There are a TON of new pieces available at www.gpsmusic.biz - and even before we get them up onto the website, you can STILL order them as Friends of the GPS MUSIC Community!
-> A Walk In The Woods (SATB w/ piano, catalog #810) is a spectacular and spiritual piece that you can use in church, secular, and school choral ensembles. This is probably Gordon's best choir selection ever - feature your bass section or soloist and make music that will grab your audience and hold them for the five minutes it takes to convey the message!
-> American Folk Trilogy (SATB w/ piano, catalog #808) combines three of the most beloved songs in US history: "Amazing Grace", "Chester", and "Simple Gifts", in a brilliant collage that demonstrates how closely their chord progressions coincide. The key change at the end is particularly entrancing!
-> And the two newer songs that were posted during the last website update, One Time In Your Life (SSA or SATB w/piano, catalog #806 and 807) and Caveman Love Song (SAB or SSA w/ piano, catalog #804 and 805) are meeting with excitement from the directors that have gotten their hands on it already! One Time In Your Life is a lovely piece of syncopation with a moral, and Caveman Love Song is absolutely the most delightful playacting your students will ever get to do!
-> On the marching band front, our third complete show for sale is now available (even though the website hasn't said so yet!). Superhero Saga (marching band, catalog #604) will give your band the chance to show off its sense of humor with your Hero, his Damsel, and the Evil Villain all getting their spots in the limelight! The music is fun and challenging, and the show is as straight or as campy as you choose!
-> Before school is out, you'll be able to look at and listen to our fourth complete show, A Color Guard Fantasy, which is a cross between Alice In Wonderland and Dorothy's search for Oz, all set within the context of a marching band (specifically, yours!). Be forewarned - the "villain" in this fantasy is a stodgy band director, so if you're willing to be parodied on the field by your members, you may have a show that lives on beyond the season's end! This show is more difficult than the Medium-Easy rating our other three shows deserve; we guarantee that it's worth the effort!!
-> On the solo/ensemble front, we're venturing into Spanish music, with our first two selections about to be posted: "Vino y Soledad", a gorgeous and lush song for solo vocal with piano; and "Tu Eres Primerico" for a mariachi ensemble of vocal, guitars, and two trumpets. With a contract to produce music for a recording artist in the genre, there will be more to come!
-> And still on the horizon for summer are the first two selections in our Massed Band Collection - Christmas Collage and The First Hundred Years, designed for you to perform with a combined beginning, middle school, and high school bands together (or in any combination!). Creating a useful and functional format for you as directors to use has been a challenge, but we're clearing hurdles and getting them ready for you to look at and listen to this summer.
Thanks for your continued support, and we hope to keep building an incredible library of music for you to keep your bands and choirs learning, smiling, and growing!
- Gordon and Melissa Smith, publishers, GPS MUSIC
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