Benedict Sheehan A Christmas Carol
for narrator, SATB soloists, and SATB choir unaccompanied, with optional bones In this compelling work for narrator, soloists, and choir, Sheehan presents an engaging musical dramatization of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Dickens's text has been artfully abridged by Matthew Guard to facilitate concert performance, and the narration is seamlessly woven into Sheehan's richly diverse score. Suited to performance in a variety of settings, this work sees imaginative arrangements of traditional carols and vibrant and accessible original music combine to bring a familiar festive tale to life.
for narrator, SATB soloists, and SATB choir unaccompanied, with optional bones
In this compelling work for narrator, soloists, and choir, Sheehan presents an engaging musical dramatization of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Dickens's text has been artfully abridged by Matthew Guard to facilitate concert performance, and the narration is seamlessly woven into Sheehan's richly diverse score. Suited to performance in a variety of settings, this work sees imaginative arrangements of traditional carols and vibrant and accessible original music combine to bring a familiar festive tale to life.
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5<br />
2. In the Counting-House<br />
Welsh traditional<br />
O Deued Pob Cristion<br />
adap. and arr. BENEDICT SHEEHAN<br />
STAVE 1, Scene 1<br />
[CORO TACET] Narrator: Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. Scrooge signed the register of his burial; and<br />
Scrooge’s name was good for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.<br />
Scrooge never painted out Old Marley’s name. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley.<br />
Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!<br />
SOPRANO<br />
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[CHOIR BEGINS] Once upon a time—on <strong>Christmas</strong> Eve—old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. It was cold, bleak,<br />
biting weather.<br />
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