A Nativity Cantata - Choral Score

The Faire Starre (Vocal Score). Co-commissioned by VocalEssence, Philip Brunelle, Artistic Director: Trinity Wall Street, Julian Wachner, Music Director: and Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grant Gershon, Artistic Director. The Faire Starre is a nativity cantata in three parts. Parts I and III set nativity poems by Richard Crashaw and Thomas Traherne, framing a longer central section setting of a lullaby compiled by John of Grimestone in 1372.

A delightful Christmas cantata for children’s voices (and ensemble/electronic backing tracks) with or without narrator: reggae jazz rock ballad and pop numbers to witty text by Richard and Thomas Allain.Caesar has called a census in the Holy Land. So everyone is crowding back into Bethlehem a town where they read Shalom! Magazine where suddenly there are donkey traffic gridlocks and hotels where you can't get a room for love or shekels.Tom works doing odd jobs at the Fun Big Inn which isn't much fun at all. This busy night he decides to leave the landlord in the lurch and head for the bright lights of Jerusalem. But he doesn't get far runningfirst into reggae singing shepherds and then three groovy wise dudes following a star. Tom can hardly ignore the remarkable things they have to tell him. So what does he do next? What would any of us do?Richard and Thomas Allain retell the story of the Nativity in a new and individual way with immediacy and wit in a string of unforgettable tuneful songs and sharply clever words in an idiom accessible to everyone.Manger Tom can be performed with unison voices someone to narrate highly effective with just Piano or Keyboard accompaniment. But there are parts available too for instruments you might want to add. Included with the score of Manger Tom is a CD which comprises of a full performance of the musical numbers by professional singers and players as well as just the accompaniments for everyone to sing along to if they prefer.Additionally lyric sheets and a script are available as free downloads - visit www.hybridpublications.com to access the bonus material. Lyric sheets enable easy rehearsals and the script allows Manger Tom to be performed as a full nativity play.

A Cantata for Christmas-From anticipation of the coming Christ Child to the nativity and beyond Song of Emmanuel weaves new songs and favorite carols with the spoken word to create an inspired new Christmas cantata. Mary the shepherds angels and others all had a song to sing on the holy night and their message is poignantly captured in this beautiful worship cantata.

A Cantata for Advent Christmas and Epiphany based on the Nativity story. The work was originally written for four Solo Voices SATB Choir Organ Harp and Timpani; this the Schirmer Edition of the Vocal Score just includes the Vocal and Organ parts.