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William Butler Yeats ends his short story The Adoration of the Magi with the narrator describing a centuries-old Gaelic prayer "... when I pray against the demons I repeat a prayer which was made I

Also known as The Quiet Land of Erin, this well-known Irish song tells the story of an emigrant who remembers with fondness their homeland, yearning to return one day to be buried there.

"All through the Night" ("Ar Hyd y Nos") is a Welsh folksong sung to a tune which was first recorded in 1784. This sensitive arrangement by Mark Armstrong is for voice and small orchestra of flute, harp and

"Art Is Calling To Me (I Want To Be a Prima Donna)" - from the Broadway Comic Opera The Enchantress (1911 - Victor Herbert / Harry B. Smith). Arranged for solo voice and concert band (Key Eb).

For nearly a century, the passage from the old to the new year at midnight has been celebrated by singing Robert Burns' poem. In this graceful arrangement, we hear the standard English version of the text

Commissioned to mark the occasion of the total solar eclipse in 2017, this cinematic selection was broadcast across the Pacific Northwest of the United States as millions experienced the totality of the

Based on the idioms of traditional Irish music, this fanfare for band celebrates the turn of the millennium in the year 2000. To highlight this momentous event, the Irish themes morph into something

The technical capabilities of the woodwinds are on full display in this fun, lively, and jaunty setting of the treasured Irish hymn. Expertly scored to capture that authentic Irish sound, this work is an

Alexander Carmichael's "Carmina Gadelica" is a six-volume set of various prayers, songs, poems, invocations, and other lore he collected over a close to 50-year period (1860-1909) in the Gaelic speaking

Accessible SATB choir parts arranged to match the concert band and orchestral versions of Leroy Anderson's celebrated medley of Christmas carols - A Christmas Festival. Now you can involve your

Featuring an alto solo, this selection is found masquerading under a variety of names throughout the Irish tradition, such as Farewell Ballymoney and Going to Mass Last Sunday. A song of

A stunning treble opening verse begins with a solo, unison, and finally harmony before giving way to a tenor soloist and full mixed divisi choral harmonies. Equally traditional and modern, this perhaps best

'Donde Lieta Uscì' (Mimi's Farewell) from Act 3 of Puccini's opera La Bohème arranged for soprano and concert band by Brendan Power. 

In this aria Mimi

The familiar Irish folk song melody sings above a gently pulsing harmonic texture that borrows its style from contemporary a cappella and vocal jazz vocables to create something that is at once traditional

Dreaming took first prize at the Mornington Singers Competition for New Irish Choral Music in November 2014 and is intended as a companion piece to Benjamin Britten's A Hymn to St.

Catalani's most celebrated aria for the opera La Wally in an arrangement for soprano and concert band by Mark Armstrong. (Please note that this arrangement is in the key of Eb - down one semitone

"Fill Fill a rún ó" is a beautiful Irish song thought to originate in Donegal. It is arranged voice and small orchestra (Key D). Instrumentation: (Fl, Irish whistle (optional),Ob, Hn, Hp, Pno,

This famous Dublin street ballad is a rollicking good time! The fast, rhythmic nature of this arrangement and great orchestration will make this a perfect addition to your concert program. This is

"Funiculì, Funiculà" is a famous Neapolitan song written by Italian journalist Peppino Turco and set to music by Italian composer Luigi Denza in 1880. It was composed to commemorate the

Girls were made to love and kiss! Franz Lehar's celebrated song from the 1925 operetta Paganini arranged for voice and concert band by Mark Armstrong.

"Gortnamona" is one of the most beautiful of Irish songs written by Percy French. The title comes from the name of a beautiful Georgian house set in its own parkland in Co. Galway. Percy French was a