Format : Sheet music + Audio access
SKU: AP.50308
UPC: 038081574783. English.
Great Scott! Back to the Future is back---and this time on Broadway! Take your audience on a two-minute ride to 1985 with this high-energy rock song by Huey Lewis and the News. Bring some lightning to the stage with the optional horns-and-rhythm SoundPax, or the electrifying SoundTrax accompaniment.
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: AP.50306
UPC: 038081574769. English.
SKU: AP.50309
UPC: 038081574790. English.
SKU: AP.50307
UPC: 038081574776. English.
SKU: AP.50305
UPC: 038081574752. English.
SKU: PR.114406380
UPC: 680160010110.
Prayer is a short work written in honor of Paul Fromm's seventy-fifth birthday as part of a bouquet of compositions especially composed for the occasion and presented in a concert commemorating the event on January 22, 1982, by the Contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago, Ralph Shapey, music director. My notes for that evening read: I asked myself--how shall I celebrate this special day? The answer--compose a prayer. A wordless one... the horn is my voice. Bass clarinet, bassoon, and timpani form a low choir supporting, commenting, punctuating. From their midst the clarinet takes flight. In my mind, it assumes the role of the innocent village boy whose whistle, according to an old Jewish tale, opened the gates of heaven. .
SKU: AP.47695
UPC: 038081543888. English. Bert Brecht; music by Kurt Weill.
Originally written for The Threepenny Opera and famously covered by the likes of Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin, and Frank Sinatra, this song has become one of the best-known jazz standards of the twentieth century. Mark's arrangement captures all the style of Kurt Weill's original score, building in excitement right to the very end. Perform with the swingin' piano accompaniment, add live horns and rhythm with the optional SoundPax, or check out our hip live-instrument SoundTrax CD.
SKU: AP.47694
UPC: 038081543871. English. Marc Blitzstein; original German & Bert Brecht; music by Kurt Weill.
SKU: AP.51077
UPC: 038081581149. English. Words by Alan Jay Lerner.
Kirby Shaw's samba treatment of this stage and screen standard is truly unique! Despite the brisk tempo, held notes lock on tight vocal jazz chords, and a few staggered entrances provide textural interest. After a signature add-on stacks the voices into three independent layers, the arrangement clears the way for a syncopated scat riff at the end of the coda. SoundPax includes four horns and rhythm.
SKU: AP.47693
UPC: 038081543864. English. Marc Blitzstein; original German and Bert Brecht; music by Kurt Weill.
SKU: AP.47692
UPC: 038081543857. English. Marc Blitzstein; original German & Bert Brecht; music by Kurt Weill.
SKU: AP.51078
UPC: 038081581156. English. Words by Alan Jay Lerner.
SKU: AP.39978
UPC: 038081446387. English.
Pack your bags and your sense of adventure as you travel the world in this kickin' arrangement! Tight harmonies and hot horns top off this perfect show choir selection.
SKU: AP.39979
UPC: 038081446394. English.
SKU: AP.51080
UPC: 038081581170. English. Words by Alan Jay Lerner.
SKU: AP.51079
UPC: 038081581163. English. Words by Alan Jay Lerner.
SKU: PR.114419490
ISBN 9781491131435. UPC: 680160677320. 9 x 12 inches.
The depth and inventiveness of Amanda Harberg’s SUITE FOR WIND QUINTET can only be described as remarkable. Harberg combines the rich tradition of renaissance and baroque dance suites with her own American voice, stirring up dramatic, exciting sounds and stories. Cantus uses the imitative entries of renaissance motets as a jumping off point into a more contemporary world. The playfully virtuosic Furlana refers to the Italian folk dance rhythm in 6, punctuated by lots of unexpected 5’s. Fantasia hints at being a lullaby with an animated and jazz-influenced middle section, and the closing Cabaletta is true to its 19th-century meaning of a rousing closing section following beautiful lyricism. SUITE FOR WIND QUINTET was commissioned and premiered by the Dorian Wind Quintet.Amanda Harberg’s Suite for Wind Quintet was commissioned by the Dorian Wind Quintet in 2017. The piece was the result of a conversation in a bar between Harberg, Dorian’s flutist Gretchen Pusch and Pusch’s husband Richard Bayles, on the occasion of Dorian’s clarinetist Ben Fingland’s 40th birthday party. A year and a half later, the Dorian Wind Quintet gave the world premiere of Harberg’s quintet at Bargemusic, and has incorporated it into their repertoire ever since. Suite for Wind Quintet is in four movements- 1. Cantus, 2. Furlana, 3. Fantasia and 4. Cabaletta. The melodic material heard in the very opening of the piece can be heard recurring and transforming throughout the four movements, until it unites triumphantly in the final coda with the theme of the concluding movement. The piece was inspired by the concept of placing Renaissance and Baroque-inspired dance suites into Harberg’s idiom as a 21st century composer.
SKU: CF.CY4010F
ISBN 9781491146170. UPC: 680160903672. 11 x 17 inches.
Wisconsin-born Kinney, approaching his 50th birthday himself, was one of five composers commissioned by the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras to work with an ensemble and then compose a piece for that group, in honor of their 50th Anniversary. A Radiant Spirit was premiered at the 50th Anniversary Gala Concert on February 20th, 2016.
SKU: HL.14037538
8.25x11.75x0.085 inches.
This work was written for Endymion's 'Sound Census' project, in celebration of their 30th Birthday. It was first performed by Endymion with Melinda Maxwell (Oboe). For solo oboe, trumpet, french horn, double bass, harp and piccolo. Parts also available (item 14037539).
SKU: IS.BC6927EM
ISBN 9790365069279.
Gareth Churchill trained in London with Rhian Samuel and in Cardiff with Anthony Powers (PhD Composition 2007); other teachers having included Peter Maxwell Davies, Judith Weir, John Metcalf and Charles Camilleri. Commissions include works for Vale of Glamorgan Festival for Arvo Pärt's 75th birthday, Aberystwyh Musicfest, Bangor New Music Festival, Mavron Quartet and South Wales Gay Men's Chorus. Performances have reached audiences in Belgium, Estonia, Italy, Japan, Norway, Spain, the USA and throughout the UK. His output reflects an interest in musical cryptography with many works' titles providing the key to understanding their musical means. He has taught at Cardiff University School of Music, at Aberystwyth Musicfest and is composition teacher for Cardiff University Centre for Continuing and Professional Education.This composition was written for bass clarinet soloist Sarah Watts, who did extensive research on bass clarinet multiphonics. This piece is a great illustration on the integration of multiphonics in contemporary music.
