A Festive Christmas

A Festive Christmas Celebration

Four Christmas favorites combine to create a sparkling showcase for holiday programs. Perform with band alone or with chorus and strings for a fabulous concert finale! Includes: Deck the Hall, Ding Dong! Merrily on High, I SawThree Ships and We Wish You a Merry Christmas.

A Festive Holiday Celebration - Larry Neeck

Celebrate the season with this very playable and musical work, based on four holiday favorites: "Hanukkah, O Hanukkah," "Away in a Manger," "Deck the Halls," and "Auld Lang Syne." Sparkling woodwind colors, festive brass, and lively percussion will get everyone in the holiday spirit. Effective, yet easy to prepare, "A Festive Holiday Celebration" is the perfect choice for that special holiday concert. Musical joy!

A Festive Holiday Greeting - Darren W. Jenkins

Add a touch of international flavor to the holiday season with this colorful setting of O Christmas Tree; We Three Kings and We Wish You a Merry Christmas presented in a bold Spanish fanfare and dance style. Each carol is introduced with the opening fanfare, and within each section other holiday fragments can be heard in brief statements. The use of Latin percussion instruments adds to the festive nature that will delight everyone.

A Festive Intrada - Eddy Debons

A Festive Overture - Alfred Reed

Reed - Grades 3-5

a Festive Overture - Kenneth Hesketh

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A Festive Parade - Darrol Barry

A Festive Tribute - Johann Sebastian Bach

A Festive Tribute is an arrangement of a splendid chorus whichBach first used in the secular Cantata 207 of 1726, but is perhapsbetter known in its later version, which appears in Cantata 207a, thedescriptively titled Auf, schmetternde Tne der muntern Trompeten,which cannot be adequately translated but means something alongthe lines of 'let the trumpets sound'. While the lyrics are perhaps alittle obsequious, much of the music for this cantata is celebratoryand lushly scored for a large orchestra including trumpets, oboesd'amore and flutes, making it an ideal piece for a concert bandarrangement.

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A Few Dots of Polka - Hans Christian Lumbye

Although known as the 'Waltz King' Johann Strauss II also wrote a large number of polkas. This clever mosaic by Ed Keeley, includes interwoven themes from The Czech Polka, Pizzicato Polka, Tritsch Tratsch Polka, Thunder & Lightning by Johann Strauss II, Lumbye's Champagne Galop and to finish, in fine classical foot-stomping style, the finale contains references to William Tell, Ode to Joy and 1812.

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