A One-Act Musical-It's a snow day! Samantha tweets her friends with an invitation to hang out. The friends bury themselves not in the snow but in their individual electronic devices. Although resistant to play outdoors in the snow the childrensoon find themselves face-to-face with a walking talking sunglass-wearing snowman!Happy the Snowman used a slush fund to come to life to learn about today's technology. Quite frankly up until now he's been frozen out!Very quickly Happy is lost in a blizzard of techno-speak and electronic devices. After posting a video online of the snowman's song and dance Happy's adventure takes a dramatic turn as the video goes viral! When chased byscientists reporters and paparazzi his new friends text everyone they know to join in a friendly flash mob to distract his pursuers and to rescue our hero.Happy the High-Tech Snowman can be used anytime betweenlate fall and the end of the winter months and it lends itself to many community and instructional settings. For Grades 4-8. Available: Teacher Edition; Singer Edition 5-Pak; Listening CD; Enhanced StudioTrax CD; Preview Pack;Performance Kit.

Roger Quilter (1877-1953) was a British composer best known for writing many gentle and beautiful songs. Along with Henry Balfour Gardiner and Percy Grainger he was a member of the Frankfurt Group a group of friendswho studied composition together at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. Written in 1945 The Cradle In Bethlehem is an art song based on the Christmas story. Its words were written by RodneyBennett (1890-1948) an English poet and children’s author and father of the composer Richard Rodney Bennett. It is scored here for solo or unison Voice with Piano accompaniment.