This ballad by Bob Haymes, was first recorded by Nat King Cole back in 1953. Another great arrangement by Dick Meyer. Enjoy!

That's All - Dick Meyer Arr. - 8 Horns

This was an ambitious multi-tracking project, to put it mildly! I've played the 1st Horn part in various Orchestras over the years, but there's a lot of other "stuff" included when you play the whole piece! What a work out! It took about a week to put it all together at my leisurely, retired pace, but it was well worth it, IMO. Performed by Dan Heynen on a Briz 2000TP double horn, with a couple of passages played on my old Paxman Descant horn. Enjoy!

Brahms - Academic Festival Ov. - arr. by A Terzer for 8 Horns

Dan Rather writes a blog which recently included a YouTube performance of this contemporary choral piece done by 4 black guys in a resonant stairwell, and I was smitten, so to speak. I purchased the SATB sheet music online and then arranged it for 5 horns. Ubi Caritas is a liturgical piece for Maundy Thursday, the day during Holy Week that commemorates the Washing of the Feet and Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the Apostles, as described in the gospels. The composer, Ola Gjeilo, is Norwegian, but now lives in New York. Performed by Dan Heynen

Ubi Caritas - Gjeilo - 5 Hns

A Fantasy Piece for Horn Octet by Kerry Turner - performed by Dan Heynen. If you look up the lyrics of the song, they explain why the Rose has thorns - it's all because of hard hearted Barbara Allen!

Barbara Allen - 8 Hns, Kerry Turner

Written in 1940, this is Randall Thompson's most frequently performed choral work. It's an SATB piece, but in the last two measures, the parts divide up into 7 part harmony, so I doubled up on each part, recording 8 tracks. One of the considerations with playing a vocal piece instrumentally is the lyrics, but in this case, there's only one word, so I don't think anything is lost in performing it on Horn. Fortunately, the Horn has a wide enough range to cover all the parts. Recorded by Dan Heynen on a Briz 2000TP horn.

Randall Thompson - Alleluia - 8 Hns

This final movement of Thompson's "Requiem" was written for two SATB choirs, one representing Mourners and the other trying to convince them to "don't worry, be happy," but not in those words. Curtiss Blake arranged It for two Horn Quartets and I doubled it up using 16 tracks performed on my Briz 2000TP double horn. Lots of back and forth antiphonal stuff at first, but it all comes together in the end.

"Amen, Alleluia" - Randall Thompson

I'm unsure of the source for this arrangement by Curtiss Blake. The piece is attributed to Randall Thompson, who is best known for his choral music, but it seems to be more instrumental in the way it's written. The piece has been languishing in the Anchorage Horn Club Library for over 50 years in hand manuscript form,  and is now notated, and available for sharing with other Horn groups. Enjoy.

Shout For Joy - Thompson, 8 Hns

"El manisero", known in English as "The Peanut Vendor", is a Cuban son-pregón composed by Moisés Simons. Together with "Guantanamera", it is arguably the most famous piece of music created by a Cuban musician. Stan Kenton performed this frequently back in the 1930's.  This arrangement, by Dick Meyer, is for 8 Horns, performed by Dan Heynen.

Peanut Vender - 8 Hns,

A nice light arrangement by Dick Meyer for 8 Horns, performed by Dan Heynen

Whistle While You Work - Meyer

I recently arranged the Pentatonix version of Over the Rainbow for 5 horns, but then had a friend share this arrangement for 7 horns pitched a fifth higher - I mean, literally, "way up high!"  So my old Paxman Descant horn got a bit of a workout. I did edit the ending a bit to get it up in the stratosphere and to give the piece a full 4 octave range.

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