Medley-This spectacular setting for choir band and optional strings of some of Irving Berlin's classic songs offers a variety of entertaining performance options and highlights his most beloved holiday songs. The 7-minute medleyincludes: Happy Holiday I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep Snow White Christmas. Available separately: SATB SAB 2-Part Concert Band (Grade 3) String Pak ShowTrax CD. Duration:ca. 6:40.

Canzone D'l Zampognari-This Sicilian carol is traditionally played on bagpipes by shepherds who serenade Italian villagers the nine days before Christmas. This SAB and 2-part captures the style of the carol and tells the Christmas story with simpleunison and harmony throughout. Available separately: SAB 2-part StudioTrax CD. Duration: ca. 1:50.

This popular torch song was originally composed for Ella Fitzgerald, but ended up being dropped from the film Pete Kelly's Blues. She would eventually record it six years later, but in the meantime, a recording by Julie London introduced it to the world. Jay's sweet harmonies make for a bluesy arrangement. / Choeur SSA

Celebrate the best of super-group Maroon5 in this hot 5-minute mini-medley. The songs include She Will Be Loved Sunday Morning and This Love.

Shirley MacLaine rocketed to fame after she filled in for the lead in this 1954 Broadway smash. Simply sizzling for pop and show groups! / Voix Mixtes

Discovery Level 1-From the Broadway musical Shrek Princess Fiona sings this song as she wakes to greet the dawning of a new day after spending the night as an ogre. Your SSA groups will enjoy stretching their dramatic skills with this humorous selection.

Discovery Level 1-Master composer and educator Audrey Snyder knows the importance of hope in the lives of young people. In this original song she lifts up the need for hope of a brighter day.

A simple and tender work set to an anonymous American folk lyric. The music beautifully reflects a young lady's gentle plea to her father to build her a boat so she and her love can sail across the ocean.

In Taylor Swifts second #1 hit from her fifth album she seeks new love in a powerful new voice. Interesting vocal effects make this a great selection for pop and show groups.

With her second chart hit Meghan Trainor proves she is not a one hit wonder! This hysterical take on cheating boyfriends can't miss! If your lips are moving you're lyin' lyin' lyin'!

Medley-Celebrate the artistry of Whitney Houston in this short medley of three of her greatest hits! One of the world's most successful musical superstars she sold over 170 million albums with a unique crossover appeal that transcended style and genre. Includes: How Will I Know I Wanna Dance with Somebody I Will Always Love You. Available separately: SSA ShowTrax CD. Rhythm parts available digitally. (syn gtr b dm). Duration: 7:00.

From Mouseketeer to pop star, she wowed us on stage and screen. The delightful Annette Funicello brought smiles to millions over the course of her varied career. Celebrate her legacy with this perky three-minute medley, just for the girls. / Choeur SSA

Over the Rainbow is a standard that has become forever associated with its most famous interpreter, Judy Garland. Her troubled adult years only added poignancy to her guileless interpretation of the song, preserved on celluloid in The Wizard of Oz when she was seventeen. The song would also do something similar for Eva Cassidy whose 1992 version brought her posthumous fame almost a decade later. Arranged beautifully by Christopher Hussey for SAB choir with Piano accompaniment, this anthem of hope has not lost its bitter-sweet yearning. / Choeur Mixte (SAB) Et Piano

English Folk Song-A rollicking easy fun song for junior high or high school! It seems to be the English ancestor of the American Billy Boy (can she bake a cherry pie Billy boy?)

Par ABOULKER ISABELLE. oeuvre publiée en partenariat avec le CENTRE DE DOCUMENTATION POUR L'ART CHORAL - MUSIQUE DANSE BOURGOGNE ' Donner l'occasion aux chanteurs, au-delà de la partition, d'interpréter des textes de grands auteurs français, ou de langue française, est un combat passé de longue date avec moi-même. Je me félicite de l'avoir respecté en choisissant ce poème de Victor Hugo, hymne à la paix, réquisitoire intense contre la guerre et la folie des hommes '. Isabelle ABOULKER, juillet 2010. Isabelle ABOULKER, pianiste et compositrice française reconnue concentre à partir de 1981 son activité créatrice autour de la voix et de ,l'opéra. Attentive à la prosodie, exigeante dans le choix de ses livrets, elle se veut héritière de la tradition française : Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc. Le nom d'Isabelle Aboulker est également indissociable d'opéras pour enfants. De ' Moi, Ulysse ' (1982, commande de Jean-Claude Malgoire pour l'Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing) à ' Jérémy Fisher ' (2007, commande du Quatuor Debussy et de l'Opéra de Lyon) elle a composé de nombreuses oeuvres destinées au jeune public. Conjointement au développement de sa carrière de compositrice, distinguée par un prix de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts en 1999 et le Prix Musique de la Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques en 2000, Isabelle Aboulker a publié plusieurs ouvrages pédagogiques destinés aux chanteurs durant la période où elle a assumé, de 1983 à 2003, la charge de professeur de formation musicale au Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. / Date parution : 2019-09-06/ Répertoire / Choeur SSA