/ Voix Et Ensemble Instrumental
SKU: AP.41115S
UPC: 038081475127. English.
A soulful yet accessible treatment of the Tower of Power hit song. This waltz is played at 128 BPM, and trumpet 1 range is to written E top space. Includes a written-out tenor 1 melody solo. A superb chart in every respect. (2:42).
SKU: BT.1517-08-030-MS
9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.
Tom Jones has been in show business for a number of decades, and he is still going strong. The Welshman scored his first success in 1965, with It’s Not Unusual, a song that was a worldwide hit. Stefan Schwalgin has arranged this song in such a way that the big band sound and the soullike singing in the original are reflected perfectly in the instrumentation. Tom Jones zit al decennialang in het showbizzvak en hij heeft er nog steeds niet genoeg van. Deze entertainer onder de entertainers trekt nog altijd volle zalen. Zijn eerste succes boekte de Welshman in 1965, met It’s Not Unusual,een nummer dat de hitparades wereldwijd bestormde. In datzelfde jaar werd Stefan Schwalgin geboren, daarom heeft hij deze hit met extra veel aandacht bewerkt. De bigbandsound en de soulachtige zang van het origineel zijn perfectverwerkt in de instrumentatie van dit arrangement.Der Brite Tom Jones fristete ein Leben als Staubsaugerverteter und wenig erfolgreicher Sänger einer Band bis ein gewisser Gordon Mills ihn entdeckte und gleich mit dem zweiten veröffentlichten Song - It’s Not Unsual - zu einem Nr. 1-Hit verhalf. Das Lied, das einfach keinen still sitzen lässt, schaffte es 22 Jahre später erneut in die Charts und liegt nun in einer Bearbeitung für Brass Band vor, die den souligen Gesang und die Big Band ähnliche Begleitung gut in der Instrumentierung widerspiegelt.Tom Jones est né le 7 juin 1940 Pontypridd, dans le pays de Galles, dans une famille de mineurs de charbon. Mis dans la case « crooner», Tom Jones est remarqué par Gordon Mills, un chanteur reconverti dans la composition qui devient son agent en 1963. Un an plus tard, Tom Jones signe son premier contrat et sort son premier grand succès international, It's Not Unusual. Maniant aussi bien le rock que la musique disco ou la variété, Tom Jones s'adapte toutes les modes. Après un passage vide, il relance sa carrière en 1987 et brille toujours sous les feux de l’actualité.
SKU: BT.1517-08-130-MS
Tom Jones has been in show business for a number of decades, and heis still going strong. The Welshman scored his first success in 1965, withIt’s Not Unusual, a song that was a worldwide hit. Stefan Schwalgin hasarranged this song in such a way that the big band sound and the soullikesinging in the original are reflected perfectly in the instrumentation. Tom Jones zit al decennialang in het showbizzvak en hij heeft er nog steeds niet genoeg van. Deze entertainer onder de entertainers trekt nog altijd volle zalen. Zijn eerste succes boekte de Welshman in 1965, met It’s Not Unusual,een nummer dat de hitparades wereldwijd bestormde. In datzelfde jaar werd Stefan Schwalgin geboren, daarom heeft hij deze hit met extra veel aandacht bewerkt. De bigbandsound en de soulachtige zang van het origineel zijn perfectverwerkt in de instrumentatie van dit arrangement.Der Brite Tom Jones fristete ein Leben als Staubsaugerverteter und wenig erfolgreicher Sänger einer Band bis ein gewisser Gordon Mills ihn entdeckte und gleich mit dem zweiten veröffentlichten Song - It’s Not Unsual - zu einem Nr. 1-Hit verhalf. Das Lied, das einfach keinen still sitzen lässt, schaffte es 22 Jahre später erneut in die Charts und liegt nun in einer Bearbeitung für Brass Band vor, die den souligen Gesang und die Big Band ähnliche Begleitung gut in der Instrumentierung widerspiegelt.Tom Jones est né le 7 juin 1940 Pontypridd, dans le pays de Galles, dans une famille de mineurs de charbon. Mis dans la case « crooner», Tom Jones est remarqué par Gordon Mills, un chanteur reconverti dans la composition qui devient son agent en 1963. Un an plus tard, Tom Jones signe son premier contrat et sort son premier grand succès international, It's Not Unusual. Maniant aussi bien le rock que la musique disco ou la variété, Tom Jones s'adapte toutes les modes. Après un passage vide, il relance sa carrière en 1987 et brille toujours sous les feux de l’actualité.
