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Santa the Barbarian

Santa the Barbarian
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Product no.:
319.FS028
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Flexible 4-part
Grade:
1+
Duration:
3:00 min.
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Composer:
Standridge, Randall D.
Setting:
Flexible Instrumentation 4-part
Genre:
Advent • Weihnachten
Type of Product:
Full Score • Stimmensatz

THIS IS THE FLEX BAND ARRANGEMENT OF THIS WORK.  IT INCLUDES FLEX INSTRUMENTATION, ONLINE PRACTICE TOOLS,  AND COPYABLE PARTS (restrictions apply).  SEE SCORE FOR DETAILS

As I have stated before, I often suffer from an overactive imagination.  This is not precisely true, as I don’t really suffer…I enjoy all of the strange ideas that my mind comes up with.  And I have the perfect ace in the hole, too, as any time someone asks me to explain myself, I simply say, “I’m artistic.”  But, I digress…

During my career as a composer, I have written a multitude of Christmas works.  These are always quite challenging, as you have two factors working against from the outset.  One, you are dealing with a very limited amount of recognizable material, as you can only use works that are in the public domain, and two, you are writing in an over-populated genre in which almost every conceivable combination of holiday tunes has been plumbed to death.  The challenge, then, is to find a new angle that puts a different spin on well loved holiday classics.

Enter Santa the Barbarian.

In this work, I have reimagined the jolly old elf as a warrior of the winter wastes.  The familiar tunes of Up on the Housetop and Jingle Bells are transformed into a war cry for this incarnation of Santa, as he navigates the snowy desert with his eight mighty reign-deer:  Basher, Danger, Lancer, Victim, Bomb-it, Brutis, Runner, and Blitz-Them.  On Christmas night, he fights his way across the unforgiving terrain in time to bring toys to all the good children, leaving a path of destruction and candy cane carnage in his wake.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from me to you and yours!!

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