Pietro Yon: Gesu Bambino: SATB: Vocal Score

The always-creative Mark Hayes brings us a fresh new arrangement of a holiday favorite. Gesu Bambino is always eagerly anticipated as a solo but here it has been beautifully harmonized for SATB choir. Your accompanist getsa chance to really shine as well or you may choose the fabulous orchestration or accompaniment/performance CD. A sparkling addition to your Christmas program or worship service.

The buoyant and joyful song by Pietro Yon is set in sparkling style for SSA voices! This treasured melody is known and loved the world over and will make a marvelous treble choir addition to Christmas concerts! Available for SSA Piano and Flute. Flute part included in choral octavo. Duration: ca. 4:15.

This classic carol by Pietro Yon is offered in a grand and beautifully orchestrated arrangement. Available: SATB SAB SSA Instrumental Pak ShowTrax Cassette.

Greg Gilpin has set the lyrics of both “O Little Town of Bethlehem” and “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” to the music of “Gesu Bambino” by Pietro Yon making an exquisite choral work. Simple yetelegant the harmonies float the selected lyrics which are suitable for school or church. The use of “Venite adoriamo” in the chorus has optional English lyrics. A stunning arrangement for every choir.

Pastorale for Christmas-Though lesser known than some Christmas melodies this stately pastoral work incorporates the chorus of O Come All Ye Faithful (or Adeste Fideles) into the writing. The original melody by Yon is rather remarkable in its elegant beauty and sounds timeless and enchantingly ancient though it was written rather recently in 1917. Pietro Yon was an organist who spent most of his career at the St. Patrick Cathedral in New York. Yon was well regarded in his lifetime by fellow musicians notably among his pupils was the celebrated American songwriter Cole Porter and upon his passing in 1943 Arturo Toscanini himself was among those who attended his large funeral. This arrangementbegins solftly with a simple statement of the melody in the trumpets. The theme expands as it is passed around the various instrumental choirs with increasing use of counterpoint. Culminating in a joyous exhaultation the music winds to a gentle and serene conclusion. The score is well-cued in key sections where the melody is prominent.