String Orchestra - Percussion-A collection of 12 traditional carols for developing string orchestra (Grade 2) from master arranger Bruce Healey. This group of delightful arrangements will become your most valuable resource of holiday music for years to come.Each carol is given a fresh creative treatment yet is expertly arranged with younger players in mind. May be accompanied by piano or harp and percussion. Songs include: Away in a Manger ? We Wish You a Merry Christmas? Deck the Halls ? Ding Dong Merrily on High ? God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen ? Greensleeves ? O Come All Ye Faithful ? Chanukah Oy Chanukah ? O Holy Night ? Pat-A-Pan ? Silent Night? Three Holiday Songs (Medley including The Dreydl Song Jingle Bells and Joy to the World).Available for:04490308 Conductor / $19.9504490309 Violin 1 / $5.9504490310 Violin 2 /$5.9504490311 Violin 3 (Viola T.C.) / $5.9504490312 Viola / $5.9504490313 Cello / $5.9504490314 String Bass / $5.9504490315 Piano / $8.9504490316 / Opt. Harp / $8.9504490317Opt. Percussion / $5.95.

For solo Cello Timpani and Strings.Popule Meus was commissioned through the Magnum Opus project: Kathryn Gould founding patron and commissioner and Meet the Composer project manager.It was first performed on 6thFebruary 2010 by Yuri Hooker (cello) and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Micklethwate. Composer's Notes 'Popule Meus is a meditation on the Judaic and Christian text ?O my People whathave I done to you?? but itis also a Universalist contemplation of the wholesale rejection of God by modern man. However much manrejects God he cannot escape Him and indeed he is condemned to the supernatural by his deiformnature. InHindu terms he is the Absolute Ayam Atma Brahma (The Self is the Absolute).In this work the solo cello is the All-Compassionate One while the timpani represent man in his vain andpointless rejection. Although the solocello and strings and the timpani share the same material (four ideas aregradually revealed and they revolve four times during the piece) the timpani music is violent and becomesincreasingly frenzied and contracted while thecello and strings remain still and serene.So even in winning the Darkness loses and even in losing the Light wins. Passion Resurrection andRedemption; or in Hindu terms Atma (The Absolute) alone is real Maya (The Relative) ismerely illusion.'

Robert Saxton's The Resurrection Of The Soldiers for String Orchestra.Composed and published 2016.Duration: c. 12 minutes.The Resurrection Of The Soldiers for String Orchestra was commissioned by George Vass to whom it is dedicated and the English Symphony Orchestra for the 2016 Presteigne Festival with funds generously provided by the John S. Cohen Foundation and the Arts Council of England. The title derives from the final panel of Stanley Spencer’s Sandham Chapel visionary series of paintings which were the result of Spencer’s experiencesin the British army in World War One and depicts soldiers emerging from their graves on the last day. The music is in three continuous sections: a slow sustained introduction which is in essence a descent from the note E by means of a prolation canon but which ascends to a rather intense climactic point before finally falling and giving way to an active fugue which after arriving at an anguished sustained climax is succeeded by a closing slow movement consisting of a rising melodic line which permeates the entire texture heterophonically leading to the closing E major triad. The work thus traces a cyclical pitch path which while tracing a cyclical path also develops expressively towards a sense of hope and resurrection. - Robert Saxton April 2016