SKU: CL.RWS-2206-00

Santa has just received a new phone for the holidays! The elves are fascinated with the new technology and are having a great time taking elfies as they prepare for Santa’s big trip. This fun arrangement of holiday favorites provides a great opportunity for interactive performance with your audience. Your favorite holiday character can join the band with ample opportunity to engage and photo your musicians and audience throughout. The performance concludes with a large audience selfie using our Elfie Stick kicking off the holiday season with smiles and sharable media. Your students and audience will treasure that final photo! Enjoy!

SKU: HL.14041524

ISBN 9788759871812. Danish-English.

Programme Note During the composition of my tenth string quartet a flower-name, host-tidlos, came to my mind - and it would not me leave again. [hosttidlos is actually autumn crocus in English, but the composer prefers harvest-timeless, to maintain some of the associations of the Danish flower-name, red.] The paradoxical union of a seasonal time (harvest) and no-time-at-all was a good fit to the sections of the work that I had composed at that time, and I decided to tentatively stick to that title for the work-in-progress, and now, having finished the piece, I can say that is is still a fitting title - and it stands. Enough about the title, I will go on to describe themusic, a somewhat more precarious project. My tenth string quartet is probably the most basic string quartet that I have composed: melodically - and in sound - it employs the naturally based overtones and undertones (perceived at major and minor, respectively), and rhythmically it is based on growth, on the principles of the Golden Section, and the structure itself contrasts abundance and exuberance with sections of immobility and contemplation. However, Melos, melody, is definitely the dominating aspect of my STRING QUARTET NO. 10: behind even the most rhythmically complex or pure sonoric sections lies a firm - if hidden - basis of melodic or polyphonic ideas. The work was composed in 2004-2005 for the Kroger Quartet.

SKU: BP.HB564

Arranged for 3 to 5 octave handbell choir with optional D8 and optional jingle bells, slapstick and tambourine. Level 3+. A jaunty opening figure leads off this arrangement of the well-loved Welsh tune. After a couple of traditional verses, the tune is set as a waltz before one last, triumphant iteration of the theme brings the piece to a glorious conclusion. Add in the optional percussion throughout to enhance the overall effect of the piece. A fun choice for the holiday season!