SKU: A0.1291842

“Alexander L’Estrange is a great and innovative arranger, surely one of the best we have around.� — Music Teacher Magazine 

“Alexander L’Estrange’s delicious arrangements go naughtily off-piste and the King’s Singers Great American Songbook CD is superb.� — The Times

Alexander L’Estrange and Joanna Forbes L’Estrange are prolific composers and arrangers of choral music, both individually and as a partnership. Receiving commissions from choral societies, schools, chamber choirs, church choirs and a cappella groups, their music is sung and enjoyed throughout the world. 

Alexander is regularly commissioned to write arrangements for world-class vocal groups including Voces8, The Queen’s Six, Amarcord and The King’s Singers, for whom he wrote and produced the Great American Songbook album. Joanna began writing music and lyrics during her tenure as soprano and Musical Director of the five-time Grammy® Award-winning vocal group The Swingles. 

All of Alexander and Joanna’s compositions and arrangements come with excellent learning resources for choirs including part-learning tracks and backing tracks, professionally recorded by the couple in their home studio #OldStableStudios. They also offer expert coaching for choirs, both in person and online. Their popular workshop You can sing…but can you swing?! gives choirs the tools to perform pop and jazz arrangements with greater style and confidence.

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This Swingle Singers arrangement by Alexander L'Estrange features classy but accessible a cappella writing with a bossa nova twist and will suit many a cappella, chamber choirs, school and high school groups, with an 8-part SSAATTBB scoring. This classic Christmas/holiday song, one of the stand-outs on the Swingle Singers' release Unwrapped, is now available for you to sing. It would work well on mic, or with step-out solos, and there is room for some fun with vocal percussion...!

N.B. Also from this same Swingles album, you can find and buy Joanna's Walking in the air arrangement as well as her beautiful 4-part SSAA Amazing Grace.

SKU: MQ.50-1129-E

Winner of theSongs, Strings and Steps Carol Competition held in Abbotsford British Columbia in 2012. A wonderful Christmas text by Timothy Dudley-Smith set in a beautiful, flowing, melodic style.

SKU: A0.935511

Written in the style of classic Christmas carols with fun, memorable melody and lyrics, this new Christmas song will quickly become a part of everyone's caroling canon. By and large, Christmas music is either sacred or secular, about Jesus, Mary, the shepherds and angels or about presents and parties and Santa Claus. We live them both simultaneously. This carol represents that, with the first verse being a patter of excitement and the second more lyrical, focusing on the Advent of the Savior. Then, just as in life, they are sung together, complimenting each other. We end in unison with a glorious and memorable refrain Nativity mangers make friends out of strangers with peace on earth, good will to all men.

* Bells/Chimes sound beautiful but it can also be performed with just piano and the voices singing the bell parts.
* Perfect of school or church Christmas concerts or caroling. Also great for families around the fireplace or out Christmas caroling.
* Written to be sung by two groups, however, there is a cut version (explained in print) that does not require splitting in two groups. It can be sung straight through without overlapping the verses.
* Some harmony parts are indicated in the vocal line. Of course you can sing just the melody in unison all the way through, but there are ample opportunities to break out into fun 2,3 and (in some places) 4-part harmonies. Up to you.

You can find me at @the_shaunparry or www.shaunparry.com 

SKU: A0.1505964

A wonderful uptempo happy Christmas song based on a 4 lyric poem. Very nice for choir SATB to sing.

SKU: A0.981133

Add this acapella arrangement of the classic The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) to your Holiday Carolers songbook.  It's sure to a hit like the enduring original Mel Torme & Roberts Wells song.

SKU: A0.981225

A CHRISTMAS FOLKSONG for Chorus, SATB, divisi with piano accompaniment

Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)

The little Jesus came to town;

The wind blew up, the wind blew down;

Out in the streets the wind was bold;

Now who would house Him from the cold?

Then opened wide a stable door;

Fair were the rushes on the floor;

The Ox put forth a horned head:

Come, little Lord, here make Thy bed.

Uprose the Sheep were folded near:

Thou Lamb of God, come, enter here.

He entered there to rush and reed,

Who was the Lamb of God indeed.

The little Jesus came to town;

With ox and sheep He laid Him down;

Peace to the byre, peace to the fold,

For they that housed Him from the cold!