Behold That Star!
A delightful Americana panorama of ebullient gospel shouters, prim Sunday-go-to-meetin' hymns, brisk fiddle tunes, lonely slave spirituals, plucky brass band numbers, and timelss fold songs. [read more]
CD-2001 (CD Only) $12.95 [add to order]
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Celebrate the Spring
Spring and May Day Celebrations for Schools and Communities
A remarkably easy to follow how-to books for mounting your own spring celebrations in school, community or home. Along with simple songsheets for traditional songs, processionals, rounds and musical children's games, there are tips on how to mount productions, march the processionals, dance the dances, play the games, and toast the seasons in joyful Revels style. Prepared with illuminating background on the songs and rituals by Revels founder John Langstaff, musical director George Emlen, and artistic director Patrick Swanson.
PC-1099 (Songbook) $19.95 [add to order]
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About Revels: A Collection of Essays
This collection of Directors' Notes, Historical Commentary and Personal Reflections is a must for every Revels lover...and those who want to know more about Revels and the seasonal celebrations it brings to audiences across America.
PC-3987 $12.95 [add to order]
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Christmas Revels, The
This is the show that started it all: the original medieval Christmas Revels from which all their years of merry, musical mischief first began. A jovial king prepares his castle to make merry through dark midwinter... [read more]
CD-1078 (CD) $12.95 [add to order]
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Wassail! Wassail!
"An album for all year...quite simply, a beautiful celebration." The Boston Globe
Revels visits early America in this classic recording featuring Kentucky folk legend Jean Ritchie... [read more]
CD-1082 (CD) $12.95 [add to order]
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Christmas Day in the Morning
This beautiful, frisky, and sweetly melodic recording focuses on that mystical time when Christian celebration mingled with the older pagan rituals of winter solstice. Spanning centuries and cultures, from England to Finland, Wales to Ireland, Cornwall to Early America...[read more]
CD-1087 (CD) $12.95 [add to order]
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Sing We Now of Christmas
"Beguiling...sung with style and energy." The Washington Post
The cast of the Cambridge Revels wanders through six centuries of European holiday music, [read more]
CD-1091 (CD) $12.95 [add to order]
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CT-1091 (Cassette) $5.00 [add to order]
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Child's Christmas Revels, A
"An enchanting collection." The Washington Post
English, early American, French and Irish carols are gorgeously sung with sweet, sure harmonies. As a special treat, the children caper through a frisky St. George and the Dragon play. [read more]
CD-1093 (CD) $12.95 [add to order]
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Victorian Christmas Revels, A
"The most festive and just plain Christmassy Revels in years... British folk singer David Jones [was] entirely charming. . . always show-stopping." The Boston Globe
The Victorian Revels is always an audience favorite, displaying the Dickensian merriment from which so much of our modern Christmas originates. [read more]
CD-2000 (CD Only) $12.95 [add to order]
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Wild Mountain Thyme, The
"Here is a celebration of the greening of the year: spring, and the rebirth of everything that grows." Susan Cooper, from the liner notes. [read more]
CD-1094 (CD) $12.95 [add to order]
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Seasons for Singing
Let Revels take you through the year in this pastoral ode to rural life, from spring carols to... [read more]
CD-1095 (CD) $12.95 [add to order]
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Blow, Ye Winds in the Morning
Look past the jolly old tars of myth to meet the real people who created our maritime music. Assembled by Revels founder John Langstaff to create a complete portrait of those lives, [read more]
CD-1084 (CD Only) $12.95 [add to order]
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Songs for Singing Children
Langstaff has a genius for making old chestnuts sound fresh, young and bubbly with life. These 26 classic songs [read more]
CO-8586 (CD and Teaching Supplement Combination) $15.95 [add to order]
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CD-8586 (CD only) $12.95 [add to order]
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TS-8586 (Teaching Supplement only) $3.00 [add to order]
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Comin' Up Shouting!
"Fans will be astonished...a brilliant and wide-ranging sampler of African-American religious song...hot, churchy rhythm taken to a fever pitch." The Boston Globe
John Andrew Ross, music director of the National Center of Afro-American Artists and Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts, breathes glorious new life into vintage African-American religious music: [read more]
CD-1097 (CD) $12.95 [add to order]
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Celtic Roads
Through Ireland, Scotland and Brittany
"brilliantly performed...simply one of the best traditional Celtic albums around." NAPRA Review
Culled from several Revels productions, this globetrotting, 70-minute CD wanders the vistas of Celtic culture...[read more]
CD-1099 (CD) $12.95 [add to order]
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Revels Collection , The
(Gift-Boxed Set)
An excellent gift value including
The Christmas Revels
Wassail! Wassail!
