Cat No. JM50814
Price £49.95
Composer: Alfred Reed
Arranger: Michael Story
Category: New & Recent Titles

Grade 2.0

Russian Christmas Music, Alfred Reed's masterwork for band, was written in November, 1944, and premiered in December of that year in Denver, Colorado. The composer utilized the ancient Russian carol, "Carol of the Little Russian Children," together with a lot of original material and some motivic elements from the liturgical music of the Eastern Orthodox Church, in writing the piece. Although this arrangement for young band is much shorter than the original, it contains material from all four distinct sections of the piece, which the composer originally subtitled "Children's Carol," "Antiphonal Chant," "Village Song," and "Cathedral Chorus."