The Ghostbusters movie series returned in the summer of 2016. Here is the timeless theme in a rockin' new arrangement for your young string orchestra by Michael Story. Who ya gonna call? . . . Ghostbusters! / Orchestre A Cordes

A collection of Christmas arrangements which can be played by the entire string group or by individual soloists with optional CD accompaniment. Each song is correlated with a specific level in the Essential Elements Method books.Includes: Frosty the Snowman ? A Holly Jolly Christmas ? Jingle-Bell Rock ? Jingle Bells ?Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! ? Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree ? Silver Bells ? The HanukkahSong ? Up on the Housetop ? We Wish You a Merry Christmas ? White Christmas.

It was the Weihnachtskonzert (Christmas concerto) in C major that won special popularity continuing a tradition which was cultivated by Corelli with his pastoral at the end of Op. 6 No. 8 or by Torelli in his Op. 8 No. 6 and reaching to the pastoral in Händel's Messiahs and to the sinfonia in the second cantata of Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas oratorium. This finally originates from the music-making of shepherds - coming from the Abruzzi and from Calabria to Rome at Christmas to play the shawm and the bagpipes in front of the cribs. Hence the popular consecutive thirds and the sustained bass tones characterizing the first Largo a genuine siciliano in the rocking typically dotted 12/8 time.

James Curnow's setting of this traditional Czech carol is gentle moving lullabye well-known throughout Europe and makes an ideal holiday performance choice for strings.