SKU: PR.11641861SP

UPC: 680160685202.

What?! - my composer colleagues said - A concerto for the piano? It's a 19th century instrument! Admittedly we are in an age when originally created timbres and/or musico-technological formulations are often the modus operandi of a piece. Actually, this Concerto began about two years ago when, during one of my creative jogs, the sound of the uppermost register of the piano mingled with wind chimes penetrated my inner ear. The challenge and fascination of exploring and developing this idea into an orchestral situation determined that some day soon I would be writing a work for piano and orchestra. So it was a very happy coincidence when Mona Golabek phoned to tell me she would like discuss the Ford Foundation commission. After covering areas of aesthetics and compositional styles, we found that we had a good working rapport, and she asked if I would accept the commission. The answer was obvious. Then began the intensive thought process on the stylistic essence and organization of the work. Along with this went a renewed study of idiomatic writing for the piano, of the kind Stravinsky undertook with the violin when he began his Violin Concerto. By a stroke of great fortune, the day in February 1972 that I received official notice from the Ford Foundation of the commission, I also received a letter from the Guggenheim Foundation informing me I had been awarded my second fellowship. With the good graces of Zubin Mehta and Ernest Fleischmann, masters of my destiny as a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, I was relieved of my orchestral duties during the Hollywood Bowl season. Thus I was able to go to Europe to work and to view the latest trends in music concentrating in London (the current musical melting pot and showcase par excellence), Oslo, Norway, for the Festival of Scandinavian Music called Nordic Days, and Warsaw, Poland, for its prestigious Autumn Festival. Over half the Concerto was completed in that summer and most of the rest during the 72-73 season with the final touches put on during a month as Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation's Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy. So much for the external and environmental influences, except perhaps to mention the birds of Sussex in the first movement, the bells of Arhus (Denmark) in the second movement and the bells of Bellagio at the end of the Concerto. Primary in the conception was the personality of Miss Golabek: she is a wonderfully vital and dynamic person and a real virtuoso. Therefore, the soloist in the Concerto is truly the protagonist; it is she (for once we can do away with the generic he) who unfolds the character and intent of the piece. The first section is constructed in the manner of a recitative - completely unmeasured - with letters and numbers by which the conductor signals the orchestra for its participation. This allows the soloist the freedom to interpret the patterns and control the flow and development of the music. The Concerto is actually in one continuous movement but with three large divisions of sufficiently contrasting character to be called movements in themselves. The first 'movement' is based on a few timbral elements: 1) a cluster of very low pitches which at the beginning are practically inaudibly depressed, and sustained silently by the sostenuto pedal, which causes sympathetic vibrating pitches to ring when strong notes are struck; 2) a single powerful note indicated by a black note-head with a line through it indicating the strongest possible sforzando; 3) short figures of various colors sometimes ominous, sometimes as splashes of light or as elements of transition; 4) trills and tremolos which are the actual controlling organic thread starting as single axial tremolos and gradually expanding to trills of increasingly larger and more powerful scope. The 'movement' begins in quiescent repose but unceasingly grows in energy and tension as the stretching of a string or rubber band. When it can no longer be restrained, it bursts into the next section. The second 'movement,' propelled by the released tension, is a brilliant virtuosic display, which begins with a long solo of wispy percussion, later joined in duet with the piano. Not to be ignored, the orchestra takes over shooting the material throughout all its sections like a small agile bird deftly maneuvering through nothing but air, while the piano counterposes moments of lyricism. The orchestra reaches a climax, thrusting us into the third 'movement' which begins with a cadenza-like section for the piano. This moves gently into an expressive section (expressive is not a negative term to me) in which duets are formed with various instruments. There are fleeting glimpses of remembrances past, as a fragmented recapitulation. One glimpse is hazily expressed by strings and percussion in a moment of simultaneous contrasting levels of activity, a technique of which I have been fond and have utilized in various fixed-free relationships, particularly in my Percussion Concerto, Contextures and Games: Collage No. 1. The second half of the third 'movement; is a large coda - akin to those in Beethoven - which brings about another display of virtuosity, this time gutsy and driving, raising the Concerto to a final climax, the soloist completing the fragmented recapitulation concept as well as the work with the single-note sforzando and low cluster from the very opening of the first movement.

SKU: CA.3104719

ISBN 9790007136161. Key: G minor. Language: German/English. Text: Helbig, Johann Friedrich. Text: Johann Friedrich Helbig.

Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3104700.

