Product Description
Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy) Arranged for String Orchestra or Chamber Orchestra
Poetic, expressive, and emotionally resonant ideal for professional, student, and amateur ensembles in churches, theaters, and schools.
There are melodies that speak like whispered prayers
That bloom like flowers in forgotten places
One of these is Amapola Pretty Little Poppy a song born in the heart of Spanish-American composer José María Lacalle.
But it was Ennio Morricone, in Once Upon a Time in America, who clothed it in memory and melancholy
turning it into something more:
a dream of love a loss remembered a soul laid bare in music.
Now, that dream has been arranged for your orchestra.
Brazilian conductor and composer Flávio Régis Cunha offers a new version of Amapola
a deeply moving arrangement for Solo Violin (or Cello), and String or Chamber Orchestra.
With great reverence to Morricones atmosphere and the melodys timeless beauty,
this adaptation invites your ensemble to explore silence, longing, and light.
Amapola for Your Ensemble
Whether youre leading a professional stage, a university concert hall, or a small church ensemble,
this arrangement offers your musicians something rare:
a space for vulnerability.
Its perfect for:
Weddings where music must carry the weight of beauty and promise.
Educational settings where students can explore tone, balance, and expressive phrasing.
Theatrical productions and multimedia adding emotional depth to visual storytelling.
Chamber concerts where every note is felt as much as heard.
This is not just a piece to perform its a piece to inhabit.
To breathe with.
To remember with.
Let your audience rediscover the aching elegance of Amapola
and offer them silence in sound and hope in a single melody.
The sheet music is available now.
Bring Amapola to your orchestra.
Download. Rehearse. Let it bloom.
Find it online. Hear the difference.
Let your ensemble say something eternal.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.