(The Composition Showcase is a unique resource for conductors. Choral composers are allowed to share only a few of their best works. Each week we offer you the best of the best on a silver platter. The Silver Platter Award winners are works that your choirs will love to sing and your audiences will love to hear)
Silver Platter Award Winner:
Level: High School or Higher
Uses: General Concert Use
Program Themes: Vocable texts, Onomatopoeia
This Piece Would Program Well With: Love is a Sickness by Dale Trumbore available in the Composition Showcase
Michael Kauklin has given us a choral illusion. The choir becomes a balalayka (Russian chordophone) being strummed in several different patterns. There is some divisi which could be ignored by a younger ensemble including a low D for the basses. This is a fun arrangement of a familiar tune. Enjoy!
Tumbalalayka is available from Swirly Music: http://www.swirlymusic.org/tumbalalayka
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