SKU: BT.GOB-000725-130

In ‘A Summer Holiday’ Patrick Millstone takes us with him on a journey. After a year’s hard work we may finally enjoy a well-earned holiday. The first part of this three-part composition has the appropriate title ‘On Tour’. When we chose our holiday destination, the brochure said that it would be bathed in sunlight every day. Unfortunately, this turns out not to be the case. Somewhat melancholically, we play round games in our summer house on a ‘Rainy Day’. However, the next day, when the sun again has driven away all the clouds, we naturally visit the ‘Crowded Beach’, where we enjoy both sun, sea and beach once again.

In ‘A Summer Holiday’ neemt Patrick Millstone ons mee op reis. Na een jaar hard werken kunnen we van een welverdiende vakantie genieten. Het eerste deel van deze driedelige compositie heeft de toepasselijke titel ‘On Tour’. Bijhet uitzoeken van de vakantie, stond in de folder dat onze bestemming zonovergoten zou zijn. Dit blijkt helaas niet alle dagen zo te zijn. Met enige weemoed zitten we in ons huisje wat gezelschapsspelletjes te doen op deze ‘RainyDay’. Maar als de zon de wolken verdreven heeft, en dat is de volgende dag zo, gaan we natuurlijk met z’n allen naar de ‘Crowded Beach’, waar we genieten van zon, zee en strand.

SKU: LP.765762141421

UPC: 765762141421.

This joyous and energetic song from master songwriters Cliff Duren and Dave Clark is perfect any time of year! Balancing unison voicing with accessible harmonies, this joyful song with a simple but profound message will resonate with your choir and congregation long after the last chord fades away. DVD accompaniment is available.

SKU: CA.3104519

ISBN 9790007136147. Key: E major. Language: German/English.

Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3104500.

SKU: BT.DHP-1115043-140

9x12 inches.

The Loco-motion was the hippest dance routine to hit the clubs in the 1960s. In contrast to many songwriters who write songs after a trend has taken off , singer/songwriter partners and couple Gerry Goffi n and Carole King wrote the song that kicked off the entire dancesong craze. Little Eva was the fi rst of several artists to reach the top of the US charts with this hit in 1962. Let your band rise to new heights with Hideaki Miura’s funky arrangement!

The Loco-motion was een bijzonder geliefde manier van dansen in de jaren zestig. Gerry Goffin en Carole King waren met hun gelijknamige hit de trendsetter van deze muziek- en dansstijl. Dit in tegenstelling tot wat veel songwritersdoen: pas bepaalde muziek schrijven als het al een trend is. De eerste die het nummer vertolkte was Little Eva en zij scoorde er een nummer één hit mee. Hierna werd de song nog vaak en succesvol gecoverd. En nu is er dusook een lekker vlotte versie voor harmonieorkest van Hideaki Miura.

The Loco-motion war ein Modetanz in den 1960er-Jahren. Entgegen der weit verbreiteten Annahme sprang aber nicht das Songwriter-Ehepaar Gerry Goffin und Carole King mit ihrem gleichnamigen Hit auf diesen Zug auf, sondern sie waren tatsächlich diejenigen, die mit dem Titel den Trend erst auslösten. Nach dem Nr. 1-Erfolg der ersten Interpretin Little Eva wurde der Song oft und erfolgreich gecovert und liegt nun in einer flotten Blasorchesterbearbeitung von Hideaki Miura vor.

Au début des années 1960, le couple d’auteurs succès, Gerry Goffin et Carole King, compose la chanson, The Loco-motion, qui sera l’origine d’un phénomène qui va balayer tous les pays, le locomotion, un twist en ligne avec des mouvements de bras imitant le va-etvient des bielles de locomotives vapeur. Immortalisée aux États-Unis par Little Eva, la chanson sera reprise en France par Henri Salvador, puis par Sylvie Vartan, l’égérie des années yé-yé. Hideaki Miura en a réalisé un arrangement pour Orchestre d’Harmonie, aussi twistant que la version originale.

The Loco-motion è stato un ballo di moda negli anni ’60. Al contrario di molti autori che scrivono canzoni utilizzando trend gi esistenti, la coppia Gerry Goffin e Carol King fu l’artefi ce di questo ballo di successo. La prima interprete della canzone fu Little Eva che nell’ormai lontano 1962 raggiunse la vetta delle canzoni più vendute. Un tuff o nel passato con questo arrangiamento molto riuscito fi rmato Hideaki Miura.

SKU: HL.50601746

UPC: 888680935009.

SKU: FA.MFGT053

210 x 297 inches.

Written around 1920 after a short vacation to Biarritz, it was dedicated to Marianne Singer, Jean Cocteau's cousin. It was probably the fruit of piano improvisations during this holiday trip.