SKU: WD.080689639173

UPC: 080689639173.

Christy and Daniel Semsen have done it again, bringing you the most epic, entertaining, and exhilarating new kids musical from Word Music & Church Resources! With songs that your kids will love, Back to the Beginning is the perfect musical for engaging your kids in the story of creation. Filled with scriptural truth and the promise of God’s love, this message of hope and redemption is a reminder of how good His ways are!

The scene opens up at a rustic campground in the mountains when a few campers hear a strange sound. Norman, the camp counselor, recognizing the all-too-familiar sound, leaves the group to investigate and finds Finn, a good kid who has been spending too much time with the rebellious Rigsby brothers, and the H. O. 2000 Time Machine. Wanting to impress his two new “friends,” Finn had activated the machine and lost the Rigsby brothers… back in the Garden of Eden! Ready to embark on an unplanned adventure, the campers jump into the H. O. 2000 to find the lost boys and end up traveling back through time, visiting the same campsite in 2000, 1995, 1978, 1955, 1808, and finally, making it all the way back to Creation!

SKU: CA.265100

ISBN 9790007135492.

8 opera choruses for choir and piano. In addition to the choral highlights The entry of the guests and the Pilgrims' Chorus from Tannhauser, and the Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin, the collection Great Opera Choruses - Richard Wagner presents four choruses from two early, lesser known operas, Die Feen and Rienzi. Moreover, the repertoire of Wagner opera choruses has been expanded with two choral arrangements: Allmachtiger from Die Feen, originally for a mixed ensemble of solo voices and choir, arranged by the editor of this collection, Johannes Knecht, and the famous Rienzi's Prayer from Act 5 of the opera of the same name, transcribed for choir by Clytus Gottwald.

SKU: BR.SON-442

ISBN 9790004803509. 10 x 12.5 inches.

This volume contains three reworkings and orchestrations of religious works by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy which were originally set for smaller ensembles (solo voices, four-part chorus and organ). They were composed at different times and for different occasions, two of them as commissions. The anthem ,,Why, o Lord, delay forever MWV A 19 was originally the sacred vocal piece MWV B 33, published in England in 1841 with the additional title ,,[…] The Thirteenth Psalm, and in Germany in the same year as ,,Lass, o Herr, mich Hilfe finden with the title ,,Drei geistliche Lieder which was composed at the suggestion of the English literature and music lover Charles B. Broadley who also provided the paraphrase of the psalm text. After Mendelssohn had refused an initial request by Broadley to furnish the anthem post festum with an organ prelude, the composer did not want to turn down a second request to orchestrate the work and he even expanded the existing material with a lengthy closing fugue involving additional trumpets and timpani. The ,,Ave Maria MWV B 19 was written in connection with Mendelssohn's appointment as municipal music director, a position which at the same time included the responsibility for the musical organization of church services. The instrumentation of the work with an accompaniment of two clarinets and two bassoons as well as low strings was due to the fact that the organ in Dusseldorf's principal church St. Lambertus was out of order for an extended period of time, and Mendelssohn considered this solution explicitly only as a surrogate for the organ should there be none. A further psalm paraphrase in English, this time by William Bartholomew, of the hymn ,,Hear my prayer MWV B 49 was set to music in early 1844; the orchestration of the organ part commissioned by the distinguished Dublin musician Joseph Robinson was not completed until 1847 so that the premiere finally only took place after Mendelssohn's death. In the further course of the century ,,Hear my prayer would, particularly in the version with organ accompaniment, come to enjoy great popularity in Great Britain and Ireland.