SKU: AP.47135
UPC: 038081539065. English.
Check out this cool retro-pop tune from the rock band Portugal. The Man that instantly snags the listener with its catchy hook: Ooh, I'm a rebel just for kicks now! Listen closely for clever interpolations of the '60s hit Please Mister Postman. This Hot 100 charter achieved #1 status on Billboard magazine's US Alternative Songs and went on to win a 2018 GRAMMY for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. A bona fide crowd-pleaser!
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The Alfred Pop Series features outstanding arrangements of songs from the popular music genre. These publications provide exciting, contemporary, and educationally-sound arrangements for singers of all ages, from elementary through high school, to college and adult choirs.
SKU: HL.49002459
ISBN 9790001032483. 7.5x10.75x0.362 inches. Latin.
Soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB) and orchestra. Latin.
SKU: PR.UE036973
ISBN 9783702474355. UPC: 803452071464.
For the violin and piano competition in 2013, Feast of Duos, Igudesman and Joo created two performance pieces (Forever Young Key by Joo and When I Was Young by Igudesman) with stage instructions and suggestions. See the young duo Matteo Cematti (violin) and Maxime Trechsel (piano) performing Forever Young Key at Feast of Duos 2014 on YouTube.
SKU: PR.UE036974
ISBN 9783702474362. UPC: 803452071471.
At the request of violin pedagogue Pavel Vernikov, Igudesman and Joo have composed performance pieces for the Feast of Duos competition held in August 2014. The two commposer/performers insisted that, along with standard repertoire, all entrants also perform a work that included specific elements: theatricality, spoken word, choreography, improvisation, and humor (i.e.: any Igudesman & Joo concert). This set includes two full performance pieces, including dancing while playing, singing while playing, playing the piano with...well...playing the piano posteriorially, and more, As Far As You Can (by Igudesman) and Beyond the Limit? (by Joo). See an excellent YouTube compilation video of various duos performing Beyond the LImit? at competition.
SKU: AP.50197
UPC: 038081573670. English.
Christmas isn't Christmas if it's not with you. Nashville music duo Dan + Shay wrote this sentimental ballad with their families in mind. The sweet melodic hook and a heartfelt text translate beautifully for choral singing. Stage an intimate performance with piano alone, invite a guitar player to strum along for some contemporary color, or use the orchestrated SoundTrax for full effect.
SKU: HL.48022495
ISBN 9781476871486. UPC: 884088669676. 6.75x10.5 inches.
Texts: Latin and EnglishPublisher: Boosey & HawkesDifficulty level: 3The Ceremony of Carols is one of Britten's best-known and most-performed works. It is a brilliantly conceived and dramatic concert work which sees the voices process to their places singing unaccompanied plainsong and, at the end, processing out again to the same chant. These movements can also be accompanied but strictly only if the voices do not process. The final Alleluia can be repeated as many times as necessary to get the singers to and from their destination.The carols are for three-part children's voices (though, of course they can be sung by female adults as well) and they form a two-part work around a central Interlude for harp which is based on the plainsong from the Procession. Variety is the key word here as all the carols have such individual identities. The forthright Wolcum Yole!, the deliciously lyrical There is no Rose, the swinging Balulalow, the fiery and dramatic This little Babe all contribute to a work which is a feast of discovery throughout. Lovely solos and duos add further colour and the harp part, an inspired choice of accompaniment, enriches, colours and surrounds the voices with its pictorial musical imagery. If anything shows Britten's genius for writing for voices it must be this work.The challenges here are in creating a real equality between voice parts, fielding a confident pair of soloists, and making the most of the wonderfully colourful poems Britten has chosen to set. Pronunciation is not really an issue, but when I recorded this work with the Finzi Singers I decided to follow the example of Sacred and Profane and use authentic medieval pronunciation for which an expert coach was necessary. It brings an added element of colour to a familiar aural experience.Duration: 22 minutesPaul Spicer, Lichfield, 2011.
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