Take Ten: Popular Pieces From Bach To Bacharach is arranged for Alto Saxophone with Piano accompaniment and is suited to grades 2 to 6. From Duke Ellington's Satin Doll to Bach's Minuet In G this book is sure to get you playing many different genres of music and really exploring what your Alto Saxophone can do. Selected as part of the ABRSM Alto and Baritone Saxophone examinations grades 3-5.

Like ‘The Consul’ (1950) 'The Saint of Bleecker Street' is a full-length serious work which features several characteristics of traditional opera. It is in three acts has a large cast including a chorus and a large orchestra.The subject matter is very serious and touches on religious experiences violence and murder. Suggestions of incest also appear in the story and there is no happy ending. The Saint of Bleecker Street is set incontemporary New York City in the Italian community in and around Bleecker Street. Menotti's libretto concerns the young Annina who every Good Friday develops stigmata on her hands. Her possessive brother Michele fights tokeep the miracle-hungry neighbors away from her and to prevent her from becoming a nun. When Michele's mistress Desideria accuses him of being in love with his sister he stabs her in the back. Very ill Annina take the nun'sveil in a ceremony at her home and dies in the process.

Par PART ARVO. It takes 75 minutes to relate the story of the Passion according to the Latin of St John's Gospel; Pärt uses solo singers for the roles of Pilate and Christ, and a group of four soloists (soprano, counter tenor, tenor and bass) for the Evangelist, together with a small chorus. Understatement is all: the instrumental accompaniment is confined to a quartet of woodwind and strings that underpins the Evangelist quartet, and an organ to support the remaining singers. Each distinct group has its own scraps of melodic material, which are constantly varied and repeated. Everything proceeds in rhythmic unison, so that the effect js ritualistic and highly austere. (Andrew Clements, Financial Times, 12. 6. 1986)/ Répertoire / Divers

Oratorium-Frank Martin's Golgotha for 5 Vocal soloists mixed Choir (SATB) Organ and Orchestra. Taken from Passion Oratorio  arranged in two parts based on the gospels and texts according to St. Augustin.Frank Martin was born in Geneva Switzerland on 15 September 1890. He was the tenth and youngest child of a clergyman's family. He played and improvised on the Piano even before he went to school.