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Composition Spotlight -Traditional Christmas

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COMPOSITION SPOTLIGHT ~ by Jack Senzig
 
(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:
Traditional Christmas by Pamela J. Marshall SA, orchestra (Click here for PDF and here for AUDIO)
 
Level: Elementary
Uses: Holiday Concert
Program Themes: Traditional Carols
 
 
If you direct a youth choir, now is a great time to advocate for your choir to sing with an orchestra in 2016.  Build a relationship with your local community or high school orchestra.  Attend their holiday concert and shake the conductor’s hand after the event. Then show them this piece.  It will be a win-win for both organizations.  The carols are the ones everyone knows.  Between your kids’ families and those that just love to hear and see children at Christmas, you should pack the audience in. 
 
Traditional Christmas is available from Spindrift Music: http://www.spindrift.com/CatalogPages/traditionxmas.html

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  1. With a friendly, supportive but musically demanding conductor, kids can learn a lot about musical performance when they sing with an orchestra — listening for their pitch with so many different timbres, singing in time, projecting their voices into the hall to get a good balance, being expressive and dramatic, being efficient and “professional” in rehearsal. If they haven’t had much musical exposure, it might be the first time they’ve been close to instrumentalists. If it’s an adult orchestra, they can feel very grown up as they participate in a big endeavor. Whether it’s a volunteer adult chorus or a children’s chorus, all of the local choruses who have sung with us have grown musically. My orchestra is the Concord Orchestra in Massachusetts, where I play in the horn section.

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