SKU: AP.45871S

UPC: 038081529608. English.

This multi-cultural piece explores world music using a unique and exciting format. Two side-by-side orchestras share one conductor, with one group performing traditional American songs and the other playing folk songs from the Middle East. A total of eight songs are presented as each section from the two orchestras is featured. As the piece unfolds, what emerges is not only a tapestry of beautiful music, but an intense commentary on the power of music to unite diverse cultures. Whether you split your orchestra in two or combine with another orchestra, Hemispheres by Richard Meyer is sure to educate your students and your audience.

A suggested seating chart is included. Also playable by one orchestra in a traditional set-up.

SKU: LO.30-3680MD

UPC: 000308153279.

Orchestral Score and Parts for 55/1199MD This deeply moving collection from Jay Rouse includes six songs that glory in the cross of Christ. Highly appropriate for use throughout the Easter season, it is just as impactful year-round. It includes the classic Annie Herring Easter Song in an easily learned contemporary style; a gospel setting of the much-loved hymn My Savior’s Love; two modern worship anthems, Broken Bread, Broken Life and Jesus Crucified; the beloved Dottie Rambo song I Will Glory in the Cross; and an elegant setting of the timeless hymn Beneath the Cross of Jesus. Optional narrations from gifted writer Rose Aspinall will bring the truths of scripture to life in a refreshing way. There’s an eternal mystery in the cross, that instrument of death and grace. Hanging there by His own choosing, the Son of God purchases life for you and me..

SKU: HL.14008415

UPC: 884088808242. 8.5x11.0x0.261 inches.

This work, written by Maxwell Davies in 1983 for chamber orchestra, was commissioned to celebrate the quartercentenary of Edinburgh University. The first performance was given by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Edward Harper in October 1983. Duration c. 29mins. This work was thought through in outline following a visit to the ruined pre-Reformation church of Hoy in Orkney, on a fine Spring afternoon after Maxwell Davies had played the harmonium for the tiny congregation in its large bleak Victorian replacement. The old church was surrounded by the graves of centuries, the more recent ones with familiar names, largely of people who lived in houses now ruinous - crofters, fishermen, clerics, sea-captains. Next to it stood the chief farmhouse, the Bu, going back to Viking times. He thought of the lives and deaths encompassed there, expressed through hundreds of years of music in the church, and in the big barn of the farm. The plainsongs 'Dies Irae' and 'Victimae Paschali Laudes' are used throughout the work - the first concerning the Day of Judgement, from the Mass for the Dead, the second particular to Easter Sunday and the Resurrection. These are subject to constant transformation - the intervallic contour slowly changes from one into the other, and their notes are made to dance through Renaissance astrological 'magic square' patterns. The orchestra consists of double woodwind, two horns, two trumpets and strings.

SKU: HL.14002789

This work is in the nature of an orchestral epilogue to the same composer's two sets of songs, the words of which are taken from Mr A.E. Housman's poem, A Shropshire Lad.