Christmas Day in the Morning
and Sing We Now of Christmas
Christmas Revels Box Set (CD Box Set) $44.95 [add to order]
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GB1-CT (Box Set of 4 Cassettes) $18.00 [add to order]
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A Revels Celebration (Gift-Boxed Set)
A set of 3 CDs of Revels music to listen to in spring, summer and fall. Sea chanteys, shape note songs, love songs, wedding songs, country songs and dances. Includes: 1) Seasons for Singing, 2) The Wild Mountain Thyme, and
3) Blow, Ye Winds in the Morning
See individual recordings for samples.
GB3-CD (Box Set of 3 CD's) $32.95 [add to order]
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Christmas in an Irish Castle
"Fresh arrangements, fine musicianship and solid choral performances"--The Irish Herald [read more>
CD-1004 (CD only) $14.95 [add to order]
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Celtic Feast of Song, A:
A Celebration of the Solstice
Revels North
The Revels cast of Hanover, New Hampshire, celebrates winter solstice with exuberant Celtic fiddle tunes, tender carols, muscular Highland piping [read more]
CD-1109 (CD only) $14.95 [add to order]
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What A Morning!
The Christmas Story in Black Spirituals
Selected and Edited by John Langstaff
Illustrated by Ashley Bryan
Arrangements for singing and piano by John Andrew Ross
A unique and powerful collection. The story of Christmas is told through classic spirituals, augmented with [read more]
PC-4225 (Paperback) $5.00 [add to order]
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Homeward Bound
Not all nautical songs are sea chanteys. There are muscular chanteys here (songs sailors used to work in rhythm hauling lines, hoisting sails, lifting anchor, or simply swabbing the decks), but also the lonely ballads sailors shared off-duty, and the everyday songs sung on shore by women and families creating a vivid, transporting portrait of maritime culture. [read more]
CD-2002 (CD only) $12.95 [add to order]
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Water Is Wide, The: American and British ballads and folksongs
"...Langstaff is a marvelous singer with a honey-oak baritone and a knack for getting to the heart of these old tunes with a maximum of emotion and a minimum of affect."--The Boston Herald (December 2002)
Originally released in 1959 by the seminal folk revival label Tradition, this adventurous collection of traditional American and British songs offers a remarkable vista of moods, from tragic to flirtatious, lovelorn to mischievous. [read more]
See a review in All Music Guide
CD-2202 (CD only)
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At the Foot of Yonders Mountain: Appalachian ballads and folksongs with composer John Powell at the piano
"One of the Top Ten CDs of the Year!"--The Boston Herald (December 2002)
John Langstaff's pure vocal style was profoundly influenced by American pianist, composer and folk song collector John Powell. In 1961, two years before the composer's death, the two collaborated on an album of Appalachian folk music, including Powell's tender epic "Five Virginia Folk Songs" (Opus 34). [read more]
See a review in All Music Guide
CD-2302 (CD Only) $12.95 [add to order]
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Drive the Dark Away, To
...brimming with the energy of cold people keeping warm to hot dance, rich harmony, and the pleasure of each other's company...[read more]
CD-1098 (CD only) $12.95 [add to order]
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Christmas Revels Box Set (CD Box Set)
An excellent gift value in a handsome box. Includes The Christmas Revels, Wassail! Wassail!, Christmas Day in the Morning and Sing We Now of Christmas. [read more]
GB1 CD (Gift set of 4 CD's) $44.95 [add to order]
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GB1-CT (Box Set of 4 Cassettes) $18.00 [add to order]
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Revels Garland of Song, A
The word carol was not originally Christmas-specific. It described any song meant for dancing, usually for seasonal celebrations including midwinter, harvest,...
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SB-1096 (Songbook) $21.95 [add to order]
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Sally Go Round the Moon
Designed for use by parents, teachers or children themselves, this lovely collection by John and Nancy Langstaff, with gorgeous silhouette drawings by Jan Pienkowski, [read more]
SB-1085 (Songbook) $16.95 [add to order]
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Christmas Revels Songbook, The
"For anyone who has ever experienced a Revels, this book is a lovely bulging Christmas stocking of familiar music; for everyone else, it's a joyful voyage
of discovery through one of the best and most unusual collections of seasonal songs and carols ever made."
