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Jeffrey Biegel's Blog Entries

  • The Twelve Days of Christmas arr. Biegel

    As a young chorister, I was entranced by Robert Shaw's arrangement of "The Twelve Days of Christmas". Twenty years later, I decided to take the plunge and compose my own arrangement for SATB divisi a cappella choir. I hope you enjoy this, and may consider it for your choral performances in 2015! This is available through Hal Leonard.  https://... read more
  • Christmas In a Minute Chopin/Biegel

    Piano music for choir? Why not! Written originally for solo vocalist, I turned this into an SATB choral tongue-twister--a cappella--and then added a piano part, which was further orchestrated for choirs performing with orchestra during the holiday season. If you know Chopin's "Minute Waltz", this is the very same set for SATB choir for the holiday ... read more
  • Jeffrey Biegel's "The Elegy of Anne Boleyn" for SATB a cappella

    One of my earliest a cappella compositions composed when I was 22, the haunting and melancholic "Elegy of Anne Boleyn" based on an anonymous poem I found in my local library in 1983, is now available at my website. I remember being very inspired by Debussy's 'Chansons' and music by Healey Wilan and Randall Thompson. I am slowly finding these early ... read more
  • Hanukah Fantasy by Jeffrey Biegel in Alaska!

    Thanks to Maestro Eduard Zilberkant, conducting the Fairbanks Symphony and Fairbanks Symphony Chorus, [directed by Emerson Eads] for this heartfelt performance of the "Hanukah Fantasy" from their holiday concert 2014! Thank you for embracing my music with sensitivity, energy and holiday spirit! Special thanks to Lucas ... read more