This complete orchestration by Robert Russell Bennett the arranger of the original Broadway production is a standard among professional and community orchestras alike and includes The Sound of Music (main title) How Can Love Survive The Lonely Goatherd My Favorite Things Sixteen Going on Seventeen Do-R?-Mi Edelweiss An Ordinary Couple No Way to Stop It Maria and Climb Ev'ry Mountain. (Score is not available separately) Duration-ca. 10:30

This grade 3 arrangement includes Do-Re-Mi Climb Ev'ry Mountain My Favorite Things and The Sound of Music. ((Score is not available separately) Duration - ca. 4:40

Picnic At Hanging Rock (Utflykt til det okända) for Orchestra by Britta Byström (2010). Programme Note ”What we see and what we seem are but a dream a dream within a dream” – These words opens Peter Wier’s film on Joan Lindsay’s novel Picnic at Hanging Rock from 1967. The story takes place on Valentines Day 1900. A group of school girls go on a picnic at Hanging Rock in Australia and get caught up in a volcanic eruption. Three of the girls disappear without a trace – as if they where swallowed up by the mountain.  Inspiredby Peter Weir’s poetic and many layered film I have composed a tone poem – with the emphasis on poem – or poetry – as opposed to programme music. Disappearance is an important motif. The piece is a series of disappearances and transformations – one after another. At the end you can hear how the sound of the orchestra disappears in a swarm of clanging triangles – a way of picturing the girls disappearing into the mountain.  I have tried to catch several other of the characteristics of the film: The school girls in their white dresses the dangerous yet alluring mountain where the watches mysteriously stop at 12 the spell that makes the girls climb higher and higher and – at the end – the unanswered hesitant question: what really did happen?  Britta Byström