[read more]
SBCD-1078 (Songbook with CD) $24.95 [add to order]
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Aro Que Nostre Seigne Es Nat (Now That Our Lord is Born)
This traditional Christmas song from Provence is a true carol -- a word that came into English from the French carole, meaning a piece sung while dancing. With its strong rhythmic pulse, this lively carol may be performed by any combination of two-part voices and wind instruments. Contains original Provencal text with pronunciation guide. Recorded on Sing We Now of Christmas, Revels Records #1091.
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SM-1191 (Sheet Music) $1.00 [add to order]
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God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
In this arrangement, the traditional English carol is sung first by a lone street singer, then is taken up by a procession of singers and instruments heard first in the distance and gradually coming closer to end in full-hearted celebration. SATB, Solo Baritone, Brass & Handbells. Arranged by Jerome Epstein. Recorded on Christmas Day in the Morning, Revels Records #1087.
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SM-1291 (Sheet Music) $1.30 [add to order]
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Poslan Jest Od Boha Andel (Sent Down by God is an Angel)
An exquisite sixteenth-century motet from Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, for SATTB voices (unaccompanied or with instrumental doubling). Recorded on Sing We Now of Christmas, Revels Records #1091.
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SM-7397 (Sheet Music) $1.00 [add to order]
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Gower Wassail
"A holiday madrigal feast would be an ideal performance venue for this easy but delightful arrangement of a secular Welsh folk song from the Gower Peninsula" - Choral Journal
With an appealing medieval flavor, this cheerful tune is scored by Jerome Epstein for Renaissance band (full score and parts available for sale). SATB, brass (or early instruments), bells, and synthesizer. Recorded on Christmas Day in the Morning, Revels Records #1087
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SM-3695 (Score and Parts) $17.50 [add to order]
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SM-3695 (Sheet Music) $1.70 [add to order]
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Going Down the Valley
"This is a Mennonite hymn from their 1901 hymnal. It has a delightful text by Susan Cooper that fits very well for springtime. It is simple and charming." - The American Organist. Excellent for use in public schools as well as for community or church choirs. SATB with Solo Voice, Double Bass. Arranged by Jerome Epstein. Recorded on The Wild Mountain Thyme, Revels Records #1094
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SM-4294 (Sheet Music) $1.10 [add to order]
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I Will Bow and Be Simple
"For those who enjoy singing the Shaker hymn, 'Simple Gifts,' here is another hymn of similar nature, dating from 1847. Marleen Montgomery has added some effective instrumental parts for this straightforward tune." - The American Organist
It adapts well to simple choreagraphy and is appropriate for use in public schools as well as for community or church choirs. SATB, optional violin, flute, guitar, double bass, and keyboard. Recorded on Wassail! Wassail!, Revels Records #1082.
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SM-4194 (Sheet Music) $1.50 [add to order]
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Maoz Tsur
"Here is an easy, yet exciting Chanukah work that would be of particular interest to school choirs wanting to represent the Jewish tradition of the season. Both Hebrew and English versions are provided...The text, 'Rock of Ages,' is one of the best-known hymns for Chanukah. Highly recommended." - The Diapason
SATB or Unison, Brass and Timpani. Arranged by Jerome Epstein. Recorded on Sing We Now of Christmas, Revels Records #1091.
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SM-3195 (Score and Parts) $15.00 [add to order]
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One Man Shall Mow My Meadow
A new version of the delightful English cumulative song, "One Man Went to Mow," this lilting tune is one which is not easily forgotten. The instrumental parts, which can be played by students, add to its enchantment. Suitable for school and community choirs. SATB with 2 solo voices, treble recorder, cello, bass, and piano. Arranged by George Emlen. Recorded on The Wild Mountain Thyme, Revels Records #1094.
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SM-4394 (Sheet Music) $1.50 [add to order]
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Strike Up Your Instruments of Joy
With its Handelian grandeur and universal text, this uplifting processional is suitable for any day of celebration. SATB, brass and percussion. Recorded on Sing We Now of Christmas, Revels Records #1091.
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SM-3595 (Sheet Music) $1.50 [add to order]
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Making Music, with John Langstaff
Winner of the Parents' Gold Choice Award and the Coalition for Quality Children's Video Award
Internationally renowned music educator (and Revels founder) John Langstaff shows simple techniques to develop children's musical abilities and joy in music.
Programs 1 & 2 are designed for use by families, librarians, child care providers and others who work with young children. Filled with practical ideas for delightful, instructive music making. No music background is required.
