SKU: HL.14001668

SKU: HL.44006366

ISBN 9789043102957. UPC: 884088084677. International (more than one language).

The sound of these compositions recalls the zest for life, the passion for adventure and the romance of the pioneer spirit that was young America. 17 songs: Passepied * Trumpet Voluntary * Fuga 1 * Voluntary 1 * Voluntary 2 * Festival Voluntary * Fuga a 3 Voce * Voluntary 3 * Impromptu * Fuga 2 * Legende * Gigue * Fughetta * Trumpet Tune * Postlude * Adeste Fideles * Variations on a Sicilian Folksong.

SKU: SU.80101361

This is a patriotic piece especially suited for Memorial Day, Veteran's Day or the 4th of July. It is series of short (~1 min. each) vignettes portraying an American characteristic which impressed me as an immigrant to this country. The piece is dedicated to the great American writer John Steinbeck, whose novel The Grapes of Wrath had its 75th anniversary in 2014. Instrumentation: Organ. Composed: 1977/2012 Published by: Zimbel Press.

SKU: HL.48183727

UPC: 888680859152. 9.0x12.0x0.018 inches.

Sichler Jean American Blues Electric Organ Book.

SKU: HL.14018684

12.0x8.25x0.049 inches.

Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012) was a British composer who studied at St Johns, Cambridge and Princeton, and who later taught at various universities and conservatoires across Europe and North America. His psychedelic work Laus Deo has become a brilliant showcase for 20th century Organ music. Commissioned by Simon Preston in 1969, it was supposedly inspired by a dream in which an angel played the main themes to him on an Organ: Harvey said he finished the piece within 12 hours of waking from the dream. It has since become known for its ear-piercing dissonances and exciting cluster chords.

SKU: HL.14008101

Composed by the reknown American recitalist and composer.

SKU: HL.14008939

ISBN 9780853609551. 8.25x11.75x0.178 inches.

The Blue Rose Variations is one of several works in which the composer has drawn on ragtime and blues. The organ work is based on two transformations of the popular piano piece To A Wild Rose (Woodland Sketches, Op.51 No.1) by the American composer, Edward MacDowell (1860-1908). During the course of the Variations, To A Wild Rose appears as a blues and also as a classical rag, often as both together. The sections are Theme: a quiet blues; Variation I: a pedal solo in varied metres based on the blues in fast tempo; Variation II: the first appearance of the rag as a background to the blues as a 2' pedal solo; Variation III: a version of Variation I now involving manuals too; Variation IV: another blues solo against the rag; Variation V: another version of Variation I with the pedal solo almost entirely transferred to the manuals; Variation VI: a final confrontation between the blues and the rag, now much decorated. First performed in New York in April 1986. Duration c.15 mins.