SKU: HL.50330390
ISBN 9780793599431. UPC: 073999606102. 9x12 inches. Edited by Sol Schoenbach.
This book will help the bassoon student who frequently studies orchestra excerpts without an understanding of the harmonic and rhythmic accompaniment of the orchestra. By playing these excerpts with piano accompaniment he will develop a true perspective.
SKU: P2.40006
James Grant says, Slow jazz... What musical language could celebrate more appropriately the lyrical, sensuous, expressive character of the bassoon? The three Chocolates, in this version for bassoon and piano, are torch songs in the tradition of the passionate, tuneful ballads of the American 40s and 50s. The first two Chocolates, Valentine and Bittersweet, offer soulful narratives that speak to devotion, poignancy, romance, uncertainty, longing. The third Chocolate, Triple Mocha Indulgence, is slightly less soul-searching, more ebullient, and progressively becomes more animated (a sugar high, perhaps?) right up to its raucous close. Chocolates was commissioned and premiered in 1998 by violist Michelle LaCourse, to whom this music is dedicated..
