String Pak to Accompany Band & Choir Holiday Medley for Choir Band and Strings-Now available in a 6-minute medley for choir band and strings the music from The Polar Express simply sparkles! A great all-school concert closer it is easily learned and includes: Believe Hot Chocolate The Polar Express Spirit of the Season.

Music for String Orchestra-A simple tune supplemented by skilled counterpoint makes this new work appealing to younger groups. A rich sounding piece that will bring the best out of your string orchestra.

(Mannheim Steamroller)-Now available for string orchestras Joy to the World is one of the distinctive arrangements of Chip Davis and Mannheim Steamroller. Players and audiences love these contemporary pop versions that dominate the airwaves during theholidays adapted here by Robert Longfield.

This arrangement offers exciting opportunities for more mature players. A combination of juxtaposed and interlocking double-stops are used to maintain the sonorous depth of Brahms’s original work. Several edits have been made to bring this to a more appropriate length for concert and festival performances. Although this is ideal for large string orchestras also consider using it for a chamber group of your finest musicians! (6:00)

With high seas adventure music and themes that kids love to play once again Jack Sparrow and his mates are entertaining millions of moviegoers with this third and last chapter. Robert Longfield's easy medley brings the music to young orchestras with Singapore Hoist the Colours and Drink Up Me Hearties.

The second movement Gentle Annie mourns a departed loved one in a beautiful and lyrical melody. The final movement Nelly Bly is lighthearted and full of drive and energy. An excellent piece for concert or festival and well within the grasp of medium-level orchestras.

Not well-known are the numerous small pieces composed by Beethoven almost ?on the side? for musical use in everyday life.The ?Ländlerische Tänze? are intended to be -orchestral representing welcome playing ma-terial for small orchestras.

The tender ballad from A Charlie Brown Christmas is a perfect jazz-flavored choice for younger orchestras. Well-crafted moving lines within the the skilled ensemble writing assure success.

For solo Cello Timpani and Strings.Popule Meus was commissioned through the Magnum Opus project: Kathryn Gould founding patron and commissioner and Meet the Composer project manager.It was first performed on 6thFebruary 2010 by Yuri Hooker (cello) and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Micklethwate. Composer's Notes 'Popule Meus is a meditation on the Judaic and Christian text ?O my People whathave I done to you?? but itis also a Universalist contemplation of the wholesale rejection of God by modern man. However much manrejects God he cannot escape Him and indeed he is condemned to the supernatural by his deiformnature. InHindu terms he is the Absolute Ayam Atma Brahma (The Self is the Absolute).In this work the solo cello is the All-Compassionate One while the timpani represent man in his vain andpointless rejection. Although the solocello and strings and the timpani share the same material (four ideas aregradually revealed and they revolve four times during the piece) the timpani music is violent and becomesincreasingly frenzied and contracted while thecello and strings remain still and serene.So even in winning the Darkness loses and even in losing the Light wins. Passion Resurrection andRedemption; or in Hindu terms Atma (The Absolute) alone is real Maya (The Relative) ismerely illusion.'

Arranged here for flexible soloist and strings this haunting melody from Argentine tango composer Astor Piazzolla provides an impressive showcase for a violin flute or oboe soloist. Beautifully scored for string orchestra andcarefully paced.

Intermediate Level - Teacher's Manual-Supplement your beginning string curriculum with this new ensemble series from the authors of Essential Elements 2000 for Strings. Essential Musicianship - Ensemble Concepts is a two-level series correlatedwith Essential Elements 2000 that will reinforce your students' developing skills with solid beginning rounds and easy arrangements. All are designed to supplement method instruction and are organized around the keystaught in Essential Elements 2000 Books 1 and 2. In addition each book provides a wealth of beginning and intermediate performance materials (over 35 rounds/arrangements in each book). Alsoavailable:Ensemble Concepts - Fundamental Level(HL00960186 - 00960191)

Two endearing Christmas melodies have been combined into a gorgeous tableau for strings piano and simple percussion. Simple to prepare this will set a mood of quiet wonder for any December service and Christmas Eve in particular. Use a full string complement or just string quartet and the result is equally beautiful. Dur: 2:50

The distinctive music of China and its rich history in the arts give this medley a special appeal to student performers. James excellent blend of three traditional folk melodies is ideal teaching and program material for stringensembles everywhere.Includes: Dayung Sampan Shalihonba and Yangtze Boatmens Chantey.

William Zinn has written these uniques arrangements for string quartet or string orchestra for the most famous 'Porgy And Bess' pieces. Titles include 'Summertime' 'Bess You Is My Woman Now' and 'It Ain't Neccessarily So' among many more.

The newest series from Hal Leonard for young players brings the unique talents of “America's Conductor” Leonard Slatkin to school orchestra programs. His latest holiday collection is once again a great opportunity tofeature student pianists with their school string orchestra. Always fresh and inventive Leonard's arrangements bring a new style of holiday programming that's interesting and educational and has great appeal to players andaudiences.This volume includes: A Czech Christmas; Festival of Lights; O Holy Night; O Tannenbaum; Of Kings and Ships; Of Kings Saints and Pigs; Singing Angels; Sleigh Ride; Three Lights; Watchmen at Coventry;Pastorale. (Grade 2)Also available for $5.99 each:04490923 Violin 104490924 Violin 204490925 Violin 3 (Vla TC)04490926 Viola04490927 Cello04490928 Bass04490929Piano ($8.99)04490930 Percussion