String quartet arrangements of traditional Jewishholiday songs for Rosh Hashana, Hanukkah, Purim and Shavuot. I live in Israel, and my quartet plays every holiday at a schoolfor handicapped children. I wrote these arrangements for them.

I hope you enjoy playing this asmuch as I enjoyed writing it. If you enjoy this, you are welcome to try some ofmy other arrangements. You can see them at

http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/yoel-epstein-sheet-music/3001988?ac=1

I have also arranged three songsfrom the Holocaust, which I arranged and distribute for free on IMSLP. You canfind them at

http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Ravpapa">imslp.org/wiki/Category:Ravpapa

If you need arrangements of any ofthese songs for special combinations of instruments, feel free to contact me atmailto:yoelepst@gmail.com and I will try toaccommodate

16 pages of score and parts. Duration: less than three minutes.

Arranged from the original solo piano version (also available in Sheet Music Plus, and on Richard Fountain's debut CD, American Ivory), Guide to Holiday Shopping is joyous Christmas rondo for the advanced wind quintet. All players get to dabble in the foreground music. Listen for the clarinet's "hallelujahs" at Rehearsal G. This is music to help us balance the stresses of the holidays with the purpose and mission of our shopping, and to remind us of the reason for the season. Completely appropriate for inclusion on any social event during November and December.

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Taken from the film The Holiday this wonder score by Hans Zimmer has been reduced for string quartet. Please note this is an advanced arrangement.

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This arrangement of five traditional Israeli folk songs and Jewish holiday music will put you in the mood to celebrate! The first flutes are featured prominently in this arrangement. Each part takes a turn carrying the tune, with rich harmonies and driving rhythms enhancing the melodies. The medley begins exuberantly in the key of concert d minor, moves joyfully to the relative F Major, then finishes boisterously back in d minor. I have included a version of the alto flute part transposed for C flute in case you don't have an alto flute available.

Songs featured are:

� Hevaynu Shalom Alaychem (We Brought Peace Unto You)

� Maoz Tsur (Rock of Ages)

� Artsa Alinu (We Have Come to the Land)

� Chanukah

� Yibane Amenu (In Our Land We Shall Rebuild Our Nation)



I hope you will enjoy performing this medley as much as I have enjoyed arranging it! Audiences are sure to love it. This would work well in a variety of venues:school concert, synagogue, shopping mall background music, chamber music concert, prelude to a concert, etc. It?s perfect for anywhere you want to lift people?s spirits with energetic, familiar seasonal and folk music. Duration is approximately 3.5 min. L?chaim!