Music Monday

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In this section, you can find all the arrangements you need to get your school singing and playing the Music Monday song, Tomorrow is Coming. Whether you’re a jazz ensemble, an Orff specialist or a solo guitarist, you can find the specific arrangement for your needs. Best of all, all the downloads for these arrangements are FREE!

Don’t forget to download Luke Doucet’s full recording of Tomorrow is Coming from iTunes for just 99 cents. All proceeds go to Music Monday and the Coalition of Music Education to help improve opportunities for young musicians in your community and across Canada.

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Tomorrow is Coming
Music and Lyrics by Luke Doucet (SOCAN, 2010)
c/o Six Shooter Records
“Tomorrow is Coming” was created for Music Monday with the support of CBC Radio Commissions
www.cbc.ca/compose ;
All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Arrangements for Band: Dave Marlatt

David Marlatt has composed pieces for concert band, string orchestra, brass quintet, trumpet ensemble, piano, tuba and trumpet. His writing style is diverse and he has written for a wide range of difficulty levels from very young concert band to professional brass quintet. He has also arranged over 800 pieces of repertoire from the Baroque to the Romantic eras. In 1996 Mr. Marlatt founded Eighth Note Publications, a publishing company specializing in quality music for winds and percussion.

Arrangements for Choir: Ben Bolden

Dr. Benjamin Bolden is an associate composer with the Canadian Music Centre. He holds a Master of Music Degree from the University of British Columbia, a PhD in music education from the University of Toronto, and is an assistant professor with the faculty of education at the University of Victoria. His research focus is teaching composing in music classrooms.

Ben’s award-winning compositions have been performed by many ensembles, including the Elmer Iseler Singers, Tapestry New Opera Works, the Vancouver Chamber Choir, and the Oriana Singers.  He has been awarded commissions by the Ontario Arts Council and Laidlaw Foundation.

Arrangements for Ukulele: Gena Norbury

Gena Norbury is an elementary music specialist with the Peel District School Board and is also a course instructor for York University. She received her degrees from Memorial University, Newfoundland in 1986 and has taught mostly grades K-6 classroom music, but has also taught intermediate and secondary school music. Gena has presented numerous workshops within Peel and OMEA and was the co-conductor of the Peel Elementary Honour Choir from 2006-2008. Gena’s passion is for choral music and in September 2006, she founded the Con Brio Singers.  Gena and her husband, Kevin, both enjoy playing horn in Intrada Brass of Oakville, which Gena has been a member since its inception. In 2005 Gena received the Award of Excellence from the PDSB. Gena serves on the Ontario Music Educator’s Association Board of Directors.

Arrangements for Recorder: Adam Brox

Adam attended university at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Music. While there, he studied arranging under famed Canadian jazz composer, arranger and performer, Phil Nimmons. His arrangements have been featured and promoted by The Canadian Hero Fund as well as the Canadian rock band The Trews. He currently teaches music and grade 5/6 at a public elementary school in Mississauga, Ontario, where he continues to arrange music for recorder ensemble.

Orff Arrangements: Marion Roy and Ellen Shilton

Marion Roy is a full time music teacher at Oscar Peterson Public School in Mississauga Ont for the Peel District Board of Education where she teaches grades 1 – 5 Music.  There, she leads the primary and junior choirs, chamber choir and the grade 4 and grade 5 Orff ensembles.  In working with the school ensembles, she tries to capture the joy of music that Oscar Peterson shared in his lifetime and that she feels as well.  She is the President of the Ontario Orff Chapter.

Ellen Shilton teaches primary/junior music at Forest Avenue Public School in Mississauga (Peel District School Board). She has taught music in the elementary panel for the last 17 years, and is presently co-conductor for the Peel Elementary Honour Choir for the Music Monday Peel Showcase. She serves on the JEMMS executive (Junior Elementary Music Makers) – a music teachers’ support group in Peel, has mentored new music teachers in the NTIP program, and helped to coordinate after school netwworking/sharing meetings with local music teachers. She holds music specialist and ORFF certification. Outside of school she performs vocals and percussion with a contemporary liturgical music group “Joy in The Morning”.

Arrangements for Strings: Jacinthe Brassard

Jacinthe graduated from Nicolet Superior school of Music with a Collegial Degree and won the “Musical Expression” prize on piano. She holds a bachelor’s degree in writing from University of Montreal and another in education from UQAM. Her passion for composition was so strong that she decided to go back to University of Montreal to complete her Master’s Degree which she received in 1998 and with a mention on the dean’s honour list.

Alone or with other composers and authors she has composed and arranged over one hundred songs as well as some instrumentals for the stage. She composed two musicals and wrote six soundtracks also for the theatre and has written music for short films.

Jazz Arrangements: Paul Read

Composer, arranger, pianist and saxophonist, Paul Read is former Director of Graduate Jazz Studies at the University of Toronto where, along with undergraduate and graduate courses in jazz, he conducted the award winning 10 O’clock Jazz Orchestra. Besides earning degrees in music and education at the University of Toronto, Paul also studied at Berklee College (Boston). His compositions and arrangements are published with Boosey & Hawkes, UNC Jazz Press, BRS Music, and Alfred Music Publications. He has appeared at the Downtown Toronto Jazz Festival, in Toronto jazz clubs and broadcasts on CJRT.FM and CBC and has recorded 6 CDs as pianist/arranger and conductor. Paul is founder of the National Music Camp Jazz Program and was on the Executive Board of the International Association for Jazz Education (Canada Representative). His big band, the Paul Read Jazz Orchestra (P.R.O.), comprised of some of Toronto’s finest jazz musicians released their debut CD, Arc-en-ciel in November 2010 on the Addo Record label. More information is available at www.paulread.ca.

Arrangements for Guitar: Randy Haley

Randy Haley has been writing and arranging guitar ensemble music for nearly 25 years and currently teaches Guitar and Jazz Guitar Ensemble at J. H. Bruns Collegiate in Winnipeg, and Guitar Pedagogy at the University of Manitoba. Randy is the former recipient of the University of Victoria Don Wright Composition Competition and oversees Uber Arranger, a publishing company designed to promote Canadian guitar works. Randy’s arrangements and compositions have been performed and recorded throughout North America and his thoughts on guitar education are regularly featured in the Canadian Music Educators’ Journal and Soundboard Magazine.

Arrangements for Steel Pans: Joe Cullen

Joe Cullen is the Head of Arts at West Humber Collegiate, where he teaches steel drum, Motown bands and Drumline courses. He has been the steel pan ensemble instructor at the University of Toronto since the course began in 2006. He is an active steel pan arranger and soloist and leads his own combo for performances of all types. He has been the steel pan columnist for the Canadian Music Educator’s Journal since 2000.

Joe has been a festival adjudicator for the American Guild of Music Festival, the TDCSB Steel Band Festival, Ovation Music Festival, and Caribana’s Pan Alive. He has taught pan at many summer camps for over 20 years including the Yamaha Power Music Camp at the University of Toronto, CAMMAC music camps, and the Iqaluit Music camps in Nunavut.  Other experiences include being a pan soloist and clinician for Laurentian University’s Spirit of the Drum festival, TDSB PD days, and the Ontario Music Educator’s Conference. Joe is an honourary member of Pan Trinbago, the world governing body for steel pan, and loves all things related to steel pan.