Score-Morton Gould's Fall River Legend ballet suite for Orchestra. Study score.Fall River Legend was commissioned by Ballet Theatre with choreography by Agnes de Mille music byMorton Gould and sets by Oliver Smith and recieved its world premiere performance at the Metropolitan Opera House New York on April 22 1948.Having selected for her subject the historical Lizzie Borden murder case deMille used both pantomime and ballet techniques to convey the story. Morton Gould created the musical score in a similar way alternating programmatic sections with more formal dance patterns. The set dance movements formthe basis of this orchestral suite omitting most of the purely dramatic sequences.A feeling of austerity and doom opens the Prologue followed by a group of Waltzes depicting Lizzie's childhood. The sadness of Lizzie'sgirlhood is reflected in the nostalgic Elegy. Church social is a setting for a parish dance and Hymnal Variations suggest the old New England hymn tunes. The festive Cotillion is an exhuberant sequence of dancing patterns.Epilogue returns to the foreboding mood of the prologue.

The familiar and well-loved words of Robert Burn's poem “My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose ” are set to the Irish folk song “The Salley Gardens ” creating this lovely and moving choral work by Joseph Martin.The orchestration lifts this choral to new heights and allows the singer to fully understand the depth of the poem and appreciate a melody often lost in familiarity. Truly breathtaking!

Carl Maria von Weber's fame rests mainly on ?Der Freischütz'. The unprecedented success of this opera overshadowed all his other works and contributed to their increasing fall into oblivion. Certain works such as ?Preciosa', ?Oberon', and ?Euryanthe', the overtures, solo concertos and piano sonatas, the lieder and chamber works enjoyed great popularity and were widely known in Germany and abroad as late as the second half of the 19th century. However, any chance of a revival of Weber's influential and substantial oeuvre was wasted in the 1920s, when a complete edition - begun by Hans Joachim Moser and with potential contributors including Wilhelm Kempff, Hans Pfitzner, Max von Schillings, Fritz Stein and Richard Strauss - failed after the third volume.Ever since there have been numerous attempts to restart a complete edition of Weber's works, but as this kind of project would have required the co-operation of scholars from both sides of the inter-German border, the political situation after 1945 was not conducive to any such enterprise. Careful negotiations led to the first tangible steps in the 1980s. The intention, right from the beginning, was to place Weber's work in context, and not to separate his musical output from his influential work as a writer, critic and organiser in the musical field, but to publish his compositions together with his letters, diaries and other literary output as the best way to document the cross-fertilisation between his musical, literary and practical activities.Since the German re-unification both working-parties concerned - at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, and at the Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar, Detmold/Paderborn - have co-operated on the complete edition of the musical works (c. 45 volumes in 10 series: sacred music - cantatas, odes and other occasional works - stage works - lieder and vocal works - orchestral works - chamber music - music for piano - piano reductions - miscellanea, arrangements and orchestrations - works of doubtful attribution). The diaries (6-8 vols.) are edited in Berlin and the letters (8-10 vols.) and other writings (2 vols.) in Detmold. This complete edition aims to be a reliable basis of scholarly debate as well as for the authentic performance practice of Carl Maria von Weber's music. Conforming to the standards of recent historico-critical editions, the textual material will be based on all available authentic sources, accompanied by a detailed documentation of the genesis and a list of variants for each work. The musicological importance of the works will be evaluated by placing them in their historical context, the presentation of their genesis, history and Critical Commentaries. The letters, writings and diaries will be treated as inter-related and relevant to each other in the commentaries, therefore readers should benefit from a wealth of concise information and cross-references. / Score

For small Orchestra.Published 1982.Small: 2.2.2.2 / 2.2.2.0 / 4perc / strCommissioned by Shoalhaven Philharmonic Society.First performance Nowra 1983.Score.

