This anthem will feel immediately familiar to many listeners! Wilberg has adapted the words of a traditional hymn and set them to the melody of O little town of Bethlehem. With a lively accompaniment and spirited counter-melody the result is a sparkling and jubilant work that will suit both concerts and services of thanksgiving throughout the year.Mack WilbergMack Wilberg is the Music Director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He was appointed Music Director in March 2008 having served as Associate Music Director since May 1999. He is a former professor of music at Brigham Young University where he received his bachelor's degree; his master'sand doctoral degrees are from the University of Southern California. In addition to his conducting responsibilities he is active as a pianist choral clinician composer arranger and guest conductor throughout the United States and abroad. In addition to the many compositions he has written for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir his works have been performed by artists such as Renée Fleming Frederica von Stade Bryn Terfel The King's Singers and narrators Walter Cronkite and Claire Bloom. Wilberg's arrangements and compositions are performed and recorded all over the world. With their grandeur energy and craftsmanship they inspire performers and audiences everywhere.

Mack Wilberg's The Morning Trumpet for SATB unaccompanied. This setting of a tune from The Sacred Harp is strong and march-like with accented rhythms and percussive vocal lines contributing to a rousing overall effect. It was originally published as part of Mack Wilberg Anthems and is also available in a version for TTBB unaccompanied.

Mack Wilberg's arrangement of the popular Welsh hymn (Cwm Rhondda) for SATB Choir and Organ or large Orchestra.Adapted from a version originally written for baritone Bryn Terfel this choral setting of Wilberg's arrangement presents the hymn in Welsh with two English translation options reflecting text preferences of different denominations. The accompaniment and harmonies provide a new flavour and a reflective opening gradually gives way to a powerful sense of reverence.Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah features on the Deutsche Grammophon album Homeward Bound in an arrangement for baritone (Bryn Terfel) andchoir.

Mack Wilberg's How Can I Keep From Singing? for SATB choir and Piano. Wilberg's arrangement of Robert Lowry's text and melody is a beautifully reflective take on the well-known hymn. Simple vocal lines are enhanced by a gently flowing accompaniment rich in suspensions and harmonic interest. This part can be played on the Piano or by the unusual combination of Flutes Cors Anglais Harp and Strings.

Mack Wilberg's Light Dawns On A Weary World for SATB choir and Piano four-hands or Orchestra. This short energetic piece sets words by contemporary hymn-writer Mary Louise Bringle. The text is full of positivity and hope and Wilberg's use of a 7/8 time signature keeps the verses propelling forward joyously while undulating quavers shape the refrains. Several key changes are supported by a continuously rhythmic accompaniment in the form of Piano duet or large Orchestra and an instrumental interlude precedes the third and final verse.

Paperback-Mack Wilberg has used his compositional craftsmanship to create this memorable arrangement suitable for performance throughout the liturgical year.

10 Carol arrangements for mixed voices-For SATB accompanied and unaccompanied This series brings together anthems and carols by some of Oxford's leading choral composers including John Rutter Bob Chilcott Andrew Carter Mack Wilberg and Alan Bullard. Together these collections offer a kaleidoscope of musical styles and texts including unique arrangements of popular classics alongside some of the composers' finest original works to date. Previously published under the title Gaudete! this collection of ten exciting carol arrangements has been re-covered to complement Bob Chilcott's first Christmas choral anthology Bob Chilcott Carols 1. From thesimple understated beauty of Away in a manger to the exuberant jazz waltz version of We wish you a merry Christmas this volume takes a fresh look at classics of the Christmas repertoire. 10 classic carols with a twist Arranged by leading choral composer Bob Chilcott Suitable for all mixed-voice choirs Includes Away in a manger and a jazz waltz version of We wish you a merry Christmas Accessible Piano accompaniments included

Chattanooga Choo Choo was written by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon for the film Sun Valley Serenade in 1941. Here arranged by Thomas Lydon for SATB Chorus with Piano accompaniment, this is a challenging but fun piece to learn for all ages. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Piano

Par WEILL KURT. Ces arrangements de chansons de l'opéra de quat seront accueillis par les directeurs chorals, cherchant quelque chose de tout à fait différente pour leur choeur. Hormis l'a cappella dispositions prévues, ils pourraient également être effectuées avec l'accompagnement au piano dans la partition vocale (UE 31544). Les instruments de la version originale pourraient également être ajoutés. Quoi qu'il en soit, ces chansons ferait un ajout intéressant à tout programme de concert. Chansons comprennent : la ballade de Mack the Knife, appel de la tombe Morning Hymn de Peachum, deuxième Finale quat et la chanson de l'insuffisance de l'activité humaine./ Répertoire / Choeur SATB

Peter Maxwell Davies' 1990 work for unaccompanied SATB choir written for the BBC singers. Words by George Mackay Brown.'Written for the BBC Singers this piece requires a high level of choral expertise in its rhythms intricate textures (though nearly always in four parts) wide-ranging vocal lines and characteristically dark but luminous harmony impregnated with tritones and seconds. Not for the first time Davies and George Mackay Browfollow the Stations of the Cross though the fourteen sections are joined into a continuous slow-fast-slow musical movement and the references to the events of Holy Week are oblique.Vocal score with piano accompaniment forrehearsal purposes.

Peter Maxwell Davies' 1994 work for unaccompanied SATB choir using text from George Mackay Brown's 1971 poem A Hoy Calendar.A girdle round the year in five minutes. In twelve clear simple images George Mackay Brown'spoem turns through the months of Orkney life and as it turns so the modal music for a modestly able school or amateur choir moves it on its way with images of matching lucidity.Vocal score with piano accompaniment forrehearsal purposes.

text from Christmas Poem by George Mackay Brown. Par DAVIES PETER MAXWELL. As Master of the Queens Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has written a new carol for Her Majesty the Queen each Christmas since his appointment began in 2004. Kings and Shepherds is the fourth and like An Heavenly Song, Wonder Tidings and The Yule-tide Bell, will be published as part of the Schott Royal Collection. Written for the 2008 Christmas service and performed in the Ballroom of Buckingham Palace, Kings and Shepherds is a short traditional setting of Christmas Poem by George Mackey Brown, a poet who lived near to Maxwell Davies on the Orkney Islands. A wonderful addition to the carol repertoire and ideal for amateur choirs looking to programme new pieces./ Recueil / Choeur Mixte SATB

A work for SATB soli SATB chorus and orchestra using a variety of texts selected by Alistair Grant who commissioned the work to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Jacobite rising (1745-6). It was first performed inOctober 1997 in Glasgow by Lisa Tyrrell (soprano) Margaret McDonald (mezzo soprano) Neil Mackie (tenor) and David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus (chorus master Ben Parry) and the ScottishChamber Orchestra conducted by the composer.Vocal score with piano reduction of the instrumental score. Duration c. 40mins.

Composed in 2003 The Kestrel Road was jointly commissioned by forty-seven choirs all of which are members of Music Making a national society that links several thousand amateur choirs and orchestras. This work wascommissioned as a tribute to mark the seventieth birthday of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and was performed nationwide throughout the 2004/5 season.The Kestrel Road is a song-cycle for SATB Choir and Piano settings ofpoems by the ‘Bard of Orkney’ George Mackay Brown (1917-96). The poems are highly evocative of Orkney life history and folklore with shepherds crofters fisher folk a laird a scarecrow King Barleycorn and the timeless figureof Ikey the Tinker who passes through many of Brown’s poems seemingly linking past and present. According to Maxwell Davies the music is suggestive of the ‘elusive land and seascapes’ of the islands and is much influenced bythe local folk music.