SKU: AP.35772
UPC: 038081399683. English.
Featured in the film The Blues Brothers, this 1967 #1 Billboard hit by Sam and Dave will still have your audience singing along! Use the SoundTrax CD or a live combo to create a powerhouse moment during your show!
About Alfred Pop Choral Series
The Alfred Pop Series features outstanding arrangements of songs from the popular music genre. These publications provide exciting, contemporary, and educationally-sound arrangements for singers of all ages, from elementary through high school, to college and adult choirs.
SKU: PR.114420410
UPC: 680160687015.
In one of the dedicatory poems to his verse play The Shadowy Waters (1906), William Butler Yeats asks: Is Eden far away...? Do our woods and winds and verponds cover more quiet woods, More shining winds, more star-glimmering ponds? Is Eden out of time and out of space? How do you answer such questions? We have only the vague elusive promptings of our own mysterious, troubled hearts to tell us that the Eden we long for is there, somewhere beyond the physical world which frames our existence, in another realm of different dimensions. And - what is most painful to admit - that it is closed to us in the form in which we live and breathe, even if at times we do have intimations..., Yeats is telling us that this paradise, this Eden we yearn for is here - present even if invisible, palpable even if intangible. In his Second Symphony, Mahler meets an angel who tells him he can't get into heaven, he's locked out. The news is shattering. What follows is an inconsolable sorrowing, the same sorrowing that comes when we wake to the realization that we too are locked out of Eden. Eden is the heaven of our longing and desire for release from pain and suffering. Eden is the image in our restive minds that reflects the reconciled, resolved, quiescent state of soul we hunger for. But Eden eludes -because it is not a place. It is a state of soul which answers none of the illusory, hampering conditions that shape and bind us to the real world of our bodies, our appetites, our passions, and our beliefs. I have turned Yeats' question Is Eden out of time and out of space? into its own answering. However near we may sense its presence at times, Eden remains unreachable, ungraspable, unknowable, unthinkable. It forever eludes us. I wrote this music the way I did to shut out -with quietness and otherworldliness - the clamor and clang of the raucous Garish Day, to turn away its tumult and noise, to negate its stridency and chaos. Perhaps in the cleansing stillness and blessing of this emptied-out state of soul, Eden, through still hidden, may not be so far way; though still unreachable, may be close enough almost to touch.In one of the dedicatory poems to his verse play “The Shadowy Waters†(1906), William Butler Yeats asks:“Is Eden far away…?Do our woods and windsand verponds cover morequiet woods,More shining winds,more star-glimmeringponds?Is Eden out of timeand out of space?â€How do you answer such questions? We have only the vague elusive promptings of our own mysterious, troubled hearts to tell us that the Eden we long for is there, somewhere beyond the physical world which frames our existence, in another realm of different dimensions. And – what is most painful to admit – that it is closed to us in the form in which we live and breathe, even if at times we do have intimations…, Yeats is telling us that this paradise, this Eden we yearn for is here – present even if invisible, palpable even if intangible.In his Second Symphony, Mahler meets an angel who tells him he can’t get into heaven, he’s locked out. The news is shattering. What follows is an inconsolable sorrowing, the same sorrowing that comes when we wake to the realization that we too are locked out of Eden.Eden is the heaven of our longing and desire for release from pain and suffering. Eden is the image in our restive minds that reflects the reconciled, resolved, quiescent state of soul we hunger for. But Eden eludes –because it is not a place. It is a state of soul which answers none of the illusory, hampering conditions that shape and bind us to the real world of our bodies, our appetites, our passions, and our beliefs.I have turned Yeats’ question “Is Eden out of time and out of space?†into its own answering. However near we may sense its presence at times, Eden remains unreachable, ungraspable, unknowable, unthinkable. It forever eludes us.I wrote this music the way I did to shut out –with quietness and otherworldliness – the clamor and clang of the raucous “Garish Day,†to turn away its tumult and noise, to negate its stridency and chaos. Perhaps in the cleansing stillness and blessing of this emptied-out state of soul, Eden, through still hidden, may not be so far way; though still unreachable, may be close enough almost to touch.
