SKU: HL.4491326

ISBN 9781480366237. UPC: 884088962562. 9x12 inches.

World Songs for Solo Instruments and Strings is the newest in a series of publications by internationally acclaimed conductor Leonard Slatkin, long known for his commitment to music education. These easy to intermediate folk song settings for flexibie solo (violin, flute or clarinet*) with youth orchestra accompaniment are a wonderful set of pieces for your concert catalog - and with 25 minutes of concert programming they're also a great value! Add flair to your performance with the optional percussion parts. Includes:

• *When Johnny Comes Marching Home (features all three solo instruments)

• Volga Boatmen's Song

• Danny Boy

• Dance of the Cockroach

• Funiculì, Funiculà

• *Simple Grace (setting of Simple Gifts and Amazing Grace for solo piano with strings)

• O Waly, Waly (The Water Is Wide)

• Frère Jacques

• Ich hab die Nacht Geträumet (I Dreamed This Night)

• Home on the Range.

SKU: HL.248688

UPC: 888680729080. 9x12 inches. English.

“Gordon Wright was the friend of a lifetime. For thirty years Gordon and I shared our two greatest passions: music and Alaska. Gordon was my musical collaborator, my next-door neighbor, my fellow environmentalist and my camping buddy. These miniatures are musical sketches of three moments and places in our friendship. Like Alaska, Gordon was larger than life. He always lived his own way. And he died just as he would have wanted. We found him lying on the deck of his cabin in the Chugach Mountains, curled up against his favorite birch tree, looking across the waters of Turnagain Arm toward the Resurrection Valley and the tiny settlement of Hope.” - John Luther Adams

This music contains no normal stopped tones. All the sounds are produced as natural harmonics or on open strings. There are no harmonics higher than the sixth. So these sounds should be clear and resonant. Even so, balancing the harmonics with the open strings requires careful attention.

The durations of the individual pieces are given at the end of each.

The total duration of the set is about ten minutes.