Russell Robinson always finds a way to take a song and make it accessible for the younger voice and inexperienced ensemble. He continues with this arrangement of Take the A Train. The singer learns the melody in the openingthen is ready to take on the faster movement of the same melody throughout. A great jazz classic for choral groups. Available separately: SATB SAB StudioTrax CD.

2008 marks the hundredth anniversary of this famous baseball song by Jack Norworth and Albert von Tilzer. Written on some scrap paper on a train ride to New York City the song has become one of the most loved and most sungAmerican songs. Invite your audience to sing along for a memorable concert experience! Available separately: SATB SAB 2-Part ShowTrax CD. Duration: ca. 2:30.

Robert Powell is a master with the hymn concerto. Here he takes the Arthur Sullivan tune and turns it into a festival setting accompanied by organ brass quintet and timpani. The congregation even gets to sing. Very accessible and suitable for Easter!

Uses: Christmas Christmas Eve Communion Scripture: Matthew 1:21 John 1:14 II Corinthians 9:15 This bittersweet song for candlelight communion moments takes us beyond the cradle of Bethlehem to the cross. Tenderly flowing this fragile anthem has a heartfelt melody that surrounds this message with delicate beauty. The accompaniment is restrained and elegant yet supportive and the optional oboe adds a mournful quality to the music. On this still and silent night bathed in golden candlelight we recall His wondrous life and we remember. Superb!

Sometimes a familiar story can be told so well it demands to stand on its own. Nathaniel Fryml's artistry is the extraordinary type that takes simplicity and makes it elegant even astonishing. O Little Town of Bethlehem is there as are quotes from 17 other beloved carols but the music is actually new and beautiful. The choral writing is exquisite and the piano part evocative. The violin which is optional is written for a well-trained player but worth every note. A worthy piece for community and college choirs medium difficulty.

with O Come All Ye Faithful-Uses: ChristmasScripture: Luke 2:15-16; Psalm 99:5; Hebrews 1:6This beautiful berceuse takes us from the whispers of the nativity to the confident proclamation of the Savior's birth. The pleasing 3/4meter has a delicate sway that is immediately compelling. When familiar strains enter the anthem it concludes with a deep spirit of worship and awe. Available: SATB. Duration: ca. 2:27.

Par DE HAAN JACOB. Pacific Dreams describes the experience of Miguel, a traveling composer from Spain who, feeling somewhat alienated from his homeland, is wandering through an area of Sydney known as The Rocks. At a small outdoor market in a typical street of this oldcolonial neighbourhood, he discovers a print of William DeShazos painting 'Pacific Dreams' Portrayed in the painting is the surf of one of the exotic islands in the Pacific. Next, with the impressive Sydney Harbour Bridge looming over the narrowstreets of The Rocks, he envisions sultry Pacific beaches. Suddenly a theme he once composed about the lakes in Japan comes to him. Is it the Asian influences present in cosmopolitan Sydney that bring this theme to mind? Or perhaps the waters aroundSydney, over which he could sail to Tahiti? He is uncertain. Could this same theme be used to create a new composition about his feelings for the metropolis Sydney? How then to work his Pacific Dreams into the mix? Miguel is certainly no fan ofHawaiian music. Mayby he could use the vocabularies of islands like Hawaii and Tahiti, their beautiful vowel combinations being sung ad libitum by a mixed choir. With these ideas and his newly purchased print of 'Pacific Dreams', he boards the Metroat Circular Quay. He has a final glimpse of the harbour and the Sydney Opera House as the train races into the ground. On to the hotel! To work! He must compose!Maestoso : Miguel is impressed as he gazes upon the Sydney Harbour Bridge. And yet, hewants to go away from this city. Away, to an exotic island in the Pacific. Steady Rock : In the Rocks, musicians are playing at a square. Miguel basks in the atmosphere but at the same time he is fantasizing about Hawaii and Tahiti. Andante Lamentoso :In his hotel room, Miguel is feeling sad and lonely in this big city. He takes comfort in his 'Pacific Dreams'. Allegro : Miguel boards the boat that takes him from Darling Harbour to Circular Quay. In his mind he is traveling on to Hawaii. Or is ithome, where the bolero is playing? He is pulled back to reality by the skyline of Sydney. / Niveau : 3 / Répertoire / SATB

Gustav Mahler's Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen expertly arranged for Baritone solo and 8-part Choir (SSAATTBarB) by Bo Holten (2010). Text by Friedrich Rückert. Programme note Gustav Mahler: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (arr.: Holten 2010) is an arrangement for baritone soloist and 8-part choir of one of Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder. There is already an often performed arrangement for 16-voice choir by Clytus Gottwald which Holten has himself conducted a few times. But Holten does not really think that Gottwald does justice toMahler’s song; among other things it lacks a soloist who can express the “Ich” that is so central to the text. Holten takes his cue from Mahler’s piano setting but with Mahler’s own sublime orchestral setting firmly in mind. The choir thus functions as an (orchestral) accompaniment for the soloist. Holten has taken pains to stay as close to the model as possible within the constraints of what in fact can be sung by a choir. And he has striven to function solely as an arranger and as far as possible to avoid mixing his own personality with Mahler’s.(Klaus Møller-Jørgensen 2012)

Missa Pro Defunctis-Cherubini owes his fame as a church composer primarily to the Requiem in C minor of 1817. It was held in extraordinarily high esteem by such composers as Beethoven and Schumann and served as a model for early 19th-century Requiem settings.Dispensing entirely with solo voices it captivates with its rigorous formal concentration and its restrained use of musical resources in both Choir and Orchestra.This Urtext edition takes into account not only the autograph score with spartitino (additional instruments written in by hand) but also the first edition and a copyist’s manuscript. Rounding off this exemplary Urtext publication is an informativeIntroduction and a Critical Commentary (Eng).

Missa Pro Defunctis-Cherubini owes his fame as a church composer primarily to the Requiem in C minor of 1817. It was held in extraordinarily high esteem by such composers as Beethoven and Schumann and served as a model for early 19th-century Requiem settings.Dispensing entirely with solo voices it captivates with its rigorous formal concentration and its restrained use of musical resources in both Choir and Orchestra.This Urtext edition takes into account not only the autograph score with spartitino (additional instruments written in by hand) but also the first edition and a copyist’s manuscript. Rounding off this exemplary Urtext publication is an informativeIntroduction and a Critical Commentary (Eng).

Missa Pro Defunctis-Cherubini owes his fame as a church composer primarily to the Requiem in C minor of 1817. It was held in extraordinarily high esteem by such composers as Beethoven and Schumann and served as a model for early 19th-century Requiem settings.Dispensing entirely with solo voices it captivates with its rigorous formal concentration and its restrained use of musical resources in both Choir and Orchestra.This Urtext edition takes into account not only the autograph score with spartitino (additional instruments written in by hand) but also the first edition and a copyist’s manuscript. Rounding off this exemplary Urtext publication is an informativeIntroduction and a Critical Commentary (Eng).