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The long awaited follow-up to Linda's critically acclaimed "Christmas Stays the Same" will be released on Monday, October 14, 2013 and be sold exclusively on Linda's website www.lindaeder.com as well as at CD signings following most of her U.S. based concerts from November 1st until the end of December.
Long-time collaborator and friend Kim Scharnberg contributed several arrangements to this album. The twelve track CD contains two new original songs: "Christmas Where You Are" (music and lyrics by Linda Eder) and "Silence of Snow" (music by Frank Wildhorn and lyrics by Linda Eder). Also on the album are six fan-selected tracks, including a re-interpreted version of "Baby, It's Cold Outside." Eder fans from across the globe voted, through social media, on the Christmas songs they most wanted to hear Linda sing.
“I waited thirteen years to make my second Christmas CD. Some familiar faces came back to help me create this music as well as some wonderful musicians that I have come to know and work with over the last several years”, said Linda. “Christmas is meant to be a special time when we remember what is important in life and the people who are dearest to our ... Read more...
Tuba Artist Jim Self presents "Christmas with the Hollywood Tuba 12, 'Tis the Season Tuba Jolly - A new jazzy Christmas CD featuring a band of all the best tuba players in Los Angeles and includes Kim's arrangement of "Let It Snow (in the Jungle)". The album will be released on October 1, 2013.
From the album's facebook page: "`Tis the Season TUBA Jolly features 12 part arrangements of twenty of the greatest holiday songs played on Santa’s favorite instrument – the TUBA. Listening to this recording will put you in the holiday spirit and will be good for your nerves, winter colds and hangovers – kind of like a massage. Sit by the fire with a toddy and turn up the stereo. Surround yourself in the warmth of 12 tubas. You will sleep like a baby while visions of sugarplums dance in your head."
Visit Jim Self's website to learn more Read more...Broadway World- "News of this production's new, trimmed down orchestrations are no cause for alarm: the arrangements fit the production with every jaunty note. As re-orchestrated by Kim Scharnberg, Jerry Herman's score sounds just as bubbly and brassy as ever..."
MD Theatre Guide- "Of course none of this success would have been possible if it weren't for the memorable songs by Jerry Herman, the terrific musical direction by James Moore, and the new orchestrations created for this production by Kim Scharnberg."
Baltimore Sun- "Much to be said, too, for the fresh orchestrations by Kim Scharnberg, who, using eight players (expertly led by James Moore) evokes a vintage ragtime ensemble- fully appropriate for the time period of the action and well-suited to Herman's score."
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