SKU: PR.410413230
UPC: 680160087297.
SKU: PR.41641335L
SKU: PR.41641536L
UPC: 680160631483.
SKU: PR.14440526S
UPC: 680160584772. 8.5 x 11 inches.
By commission of the Siemens Foundation for Irvine Arditti and the Arditti String Quartet, Felder has created a work of dynamic contrasts. From the outset, he asks much of the strings (Fiery - very aggressive!) through a sustained fortissimo passage, shifting quickly to alternate states (suddenly subdued) and effects (effervescent). Afire, intense, perky, even mechanically! - incessant are instructions throughout. For advanced performers. Duration: 19'.
SKU: PR.144405910
UPC: 680160618699.
After a promising start as composer, earning respect and awards (a Grammy nomination, a Charles Ives Scholarship, a Fulbright Scholarship, etc.) along the way, Martin turned to Wall Street for almost two decades. Returning now to his first love, he brings us four woodwind quintets written during the years 1971 through 1980. These four quintets, taken together, offer a glimpse into the compositional ascent of a rising composer.
SKU: PR.144405190
UPC: 680160575152. 9 x 12 inches.
Ward-Steinman has penned a short and lovely lulllaby in primarily 3/4 time. Especially effective with obbligato cello accompaniment.
SKU: PR.114407350
UPC: 680160011322. 8.5 x 11 inches.
SKU: PR.462000330
UPC: 680160595167. 8.5 x 11 inches. Key: A major. Libretto by Paul Woodruff (after Gifts of the Magi by O Henry).
SKU: PR.446410330
UPC: 680160095537.
SKU: PR.115402080
ISBN 9781491102244. UPC: 680160597376. 9 x 12 inches.
Commissioned by and dedicated to the Mid-American Conference Band Directors Association,Wind was premiered by the Bowling Green Wind Symphony. The Chinese character pronouncedfeng can mean wind, or the winds and can also mean view, folk songs, style, and manner. Chen Yi usesa Western wind ensemble to sound the Eastern feeling of the winds in the work, which consistsof two movements: Introduction and Rondo.Wind for wind ensemble is premiered by the Bowling Green Wind Symphony, conducted by Prof. Bruce Moss, at the 31st Annual New Music Festival on Oct. 23, 2010, at the Bowling Green State University in OH.  “Windâ€, or “the winds†means “view, folk songs, style and manner†in Chinese. I used a western wind ensemble to sound the eastern feeling of the winds in my piece. Wind consists of two movements: Introduction and Rondo.—Chen Yi.
SKU: PR.14440590S
UPC: 680160618682.
SKU: PR.114419470
UPC: 680160677160. 9 x 12 inches.
Adler's second Horn Sonata is dedicated to Andrew Pelletier, Professor of Horn at Bowling Green State University (OH) and current President of the International Horn Society (IHS). Pelletier will perform the premiere at the opening day afternoon concert at the IHS 2019 Symposium in Belgium this July.
SKU: PR.114412630
UPC: 680160493791.
SKU: PR.47600137L
UPC: 680160637157. 11x17 inches.
This piece, dedicated to the memory of a heroic feat, does not desire to be classed as a Symphonic Poem in the generally accepted sense of this term. It does not attempt to picture, or to strictly follow, the various mechanical and realistic phases of this heroic adventure although, on the other hand, it does not entirely avoid allusion to such realistic phenomena as are characteristic of and inseperable from the nature of this adventure and the technical means of its realization. The composer's main object, however, was to try to express in sound the emotional phases of an adventure that might be called a prototype of modern romance; to touch upon its human aspect and its ethical meaning, not only in the relation to the individual, but to humanity in general. To the individual, the venturing Hero, refer the opening phrases; the sinister aspect of a bold inspiration at its first manifestation. To his human environments, his character and conquering spirit, refer certain lyrical as well as martial and ehical themes. According to the nature of the venture, the clash of motoric forces and that of an indomitable spirit with the threatening elements presented themselves for musical consideration as well as the plausible uncertainty of the outcome, the increasing conficence and the final victory, and triumphant victory itself. And as emotion in its purest and most intense form reverts to the primitive, the composer thought it not amiss to make fragmentary use of the anthems of two nations, thus symbolizing the appeal from soil to soil; an appeal that found its joyous echo in all humanity. And in the midst of the turbulent rejoicing stands the lone figure of the Hero whose daring had materialized the dream of aeons.
SKU: PR.114411990
UPC: 680160017409. 8.5 x 11 inches.
SKU: PR.144401220
UPC: 680160025824.
SKU: PR.141400670
UPC: 680160024254.
SKU: PR.114423160
ISBN 9781491136058. UPC: 680160688203.
SKU: PR.111402050
UPC: 680160607952. Poem by Mark Strand. Poem by Mark Strand.
SKU: PR.144404550
UPC: 680160030859.
After finishing a serious woodwind quintet in the fall of 2001 [Tela Lacerata], I found, in the ensuing months, that its cinders/ashes were still impregnating my eardrums. Therefore, when I set out to write the present string piece, I realized that the musical veins of the quartet, like related cousins, were sharing the same blood as the earlier wind composition. The resultant Fifth Quartet evolved into two large, extended movements, each one containing seven parts that are played without pause. As the list of the various sub-sections clearly indicates, the formal structure of the movements appear to be identical: each with three main parts enveloped by interludes, plus an introduction and coda. However, the principal segments of the first (slow) movement gradually decrease in length, while those of the second (fast) movement increase. In addition, there is a goodly amount of sonic material stolen from the first movement which reappears -- stitched together in a new guise -- into the world of the second. for example, the bulk of Parts B and C of Movement II are lifted bodily, although elaborately modified, from their first appearances in the Introduction and Part A of the fist movement. This offers, I suppose at least a hint of a traditional recapitulation. As was true in the earlier woodwind piece -- both harmonically and melodically -- the embryonic growth of the musical fabric (primarily the tritone and perfect fifth) is omnipresent, almost obsessively, throughout the course of the whole work. These two intervals, not unlike plasticine, habitually transform themselves into the scales, chords, and melodic lines that pervade the texture of the quartet. Owing to the largely unrelieved dramatic flow, the shifting speed, and the often fervent intensity, the quartet places considerable demands on the dexterity, virtuosity, and stamina of the four performers. String Quartet No. 5 is approximately 22 minutes in duration and affectionately dedicated to my violinist wife Elizabeth, as a gift for our 47 years together. It was commissioned by the Corigliano String Quartet, New York, NY. -- Sydney Hodkinson.
SKU: PR.111402630
UPC: 680160641789. Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Songs of Love and Loss was originally written for bass voice and piano, and premiered by Bryan Matthews at Juilliard in 1984. Subsequently in 2004, I arranged the work for Bass Trombone and Piano for Charlie Vernon, who premiered the work at the International Trombone Association Festival at Ithaca College. The poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay, with her beautiful, sometimes enigmatic, and always evocative poetry was the inspiration for the four songs of this cycle. (Eric Ewazen).
SKU: PR.111403410
UPC: 680160690701.
SKU: PR.511022890
UPC: 680160185344.
SKU: PR.114411130
UPC: 680160016129.
Dedicated to Ivan Chan and the Miami String Quartet, who premiered the work in 1995. (1992) For advanced performers. Duration: 25' ...a one-movement work with tremendous variety and energy... there is a good deal of original and appealing material. Each of its 10 sections brings something different - pizzicato, mutes, a fugue, cadenzas. Finally, at the end, the theme upon which the variations are based appears for the first time, in a slow and slightly weepy form. -Peter Dobrin, Philadelphia Inquirer.
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