Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan

The text of The Long Day Closes is a contemplation of death and was sung frequently at funerals in the late 1800’s particularly the funerals of members of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company. This setting uses the full range of allthe Voice parts.Composer Arthur Sullivan is known the world over for his operatic collaborations with W S Gilbert including H M S Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance among many others. But Sullivan was also a composer of manother works among them operas Orchestral works ballets and hymns and church pieces. He wrote most of his part songs unaccompanied songs for SATB usually before his partnership with Gilbert began.

(from Pirates of Penaznce) Discovery Level 2-Your singers will have a rollicking good time living the pirate life with this setting of the famous song from Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance and the over-the-top satire.Get your audience into the act by inviting them to shout ?Aarrrr!? on cue.Duration: ca. 2:20.