Programs 3 & 4 are designed for use by classroom teachers and music specialists. Contains the basics for a year's music curriculum and includes a guide with activity ideas and step-by-step plans. Assists teachers in promoting children's musical abilities while reinforcing the growth of reading and other basic skills.
Making Music with Children Ages 3-7 - Program 1 $9.95 [add to order]
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Making Music with Children Ages 7-11 - Program 2 $9.95 [add to order]
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Making Music in the Classroom Ages 3-7 - Program 3 $9.95 [add to order]
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Making Music in the Classroom Ages 7-11 - Program 4 $9.95 [add to order]
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Let's Sing! and Let's Keep Singing!
Sing-along videos ideal for children watching alone or in groups. Excellent companion tapes to Programs 1-4, with sing-along versions of every song. Great teaching tools for classrooms, story hours or any other group setting (45 minutes each). A companion book of words, music and instruction is included.
Let's Sing! John Langstaff Sings with Children Ages 3-7 - Program 5 $9.95 [add to order]
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Let's Keep Singing! John Langstaff Sings with Children Ages 7-10 - Program 6 $9.95 [add to order]
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Let's Sing! John Langstaff Sings with Children Ages 3-7 - Program 5
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Let's Keep Singing! John Langstaff Sings with Children Ages 7-10 - Program 6
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Celebrate the Winter
Winter Solstice Celebrations for Schools and Communities
A remarkably easy to follow how-to book for mounting your own winter celebrations in school, community or home. Along with simple songsheets for traditional songs, carols, processionals, rounds and musical
children's games, there are tips on how to mount productions, march the processionals, dance the dances, play the games, and toast the seasons in
joyful Revels style. Prepared with illuminating background on the songs and rituals by Revels founder John Langstaff, musical director George Emlen, and
artistic director Patrick Swanson.
PC-2001 (paperback) $27.95 [add to order]
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Fare You Well, Mary Ann
SATB, solo baritone, violin, accordion, guitar, double bass. Traditional Canadian folk song arranged by George Emlen. Recorded on Seasons for Singing, Revels Records #1095.
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SM 2190 (Sheet Music) $1.15 [add to order]
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May Day Carol, The
SATB, optional treble solo, concertina, cello. Traditional English folk song arranged by Jerome Epstein. Recorded on The Wild Mountain Thyme, Revels Records #1094.
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SM 2290 (Sheet Music) $1.15 [add to order]
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Miri It Is (Merry It Is)
SSA or three part treble chorus (optional instrumental doubling). Medieval tune arranged by Jerome Epstein with new spring/summer text by Susan Cooper. Recorded on Seasons for Singing, Revels Records #1095.
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SM 2390 (Sheet Music) $1.00 [add to order]
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L'Homme Arme (The Armed Man)
SSATBB and early wind instruments (or modern equivalents), tubular bells. Historic medieval song arranged by Jerome Epstein with additional English text by Susan Cooper. Recorded on Sing We Now of Christmas, Revels Record #1091.
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SM 2490 (Sheet Music) $1.50 [add to order]
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Bheir Mi O (Sad I Am Without You)
Scottish love song arranged by George Emlen. Gaelic/English text with pronunciation guide. Recorded on Celtic Roads, Revels Records #1099.
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SM 2590 (Sheet Music) $1.00 [add to order]
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Le Semeur (The Sower)
Traditional Breton folk song arranged by George Emlen. French text. Recorded on Celtic Roads, Revels Records #1099.
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SM 2690 (Sheet Music) $1.00 [add to order]
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My Lord, What a Morning!
African-American spiritual arranged by Marshall Barron for 3-part treble chorus (SSA) with oboe, two trombones (or French horn and trombone). Recorded on A Child's Christmas Revels, Revels Records #1093.
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SM 7001 (Sheet Music) $1.15 [add to order]
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Unto Us a Boy is Born (Puer Nobis Nascitur)
15th-century hymn from the Piae Cantiones arranged by Marshall Barron for two-part children's chorus, with handbells, sopranino recorder, trumpet and two trombones. Recorded on A Child's Christmas Revels, Revels Records #1093.
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SM 7003 (Sheet Music) $1.40 [add to order]
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What Shall I Give to the Child?
Traditional Catalan dance noel arranged by Marshall Barron for two-part treble chorus, with recorder, small drum and piano (or string instruments). Recorded on A Child's Christmas Revels, Revels Records #1093.
