SKU: BT.ALHE32552
French.
SKU: LO.15-4037H
ISBN 9780787778903.
Jennifer Wagner's An Old Cherry Tree is a dynamic and lyrical work that overflows with singability and expression. The words by Wagner meditate on the strength and beauty of the cherry tree and offers opportunities to analyze the text with your singers for metaphorical interpretation as you connect with this piece.
SKU: HP.C6255
UPC: 763628162559.
Original Lenten anthem This original from Jay Althouse features a beautiful melody paired with a strong Lenten text. Solid melodic writing combines with fluid inner choral lines to create a memorable choral anthem.
SKU: HL.14043424
8.25x11.75x0.068 inches.
Score for Scatter Roses Over My Tears, a meditation on Jalalu-d-din Rumi by John Tavener for string quartet.
SKU: ET.QC17
ISBN 9790207024671.
The Quatuor No. 1 op. 60, of limited duration, as well as the short piece Alligun, are perhaps the inspirational source that motivated me, late in life, to undertake the composition of an important string quartet, requiring that I once again confront the perennial challenge of that instrumental setting. The 25 minute work consists of four very diverse and contrasting movements. The first – Lento - Allegro - opens with a slow and mysterious introduction followed by a joyful rhythmic episode, while the second – Scherzando molto vivo – is simply virtuosic game-playing, with the four bows flying around freely. The third – Adagio – is very dramatic, slowly evolving into a mood of meditation and tenderness. The last movement – Allegrissimo – is an homage to contrapuntal style and requires great virtuosity on the part of the performers. The first performance was given March 6 2012 by the string quartet, Sine Nomine (the dedicacee), at the Théâtre de l’Octogone in Pully (Lausanne), Switzerland. Julien-François Zbinden, august 2011, Lausanne, Switzerland.
SKU: PR.144402180
UPC: 680160027156. 9.5 x 13 inches.
The concerts and exhibits of the Cleveland Museum of Art were an important formative influence for me during my student days. So when the invitation came to create a new work celebrating this institution on its seventy-fifth anniversary, I was not only happy to accept, but knew immediately that I wanted to write a piece that would somehow relate specifically to the museum. I decided to make the work a reflection on a painting in the museum's collection: Zurbaran's The Holy House of Nazareth. My quartet is not program music in a narrative sense, but rather a kind of meditation that takes its tone from this painting's remarkable integration of intense affect, mysterious repose and secret geometry. Besides Zurbaran's painting, the piece is occupied with a purely musical object of contemplation: the hymn tune Picardy, best known with the text Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence. This tune permeates the harmonic and melodic life of the quartet, sometimes appearing in a very simple, straightforward fashion, but often hidden amidst more complex structures. I was attracted to the melody for its musical qualities, but later realized that the hymn's text also resonates with the mood of the painting; the words speak of a reverent awe, of cherubim with sleepless eye, and of the mystery of the Incarnate Word who must suffer: King of kings, yet born of Mary...
SKU: PR.14440218S
UPC: 680160027170. 9.5 x 13 inches.
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