Please Come Home For Christmas (arr. Mark Brymer): SATB Choral Octavo

Mark Brymer's arrangement respects the soul and warmth of the original while making it genuinely singable for mixed ensembles. The nine-page scope gives you enough musical substance to feel like a complete performance piece rather than a filler selection, and the holiday context makes it seasonally relevant without feeling thin.

Warm, nostalgic, and grounded in the comfort of contemporary soul music rather than traditional Christmas sentimentality. There's an easy groove beneath the earnestness, and the arrangement preserves the emotional directness that makes the original resonate.

Choir directors programming holiday concerts who want something with genuine contemporary credibility instead of the standard seasonal rotation. Your singers know this piece or know music in this sensibility; that recognition matters for engagement and ownership.

• Prioritize the legit phrasing and breath placement over mechanically hitting each note; this arrangement rewards singers who understand where the melody naturally wants to breathe.
• Balance the soloistic moments in the original arrangement against the choral tutti sections. The SATB voicing likely calls for some voices to step forward in spots, so mark those moments clearly in rehearsal.
• Reference Cee Lo Green's recorded version to capture the emotional weight and groove pocket of the original. The arrangement is built to honor that recording, and your singers will connect better with the material when they know what they're aiming toward.
• Let the harmonic color sit. This arranger tends to write jazz-inflected voicings that need space to resonate rather than rushing through chord changes.

Slot this into a mixed repertoire holiday concert where you want a bridge between classical tradition and what your singers actually listen to. It also works as a standalone feature if you're building a concert around contemporary arrangements, or pair it with other Brymer charts to create a stylistic thread through your program.

• Balancing legit singing technique with groove-based phrasing
• Singing jazz-influenced harmonies with accurate intonation
• Negotiating stylistic authenticity in contemporary arrangements
• Listening to and learning from recorded vocal models
• SATB blend and balance in soul-based voicings