SKU: PR.11442041L
UPC: 680160687039.
SKU: PR.11442041S
UPC: 680160687022.
SKU: CF.SC89
ISBN 9781491158852. UPC: 680160917570.
Scoring: Bass Clarinet in Bb, Bassoon, Clarinet 1 in Bb, Clarinet 2 in Bb, Contrabass, Flute 1, Flute 2, Harp, Horn 1 in F, Horn 2 in F, Horn 3 in F, Oboe, Percussion, Timpani, Trumpet 1 in Bb, Trumpet 2 in Bb, Trumpet 3 in Bb, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2 and more.William Grant Stillas catalog of works comprises over 200 pieces, including five symphonies, nine operas, four ballets and numerous works for chamber ensembles. He initially found employment as an oboist in pit orchestras in New York City, later as an arranger of popular music for various ensembles, including those by William C. Handy, James P. Johnson and Paul Whiteman. His career as a composer was launched with a performance in 1931 of his Symphony No. 1 aAfro-Americana by the Rochester Philharmonic, conducted by Howard Hanson, who would remain a life-long champion of Stillas orchestral works. By the 1950s the symphony had been performed in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and various European capitals. This notoriety earned Still a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1934, after which he moved to Los Angeles. He is credited as the first African-American to conduct a major orchestra (the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra), the first to have an opera performed by a major company (Troubled Island by the New York City Opera in 1949), and one of the first composers to write for radio, films and television. So numerous were his awards and accolades, including three Guggenheim Fellowships and a variety of honorary doctorates, that he was designated as the aDean of Afro-American Composers.a The aBlack belta refers to a region in the southern United States that was distinguished by the color of its fertile soil. It was an area whose rich economy was based on cotton and tobacco plantations that were controlled by rich white people and worked by poor black laborers. Stillas piece From the Black Belt from 1926 is presumably a musical representation of these laborers. He described its seven parts in the following ways: William Grant Stillas catalog of works comprises over 200 pieces, including five symphonies, nine operas, four ballets and numerous works for chamber ensembles. He initially found employment as an oboist in pit orchestras in New York City, later as an arranger of popular music for various ensembles, including those by William C. Handy, James P. Johnson and Paul Whiteman. His career as a composer was launched with a performance in 1931 of his Symphony No. 1 aAfro-Americana by the Rochester Philharmonic, conducted by Howard Hanson, who would remain a life-long champion of Stillas orchestral works. By the 1950s the symphony had been performed in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and various European capitals. This notoriety earned Still a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1934, after which he moved to Los Angeles. He is credited as the first African-American to conduct a major orchestra (the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra), the first to have an opera performed by a major company (Troubled Island by the New York City Opera in 1949), and one of the first composers to write for radio, films and television. So numerous were his awards and accolades, including three Guggenheim Fellowships and a variety of honorary doctorates, that he was designated as the aDean of Afro-American Composers.a The aBlack belta refers to a region in the southern United States that was distinguished by the color of its fertile soil. It was an area whose rich economy was based on cotton and tobacco plantations that were controlled by rich white people and worked by poor black laborers. Stillas piece From the Black Belt from 1926 is presumably a musical representation of these laborers. He described its seven parts in the following ways: Lial Scamp If one were to base his judgment on the volume of sound, he would think this little fellow, who delights in playing childish pranks, a big scamp. But the aptness of the title is determined by the brevity of the piece rather than by the volume of sound. Honeysuckle A musical suggestion of the saccharine odor of the honeysuckle. Dance This title is self-explanatory. Brown Girl A tone picture of a lovely girl. Mah Bones Is Creakina An old man, afflicted with rheumatism, complains loudly. Blue The lament of a weary soul. Clap Yoa Hanas The participants in a game for children form a circle and clap their hands at intervals.