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SM 7002 (Sheet Music) $1.15 [add to order]
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John Langstaff Sings The Jackfish
and More Songs for Singing Children
Originally recorded in the 1950s by EMI, these 35 charming, sprightly folk songs were picked by Langstaff for the ease with which children can sing them--and the fun they have doing it. [read more]
CD-2201 (CD only) $12.95 [add to order]
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Nantucket Sleighride
David Coffin and his band, The Nantucket Sleighride, perform spirited arrangements of old and new songs about life at sea, and some haunting ballads of its perils. Includes "Rolling Down to Old Maui," "We Have Fed Our Sea," "Coasts of High Barbary," and "Seamans' Hymn." David has been an important part of Spring and Christmas Revels productions since 1980, as singer, instrumentalist and audience leader.
"The Bonny Ship the Diamond"
"Soon May the Wellermen Come"
"Coasts of High Barbary"
CD -3404 (CD only) $14.95 [add to order]
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Shortest Day Cards, The
This card reproduces the stunning illumination of Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day," composed especially for Revels and recited during every Christmas Revels performance. The rich medieval colors of the illumination form a glorious setting for the celebratory nature of the poem. Sold in sets of 10 cards and envelopes (inside blank for personal message).
XA-2001 $12.95 [add to order]
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Just Say Nowell
"John Roberts and Tony Barrand...[have] an exquisite knack for transporting us into the ambience of ancient songs without seeming the least affected. Their singing [is] lusty, pleasantly reedy, and melodically crisp."
--The Boston Globe
John Roberts and Tony Barrand are among the most beloved British folk singers on either side of the pond, and frequent Revels stars. Their own annual Nowel
Sing We Clear shows are Revels-ian pagents of midwinter mirth, pretty carols, and lore exploring the ancient midwinter rites from which our modern
Christmas grew. The Nowell cast also includes Fred Breunig and Andy Davis, and this 2000 Golden Hind CD brims with friendly cheer, handsome harmonies, and rare traditional mastery. The 16 songs include "The Truth from Above," "The First Nowell," "The Holly and the Ivy," "Joy to the World," and "Sound, Sound Your Instruments of Joy."
CD-3006 (CD Only) $14.95 [add to order]
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Awake to Joy
Christmas Carols for Part Singing
Compiled by Nym Cooke. This songbook has an excellent collection of Victorian party songs,Yorkshire pub carols, New England fuguing tunes, French noels, German Reformation part-songs, Southern shape-note pieces, exciting new versions of "Good King Wenceslas" and the "Boar's Head Carol," as well as original material. Many of these 57 pieces are not available anywhere else. Annotated and illustrated, with optional instrumental descants and interludes.
PC-1205 (paperback) $29.95 [add to order]
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Revels Choral Series Sample
One copy of each of the 18 octavos for your library.
SM-0001 (Sheet Music) $17.25 [add to order]
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Seeds of Love
A rare opportunity to hear the rich baritone voice of John Langstaff singing 13 traditional English ballads, accompanied by The New Canaan String Quartet and The Stamford Early Music Ensemble. The recording includes "John
Barleycorn" and "The May Day Carol."
CA-1088 (Cassette) $9.95 [add to order]
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Dark Is Rising Series, The
Ages: 11 to adult. This widely acclaimed award-winning series by Susan Cooper is a superlative dramatic fantasy interweaving ancient Celtic and English traditions with the legends of the Buckinghamshire hills and valleys where she grew up. Will Stanton quests for the six magical Signs
that will aide in the final battle between the dark and the light--the eternal conflict between good and evil out of which all myth is made. Series includes The Dark Is Rising, Greenwitch, The Grey King (1976 Newbery Medal Winner), Silver on the Tree and Over Sea, Under Stone. boxed set: 5 paperback volumes.
PC-1557 (Paperback) $24.95 [add to order]
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Green Boy
Susan Cooper is back with another adventure book for children. Long Pond Cay, in the Bahamas, is a magical white-sand island, and twelve-year-old Trey and silent seven-year-old Lou love to visit its loneliness. But one day the magic becomes nightmare, and suddenly they are in another world,
strident, polluted, and overcrowded - where little Lou is hailed not as a mute Bahamian boy but as the mythic hero Lugh, born to bring terrible destruction and renewal. Carried between worlds in a zigzag adventure of mounting tension and danger, the children risk their lives not only to save the alien world, but to ward off a new, parallel threat to their beloved Long Pond Cay. The forces of myth and nature explode in an amazing climax.
