SKU: A0.1474100

This song is just one of so many fantastic powerful female vocalist songs in the Broadway and West End smash hit musical WICKED composed by Stephen Schwartz, a clever prequel story to The Wizard of Oz.   The song encapsulates the excitement of the principal character Elphaba (who later we find infamously and misleadingly becomes the Wicked Witch of the West) at the prospect - as a young wizarding student - of meeting and being recognised as a talentd young witch by the Great Wizard of Oz himself.

Made famous by the great Idina Menzel this song (and this orchestration) offer the opportunity for a dramatic, full bodied and spectacular feature solo in any concert of show and film music.

Instrumentation:

2 Flutes (2nd dbl. Piccolo)
Oboe
Cor Anglais
2 Clarinets
2 Bassoons

4 Horns
2 Trumpets
3 Trombones

Timpani
2 Percussionists [Finger Cym./Mark Tree/Vibes/Glock./Xylo./Tub.Bells)
Harp
Piano
(Optional 2nd Keyboard)
Electric Guitar
Bass Guitar
Drum Kit

Female Vocal Soloist

Strings

Look out for other similar titles (including As long as you're mine and Popular also from Wicked) for sale by arrangers John Langley and Paul Campbell at www.studio-orchestrations.com.

SKU: A0.1030571

For Orchestra, Solo Vocalist and Choir Shadowland is a song written by Lebo M., Hans Zimmer and Mark Mancina for the musical The Lion King (1997), a stage adaptation of Disney's 1994 animated film of the same name. Based on the song Lea Halalela (Holy Land), a track featured on Lebo's Lion King-inspired concept album Rhythm of the Pride Lands (1995), Lebo composed the track with Zimmer, while both Lebo and Mancina contributed new lyrics to its melody. Lebo based the song's lyrics on his own experiences having been exiled from South Africa during apartheid, therefore imbuing Shadowland with themes about refugeeism and survival. Originally performed by Trinidadian-American singer and actress Heather Headley as Nala, and South African actress Tsidii Le Loka as Rafiki, roles both performers originated on stage, Shadowland narrates Nala's decision to leave the Pride Lands in search of a more habitable environment upon realizing that her homeland has grown dry and barren in the midst of Scar's reign. Taking place shortly after Nala rejects Scar's romantic advances, director Julie Taymor used the song to develop Nala into a stronger character for the stage adaptation, and identified Shadowland as her favorite among the production's original songs, believing its message and themes to be universal. Musically, Shadowland is a soul power ballad. Sung in both English and African languages, its instrumentation combines African percussion with European orchestration to create a more exotic sound while accompanying pop vocals and African chants; some critics have observed political themes such as feminism, injustice and the ecosystem throughout the song's lyrics. Shadowland has been mostly positively received by music and theatre critics; both Headley and actresses who replaced her in subsequent productions of the musical have been praised for their vocals and performances.

SKU: A0.1470001

Merry Christmas, Darling is a Christmas song by the Carpenters (music by Richard Carpenter, lyrics by Frank Pooler), and originally recorded in 1970.  It received a number of remixes, most notably in 1978 in a newly recorded vocal version by Karen Carpenter, which was done at her request. Richard Carpenter himself called the original recording one of his sister's very best. 

Hearing this song today with knowing ears and the knowledge of Karen Carepenter's mental health problems it makes a beautiful, sentimental song all the more bitter sweet and precious.  It is a perfect little gem.

In this orchestration - in the original Karen Carpenter key -  there is never any heavy brass apart from 4 horns used very sparingly, and the optional original alto saxophone solo is also cued (as an alternative) for a Trumpet or Flugel horn if a sax is not available. 

A guitar in this texture is always desirable but can be traded off as long as there is bass guitar, light kit and percussion to support the soupy lush string lines.

The backing vocals are a significant part of the song's haunting beauty and are also highly desirable however their harmony lines are covered by alternative wind instrument figures so this can be performed with or without backing vocals.

INSTRUMENTATION:

2 Flutes
Oboe
Cor Anglais
2 Clarinets
2 Bassoons
4 Horns
Alto Saxophone solo (Can be played on alt. Flugel/Trumpet part)

2-3 Percussion
Harp
Piano
Electric Guitar [Optional]
Bass Guitar
Drum Kit

Vocal female soloist
SATB Backing Vocals   [Optional, cued to alt. instruments]

Strings

Look out for other arrangement/orchestrated titles by John Langley and writing partner Paul Campbell at www.studio-orchestrations.com.

SKU: A0.889427

„Celtiberian Landscape

For Harp, Choir and Symphonic Orchestra

All the woodwind solo parts and the Horn can be doubled. 

The chamber option for a minimum number of soloists would be,

1 Flute

1 Oboe

1 English Horn

1 Eb Clarinet

1 Bb Clarinet

1 Fagotte

1 Kontra Fagotte

1 F Horn

2 C Trumpet

2  Trombone

2 Tuba

Timbale

Bells, „Glockenspiel or Piano

Percussion: gong, bass drum, snare, splash, triangle.

Harp

Celesta or Piano

Violin I

Violin II

Viola

Cello

DoubleBass

DoubleBass Solo

Soprano

Alto

Tenor

Bass

In this PDF file, for each voice in the score there is an individual part ready to print.

Included in this file is also the full score for the choir with individual parts.

There is no text to be sung, so in the sense of a vocalizo „oh and „ah can be used „ad lieb by the singers.

For the bells there is an extra optional score that could be eventually used by a keyboard instrument. 

The percussion could be performed by 3 or 4 musicians. It consists of a set of cymbals „G, A and C, a splash or crash, an open triangle, a snare drum, One or 2 Gongs and a bass drum. For each voice in the ensemble score there is an individual part ready to print and an optional standard one. The parts are very easy to perform.

The piece is can easily be adjusted to different situations.

It is perfect for school ensembles and mixed groups of beginner students and advanced ones.

A little story about this piece

In my early teens I dreamed in my sleep that I met a very nice gentleman, in a beautiful garden. 

At the time I did not now that the man in my dream was my „genetic Grandpa himself, I had never seen a picture from him, only many years later after this dream.

Now back to the Dream.

Grandpa toke me from the garden to a House full of sculptures and art work. 

There was also a room with 3 great pianos, sat to perform on 3 different stages. 

Family life size portraits where hanging on a corridor.

Another room was full of swords and ancient family weapons.

In the end of the dream a dangerous Entity approached the house, Grandpa disappears and I had to leave the place in a hurry without being noticed. 

I climbed up the house and went hiding on the celling. I could than see a middle aged, middle-Lower class lady coming in the House, she was very stiff, all dressed in black like a widow. It was a very weary feeling, I woke up to never forget this dream.

About 20 years later I was in that garden. It was really abandoned and I spend much of my time hanging there, I wrote a lot of music in this garden.

I knew about The owner of this garden, he was living not so far away from me. 

Curious I decided to visit him.

He leaved in the house that I dreamed of and he was actually my Father but I did not know that he was my Father and either did he knew about me being his son. He died shortly after we met. His name was Pedro Augusto Franco Dos Anjos Teixeira and my Grandpa was Artur Gaspar Dos Anjos Teixeira.

Thanks to Claudia Eppelt for the all the Love and cover design.

Special Thanks to Grandpa, Nina and Stray Queen Mimi, Carlinhos, Maria Pontinha, Maria Joaninha, Schwarzenegger, Maria Koboldinha. 

For all Living beings on Earth, for all our Ancestors, 

Thank You for all of You 

All Your Love and Compassion.

Love Forever.

Disclaimer: 

The score was written on Finale and the sound file was p.