Palle MikkelborgGOING TO PIECES WITHOUT FALLING APART2002for violin harpe og strygereTilegnet Elise Båtnes og Helen DaviesForord l ProgramnoteEn solful d morgentur i Melbourne bragte mig forbi en boghandel der specialiserede sig i 'spiritualbooks' og i vinduet faldt mine øjne på et citat som øjeblikkeligt ramte mig følelsesmæssigtstærkt- og jeg følte at jeg havde fundet titlen på den komposition jeg på tankeplan allerede vari gang med. Citatet lød:'going to pieces ... without falling apart'Tre temaer og relaterede skalaer baseret på henholdsvis Elise Båtnes' Helen Davies' og BergenKammerensembles navne har været afgørende for dele af tonesproget og forekommer både ielose-up ogmere douche i kompositionens syv hovedafsnit.Det barnlige det enkle det her-og-nu naive det umiddelbare kom til at spille en vigtig rolleunder arbejdet. Ikke fordi selve mit tonesprog er særligt meget anderledes end ellers (hvordanskulle det også kunne blive det?) men formuleringen: at go to pieces fik mig til at tænke på 'atblive som barn på ny' atter at være u-bange at turde tro på det enkle.Udover denne- i bedste betydning- enkle inspiration er ønsket at kompositionens kurve kanopleves som en mulig 'meditiations-rejse'; i starten en tro på egen ro langsomt breder uroensig og i lystfulde glimt ser man sig selv 'danse' en rituel dans med åndehuller her og der; ogfristelsen til at rive forhænget væk og go to pieces og angsten for måske at miste sig selv undervejs breder sig. Dog til sidst erkender man at det var rejsen værd og at man heller ikke denne gangfaldt apart men kan se frem mod atter at vise livet sin respekt ved spirituelt fuldstændigt at givesig hen dog vel vidende at livet merciless & merciful med kærlig hånd villade dig'go to pieces ... without falling apart'Men selvklart er mit egentlige ønske: at man blot lader musikken leve sit eget ordløse liv - atlytteren har sin egen rejse.Palle Mikkelborg

Based on the success of his best-selling warm-ups for strings Michael Allen has teamed up with respected conductor and teacher Don Hanna to bring us this invaluable resource for full orchestra. Similarly this daily regiment isdesigned to prepare the orchestra for rehearsal or performance through a carefully paced set of short examples. Focus on tuning ensemble playing technique phrasing and special needs for strings winds and percussion are alladdressed.

ACT has been described as both a musical onslaught and also a playful tour de force an impressive and skilful work for full Orchestra. When Wallin’s Clarinet Concerto was performed by the ClevelandOrchestra in 2002 the composer was so buoyed by the warm reaction of audience and musicians that he was inspired to create this work for Orchestra to summon all its forces as one entity in forward motion together. Of the genesisof this piece Wallin wrote that ‘The foundation of mankind’s success is our ability to cooperate. For me one of the most amazing examples of human collaboration is the symphony Orchestra'. RolfWallin is a renowned Nordic composer whose work encompasses elements of classical training jazz early music and avant garde rock while incorporating a wide range of techniques and expressions.

Beethoven's Symphony #4, like #5, portrays the transition from darkness to light. Despite being scored for a small ensemble and its classical structure the work is brimming with originality and grace - 'a slender Greek maiden' as described by Robert Schumann. / Orchestre

Fuego Fatuo has an interesting history. Manuel De Falla (1876-1946) often regarded as the greatest Spanish composer of the 20th century wanted to write an opera based around themes from Chopin whomhe greatly admired. The stage work was never finished; however several attempts have been made to arrange the work for orchestra most successfully by the Catalan conductor Antoni Ros-Marb .Despite its history this orchestral suite is far from being a mere mish-mash of Chopin melodies; it is more of a meditation on Chopin’s work in general with the focus on the harmonic and textural elements which De Falla drew from his work.It forms a fascinating insight into the mind of a great musician.

An Old Song is an atmospheric piece based on a lowland Scottish folk song. Composed in 1917 it is one of the earliest works of the English composer Peter Warlock (1894-1930) who also achieved fame forhis scandalous lifestyle. Scored for a Small Orchestra it is rarely performed nowadays. Warlock was an ardent admirer of Delius throughout his career and his influences are plain to see here some wit was known to callit ?On Hearing the Second Cuckoo in Spring?. Nonetheless this work is often seen to mark the?start of the composer's?independent creative process and as such requires great musical sensitivity when performed.

Score-Carlos Surinach's Sinfonia Chica for Orchestra. Full score.The title Sinfonia Chica is derived from the derogatory label 'genero chico' which was first given to Spanish folk musicby the Italian musicians and their Spanish adherents who dominated all art music in Spain during the first half of the 18th century.The work represents a fusion of the traditional rhythms and melodic patterns of the Spanishtonadillas (early zarzuelas) and the stylistic characteristics of 20th century harmony structure and instrumentation.Duration: 16 minutes

New edition 2001 Study Score. <br>Suite 1, Scenes and Dances from The Three-Cornered Hat, a Ballet in two acts by G. Martinez Sierra after a story by D. Pedro Antonio de Alarcon. Conductor's score and orchestral parts are available on hire from the publishers. <br> <br>Translates to Three Cornered Hat. / Classique / Partition /