The brilliantly handy Beatles Gig Book comes with a tough PVC cover and is an absolutely ideal size for stuffing in your gig bag. Have a flick through and you'll be won over by the wealth of sheet music inside of 100 of the Fab Four's best songs.  Featuring lyrics chord boxes and melody line as well as text and black and white photos these handy books are a great addition to any musician's repertoire after all The Beatles are the greatest band ever. Who wouldn't want to learn such classics as All You Need Is Love Eleanor Rigby Hey Jude and Let It Be.  The perfect size forkeeping with you in your gig bag at all times you will always be able to open it up and play through a Beatles classic. Whether it's Hard Day's Night after a day at the office Taxman as you're filling out your tax returns or Here Comes The Sun on a beautiful summer's day there's a song for every occasion and they're universally loved.  These books are just faultless for their versatility and usefulness being great for guitarists pianists singers and all other musicians you'll be able to add some of the greatest songs of all time to your repertoire and please crowds wherever you go. With a hard-wearing PVC cover each book in the series is designed to be carried around and used over and over again and with such a great selection of songs who wouldn't? For a great collection of Beatles sheet music to learn and play while also representing supreme convenience and practicality the Beatles Gig Book is a fantastic choice for fans of Beatlemania or just incredible songwriting and musical talent.

For SATB Chorus.Jointly commissioned by the National Chamber Choir and the Cork International Choral Festival for the seminar 'from composition to performance the seminar on choral music'.This work was premièred at the Cork International Choral Festival on 2nd May 2008 by the National Chamber Choir of Ireland conducted by Bo Holten. Text: Acallam na Senórach (12th century)After the battles of Commar Gabair and Ollarba the F an was destroyed. The survivors scatteredacross Ireland and by the time our story begins only two of the nobles of this ancient F anwerestill alive: Ois n and Ca lte. Sixteen of the F an warriors travelled with them across the wooded andflower-covered slopes of the Fews. Patrick was reciting his office. Then his priests seeing Ca lte and his men approaching wereseized with fear and horror at the sight of these warriors of an earlier age. Then Patrick apostle tothe Irish arose and sprinkled holy water on these great men for a thousand legions of demons hadbeen above their heads. The great men then sat down.?Well my friend there is something I would ask you ? said Patrick to Ca lte. ?Find us a well of purewater close by so that we might baptize the peoples.? Ca lte took Patrick by the hand and togetherthey went over the ramparts of the fortress. Just nine steps from the portal they saw a lovely crystalclearspring. Then Ca lte recited these lines:A thoibur Trágha dhá bhan laind do bhilar barrhglan.ó ro tréigedh do chnuas ortn r? léiced fás dot fochlocht Is uait dochuadar in Fianndar? marbad Coinchend coimfial dar? cuiredh ár Feinde Find.isin mhadain ós Maolghlind.A(r) marbadh chon ocus ferar n-athchuma laoch

Based on a short story by Pushkin fashioned into a libretto by the composer's brother ?The Queen of Spades? was written in just five months. The story is set in eighteenth-century St. Petersburg and focuses on the young officerGherman who confides to his gambler friend Tomsky his love for a young woman. Later as the two congratulate Prince Yeletsky on his recent engagement the elderly Countess and her granddaughter Liza and it transpires that she isthe fiancée of the Prince and also the young woman Gherman is in love with. However in a private meeting Gherman and Liza declare their love for each other. Tomsky tells Gherman that the Countess has a secret method ofgambling using a certain sequence of three cards that always wins. Gherman is fascinated and becomes obsessed with finding out the winning three-card secret from the Countess. He goes to her quarters but accidentally frightensthe elderly woman to death. Liza forgives him however later they meet by a canal and when Gherman rejects her she jumps into the canal.The Countess' ghost reveals the gambling secret to Gherman who then goes to thecasino and wins twice with it. Playing against Prince Yeletsky though he becomes nervous and intends to select the ace but chooses the queen of spades instead. He loses everything and stabs himself to death.This is theSchirmer edition of the Libretto in English only.

(from The Sound of Music)-So Long Farewell from The Sound Of Music arranged by Ed Lojeski for SAB choir with Piano accompaniment. Inspired by the memoir 'The Story of the Trapp Family Singers' by Maria von Trapp Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound Of Music first opened its doors on Broadway in 1959 and was turned into a popular film in 1965. The musical tells the story of Maria who is studying to become a nun at Nonnberg Abbey in Salzburg yet is struggling to fit in there due to her youthful enthusiasm energetic nature and lack of discipline. Believing that she might be happier in the outside world the Mother Abbess sends her to thevilla of a widowed naval officer to be governess to his seven children. After bringing love and music into the lives of the family Maria marries the officer and together with the children they flee the Nazi regime that has taken over their homeland. One of the musical's most cherished numbers So Long Farewell is the song the von Trapp children sing to bid their guests good night at the party at their villa. It is also sung as a reprise by the family at the Salzburg concert. To the Nazis present they are simply bringing the night's performance to an end but the external audience is aware that they are in fact also saying goodybe to their beloved Austria as they secretly plot their escape over the border to Switzerland. Watch Raincross Chorale perform this charming arrangement: