**Christmas Features**
The Little Match Girl by Leonard Duarte Level 4 - ©1995 For Symphonic Band, Choir, Soloist, Narrator and Dancers Hans Christian Andersen's classic Christmas time story comes alive in Leonard Duarte's impressionistic score that captures the mood of a snowy winter night. On a bitterly cold December night one little girl cannot go home until she sells her bundle of matches. As she lights one after another to keep warm, her gray world magically changes before her eyes. The music depicting each vision is luminous, warm and tender. This piece may be performed ....More Full score and parts $129.00 Choir parts are available from the publisher.
The Velveteen Rabbit Suite by Leonard Duarte - Level 4 - © 1996 For Symphonic Band, and Narrator. The timeless story of a stuffed toy rabbit, so well loved by the boy who owned him is the basis for this suite. Four movements from "The Velveteen Rabbit Ballet," a full-length ballet for orchestra and dancers, is here scored as a suite for band. These four movements describe this guileless story of an abandoned, forgotten and sad rabbit. Through the boy's love and enchantment of the nursery magic fairy, the rabbit becomes real. Timothy the Wooden Lion is introduced first. The music is stately and regal to portray the toy lion "who puts on airs of being connected with Government." Rapid, staccato passages in the woodwinds usher in the playful "clockwork mouse." The Boy's Illness" is a slow lamentful ....More Full score and parts $129.00

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