Thomas Ades' Life Story Op.8 (1993) is based on an extract from In The Winter Of Cities by Tenesse Williams. This is the 1994 version for Soprano and Piano and is based upon the original score for two Bass Clarinets and Double Bass. THis version for vocie and piano irst performed by Sarah Leonard and Rodney Bennett at the Warwick Festival on 8th July 1994.

The Musical Theatre Essentials series represents the ultimate selection of songs from the stage. Volumes are available for Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Tenor and Baritone/Bass either with or without accompaniment CDs.Unique song lists are provided in the books for each vocal range including this volume for Soprano.Newly edited and engraved with Vocal line and Piano accompaniment the two Soprano volumes from the MusicalTheatre Essentials series provide a golden opportunity to celebrate the music of the stage containing songs from classic musicals such as: Carousel Guys and Dolls The Sound of Music Sweeney Todd andWicked.

The Musical Theatre Essentials series represents the ultimate selection of songs from the stage. Volumes are available for Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Tenor and Baritone/Bass either with or without accompaniment CDs.Unique song lists are provided in the books for each vocal range including this volume for Soprano.Newly edited and engraved with Vocal line and Piano accompaniment the two Soprano volumes from the MusicalTheatre Essentials series provide a golden opportunity to celebrate the music of the stage containing songs from classic musicals such as: Carousel Guys and Dolls The Sound of Music Sweeney Todd andWicked.

Edited with additional material from the Salzburg version“In Italy nowadays this term (motet) is applied to a Latin sacred solo cantata consisting of two arias and two recitatives concluding with an Hallelujah and sung during the Mass following the Credo generally by one of the best singers.” One composition matching this description is the solo motet Exsultate jubilate K. 165/158a which Mozart wrote in Milan early in 1773 following the highly successful performance of his opera Lucio Silla.In 1978 when the music manuscripts in Bavaria were being sorted and cataloged in a project sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft a set ofmanuscript parts for a previously unknown second version was discovered in the town parish church of St. Jakob in Wasserburg am Inn. The music and text of the concluding Alleluja movement were written out by the Salzburg court bassoonist and copyist Joseph Richard Estlinger (c. 1720–1791) who frequently worked for Mozart and his father.The vocal text of this Salzburg manuscript departs from that of the Milan version in the first aria and in the recitative. It was entered in a different hand. The Salzburg version of the text is clearly related to the feast of the Holy Trinity. There is much evidence that this version was sung for the first time in the Dreifaltigkeitskirche on 30 May 1779 (i. e. Trinity Sunday) by the Salzburg male soprano Francesco Ceccarelli during a service mentioned by Nannerl Mozart. On that day Leopold and Wolfgang Mozart together with Ceccarelli were invited to the church’s vicarage at midday. The additional text underlaying of the first aria enabled the solo motet to be employed for the Christmas service as well.- Urtext of the New Mozart Edition- Full score performance material (BA4897) and vocal score (BA4897-90) available for sale

Broken Branches is a short 3 minute song/meditation for soprano piano and double bass. It was written for a concert in New York in 1993 which featured a whole programme of political songs; composers were left free tochoose their own subject matter. The conflict in the former Yugoslavia was then at one of its many furious peaks and Weir made a transcription from a recording of a sad choral song from Croatia called zaspo Janko podjablonem. Work for Soprano Piano and Double Bass.