SKU: HL.49018675

ISBN 9790220132599. 9.0x12.0x0.068 inches.

The title of this work is a reference to the poem Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats. Important images from the poem are freely connected to suggest musical gestures and contours. Such phrases as perilous seas and plaintive anthem placed musically alongside each other give the work a continuity not suggested by the original poem. The topography in the last verse of the poem also finds its way into the work: Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep The resulting work therefore utilises an organic and associative musical form, one that is dramatic and often capricious in nature. The work evaporates at its close - at Keats' instigation - through the words Fled is that music:- do I wake or sleep?. Through Magic Casements was written for William Cale on the occasion of his final recital at the Royal College of Music. 2009 KH.

SKU: LB.270

Nancy Lichtenwalter lost her courageous battle with cancer on January 18, 2020; she spent her last days at home with her loving husband Ray Lichtenwalter. Their little dog Daisy kept a keen watch over them, traveling back and forth between them, depicted by the ascending and cascading lines. The anthem Abide With Me was played at Nancy's funeral and is intertwined throughout the piece; the last time it is played portrays Nancy's soul ascending into Heaven.

SKU: LO.70-2365L

ISBN 9780787775483.

You’ve been waiting for this one! Legendary composer Lloyd Larson has taken ten of his most celebrated choral anthems and arranged them for the solo pianist. The music contained in this volume is full of Lloyd's beautiful melodies and compelling harmonies. You've accompanied these anthems many times in the past, and now you have the opportunity to present them as stand-alone piano arrangements with these thrilling new transcriptions!

SKU: HL.49018409

ISBN 9790001175654. UPC: 841886016361. 9.25x12.0x0.045 inches.

A 'Last Night of the Proms' without this march - unthinkable! 'Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 1' with its middle section, the hymn-like 'Land of Hope and Glory' by Edward Elgar (1857-1934), belongs to the finale of the London music event like the Radetzky March usually played as last piece to the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. The fame and popularity of the other four military marches composed by Elgar between 1901 and 1907 fade in comparison to this secret national anthem of Great Britain (although strongly rivalled by 'Rule, Britannia!'). It is, indeed, an equally rousing and catchy piece of music, and the catchy tune in the middle has just become a classical 'hit'. Thanks to the present edition, all those who do not have a large symphony orchestra at home can now play this rousing march by themselves.