Novello - Choral SSAA

We'll Meet Again is a bittersweet ballad originally sung by Dame Vera Lynn in 1939. Its optimism and hopefulness for love in the face of separation made it a famous song of the Second World War but it's universality still resonates with lovers today. Arranged for SSAA. A series of outstanding songs taken from the best-selling Close Harmony Ladies' Barbershop Songbook selected for their appropriateness for female singers arranged for close-harmony quartets or women's choirs. This beautiful tune is a masterful love song and it will sound simply stunning sung by a Ladies' Barbershop in this fantastic arrangement.The themes of love and loss are underlined by optimism meaning a choral performance of this would not leave a dry eye in the audience.Nicholas Hare’s beautifully crafted arrangements for SSAA are suitable for anything from four to four hundred singers. He has added helpful performance notes for each of the songs and the arrangements are notated on two stave for easy Piano rehearsal.

Novello Ladies Barbershop-A series of outstanding songs taken from the bestselling Close Harmony Ladies’ Barbershop Songbook selected for their appropriateness for female singers arranged for close-harmony quartets or women’s choirs.Nicholas Hare’s beautifully crafted arrangements for SSAA are suitable for anything from four to four hundred singers. He has added helpful performance notes for each of the songs and the arrangements are notated on two stave for easy piano rehearsal.

Novello Ladies' Barbershop-A series of outstanding songs taken from the bestselling Close Harmony Ladies' Barbershop Songbook selected for their appropriateness for female singers arranged for close-harmony quartets or women's choirs.Nicholas Hare's beautifully crafted arrangements for SSAA are suitable for anything from four to four hundred singers. He has added helpful performance notes for each of the songs and the arrangements are notated on two stave for easy piano rehearsal.

A series of outstanding songs taken from the bestselling Close Harmony Ladies' Barbershop Songbook selected for their appropriateness for female singers arranged for close-harmony quartets or women's choirs.Nicholas Hare's beautifully crafted arrangements for SSAA are suitable for anything from four to four hundred singers. He has added helpful performance notes for each of the songs and the arrangements are notated on two stave for easy piano rehearsal.

Hugo Cole (1917-1995) was a British composer cellist and music critic. He studied under Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He is best remembered for writing several operas and choral works as well as much chamber music but he also wrote a series of pedagogical Cello books and had a successful career as a music critic for The Guardian and Country Life. Cole’s Magnificat was set in the key of G major and first published in 1957. It is scored for Female or Boys’ Choir (SSAA) with Piano accompaniment.

A series of ladies' barbershop arrangements by Nicholas Hare from the best-selling Close Harmony The Ladies' Barbershop Songbook.

The intertwining of women’s voices in Gustav Holst’s Tears Idle Tears will lend an elevated atmosphere to any performance giving this secular piece an almost sacred character. It was written for a cappella female chorus (SSAA) in 1905 as the 3rd movement of the 5-movement suite ‘Songs From The Princess’ which was based on 5 thematic short poem’s from the British poet Tennyson’s long narrative poem ‘The Princess’ (1847). Performance time is approximately 2 minutes.As an experienced instrumentalist and orchestra member English composer arranger and teacher Gustav Holst understood music from the standpoint of his players and madesure that however challenging their parts were always practicable a compositional characteristic still well received and appreciated by performers and audiences today.

Il Est Bel Et Bon (SSAA) English/French-Renaissance French composer Pierre Passereau was a popular creator of chanson rustiques in Paris and at court the early 1500’s. The songs that survive are almost all of a hearty style with plenty of onomatopoeia double entendres puns and occasional indelicacies employing graceful melody polyphony and sometimes chordal passages.Il es bel et bon has retained popularity almost since it was written. There is evidence that this song was sung as far away as Venice in the 1500's. Here composer Helen Cockburn makes the most of the delightful clucking cuckooing passages and the English words have retained most of the original’s consonants to good effect.