The Best Time of the Year (Medley): Mixed Choir a Cappella: Vocal Score

A great selection of 100 of the best film songs ever, arranged for piano, voice and guitar. Features fabulous songs from all your favourite movies including: Casablanca, Cabaret, Mary Poppins, Forest Gump, Midnight Cowboy, Footloose, Jaws, Star Trek, Ghost, Titanic, Schindler's List, Saturday Night Fever, Stand By Me, Love Story, Breakfast At Tiffany's... and many, many more!

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Jump jive and swing your way into the hottest craze in years! Mark Brymer's show-style arrangement combines the best of the classics with the new hot tunes in an up-scale updated treatment that will put your choir on the map! Includes: It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing): The Joint Is Jumpin': Jump Jive An' Wail: Steppin' Out With My Baby: Zoot Suit Riot. Available: SATB SAB SSA Instrumental Pak ShowTrax CD. Performance Time: Approx. 8:00.

In this 100th anniversary year of Duke Ellington's birth we thought it was fitting to re-introduce one of the absolute best arrangements of Ellington's music ever written. This medley by Sammy Nestico was published in 1970 andproves that some things improve with age. Skillfully woven together are the Ellington favorites In a Sentimental Mood Mood Indigo and It Don't Mean a Thing.

Become part of the adventures of Shrek and Donkey in this fun six-minute medley featuring several of the hit songs from the Shrek movies. Includes: Best Years of Our Lives (Part I) Fairy Godmother Song Holding Out for a Hero I'm on My Way and You Belong to Me.Available separately: SATB SAB and 2-Part. ShowTrax CD also available. Performance time approx. 7:00.