EASTERCELEBRATION MEDLEY is an arrangement by Gary Lanier for Violinand Piano of 2 of our most cherished hymns plus a segment of Handel?sHallelujah Chorus.

Itbegins with CROWN HIM WITH MANY CROWNS followed by CHRIST AROSE (Lowin the grave He lay) then, enters George Frederick Handel sharing aportion of his HALLELUJAH CHORUS. After all this celebrationthereprise begins with CROWN HIM WITH MANY CROWNS with a few Hallelujahshere and there. Whata great way to celebrate Easter (12pages including cover).

Also,a mp3 piano accompaniment is available listed as:

EASTERCELEBRATION MEDLEY(Piano accompaniment for Violin)

EASTERCELEBRATION MEDLEY is an arrangement by Gary Lanier for Clarinetand Piano of 2 of our most cherished hymns plus a segment of Handel?sHallelujah Chorus.

Itbegins with CROWN HIM WITH MANY CROWNS followed by CHRIST AROSE (Lowin the grave He lay) then, enters George Frederick Handel sharing aportion of his HALLELUJAH CHORUS. After all this celebrationthereprise begins with CROWN HIM WITH MANY CROWNS with a few Hallelujahshere and there. Whata great way to celebrate Easter (12pages including cover).

Also,a mp3 piano accompaniment is available listed as:

EASTERCELEBRATION MEDLEY(Piano accompaniment for BbClarinet)

"You're a Grand Old Flag" is an American standard for patriotic songs.It was featured in the 1942 movie, "Yankee Doodle Dandy" starring James Cagney. This arrangement is for advanced intermediate piano solo, and is sure to get some hands clapping and toes tapping! It includes tremolo, staccato, voicing, helpful fingering, and bouncy bass octaves. Perfect for patriotic events, assisted living entertainment, and recitals. Written by George M. Cohan; arranged by Amy J. Snyder. Visit Amy at: https://www.facebook.com/amyjsnyder7/. God Bless America, America the Beautiful, My Country 'Tis of Thee, Yankee Doodle Dandy, God Bless the U.S.A., O Say Can You See, The Battle Hymn, The Washington Post, and The Stars and Stripes Forever.

For unaccompanied flute, this volume contains three hymns and four medleys suitable for public worship and private devotions. Complete listing of hymns may be found in the Table of Contents.

Moonlight Serenade" arranged here for Tuba Quintet, is an American popular song composed by Glenn Miller with subsequent lyrics by Mitchell Parish. It was an immediate phenomenon when first released in May 1939 as an instrumental arrangement and was adopted as Miller?s signature tune. In 1991, Miller?s recording of "Moonlight Serenade" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

The song, recorded on April 4, 1939 on RCA Bluebird, was a Top Ten hit on the U.S. pop charts in 1939, reaching number three on the Billboard charts, where it stayed for fifteen weeks. It was the number 5 top pop hit of 1939 in the Billboard year-end tally. Glenn Miller had five records in the top 20 songs of 1939 on Billboard′s list.

In the UK, "Moonlight Serenade" was released as the A-side of a 78 on His Master?s Voice, with "American Patrol" as the B-side. The recording reached number twelve in the UK in March 1954, staying on the chart for one week. In a medley with "Little Brown Jug" and "In the Mood", "Moonlight Serenade" reached number thirteen on the UK charts in January 1976, in a chart run of eight weeks.

The recording was also issued as a V-Disc, No. 39A, in November 1943.

The recording used a clarinet-led saxophone section, which is widely considered[citation needed] the classic Glenn Miller style. Miller studied the Schillinger technique with Joseph Schillinger, who is credited with helping Miller create the "Miller sound", and under whose tutelage he himself composed "Moonlight Serenade".

The song evolved from a 1935 version entitled "Now I Lay Me Down to Weep", with music by Glenn Miller and lyrics by Eddie Heyman to a version called "Gone with the Dawn" with lyrics by George Simon, and "The Wind in the Trees" with lyrics by Mitchell Parish. In his biography of Glenn Miller, George T. Simon recounted how vocalist Al Bowlly of the Ray Noble Orchestra sang him the Eddie Heyman lyrics to the Glenn Miller music of "Now I Lay Me Down to Weep" in 1935. The Noble Orchestra never recorded the song. Finally it ended up as "Moonlight Serenade" because Robbins Music bought the music and learned that Miller was recording a cover of "Sunrise Serenade", a Frankie Carle associated song, for RCA Victor. They thought "Moonlight" would be a natural association for "Sunrise".

