This interactive piece will delight and engage audiences of all ages! This whimsical arrangement, reminiscent of a Looney Tunes "Silly Symphony," employs a narrator reading aloud from Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh as the concert band accompanies the story. audience participation is encouraged!

Mo Willems is an author, illustrator, animator, and playwright. He was the inaugural Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence (2019-2022), and he continues to collaborate in creating fun new stuff involving classical music, opera, comedy concerts, dance, painting and digital works with the National Symphony Orchestra, Washington National Opera, Ben Folds, Yo-Yo Ma, and others. Willems is best known for his #1 New York Times bestselling picture books, which have been awarded three Caldecott Honors (Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!; Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale; Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity), and his celebrated Elephant and Piggie early reader series, which has been awarded two Theodor Geisel Medals and five Geisel Honors.

This touching story will delight and engage audiences of all ages! This whimsical arrangement, reminiscent of a Looney Tunes "Silly Symphony," employs a narrator reading aloud from Olive, the Other Reindeer as the concert band accompanies the story.

The 1997 children’s book, Olive, the Other Reindeer, by J. Otto Seibold and Vivian Walsh, tells the story of a Jack Russell Terrier named Olive who, after hearing the lyrics “all of the other reindeer,” mistakes herself for a reindeer, and travels to the North Pole to help Santa Claus deliver presents on Christmas Eve. In 1999, Olive… was adapted into an Emmy Award-winning animated musical comedy film starring Drew Barrymore.

“I Remember” is a moving ballad by Stephen Sondheim, one of the world's preeminent theatre composers. This lush arrangement features a mezzo-soprano soloist and a full concert band accompaniment.

This song comes from Evening Primrose, a hidden gem of a musical premiering on ABC in 1966. The plot focuses on a poet who takes refuge from the world by hiding out in a department store after closing, where he meets a community of night people who live in the store. He falls in love with a beautiful girl named Ella, who sings “I Remember” about the only time in her childhood when she saw the outside world. Her recollections of sky, snow, ice, and trees are described in reference to items in the department store: ink, feathers, vinyl, and umbrellas.

Enhance your holiday concert with this gentle Ukrainian lullaby, set for a solo vocalist and a chamber ensemble of flute, soprano saxophone, 2 clarinets in B♭, bass clarinet, piano, acoustic guitar, vibraphone, and double bass.

Bernstein's Overture to "Candide" is a staple of the concert band and orchestral repertoire. This delicate, chamber setting will engage student's with America's seminal composer in a new and exciting way!

INSTRUMENTATION: piccolo, flute, 2 oboes (2nd doubling english horn), clarinet in B♭, bass clarinet, 2 horns in F, 2 bassoons.

This is a new setting of three songs by Charles Ives, curated from his 114 Songs originally published in 1922. Three Humble Ditties will provide dedicated students with a thrilling foray into modernism, Americana, and chamber music.

INSTRUMENTATION: The cycle is available for both a double wind quintet (piccolo, flute, oboe, english horn, clarinet in B♭, bass clarinet, 2 horns in F, and 2 bassoons) and a wind nonet (flute, oboe, bassoon, horn, clarinet in E♭, two clarinets in B♭, alto clarinet, and bass clarinet). Both versions call for players to double on kazoos. You are currently viewing the NONET version.