Edwin F. Kalmus

Teachers keep coming back to We Wish You a Merry Christmas by Arthur Harris, which appears year after year in holiday programs. Verdi's Nabucco excerpt (Va pensiero) and his Requiem are popular choices for serious choral study. Gershwin's O Land Of Mine, America rounds out a core list of titles that balance accessibility with artistic depth.

Recent additions include Glazunov's Raymonda Suite and Richard Strauss's Symphonia Domestica as full conductor scores, alongside new orchestrations of traditional fare like When the Saints Go Marching In arranged by Richard Hayman. Puccini's Turandot (Alfano II revision) and Tchaikovsky's Fatum round out the summer 2026 releases.

Giuseppe Verdi's works in this collection span opera excerpts and large sacred forms. His Nabucco excerpt and Requiem remain essential teaching tools for choral directors working with singers at intermediate to advanced levels.

Antonín Dvorák and Felix Mendelssohn both appear as masters of the string and orchestral writing that has sustained concert programming for generations. Dvorák's Serenade in E for Strings exemplifies the kind of chamber orchestral work that serves repertoire classes and concert series alike.

George Frideric Handel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart share representation through the Messiah, a cornerstone of choral performance practice. Their presence in the catalog reflects how foundational baroque and classical work remains in the modern music classroom.