Best Of Sondheim

Currently Unpublished Arrangements

1 - 05 The Worst Pies In London

2014 Live at Meany Hall, University of Washington (Seattle, WA, U.S.A.)
1. Ecce Quomodo Moritur Justus - Albert Alcaraz Pastor 
2. Ceciliada - Marcin Wawruk
3. Veniki - Arr. Feodosiy Rubstov
4. Mongolian Boots - Se Enkhbayar
5. Usahay - Nitoy Gonzalez/ Arr. Ramon Acoymo
6. Everytime I Feel the Spirit - Arr. Moses Hogan
Solo: Roberto Gabriel Tagalog 
7. You Could Drive A Person Crazy (from "Company") - Stephen Sondheim 
Solos: Irene Quiso-Ednave, Sophia Chkarat, Eunice Margaret De Castro, Kristel Deocampo
8. Old Friends (from "Merrily We Roll Along") - Stephen Sondheim/ Arr. Fidel Calalang Jr.

2009 Live at St. James Church (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.)
9. Alles Was Odem Hat Lobe Den Herrn - Johann Sebastian Bach 
10. Ave Maria - Morten Lauridsen
11. Erziminai - Jonas Tamulionis
12. Magtanim Ay Di Biro - Arr. Fidel Calalang Jr.
13. Dandansoy - Arr. Fidel Calalang Jr.
14. Scenes From the North - Fidel Calalang Jr.
Solos: Florencia Marlia Kustandi, Ma. Pilar Charlene Ramos
15. Learning to Let Go (from "Elegies for Punks, Angels, and Raging Queens") - Janet Hood/ Arr. Fidel Calalang Jr.
Solo: Roberto Gabriel Tagalog

2010 Live at Llangollen Eisteddfod (Wales, the United Kingdom) 
16. Her Sacred Spirit Soars - Eric Whitacre 
17. Gabaq-an - Ruben Federizon
Solo: Noel Azcona 

07 You Could Drive A Person Crazy (S. Sondheim)

Losing My Mind

Hard swinging chart written for intermediate-level vocal jazz ensembles who have more gals than guys. Bluesy harmony and some fun ensemble figures back up a soulful soloist. A surprising bossa nova scat solo section with backgrounds leads into a chilled out bridge before launching into more hard-swinging material for a shout section to the end.

Willow Weep For Me - SSAB Lv 3

An adaptation of Jamie Cullum's arrangement from the album "Pursuit"
notated piano (with chords) and notated bass, drums and additional "pad" part

Not While I'm Around

Virtual Insanity

another cover.

Mademoiselles...
You and me, pal...
Second bottle...
Ah, she looks for me...
Bonnet flapping...
Yapping...
Ruff!...
Chicken...
Pastry...
Yes, she looks for me.
Good.
Let her look for me to tell me why she left me.
As I always knew she would.
I had thought she understood.
They have never understood,
And no reason that they should.
But if anybody could...

Finishing the hat.
How you have to finish the hat.
How you watch the rest of the world
from a window
while you finish the hat.
Mapping out a sky.
What you feel like, planning a sky.
What you feel when voices that come
through the window
go
until they distance and die.
Until there's nothing but sky.

And how you're always turning back too late
from the grass or the stick,
or the dog or the light.
How the kind of woman willing to wait's
not the kind that you want to find waiting
to return you to the night.
Dizzy from the height.
Coming from the hat.

Studying the hat.
Entering the world of the hat.
Reaching through the world of the hat
like a window,
back to this one from that.

Studying a face.
Stepping back to look at a face
leaves a little space in the way like a window.
But to see-
It's the only way to see.

And when the woman that you wanted goes,
You can say to yourself, "Well, I give what I give."
But the woman who won't wait for you knows that, 
however you live, there's a part of you 
always standing by,
mapping out the sky.

Finishing a hat.
Starting on a hat.
Finishing the hat.
Look, I made a hat.
Where there never was a hat.

finishing the hat

NEW FOR FALL 2012! - A deep cut from The Police's "Synchronicity," this tune grooves hard in 12/8 and features a tenor or alto who can hang with the Sting thing.  The lyric is a metaphor for political corruption...not actually about killing people directly.  You might want to mention that in your concert. :)

Murder By Numbers

A choral/vocal jazz arrangement and adaptation of Bon Iver's haunting solo looping/autotune/vocoder piece. 

Woods (SSAATTBaB - L4) - KerryMarsh.com Demo

Sarah sings as Maria with The Dubuque Symphony Orchestra

West Side Story Selections

This is the full collection of recordings released on four albums by Sacramento State Vocal Jazz under the direction of Kerry Marsh.  The albums were released between 2003 and 2008.  Plans are underway for a fifth album to be released in the Spring of 2013!
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The albums represented here are "On the Outside", "In the Winelight", "In Your Eyes" and "Pale Blue Dot".

Silent Night, arr. Marsh

Scarborough Fair, arr. Marsh

Minuano, arr. Marsh

April in Paris, arr. Marsh

The 2012 hit from the band Fun is written with slight reharmonization here and there to beef up the complexity for the vocal jazz ensemble while retaining the feel and vibe of the original recording.  Challenging solo feature for a high tenor or female voice, but fairly straight-forward vocal parts with careful voice-leading.