'S Wonderful with It's De-Lovely!: SAB Choral Octavo

Shaw has a gift for preserving the swagger and wit of classic Broadway while making the material singable and fun for mixed ensembles. The arrangement captures authentic jazz idiom without requiring your singers to sight-read complex harmonies, and the recorded accompaniment tracks let you focus on phrasing and ensemble blend rather than struggling to keep the rhythm section together.

Smart, playful, and swinging. These Gershwin and Cole Porter standards have been lovingly reshaped for three-part mixed voices with jazz harmonies that feel modern and warm. There is joy in the music, a sense of theatrical sophistication, and the kind of rhythmic energy that makes an audience smile before the first phrase even ends.

Mixed choirs working at the intermediate to early advanced level who want to perform accessible, crowd-pleasing repertoire with genuine style. This works equally well for high school show choirs, community and college mixed ensembles, and church choirs looking to step into the Great American Songbook.

• Anchor the rhythm section parts (available separately as SoundPax) with your strongest rhythmic singers; the swing feel depends on their confidence and lock with the recording.
• Shape the melodic phrases to highlight the lyrical humor in both tunes; these songs live on personality as much as harmony.
• Layer in the recorded accompaniment during early rehearsals so singers hear the full jazz context and stylistic expectations from day one.
• Balance the middle voices (alto lines) carefully in the jazz harmonies; they carry the harmonic color but can easily disappear under the sopranos and tenors.

Program this pairing as a concert highlight or pops night centerpiece; two beloved standards performed back-to-back give your audience a coherent set of American musical theater without requiring a large time commitment. The instrumental parts and recorded accompaniment also make this flexible enough for a chamber concert, variety show, or end-of-semester celebration where you want to showcase the singers' ability to nail style and ensemble balance.

• Singing in swing rhythm and maintaining ensemble pulse in jazz time signatures
• Balancing SAB voice parts in jazz harmonies with secondary dominant and extended chord voicings
• Interpreting theatrical phrasing and comic timing in lyrics
• Matching ensemble articulation and tone color to a recorded accompaniment track
• Understanding the melodic and harmonic conventions of Great American Songbook style