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Southern Music Company is an authorized distributor of music from Hal Leonard Corporation. The following are highlights from the "Give the Gift of Music" holiday buying guide from Hal Leonard. These items make great gifts for Christmas, Chanukah, or any occasion!

Classic Videos

Classical videos make great holiday gifts.

Classical music buffs will love these videos featuring the lives and music of their favorite composers. Each video chronicles the drama of the trials, tribulations and musical mastery of Bach, Rossini, Strauss, Handel, Liszt, and Bizet during their brilliant composing careers.

Bach’s Fight for Freedom

The chapel organist, Johann Sebastian Bach, is enraged. It’s bad enough his boss, Duke Wilhelm, stifles his creativity. Now the bumbling fool has given him a servant he suspects is a spy! But soon, the temperamental composer recognizes a kindred soul in his new 10-year-old assistant, Frederick. For both know too well what’s its like not to be able to follow your dream. Set in 1717, Bach’s 32nd year, Bach’s Fight for Freedom passionately argues that the only master you can serve faithfully is your own heart. 00320123 Video (53-min.) $19.95

Rossini’s Ghost

In a kitchen in Italy in 1862, little Reliana helps her grandmother Rosalie make pasta sauce. As stream swirls magically through the kitchen, Rosalie argues with her oldest friend Martina and tells the story of an opera composer they once both knew. Soon, Reliana finds herself transported through time back to a theatre in Rome nearly 50 years earlier. She is invisible to everyone but the composer, Signor Rossini. She watches in alarm as one of the singers puts a curse on the production and everything begins to go wrong. 00320124 Video (52-min.) $19.95

Strauss: The King of Three-Quarter Time

The year is 1868, the city – Vienna, the music – exhilarating, yet all is not well with Johann Strauss, Jr., the darling of waltzing Vienna. Haunted by the constant pressure to outdo himself with each new composition, Strauss meets Nicholas, a humble stable boy who fears his brutal stepfather. To their surprise, the composer and the boy find in one another a piece of life’s emotional puzzle, discovering the healing bond of trust and embarking on a collaboration that will be music to the world’s ears. 00320125 Video (51-min.) $19.95

Handel’s Last Chance

It is 1742 and we are in Dublin, where ten-year-old Jamie O’Flaherty and the brilliant composer George Frideric Handel live. Jamie, who comes from a very poor family, has been caught stealing and is in jail. Handel, whose career is failing, needs his newest composition to be a big hit. By a stroke of destiny, the young boy and the composer become unlikely allies. Handel gets Jamie out of jail and the boy lends his golden voice to the first performance of Messiah. 00320126 Video (51-min.) $19.95

Liszt’s Rhapsody

Rich and successful, a dashing young musical superstar so adored that women faint when they meet him in the street, yet Franz Liszt is restless. He knows that something is missing in his glamorous life as the world’s greatest concert pianist. He meets Josy, a naturally gifted young Gypsy street musician, and subsequently wagers that he can turn Josy into a world-class musician. The bet turns into a mighty struggle of wills – the worldly sophisticate against the resourceful Gypsy boy and a conflict of freedom vs. discipline, heart vs. brain, passion vs. technique. 00320127 Video (49-min.) $19.95

Bizet’s Dream

Twelve-year-old Michelle Marin doesn’t like her piano teacher. Monsieur Bizet is irritable, forgetful, aloof – distracted by a failing marriage and the rigors of composing his new opera. But as the composer begins to tell Michelle the story of the gypsy Carmen, her imagination is captured. For, just as in Bizet’s opera, her soldier father is stationed in Seville...and she fears he will never return. Set in Paris in 1875, Bizet’s Dream is the story of an unusual friendship between two people who share the ability to feel life deeply and a beautifully filmed testament to the power of music to set those feelings free. 00320128 Video (53-min.) $19.95

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