2010 HOLIDAY MUSIC SAMPLERS

Looking for YRM's latest offerings of holiday music (both sacred and secular)?

We've made the search easier for you by offering a score sampler of our newest choral music for the holidays. The samplers feature both original works as well as arrangements of traditional carols. You can save time (and a tree!) by downloading the samplers for free (as PDFs). They're available by voicing: SSAA, SATB and TTBB.

Each sampler contains several pages from each score along with the lyrics written in full separately. We hope they save you time and money with the perusal process as you put together your concert program. And to further entice you to check out this handy resource, we're offering a special 15% discount on any of the works featured in the sampler! Just send an order request via e-mail any time during 2010, in quantities of 12 or more per item, and be sure to mention the sampler in order to receive the discount. (This offer is good through the end of 2010, and is not applicable to orders sent on-line through the website. You must e-mail your order to us so that we may apply the 15% discount. Offer not valid in combination with other sampler discounts or the YRM overstock inventory sale. Music distributors and resale dealers are not eligible to receive the special sales price.)

2006 CHRISTMAS Sampler for MIXED CHORUS

YRM's 2006 Christmas Sampler for Mixed Chorus is still available for download. Inside the sampler you'll discover original compositions and arrangements by the following composers:

• Roger Bourland: The Crocodile's Christmas Ball and A Fly on the Wall. Both works are movements from The Crocodile's Christmas Ball and other odd tales and are now available separately.
• Edgar ColÛn-Hern·ndÈz: °AlegrÌa!, an energetic arrangement of a traditional Puertorican Christmas carol, or villancico.
• Karlan Judd: This Time Next Year (based on Auld Lang Syne), The Twelve Gays of Christmas (a queer take on the traditional carol), and What a Gay 'Ol Christmas Tree.
• Paul Leavitt: A Christmas Madrigal.

2005 Multi-Traditional Holiday Samplers

Check out 2005's musical offerings for your Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or Winter Solstice holiday programming needs.

You'll discover original compositions and arrangements by the following composers:

• Charles Baker: Three Hanukkah Songs (NEW voicing for SSAA)
• Roger Bourland: Tropical Christmas (SATB and TTBB), It Isn't Christmas (SA), and Fa la la [Blah blah blah] (NEW voicing for SATB)
• Edgar ColÛn-Hern·ndÈz: °AlegrÌa! (TTBB) and A la ru (SSAA and SATB)
• Jerald Thomas Hawhee: Two Rossetti Carols (SATB)
• Eric Helmuth: The Mahogany Tree (TTBB)
• Scott Henderson: It's Christmastime, Again (SATB), Good King What's-His-Face (TTBB), and Winter Carol (SATB)
• J.A. Kawarsky: Ocho Kandelikas (TTBB)
• David Frank Long: A New December (SSA, SATB, TTB)
• Steve Milloy: Bogoroditse Devo from Rachmaninoff's "All-Night Vigil" Opus 37 (TTBB)
• Neal Richardson: Santa Won't You Please Come Back (TTBB)
• Jason Shelton: The Longest Night (SSAA and SATB)

2002 Multi-Traditional Holiday Samplers

Our 2002 Multi-Traditional Holiday Samplers are still available for your perusal. They include many of the best-selling holiday works in the YRM catalog.

There may be those who dismiss the phrase "multi-traditional" as having the same kind of negative baggage as the phrase "politically correct." Yelton Rhodes Music, however, embraces it as a term that celebrates diversity. With an increasing awareness of different cultures and religions, choral concerts for the holidays have been adapting a more varied approach to programming.

In these 2002 Multi-Traditional Holiday Samplers you'll find a broad range of music that appeals to various holiday celebrations from Kwanzaa to Christmas to Hanukkah to Winter Solstice. They also include folksongs not just from the English language, but from Spanish, Hebrew, French and Ladino as well.

Thank you for your time, and your business!