Carols in Concert

Grade 1 - Score and Parts-These lovely settings of three Polish Christmas carols include good opportunities for teaching style and musicality as you prepare for your winter performance. While ?Three Polish Carols? is meant to be performed as acomplete suite directors have the additional security of knowing they can present any of the three pieces as stand alone arrangements if necessary.

Two volumes of lovely new carols for SATB and Piano/Organ - a must-have for your christmas carols concerts. Written by Alan Taylor originally for the Chipperfield Choir resident choir at Chipperfield Church in Hertfordshire. Alan was a chorister at St. Catherine's College Cambridge and graduated with an honours degree in Music followed by a post-graduate Diploma in Education. A first post as a Head of Music in Nottinghamshire was followed by his appointment in 1961 as Director of Music at The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Elstree where he spent the remaining 35 years of his teaching career. Out of school Alanworked with all the major conductors and his choirs were continually in demand for performances in the London concert halls especially at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden taking part in many broadcasts Promenade Concerts and recordings. His contribution to Music and Music Education was recognised in 1982 with the award of an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

E Flat Alto Saxophone-Contents: Concert Warm-Ups And Chorales #2; Acapulco Holiday; Anchors Aweigh; Atlantis; The Coventry Carol; The Duke Of Bedford; Dr. Dixieland; If I Were A Rich Man; Mickey Mouse March; Pep Rally Rock; Sax-O-Matic; Somewhere Out There; The Sound Of Music; Three Carols for Christmas; Treasury Of Carols.

1st B Flat Clarinet-Contents: Concert Warm-Ups And Chorales #2; Acapulco Holiday; Anchors Aweigh; Atlantis; The Coventry Carol; The Duke Of Bedford; Dr. Dixieland; If I Were A Rich Man; Mickey Mouse March; Pep Rally Rock; Sax-O-Matic; Somewhere Out There; The Sound Of Music; Three Carols for Christmas; Treasury Of Carols.

Tuba-Contents: Concert Warm-Ups And Chorales #2; Acapulco Holiday; Anchors Aweigh; Atlantis; The Coventry Carol; The Duke Of Bedford; Dr. Dixieland; If I Were A Rich Man; Mickey Mouse March; Pep Rally Rock; Sax-O-Matic; Somewhere Out There; The Sound Of Music; Three Carols for Christmas; Treasury Of Carols.

Percussion-Contents: Concert Warm-Ups And Chorales #2; Acapulco Holiday; Anchors Aweigh; Atlantis; The Coventry Carol; The Duke Of Bedford; Dr. Dixieland; If I Were A Rich Man; Mickey Mouse March; Pep Rally Rock; Sax-O-Matic; Somewhere Out There; The Sound Of Music; Three Carols for Christmas; Treasury Of Carols.

Contents: Concert Warm-Ups And Chorales #2; Acapulco Holiday; Anchors Aweigh; Atlantis; The Coventry Carol; The Duke Of Bedford; Dr. Dixieland; If I Were A Rich Man; Mickey Mouse March; Pep Rally Rock; Sax-O-Matic; Somewhere Out There; The Sound Of Music; Three Carols for Christmas; Treasury Of Carols.

Fluidly combining two beloved holiday carols, 'What Child Is This?' and 'It Came Upon the Midnight Clear,' this will be a welcomed lyrical addition to your holiday concert. Cast entirely in 3/4 time, the arrangement simultaneously serves to welcome the season and reinforce triple meter while engaging all members of your band. Stunning! (3:30) / Concert Band

Fifty Carols for Sopranos and Altos. Par WILLCOCKS DAVID / RUTTER JOHN. 50 chants pour les sopranos et altos (adapté pour les garçons, des filles, ou des choeurs de femmes). Il contient des dispositions essentiellement simple des chants les plus aimés, les autres moins connus, et quatre pièces originales de Britten (2), Rutter et Hadley. La plupart des cantiques de Noël sont présentés en deux versions - pour choeurs seuls, non accompagnés, et pour choeur et le public / congrégation, avec un accompagnement. Accompagnements orchestraux pour la plupart des chants de Noël sont disponibles en location. John Rutter est né à Londres en 1945 et a étudié la musique au Clare College, Cambridge. Ses compositions embrassent la musique chorale, orchestrale et instrumentale, et il a édité ou co-édité plusieurs anthologies chorale dont quatre pour des volumes de Carols chorales avec Sir David Willcocks et l'Oxford Choral Classics série. De 1975 à 1979, il a été directeur de la musique au Clare College, et en 1981 il a formé son propre choeur, les Cambridge Singers. Il partage maintenant son temps entre la composition et la conduite et est recherché comme un chef d'orchestre invité pour le leader mondial des chorales et orchestres. Né en 1919, David Willcocks a commencé sa carrière musicale comme choriste à l'Abbaye de Westminster, plus tard, remportant des bourses à Clifton College et King 's College, Cambridge. Après son service de guerre, il a été élu Fellow du Collège King, et plus tard devint organiste de Salisbury et de cathédrales de Worcester, alors que la conduite des Three Choirs Festival à Worcester. Willcocks retourné à Kings College, à Cambridge en tant que Directeur de la Musique de 1957-1974, avec la première collection de ses arrangements dans le Carols pour les séries chorales d'édition en 1961. Il a été Directeur de la Musique du Royal College of Music de 1974-1984, et a été anobli en liste de la Reine du Jubilé d'argent de spécialisation en 1977. Willcocks a également mené le Bach Choir pendant 38 ans, prend sa retraite en 1998. Sir David conserve un calendrier chargé de concerts et d'enregistrements, y compris les récentes visites aux Etats-Unis, au Canada et en Europe./ Recueil / Chant