Exhilaration
Do you ever wish you could be a contestant on a game show and be called to the stage to play? You can get that feeling with the performance of this song at your next concert! A joyful celebration tempo, combined with an inspirational melody and harmonic structure, make this song come to life. Builds in the transitions between key changes lift the music to a higher elevation that keep the joyful feeling alive. Have fun with this song at your next concert!
Ezekiel Saw de Wheel / Now Let Me Fly (Medley)
This triumphant and upbeat arrangement perfectly combines two of the most well-known spirituals together into a rollicking good ol’ time. You will want to dance at the piano while playing this song, but let the audience do that for you!
Fearless
This courageous work can be daunting upon first glance, but it can be easily performed with consistent practice and a strong determination to create an outstanding performance, qualities exemplified in the song’s title. The differing nontraditional time signatures and driving nature of the rhyhtms will heighten the attention of your audience members to take notice of this outstanding work.
The Freedom of Flight
This song personifies the effortless yet majestic flying that birds are opportune to make, soaring over beautiful landscapes and getting to witness such amazing sights one can only dream. Opening with an ostinato mimicking the bird’s flight, the left hand introduces the lively harmonies before carrying through to the melody that moves between voices. A slower contrasting section brings a slight calm to the work before returning to the original drive from the first. This is a tremendous but rewarding song to perform at your next concert that your audience to enjoy!
Give Me Jesus
This arrangement of the well-known African-American spiritual starts very calmly with the melody playing easily over sustained notes, but the piano soons picks up its rhythm gives more motion and life to the work. The audience will be drawn into the awesome message and powerful declamatory statements as the piece progresses. A heart-warming piece to play!
Go, Tell It On the Mountain
The driving nature of this arrangement is much like the theme to the movie Chariots of Fire. Relentless, ambitious, and unwavering as the tune evolves into its melodic introduction and embellishments, reflective of the song’s message. The work finally transitions into a laid-back, ragtime-style texture before returning to its original drive to end the song. This familiar Christmas carol arrangement will get your audience’s attentions and be inspired to welcome the Christmas season at your next performance.
Good King Wenceslas
The bells ring loud and freely as this famous Christmas carol is introduced. The melody is further embellished with a canon-style chase between both hands and chordal arpeggiations. The ringing bells theme (by the left hand crossing over the right) returns during the last section, giving height to the song and a final recapitulation of the opening. Your audience will be captivated by your performance of this work at your next worship service or music gathering.
Guided by the Stars
Inspired by video games set in outer space, this driving work with catch your audience’s attention and proceed to motivate them to find what they are looking for. Opening with the tuplet pattern mimicking the stars, a grand motif cuts through and gives gravitas to the work. The accompaniment becomes a repetitive syncopation that continually drives the energy throughout, all the while the lyrical melody soars above. With a recapitulation of the opening theme, you and your audience will be transported and feel like you are flying freely in space!
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
This perennial Christmas favorite gets an updated feel with this arrangement for solo piano. First heard in the 1944 MGM movie Meet Me in St. Louis, triplet figures accompany the lyrical melody. Polyrhythms and hemiolas make this piece a worthwhile challenge to perform. As the song progresses, countervoices add in to make the work more complex, launching into a short bridge that becomes a true highlight for this song. You will hear the piano practically sing this timeless holiday standard, and audiences will be enthralled at your next performance.
He is Born (Il est né, le divin Enfant)
With a march feel in the left hand and bell-like feel in the ring, this new arrangement of the French carol will bring an historic setting to your Christmas celebrations!