PC-5000 (Papercover) $5.99 [add to order]
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Dark Is Rising, The
Book on tape
"Susan Cooper is one of the few contemporary writers who has the vivid imagination, the narrative powers, and the moral vision that permit her to create the kind of sweeping conflict between good and evil that lies at the heart of all great fantasy. Tolkien had it. So did C. S. Lewis. And Cooper writes in the same tradition." Psychology Today
On the Midwinter Day that is his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton Discovers a special gift - that he is the last of the Old Ones, immortals dedicated to keeping the world from domination by the forces of evil, the Dark. At once, he is plunged into a quest for the six magical Signs that will one day aid the Old Ones in the final battle between the Dark and the Light. And for the twelve days of Christmas, while the Dark is rising, life for Will is full of wonder, teror and delight.
6 cassettes; 8 hours, 40 minutes.
Performed by Alex Jennings
"So perfect is the match between Alex Jennings' voice and this mysterious magical tale...that it is difficult to imagine any other voice reading these words." The Horn Book Magazine
CT-2505 (six cassette set) $29.95 [add to order]
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Nottamun Town
British and American folksongs and ballads. Martin Best, guitar
"...a ringing authority that at moments I find quite startling."--folklorist Douglas Kennedy
The artistry of John Langstaff is celebrated in this stunning recording of some of the finest British and American ballads and folksongs.
[read more]
See a review in All Music Guide
CD-2003 (CD Only) $12.95 [add to order]
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Safe in the Harbour
This new recording by David Coffin offers a mix of traditional and contemporary maritime songs. It includes two new works by Coffin, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the construction of two Boston built clipper ships. Also heard on this CD are Texas-based 'cellist, Max Dyer; Kent Allyn, piano and guitar; David Surette, mandolin; and a special appearance by the Cedar House Boys.
"The Marco Polo"
"Final Trawl"
"Away Rio"
CD-3405 (CD only) $14.95 [add to order]
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Lark in the Morn, The
and other folksongs and ballads recorded at Abbey Road Studios between 1949 and 1956
0nce again Langstaff reveals himself to be a master singer and storyteller. He is accompanied here by some of the finest musicians of the day ... [read more]
See a review in All Music Guide
CD-2004 (CD only) $12.95 [add to order]
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Making Music by Ann Sayre Wiseman and John Langstaff
Excellent drawings and text show you how to make more than 70 basic rhythm, string, wind and keyboard instruments using everyday ingredients like coat hangers, yardsticks, fishing line and milk jugs. John Langstaff describes fascinating ideas for how to compose and conduct pieces for these creatively constructed ensembles.
HC-4004 (Hardcover) $19.95 [add to order]
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John Langstaff Sings Box Set
4 recordings of British and American folksongs and ballads
Before John Langstaff and his daughter Carol founded Revels in 1971, he was a world-renowned baritone who played a major role in the revivals of British and American folk music. His vocal style is an exquisite marriage of pristine classical technique and the honest charms of folk melody. These timeless recordings are made available on CD for the first time, fully remastered at the famous Abbey Road Studios in London, with updated liner notes by Langstaff himself. Set includes The Water is Wide, At the Foot of Yonders Mountain, Nottamun Town and The Lark in the Morn.
GB6 (Box Set of 4 CDs) $44.95 [add to order]
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Stag Card
Photograph of the stag created by Ralph Lee for the 1994 Christmas Revels in Sanders Theatre. Cards blank on the inside. Set of 10 cards and envelopes, 5x7 on glossy card stock.
XB-2004 $12.95 [add to order]
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Procession Cards
Photograph of the children's chorus during the 1993 Christmas Revels in Sanders Theatre, Cambridge. Cards are blank on the inside. Cards blank on the inside. Set of 10 cards and envelopes, 5x7 on glossy card stock.
XD-2004 $12.95 [add to order]
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Stories and Sea Songs
Jay O'Callahan and John Langstaff
Two exceptional performers and old friends come together to tell stories and sing in this live concert recording by Jay O'Callahan and John Langstaff. Collaborating on the theme of the sea, O'Callahan tells two of his best stories--The Cliffs of Culdurragh and The Herring Shed--and Langstaff sings sea songs such as "I'se the B'y That Builds the Boat" and "Coast of High Barbary." The recording captures the spontaneity and joy of the evening, including the audience who couldn't resist joining in on the last song, "Wild Mountain Thyme."