"Now I Lay Me Down to Weep" was composed in 1935 with lyrics by Eddie Heyman and music by Glenn Miller. After "Moonlight Serenade", originally released solely as an instrumental, became a smash hit in 1939, Mitchell Parish wrote new lyrics for the music under that title.

A notable vocal version can be found on Frank Sinatra?s Moonlight Sinatra released in 1965, which also contains "Moon Love", "Moonlight Becomes You", and "Oh, You Crazy Moon", which were recorded by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra. "Moonlight Serenade" can also be found on Nothing But the Best, a 2008 Frank Sinatra greatest hits compilation by Reprise, on My Way: The Best of Frank Sinatra from 1997 by Warner Bros., and the Frank Sinatra compilation Greatest Love Songs from 2002. Frank Sinatra also released the song as part of an 7" EP 33RPM single in 1966, Reprise SR1018. The song also appeared on the 2015 centennial collection Ultimate Sinatra. In 1939, Count Basie and His Orchestra recorded one of the earliest versions to feature the lyrics added by Mitchell Parish which was released as a 78 single, Vocalion 5036.

"Moonlight Serenade" has been covered by Barry Manilow, Carly Simon, The Airmen of Note of the U.S. Air Force with Air Force Strings, Charlie Haden, Marc Reift, Chet Baker with The Mariachi Brass in 1966, Santo and Johnny, Thelma Houston, Carol Burnett, Toots Thielemans, Deodato, who reached number 18 on the Billboard Easy Listening Chart, Count Basie and his Orchestra with vocals by Helen Humes in 1939, Benny Goodman and his Orchestra, Cab Calloway, The Modernaires, Gene Krupa and his Orchestra, Freddy Martin and his Orchestra, Bert Kaempfert, Ray Conniff, Mina, Dick Todd on RCA Bluebird, Geoff Love and His Orchestra, Lloyd Gregory on solo guitar, Dick Hyman, Maxwell Davis and his Orchestra, Tony Evans, Los Indios Tabajaras, David Rose, Richard Himber, Fi Dells Quartet, Waikikis, The Universal-International Orchestra conducted by Joseph Gershenson, Oleg Lundstrom, Charlie Byrd, Taco, Alix Combelle, Richard Vaughn, Lisa Ono, Eddie Maynard, Simone Kopmajer, Hamburg Philharmonia, Frankie Capp, Dave, Robert Banks Trio, Karel Vlach, Transatlantic Swing Band, the Frankie Condon Orchestra, The Romantic Strings, Paul Mauriat, Tommy Leonetti, Johnny Desmond, the Boston Pops under Arthur Fiedler, John Williams, and Keith Lockhart, Charlie Calello Orchestra, J.P. Torres and the Cuban All Stars, Tex Beneke and His Orchestra, the Manhattan Jazz Orchestra, Urbie Green, Bob Mintzer, Laura Fygi, Max Greger, Mario Pezzotta and His Orchestra, 101 Strings, Andr�s Ramiro and His Orchestra, The Hiltonaires, Big Warsaw Band, Pep Poblet, Ray Anthony, Cheryl Bentyne, jazz trumpeter Bobby Hackett in 1965, The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic, Joe Loss, Ted Heath, Lawrence Welk, Henry Mancini, James Last, Michael Maxwell and His Orchestra, John Blair, Ray Eberle, Enoch Light, Modern Folk Quartet, Buddy Emmons on steel guitar, The Rivieras, a 1950s Doo Wop group whose recording reached number 47 on the pop charts in 1959, Tuxedo Junction, Yasuko Agawa, George Melachrino, German bandleader Kurt Edelhagen, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Rabin, Henry Jerome and his Orchestra as a 45 single, Decca 25545, Kurt Elling, Syd Lawrence, The Ventures, Archie Bleyer, Mantovani, Bobby Vinton, who reached number 97 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976, and the rock band Chicago as a 1995 3 inch CD single in Japan and on the big band album Night & Day Big Band.

Jazz critic Gary Giddins wrote about the song?s impact and legacy; "Miller exuded little warmth on or off the bandstand, but once the band struck up its theme, audiences were done for: throats clutched, eyes softened. Can any other record match ?Moonlight Serenade? for its ability to induce a Pavlovian slobber in so many for so long?" (The New Yorker, May 24, 2004).

"Moonlight Serenade" released as V-Disc 39A, VP 75, Theme Song, by the U.S. War Department in November 1943. In November 1939, Miller had a 15-minute radio series on CBS called Moonlight Serenade that ran three times a week, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 10:00 PM Eastern Time (shifting to 7:15 PM in May 1942), until September 1942, sponsored by Chesterfield.

