Another Day of Sun: SSA Choral Octavo

Narverud's arrangement preserves the infectious energy of the original while giving your treble choir something genuinely exciting to sing. The rhythmic drive and varied textures keep singers engaged across 20 pages, and the combination of unison passages with fuller harmonic writing gives singers at different levels room to contribute meaningfully.

Optimistic and propulsive, with the controlled chaos of a crowded freeway transformed into musical energy. The piece captures that moment of possibility and kinetic joy that defines the film's opening, using rhythmic drive, textural variety, and harmonic color to keep the momentum building throughout.

This arrangement works for SSA or SSAA choirs with intermediate to advanced reading skills who want a contemporary opener or closer with immediate appeal. It's especially effective for groups confident enough to handle rhythmic complexity and interested in incorporating movement or choreography.

• Establish a steady pulse early in rehearsal; the rhythmic precision that defines this piece relies on your choir locking into the groove before adding any expressive details.
• Layer your choreography gradually. Start with simple body percussion or movement in the opening unison sections, then build to fuller staging as the arrangement opens up texturally.
• Balance the recorded accompaniment carefully so it energizes rather than overwhelms. Your singers need to hear themselves clearly enough to feel confident with the rhythmic and harmonic writing.
• Find the natural lift points where the arrangement shifts textures or registers, and use those moments to reset breath and reinvigorate the forward momentum.

Open a concert with this piece to signal an energetic, contemporary evening, or close a program with it as a standalone statement that leaves your audience energized. Its theatrical nature also makes it a strong anchor for a La La Land-themed concert or a program celebrating music from contemporary film.

• Rhythmic precision in syncopated and driving patterns
• Reading mixed SSA textures and doublings
• Maintaining ensemble cohesion while executing choreography
• Balancing individual vocal lines within a rhythmically complex accompaniment
• Sustaining energy and forward motion across longer formal sections