Product Description
"Alexander LEstrange is a great and innovative arranger, surely one of the best we have around." - Music Teacher Magazine
"Alexander LEstranges delicious arrangements go naughtily off-piste and the Kings Singers Great American Songbook CD is superb." - The Times
Featuring simple, classy and accessible a cappella writing that will suit a cappella groups, chamber choirs, school and high school vocal ensembles, especially mixed-voice groups (SATBarB). This absolute banger of a tune from Paul Simon features the iconic Steve Gadd drum beat vocalised for a beat-boxer, and the melody is shared around the vocal parts. From simple strummed guitar effects to walking bass-lines and jazz, soul and pop stylings, it is sure to prove a hit in performance! It was originally commissioned by French vocal group Ensemble Perspectives (www.ensembleperspectives.com), and their pop video of this arrangement is well-worth a watch, as is Alexander and Joanna L'Estrange's demo version
Alexander LEstrange and Joanna Forbes LEstrange are prolific composers and arrangers of choral music, both individually and as a partnership. Receiving commissions from choral societies, schools, chamber choirs, church choirs and a cappella groups, their music is sung and enjoyed throughout the world.
Alexander is regularly commissioned to write arrangements for world-class vocal groups including Voces8, The Queens Six, Amarcord and The Kings Singers, for whom he wrote and produced the Great American Songbook album. Joanna began writing music and lyrics during her tenure as soprano and Musical Director of the five-time Grammy® Award-winning vocal group The Swingles.
All of Alexander and Joannas compositions and arrangements come with excellent learning resources for choirs including part-learning tracks and backing tracks, professionally recorded by the couple in their home studio #OldStableStudios. They also offer expert coaching for choirs, both in person and online. Their popular workshop You can singbut can you swing?! gives choirs the tools to perform pop and jazz arrangements with greater style and confidence.
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Featuring simple, classy and accessible
a cappella writing that will suit a cappella groups, chamber choirs, school and high school vocal ensembles, especially mixed-voice groups (SATBarB). This absolute banger of a tune from Paul Simon features the iconic Steve Gadd drum beat vocalised for a beat-boxer, and the melody is shared around the vocal parts. From simple strummed guitar effects to walking bass-lines and jazz, soul and pop stylings, it is sure to prove a hit in performance! It was originally commissioned by French vocal group Ensemble Perspectives (
www.ensembleperspectives.com), and their pop video of this arrangement is well-worth a watch, as is Alexander and Joanna L'Estrange's demo version
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.