Wartime release:

The 1939 RCA Victor studio recording of "Moonlight Serenade" was released by the U.S. War Department as V-Disc 39A, VP 75, Theme Song, in November, 1943. The recording was also released on the Navy V-Disc No. 160A. A V-Disc test pressing of a recording of the song from November 17, 1945 by the AAF Band was made but the disc was not issued. A new recording by Glenn Miller with the American Band of the Allied Expeditionary Forces was broadcast to Germany in 1944 on the radio program The Wehrmacht Hour.

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Virginia Commonwealth University Professor Antonio J. Garc�a has taken Haydn?s ?London? Symphony as a point of departure for his London Town Fantasy for trombone and orchestra (or piano accompaniment), commissioned by the Charlottesville Symphony Society for the Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra (Virginia). CUSO Music Director Kate Tamarkin sought a piece that would ?showcase the trombone in a jazz ballad style and somehow reference the Haydn ?London? Symphony? that would follow it on the program, knowing that the first half of the concert would also include the Brahms ?Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn.? She and trombone soloist Nathan Dishman suggested the title ?London Town Fantasy,? envisioning a potential intersection with elements of George Gershwin?s ?A Foggy Day (In London Town),? which seemed apt given a scheduled trip of Garc�a?s to London during the compositional process.

Listeners familiar with Haydn's ?London? Symphony No. 104" will notice references starting at the first measure. And the violin part at the outset of the Symphony?s fourth movement, Allegro Spiritoso, offered the core of what became the melody to this Fantasy. The melody of the ?bridge? section of the tune is crafted from the first seven measures of the opening theme of Haydn?s first movement (Allegro).

The use of ?A Foggy Day? had to be more subtle, as copyright law must be observed, limiting the use of its actual melody within this piece. But Gershwin?s harmony actually is the harmonic basis under the melody of the Fantasy; and his devotees will recognize that when the soloist improvises medium-swing jazz with the orchestra, the chord progression is indeed entirely that of ?A Foggy Day.? (An optional written-out solo is provided.)

Note that the string section is not asked to play swing eighth-notes at any time. Their jazz-phrased passages are couched in even-eighth, syncopated double-timed-sixteenth, and triplet-eighth cross-rhythmed lines well-rooted in the jazz tradition. Winds and brass, however, have swing-eighth passages to perform (and some even-sixteenth lines).

The superb piano reduction makes the six-minute London Town Fantasy ideal for performances on student and professional recitals, and no improvisational skills are needed by the pianist. Available MIDI demonstration recordings of the duo and orchestral settings, with MIDI soloist or ?minus one,? make rehearsals easy and even provide the aural basis for your own potential ?virtual? performance.

This collection brings together 5 of the best marches in classical music, moving between triumphal, symphonic, sad and Christmas. Containing all levels of music, from beginners to professionals, they can be performed at various musical or ceremonial occasions or events.

I. The Stars and Stripes Forever by J. Philip Sousa
This transcription was written preserving the essence and creativity of the original piece written for wind band, ideal for the 4th of July holiday and other patriotic celebrations, due to the fact that it is considered "the second national anthem of the United States". It can be played by intermediate students as well as teachers and music professionals on the occasions of recitals and concerts.

II. March from The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Op. 71

The exciting march of the Nutcracker that warms up the Christmas festivities in a version for wood quintet that preserves the essence of the original version. It can be played by experienced and professional students, not recommended for beginners, mentioned above, it can be played at Christmas or recitals and concerts.

III. The Funeral March from Piano Sonata No. 2 by Fr�d�ric Chopin, Op. 35

Beautiful and haunting, memorable music by Chopin in an original and authentic version for wood quintet, ideal for funeral and memorial services for relatives, friends or near loved ones. It can be performed by music beginners or professionals in the area, where it can be used in recitals or professional or academic concerts.

IV. Military March No. 1 from 3 Marches Militaires by Franz Schubert, Op. 51

Schubert's fun march in this version for wood quintet where it preserves the original essence of the work, can be played by intermediate and professional students. It is fully recommended for public, famous and military performances; not only, but also in concert halls.

V. Marche des contrebandiers "�coute, compagnon" from Carmen by Georges Bizet

The "Marche des Contrebandiers" or "�coute, compagnon" (Smugglers' March) is the first movement of suite no. 2 of the opera Carmen. This version made for woodwind quintet preserves the essence of the original work, where it can be played by intermediate students and professional teachers. It is recommended for recitals and academic or professional concerts.