O America, My America! - SATB

With a musical career spanning a century the 20th century was Irving Berlin's own and his music was America's music. This spectacular choir band and optional string medley of some of Irving Berlin's classic songs offers a variety of entertaining performance options. Includes: Alexander's Ragtime Band There's No Business Like Show Business Puttin' on the Ritz Always Blue Skies God Bless America.

In Memory was written in memory of Glen Schaefer and all the departed souls of America. The words come from the Orthodox Funeral Service and from a text by Mother Thekla. For SATB Choir A Cappella. John Tavener: The musicshould be sung with a shining solemnity and should ideally be performed in a church or other building with reverberant acoustics. The solo bass sections refer to St Hermann of Alaska (the pre-eminent Orthodox saint of theAmericas) and should be performed in the manner of a Byzantine pasltis.

A Setting of America the Beautiful-This setting of 'America The Beautiful' was first performed on March 11 1967 in the Air Force Academy Chapel near Colorado Springs only a few miles from where in 1983 Katherine Lee Bates wrote the first lines of her now famous poem certainly the most beautiful and moving of all hymns to America. The occasion was a concert given by the choral and brass groups of the University of Colorado for the Music Educators National Conference Southwest Division.The setting is concieved as a unified dramatic whole using melodic motives from the Samuel A. Ward tune in the introduction and connecting sections. Each of the four stanzas is treated differently their powerful emotion and meaning culminating in the final affirmation and prayer of the last stanza which is sung in unison with descant and full accompaniment.The work may be performed with an Organ (or Piano accompaniment or with a group of instruments consisting of 3 Trumpets in Bb 4 Horns in F 3 Trombones Euphonium and Tuba.Instrumental parts available from the publisher.

For SATB chorus Clarinet in B flat Percussion Harp and String Orchestra.Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University the Dale Warland Singers Commission Award presented by Chorus America and funded by the American Composers Forum and Utah Chamber Artists.First performed 30th April 2012 at the Libby Gardner Concert Hall University of Utah Salt Lake City by Utah Chamber Artists conducted by Barlow Bradford.Instrumentation.SATB chorus with divisionsSolo SopranoOptional Soprano Alto Tenor and Bass soli Clarinet in Bb(offstage) Percussion (1 player):    Tubular Bells Glockenspiel Large Bass Drum Large Suspended CymbalHarpString Orchestra (minimum 6.6.4.4.2 players) 

This medley is by Len Thomas who has created a fantastic arrangment for SATB with Piano accompaniment. Titles included are: Tonight I Feel Pretty Maria America One Hand One Heart and Somewhere .

Gwyn Arch presents some hot and spicy choral arrangements of five classics of Latin America written specially for SATB chorus and guaranteed to thrill and delight at any occasion! The pieces include Sloop John B Guantanamera and of course Jobim's much-loved Girl From Ipanema. Full Piano accompaniments are included where required. Add a funky dash of sunshine to your choral repertoire!

The Mamas & The Papas’ hymn to the West Coast state California Dreamin’ was actually written in chilly New York City by John and Michelle Phillips before they even formed the band that made them famous.Simon & Garfunkel were New York through and through and Simon’s jaunty song about the Queensboro Bridge — aka Feelin’ Groovy — uses its local colloquial name. Skeeter Davis born Mary Frances Penick was the survivor of a car crash that killed her singing partner Betty Jack Davis. They had enjoyed some success as The Davis Sisters but The End Of The World was the biggest hit of Skeeter’s subsequent solo career.In My Roomsaw The Beach Boys moving indoors from all that sun and sand and recording one of their most reflective and lovely songs. Meanwhile the British invasion was threatening the pop status quo in America and Can’t Buy Me Love from the film Hard Day’s Night gave The Beatles yet another number one in the US charts.Novello Choral Pops: Sixties Hits contains these five decade-defining hits newly arranged for SATB Choir with Piano accompaniment.

These settings of poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins the Jesuit poet were written while Benjamin Britten was resident in America.The title is a shorthand form of a pious inscription Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam often placed at the head of a piece of work.Benjamin Britten was a central figure of 20th century British classical music with a range of works including opera other vocal music orchestral and chamber pieces.

The classic La Paloma Habanera which was the source material for Bizet's Habanera from Carmen. Born on January 20 1809 in Lanciego in the province of Álava. His publisher in Paris urged him to universalize his name from Iradier to Yradier. He is known primarily for his habaneras especially the one titled La Paloma written around 1860 after a visit to Cuba. La Paloma was extremely popular in both Spain and America (especially Mexico) where it was responsible for the great popularity achieved by the habanera. Another of Iradier's compositions is El Arreglito an habanera used by Georges Bizet in his opera Carmen.Bizet thinking it was a folk song took the melody of El Arreglito and created what is known today as the Habanera from Carmen: the song L'amour est un oiseau rebelle

These Christmas spirituals from North America and the Caribbean have been arranged in the Gospel style by Daryl Runswick. This collection is perfect both for the well-seasoned gospel choir and for choirs looking to extend their repertoire and try something new. Daryl Runswick has included some hints on singing in the gospel style for those who are attempting this for the first time.

Judith Clurman Choral Series-In 1814 Francis Scott Key (1779-1843) wrote new words for a well-known drinking song by John Stafford Smith (1750-1836) 'To Anacreon in Heaven' to celebrate America's recent victory over the British. In 1931 Congress passeda law proclaiming 'The Star Spangled Banner' to be the national anthem of the United States.This arrangement by Doug Katsaros was first performed at the Macy's 4th July Fireworks Spectacular onNBC television July 4th 2014. The performers were soloist Idina Menzel Judith Clurman's Essential Voices USA and Sherrie Maricle's Dive Jazz Orchestra. The recording of that performance has been added to the permanent archivesat F. McHenry in Balitmore MD.Text (Defence of Fort M'Henry by Francis Scott Key):O! say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?Whose broadstripes and bright stars through the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming And the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air Gave proof through the night that our flag was stillthere-O! say does that star-spangled banner yet waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

A Choral Cycle. Par CHASE DAVID. Perfect for International Women's Month performances! Washington Women is a collection of musical settings of speeches opinions and interviews of sixteen remarkable women from all across the political spectrum and throughout U.S. history from Abigail Adams to Kamala Harris. The composers took their words and set them to music with the hopes that performers and their audiences will learn more about these women and discover why they spoke those words when they did. Women featured include: Abigail Adams Madeleine Albright Barbara Bush Laura Bush Shirley Chisholm Hillary Rodham Clinton Betty Ford Ruth Bader Ginsburg Kamala Harris Elena Kagan Sandra Day O'Connor Michelle Obama Nancy Pelosi Condoleeza Rice Eleanor Roosevelt and Margaret Chase Smith. / Date parution : 2023-01-24/ Recueil / Choeur Mixte SATB

La musique de Story de Leonard Bernstein repère comédie musicale de Broadway West Side est devenu une partie importante de notre patrimoine musical. Cette suite de 20 minutes chorale en quatre sections offre des contrastes vifs et émotionnel ainsi que quelques-unes des plus belles mélodies et aimé la scène de Broadway ait jamais produit. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Piano