are entirely in first position, and there are a number of syncopated rhythms, but nothing too crazy.

The book and movie vampire fantasy series "Twilight" has been a smash hit for audiences of all ages, and Christina Perri's catchy love song written for the movie has become a widely requested tune. This arrangement for violin & cello duet, originally commissioned as the processional for a wedding, is a beautiful string rendition of this popular song, with soaring vocal lines, dramatic octave and dynamic changes, and a building rhythmic intensity throughout the song. Appropriate for intermediate student musicians and sightreadable for professionals -- the cello part is more of an early-intermediate level, but the violin part is more on the advanced-intermediate side due to a number of tricky rhythms.