The Touch of Christmas is a Christmas musical, arranged for SATB voices with piano accompaniment. Can be done with basic staging of choir and narrator, or as a full cast pageant. (The songbook contains production notes.) Written with optional difficulty levels, can be done by smaller choirs using the general four-part harmonies, or including the "cued notes" for the more advanced choir. This musical also features solos, trios and children’s choir (or a child soloist). Of moderate difficulty. Includes the selections:

• Gloria (see sample page)
• Celebrate the Wonder
• Shout the Glad Tidings - SATB choir and children’s choir
• Christmas is Dawning
• Noel, Sing Noel! - ladies trio and choir
• Do You Hear the Music I Hear? - carl sing-a-long with Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, The First Noel, Go Tell it on the Mountain, Silent Night and O Come All Ye Faithful
• There’s a Song in the Air
• Rise Up Shepherds - tenor solo and choir
• Giver of Joy - soprano or tenor soloist and choir
• Love Came Down
• Alleluia! with Birthday of a King
• Gloria Finale (congregation can join on the singing Joy to the World at the beginning of this selection)

Created by: Phil & Lynne Brower
Arranged by: David Maddux
Voicing: SATB voices, soloists, children’s choir with piano, optional narration
Pages: 160
Publisher: Copyright 1989 The Benson Music Group. Product No. 04374.

Songbooks are in good used condition. Normal wear on covers, and each cover has a numbered sticker and church ID label. May have some written notations on inside pages. No longer in print.