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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61<br />
16. A Child Himself<br />
STAVE 3, Scene 3<br />
Nos Galan<br />
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Suddenly Scrooge found himself in a bright, dry, gleaming room. “Ha, ha!” laughed Scrooge’s nephew. “Ha, ha, ha!” There is nothing in the world so<br />
irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour. When Scrooge’s nephew laughed in this way: holding his sides, rolling his head, Scrooge’s niece<br />
laughed as heartily as he. And their assembled friends roared out lustily.<br />
[CHOIR BEGINS] “Ha, ha! Ha, ha, ha, ha!” “He said that <strong>Christmas</strong> was a humbug, as I live!” [ON A ] cried Scrooge’s<br />
nephew. “He believed it too!” [ON B ] “More shame for him, Fred!” [ON C ] said Scrooge’s niece, indignantly.<br />
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punishment, and I have nothing to say against him. I am sorry for him; I couldn’t be angry with him if I tried. Who suffers by his ill whims!<br />
Himself, always.”<br />
[CHOIR BEGINS] After tea, they had some music; there was a game at blind-man’s bluff; after a while they played at forfeits; for it is good to<br />
be children sometimes, and never better than at <strong>Christmas</strong>, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.<br />
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