I have some very exciting news to share with you! I recently had the distinct privilege and pleasure to work on an arrangement for Behind The Mic’s Worldwide Holiday Special featuring 8 vocal groups from around the world and hosted by The Manhattan Transfer’s Cheryl Bentyne. The final number, Christmas Time Is Here, is performed by 35 of the vocalists with Ms. Bentyne singing the lead. It is produced in a manner similar to the Eric Whiteacre virtual choirs. The vocalists recorded their parts to a click track and then sent them to our mixing engineer, Chris White, who put the audio together. They also recorded a video of their performance which was then sent to our videographer, Michael Swedberg, who created the whole look of the Holiday Special. It was a remarkable experience and one that I thoroughly enjoyed working on from beginning to end. Vince Guaraldi’s and Lee Mendelsen’s Christmas Time Is Here is one of my favorite holiday pieces of music and forever linked to memories of watching “A Charlie Brown Christmas” as a child. I never dreamed that I would have the opportunity to write my own arrangement of the song, not to mention having a member of a vocal group that has had such a major influence on my musical life sing the lead. That’s all for now. I hope you all get a chance to check out the Worldwide Holiday Spectacular and I look forward to sharing more music with you in the future.
Terrence Niska is an American composer and arranger living in the Twin Cities for the past 20 years. He has performed his vocal arrangements with symphonies and big bands as part of the ensemble Five By Design since 1990. In 2015, he began writing vocals for and performing with The Niskas, a trio comprised of himself, his brother and sister-in-law. He is a graduate from UW-Eau Claire with a BME and earned his Masters degree in Coaching/Accompanying from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ. While attending Westminster, he studied under Dalton Baldwin and performed major choral works under the batons of Leonard Bernstein, Riccardo Muti and Sir David Willcocks.
ARRANGEMENTS
Danny Boy
arr. Terrence Niska Available SATB, STB With Piano Scale: Medium Easy |
Good Christian Men, Rejoice!
arr. Terrence Niska Available SATB, STB With Piano Scale: Medium Advanced |
Silent Night
arr. Terrence Niska Available SATB, STB With Piano Scale: Medium Easy |
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