Your choir will enjoy the upbeat syncopation of this new praise anthem! The music is filled with energy and the optional a cappella section adds to the excitement. Easter Sunday or even other times during the year is a greatchoice to use this celebrative anthem. Available: SATB Instrumental Pak ChoirTrax CD.

Orchestra Scores-Saint Francois D'Assise is an opera in 3 acts by Olivier Messiaen. This volume is part of the edition that includes the books with the full Orchestra scores as well as the explanations analysis and comments of each tableau. It is focused on the “Act 1 Tableau 2. Les laudes” which tells of the moment when Saint Francis his requests to God to meet a leper and to be able to love him. This tableau depicts Saint Francis and the “Mineurs Brothers” singing the morning service until the bells ring leaving Saint Francis alone to pray. It includes Saint Francis’ prayers some parts of Cantique descréatures on Brother Wind Sister Water Brother Fire and Mother Earth and the Sanctus. Based on the life of Saint Francis of Assisi this opera is set in Italy and is composed as per below: Act I: 1. La croix 2. Les laudes 3. Le baiser au lépreux Act II 4. L’ange voyageur 5. L’ange musicien 6. Le prêche aux oiseaux Act II 7. Les stigmates 8. La mort et la nouvelle vie This opera was first played at the Paris Opera in 1983. Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was a French organist and composer passionate about Ornithology and one of the most important composers of his century. Inspired by Japanese music he had a very special way of composing and his work can be identified by its complexity its diatonic aspect its harmony with limited transposition its colour and its additive rhythms. He composed many works related to ornithology and birdsong including the 'Bird Catalogue' in 7 volumes and the 'Treatise on Rhythm Colour and Ornithology' in 7 volumes.

Days of Elijah-A collection of 12 classic and rising anthems for the worshiping choir! Featuring Days of Elijah Above All Worthy Is the Lamb and Only a God Like You. Orchestration includes score and parts for Flute 1 2 Oboe Clarinet 1 2 Bass Clarinet Trumpet 1 2 3 Horn 1 2 (Alto Sax) Trombone 1 2 (Tenor Sax/Baritone TC) Trombone 3/Tuba Percussion 1 2 Harp Violin 1 2 Viola (Clarinet 3) Cello/Bassoon String Bass Synthesizer StringReduction and Rhythm. Instrumentation varies. SATB Listening CD CD Accompaniment Trax (Split) Preview Pack (CD) and CD 10-Pack also available.

The inspiration for this work came from the novel Silence by the great Japanese writer Sh saku End (1923 96). His book asks profound philosophical questions and resonates with one of the most anguished questions asked 2 000 years ago ???My God my God why have you abandoned me'??? End ???s ???silence??? is the silence of God in the face of terrible events springing from the merciless nature of man: torture genocide holocaust. For End though this silence is not absence but presence a notion that has many musical analogies. The emptiness and solitude of a composer???s silence is nevertheless pregnant with the promise of possibility and potency. The connections between music andsilence are made palpable in this single-movement symphony; the work begins in silence and the climax is a prolonged fermata. The final event is a bar of silence the conception and metaphorical point of the entire work.