SKU: PR.312418900
UPC: 680160643578. 9 x 12 inches. Libretto by Carol Thomas Downing, based on the short story by O. Henry.
The Gift of the Magi is a choral ballet for dancers, chamber orchestra, and children's chorus. It is based on the short story of the same name by O. Henry (1862 - 1910). It is a story about a young couple who are short of money but desperately want to buy each other Christmas gifts. Unbeknownst to Jim, Della sells her most valuable possession, her beautiful hair, in order to buy a platinum fob chain for Jim's watch: while unbeknownst to Della, Jim sells his own most valuable possession, his watch, to buy jeweled combs for Della's hair.
SKU: PR.31241758A
UPC: 680160685424.
SKU: PR.11640121L
UPC: 680160623921.
SKU: PR.11441575S
UPC: 680160612512.
SKU: PR.11640110S
UPC: 680160682744.
The Essay for Strings was written in 1986 in memory of Glenn Hull, a colleague and the choir director at Norfolk State University during my early years there. His sudden passing was a shock, and I expressed my sadness in this work. It was premiered that year by the NSU orchestra at their Winter concert. In w000, after conductor-composer Coleridge Taylor Perkinson gave the work its second performance in Chicago (with the ensemble of the Center For Black Music Reasearch), I decided to add it to my catalog of orchestra works. The designation Essay refers to the fact that the piece is based on one idea (like a literary essay). In this case the musical idea (or motive) is made from the initials of my deceased friend, Glenn Hull (G and H in music are represented by the pitches G and B-natural). These two notes are sounded throughout the work in tribute to him.
SKU: PR.114415940
UPC: 680160614462. 8.5 x 11 inches.
SKU: PR.11642125L
UPC: 680160689828.
SKU: PR.416415470
UPC: 680160633562. 8.5 x 11 inches.
SKU: PR.111402790
UPC: 680160681327. 9 x 12 inches. Herbert Martin. Herbert Martin.
NOBODY KNOW is a concert aria based on a text by Herbert Martin, an American poet based in Dayton, Ohio. The work depicts a song from the other cross, a viewpoint of one of the thieves crucified with Christ on Good Friday, the thief who pleaded to be remembered by Christ.
SKU: PR.416412760
UPC: 680160092550.
This 17-minute symphonic song cycle was composed for soprano Renée Fleming in 2002, as a grand sequel to Three Persian Songs, using text from the Ruba’iyat of Omar Khayyam.
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