CD-3325 $14.95 [add to order]
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Magician's Boy, The
The master of fantasy, Susan Cooper, has written a new fanciful tale for young children. A young boy works for a Magician, polishing wands, feeding the rabbits, and performing a puppet show of "Saint George and the Dragon." Then, one day, the Saint George puppet is missing, so the Magician sends the Boy through the Land of Story to find it. On his quest, he meets many nursery-rhyme fairy-tale characters from stories such as "Jack and the Beanstalk," "Little Red Riding Hood," and "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe." Using the cryptic clue "Only a child can find the way/To bring Saint George back to the play," the Boy steps forward to save the day. Grade 2-4
HC-5600 (Hardcover) $14.95 [add to order]
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I Am Filled with Heavenly Treasures
This new release from The Enfield Shaker Singers is an important resource for those interested in thrue Shaker singing. Unadorned and fillled with spirit, the album places the listener right in the midst of the congregation. The CD booklet, written by Shaker scholar and director Mary Ann Haagen, is filled with historic pictures, words to the songs, and insightful informaiton about each selection.
CD-3501 (CD only) $15.95 [add to order]
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Spirit of the Great Auk, The (CD)
This story written by Jay O'Callahan lets you experience the plight of the ocean. In "The Spirit of the Great Auk", he recreates Dick Wheeler's 1500 mile kayak voyage from Newfoundland to Buzzards Bay. In a blend of straightforward narrative and classic O'Callahan embroidery, we hear the story of Dick Wheeler, the "great auk man," who traveled the migratory route of that seabird, hunted to extinction by 1844, in a 17-foot kayak. O'Callahan recounts a story of the incredible daring of one man and the unthinkable loss to us all as our wildlife disappears from the earth. With classic fervor and enthusiasm, O'Callahan makes us care immensely about Dick Wheeler, the outcome of his journey and the bird that is gone forever. Story on CD.
CD 8004 $14.95 [add to order]
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Raspberries (CD)
Once upon a time there was a sad farmer. Everything went wrong in his life. Until one day..." Storyteller Jay O'Callahan made up the story "Raspberries" when his 4-year-old son, Teddy, was desperately in need of a funny distraction. Though the original story was short, Jay says, it grew in the telling until it became one of his favorite springtime stories. Story on CD.
CD 0002 $14.95 [add to order]
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King of Shadows, The (cassette)
When Nat Field, an orphan living with his aunt, is chosen for an all-boy acting troupe traveling to London to perform Shakespeare in the reconstructed Globe Theatre, he hopes it will help him escape from his family's tragedy. Instead he finds himself switched in time with another Nat Field, who carries the Plague. In the past he performs with the Bard himself, who becomes a surrogate father and helps him deal with his sorrow, while preparing to play Oberon to Nat's Puck in a performance before the Queen. Cooper is in top form here; her confident prose, at once muscular and lyrical, vividly conveys the sights, sounds, and smells of Elizabethan London. Most powerful are her descriptions of the story and imaginative staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which should have readers scurrying for the original. Her poignant characterization of Nat, whose grief is released by Shakespeare and healed by his words, captures perfectly an adolescent in thrall of the theater, in all its grittiness and grandeur. A dramatic and sensory feast. Jim Dale, himself a Shakespearean actor, and now familiar to many as the versatile reader of the Harry Potter titles, reads King of Shadows forcefully, with the intensity demanded by a story that employs bubonic plague as a time-travel device to transport a contemporary boy to 1599. (Story on Cassette)
CT 2506 $22.00 [add to order]
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Rose and Thistle
Rose & Thistle, Revels’ newest recording, is a superb collection of choral and instrumental music from England and Scotland. The best music from the 2001 and 2003 performances [read more]
CD-2005 (CD only) $12.95 [add to order]
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Shortest Day, The - Matted Print
For everyone who loves the poem "The Shortest Day," recited in every Christmas Revels performance. The poem is framed by a beautifully designed Renaissance-style floral border, with 4 celebratory figures at the base, originally painted at the Cornwell Scribe Works in Chico, California. Printed in rich colors with gold metallic touches and matted on black board with gold trim. 12" x 16" (mat included). An ideal gift for that special person on your list.
P-2001 $40.00 [add to order]
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Twelve Days of Christmas, The
Caldecott honor-medalist Ilse Plume has created a splendid Italian Renaissance setting for the lyrics of "The Twelve Days of Christmas." Inspired by Florentine beastiaries, miniatures and Books of Hours, she gives us a lovingly detalied 15th-century garden, home to a young noblewoman, the recipient of a series of increasingly lavish gifts from her courtly suitor. Plume's little book is a traditional yet fresh interpretation of a Christmas favorite - a gift book that celebrates the joys of gift giving.
