Jolly Old Saint Nicholas gets dressed up in his yuletide best and welcomes good girls and boys to make their Christmas wishes. Every section gets their chance at this beloved carol as the melody line moves to each in turn delighting with its happy feel. This is a chance for all to shine!

Wish You Were Here written for the Boston Pops pays homage to Colin McPhee one of the first western musicologists to study Balinese gamelan as well as to the great illustrators Carl Barks and Herge (responsible for Donald Duck & Tintin respectively). Muhly has written a completely romantic and fanciful gamelan-influenced piece. On top of this twittery and excited music a long lonesome melo…

Pop Special String-The music of Disney is timeless and continues to delight audiences year after year. This entertaining medley by Charles Sayre features four of Disney's best-loved hits including: Chim Chim Cher-ee A Dream Is a Wish Your HeartMakes It's a Small World and Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah. Arranged for string ensemble.

With Disneyland's 50th anniversary celebration in full swing what could be better than a flashy medley featuring some of the great musical moments associated with this American icon of family entertainment' This fast-paced and terrific-sounding arrangement includes: Fantasmic Main Theme Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah It's a Small World Be Our Guest Part of Your World and of course the Mickey Mouse March.

Par PART ARVO. Pärt's take on the Te Deum text, also known as the Ambrosian Hymn, employs his signature tintinnabuli style of composition. The melodic lines, as well as their harmonies, strictly follow the rhythms of the text, resulting in heightened importance given to the text itself and an unconventional setting. For advanced players and vocalists. The liturgical text of the Te Deum consists of…

Par JOLIVET ANDRE. Mesto - Concitato; Grave; Giocoso (for Trumpet and Orchestra - with reduction for Trumpet and Piano) Andre Jolivet (1905-1974) established his love for composition from a young age. This remained throughout his life, and he held the post of Professor of Composition from 1966-1970 at Paris Conservatoire. Concerto No. 2 For Trumpet was composed in 1955, and remains highly regarded…

For Narrator, Men's Chorus and Orchestra. Par SCHOENBERG ARNOLD. Shortly after the war, Schoenberg composed in his 99-bar monumental work depicting the suffering and oppression of an entire people. The story written by the composer himself describes the terror of the Nazi regime by example of a typical scene in the Warsaw Ghetto. In the concluding part of the men's choir, Schoenberg draws on the J…

This timeless Christmas favourite will be a huge hit at seasonal concerts arranged for Concert Band.

David Well composed ?X-mas for Three? for three young pupils of his who wished to give a Christmas concert. He arranged six well-known Christmas songs for them and their first performance was a great success. This was reason for the composer to adapt the piece for ?orchestra? by adding percussion. The title has stayed the same and the work can still be played by as few as three musicians but a…

Johann Sebastian Bach could not have wished for a better accolade. A Tribute to Bach is a daring arrangement of Bach's Partita no.2 for pianoforte and a homage to the grandmaster of Baroque in a modern orchestration. Arranger Axel Norman has achieved this by adding percussion tastefully to the original. The woodwind section of the band however plays the leading parts.

Clara Wieck?s sincerest wish was that her future husband, Robert Schumann, turn his extraordinary genius toward the larger and more challenging task of composing orchestral music. Confiding in her diary in 1839, just one year before her marriage, she explained that ?it would be best if he composed for Orchestra: his imagination cannot find sufficient scope in the Piano?? In the years that followed…

Original Version. Schumann?s Cello Concerto Rediscovered In her first Urtext edition for Edition Peters, internationally renowned cellist Josephine Knight reveals Robert Schumann?s original version of his Cello Concerto in A minor Op. 129 ? a piece he actually called a ?Concertstück? ? removing generations of inauthentic editorial interventions. This is the only available modern scholarly edition …

Beginning Piano Solo Play-Along Volume 10-This volume of the exciting Beginning Piano Solo Play-Along series features 10 beloved classics with a song for each princess and authentic Disney accompaniments. The Beginning Piano Solo Play-Along series is designed for pianists ready to play their first solo. Each volume comes with a CD of orchestrated arrangements. The music in this book matches thes…

This is the last of nearly 100 operettas created by French composer Jacques Offenbach a native of Germany whose works were most prominent in the latter half of the nineteenth century. His three-act drama Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) which includes a prologue and epilogue recounts dramatic stories of passion murder and revenge. Left incomplete at the composer's death the oper…