RBM-105 | Christmas Ornaments

Christmas Ornaments
RBM-105
SATB chorus with full orchestra

This work was written in 1988 at the request of the Grand Rapids Symphony and Chorus and, to date, is the most extensive of the arranger’s Christmas carol settings. The individual carols are laid out in 7 movements, to be played with brief intervening pauses:

  1. Personent Hodie Latin (all other movements entirely in English)
  2. Deck the Halls
  3. Lullaby Carols  ( Lully, Lullay and What Child Is This? )
  4. Bell Carols  ( Ding, Dong Merrily On High and The Ukrainian Bell Carol )
  5. I Wonder as I Wander  ( Contralto solo with Chorus )
  6. The Twelve Days of Christmas
  7. Personent Hodie (abbreviated reprise) Latin

Scored for SATB chorus and full orchestra, no organ required (rental-only). View the orchestral materials. Contralto solo in mvt. 5 only. The following movements are available as separate publications:

Orchestration for Personent Hodie [RBM-216] is available for purchase; orchestrations for the remaining four selections are available on a rental-only basis.

The first four movements of this piece have been commercially recorded by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra on their 1995 release This Is Christmas, Bonneville Classics # 9402-2. A complete recording of movement five, I Wonder As I Wander, appears on the Kodanja Records album A FEAST OF CAROLS, conducted by the composer.

( dur: 25:00″ )

All rentals arranged through ECS Publishing.

View: SATB Vocal Score

View: Full Orchestration – p.1

Listen:

Mvt. 5: I Wonder As I Wander