Arise, My Soul, Arise--Orchestral Accompaniment edition is currently unavailable

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Full Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.829321 Composed by Text: Charles Wesley / Music by Lewis Edson and Lyndell Leatherman. Arranged by Lyndell Leatherman. Christian,Sacred. Score and parts. 66 pages. Leatherman Music Services #5742211. Published by Leatherman Music Services (A0.829321). This is the orchestral accompaniment for a big four-minute festival choir arrangement (with the octavo posted separately on Sheet Music Plus). It begins with a choir and brass fanfare which introduces the exuberance of the Charles Wesley text. This would be ideal for sacred music conferences or use by faith-based university choirs and orchestras, especially schools connected to the Wesleyan/Holiness tradition. The ultimate would be to have the Mormon Tabernacle choir and orchestra perform it (please, Mr. Wilberg!) :-) (This orchestration can also be used with just a string section and/or brass section if a fuller orchestra is not available.) This orchestration is also compatible with a piano/organ duet edition, which is posted separately on SMP. Here are some program notes:Charles Wesley (1707-1788) and his brother John (1703-1791), sons of an Anglican minister (Samuel), both trained for ministry at Oxford University. While there, they were labeled (somewhat derisively) "methodists" because of the strict regimen of spiritual exercises and scholarship that they developed. After a short unsuccessful stint as missionaries to the Colonies–Georgia, specifically–they returned home to England, frustrated in their spiritual lives. In an interesting parallel to John Newton’s life, it was during the sea voyage that seeds were planted, as they watched a group of Moravians experiencing amazing peace during rough seas. Shortly thereafter they experienced spiritual rebirth, and the rest is history–with John’s preaching and Charles’ hymn-writing becoming the catalyst for a great revival that swept across England. John wrote a few hymns himself, but mainly translated Moravian hymns from German and edited hymnbooks. Charles, on the other hand, wrote almost 9,000 poems, of which some 6,500 were hymn texts. This prodigious output earned him the posthumous title: "sweet bard of Methodism." His many hymns still in use today include "A Charge to Keep I Have," "Arise, My Soul, Arise," "Soldiers of Christ, Arise," "Christ the Lord Is Risen Today," "Rejoice, the Lord Is King," "O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing," "Celebrate Immanuel’s Name," "Jesus, Lover of My Soul," "Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus," and "Ye Servants of God." Days before his death at the age of 81, Charles preached in the City Road Chapel, London. The hymn preceding his sermon was Isaac Watts’ "I’ll Praise My Maker While I’ve Breath." Falling critically ill the next day, he amazed those around him by singing that entire hymn with a strong voice. Later that week he died, with that same hymn forming his last words.*********************** If you are curious about other resources that I am making available as I am "sheltering in place" here in May, 2020, please do a search of my name here on SMP...or go to my Facebook site <https://www.facebook.com/leathermanmusicservices>; where you can see and hear more of my published works. Thanks for your interest!Lyndell Leatherman, ASCAP This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard’s global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds. About Digital Downloads Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music, you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and you don’t have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play! PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).