HC-4500 (Hardcover) $17.95 [add to order]
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Present from the Gentlemen, A: A Pandora's Box of English Folk Songs
John and Tony have a near-inexhaustible repertoire of English folksongs, and they've put over an hour's worth of their favorites on this disc. Beauties like "Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy," "Jackie Munro," and "The Painful Plough" will delight traditional music fans. They also do a musical version of Hamlet (in 4 minutes!), some music hall pieces, and a medley of World War I songs.
CD-2233 (CD only) $14.95 [add to order]
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Across the Western Ocean
For over 30 years John Roberts and Tony Barrand have been the major ambassadors of English traditional music in North America. With rare wit and humor, they sing the ballads and songs of the sea, or rural pursuits of social and sociable situations, of industrial toil and strife and much more. Their trademark unaccompanied two-part vocals are augmented by concertinas, banjo and percussion.
This recording features the songs sung on board the packet ships which can be roughly divided into the categories of chantey and forebitter. The chantey was a work song used exclusively to provide the rhythm for the crew working on the deck or up in the rigging. The forebitters were sung in a more relaxed atmosphere, in off-duty hours in the crew's cramped quarters beneath the forecastle head. These were often popular ballads from the shore, and many would have been accompanied with fiddle, banjo or other portable instrument.
CD-3010 (CD only) $14.95 [add to order]
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Frog Went A-Courtin'
Winner: Caldecott Medal
Ages 3-7. An entertaining and beautifully illustrated picture and song book of the well-know folksong.
PC-9005 (Paperback) $7.00 [add to order]
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Over in the Meadow
Winner: ALA Notable Book Selection
Ages 3-7. Beautifully drawn picture book about meadow life, with words and music. Encourages young children to sing and make up new verses.
PC-5001 (Paperback) $7.00 [add to order]
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Climbing Jacob's Ladder
Heroes of the Bible in African-American Spirituals
Nine great figures of the Old Testament - Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, David, Ezekiel, Daniel and Jonah - chosen by John Langstaff, are celebrated here in picures and in song. WOrds, picures and music are combined in an outstanding book to be used by families and groups of all faiths and tradtions. Illustrated by Ashely Bryan. Piano arrangesments by John Andrew Ross. Includes Didn't it Rain, Rock-a My Sould, Climbing Jacob's ladder and more.
HC-4200 (Hardcover) $13.95 [add to order]
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Saint George and the Dragon
John Langstaff compiled this delightful version of the mummers' play St. George and the Dragon which he often produced and directed. Here is the script with music,instructions for performing the sword dance, stage directions and costume suggestions. "Please to let the mummers act!"
HC-1000 (Hardcover) $9.95 [add to order]
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Hot Cross Buns
The first commercial jingles! A collection of old English street cries and their simple musical notes for children and families to use and enjoy. Collected by John Langstaff. Age 8 and up.
HC-103X (Hardcover) $7.95 [add to order]
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Back Cove
Tunes from a Banjo Player's Life
Banjo player Bill Smith has been in Revels performances in the past and the music of the banjo has been a constant in his life. This collection of predominantly traditional music, performed with a band...[read more]
CD 4123 $14.95 [add to order]
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Year of the Snake
The Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, featured in the 2006 Summer Revels, was named one of Boston's best bands by the Boston Phoenix and WFNX radio, and was called one of the best unsigned bands in the country by WBZ Television. Their New Orleans brass band sound--with influences from JB's Tower of Power, Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy and Latin jazz and salsa--is music for the head, the heart, and the feet. John Schaefer of WNYC Radio, NYC, called the recording "a fabulous Mardi Gras-themed album of horn-heavy, funky, and energetic party music." Includes "Iko Iko," "El Chocio," and "Parade."
CD-5301 $14.95 [add to order]
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Victory
Two Children, Two Struggles, One Battle... One child is Sam Robbins, a powder monkey aboard HMS Victory, the ship in which Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson will die a hero's death at the Battle of [read more]
HC-2106 (Hardcover) $16.95 [add to order]
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Revels Book of Chanteys and Sea Songs
New Songbook
This is John Langstaff's final Revels opus in which he gathered a very personal collection of some of his favorite songs of the sea [read more]
SB-2006 (Songbook) $21.95 [add to order]
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