Choral Choir (Mixed) - Level 4 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.877462
Composed by Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern, Jimmy McHugh, Oscar Hammerstein, and Otto Harbach. Arranged by Alexander L'Estrange. A Cappella. Octavo. 18 pages. Alexander L'Estrange #6745463. Published by Alexander L'Estrange (A0.877462).
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 arrangement features classy jazz a cappella writing that will suit experienced chamber choirs, school and high school groups, with a 6-part SSATBarB scoring. The song is a classic jazz standard by Jerome Kern and was commissioned by The King's Singers, who recorded it on their album of Alexander L'Estrange's close-harmony arrangements Great American Songbook https://www.kingssingers.com/products/great-american-songbook/. N.B. This is a higher-key adaptation of Alexander L'Estrange's original arrangement for the King's Singers, with mixed-voice SSATBarB choirs and a cappella groups in mind.
