SKU: M7.AST-6038

ISBN 9790203860389.

SKU: HL.14062910

SKU: HL.14078620

SKU: FL.FX071305

Instruments: 1 Solo Piano; Difficuly Level: Grade 4; Duration: 2 mn 05; Musical Style: Classical, Educational; Category: Original Composition, Republished Master Piece; Composer: Erik SATIE;.

SKU: MA.EMR-14202

SKU: HL.49007117

ISBN 9790001076227. UPC: 073999282931. 9.0x12.0x0.036 inches.

The director-producer Volker Schlondorff added the string sextet version of the elegiac piano piece Une petite phrase (with variations by students of Henze's composition class in Cologne) to the Marcel Proust adaptation of Un amour de Swann.

SKU: HL.49004767

ISBN 9790001050531. UPC: 073999970289. 9.0x12.0x0.051 inches.

SKU: M7.AST-6002

ISBN 9790203860020.

SKU: PR.140401310

ISBN 9781491134153. UPC: 680160684250. 9 x 12 inches. Key: G major.

NORA’S DANCE is a jazz-influenced rag from 1921, and among the only surviving compositions by Nora Douglas Holt. A charming and exciting work rejuvenated by Lara Downes’ 2021 recording for the Rising Sun label, the rag is both a fun 2 minutes for pianists and audiences, and also a fascinating time capsule. Composed several years after Scott Joplin’s death, and several years before the Charleston pervaded popular music, NORA’S DANCE blossoms with the energy and jazz harmony starting to emerge as The Roaring 20’s, using ragtime and stride as the seed for pianistic style.
My own life in music has been driven by a quest to find strong female role models, trails to follow, shoulders to stand on. In Nora Douglas Holt, I find an inspiring example of creativity, independence, and resilience – with a dash of troublemaking. She was a free spirit, a force of nature, and she lived a fascinating and eventful life on her own terms. She reinvented herself through five marriages and at least as many careers. From her beginnings at the piano at age four, she explored many avenues of musical expression – performing, composing, music journalism, broadcasting, teaching – all with inventiveness, style, and zeal.She made the most of the Roaring ’20s, as an artist, socialite, jetsetter, muse, and patroness of the Harlem Renaissance. In 1921 she started an independent arts journal called “Music and Poetry,” where the charming piano solo Nora’s Dance was first published. I think the piece captures beautifully, in a little under 2 minutes, the energy and excitement of those heady years.In 1926, Nora left New York to travel the world, performing in nightclubs throughout Europe and Asia. She put her belongings in storage before she left, and when she came back she discovered that many of her things had been stolen, including more than 200 of her musical compositions. She never composed again.When the Depression hit, she moved out to Los Angeles, where she studied music education at USC, taught music in the LA public schools, and opened her own beauty salon. She returned to New York in the ’40s and worked as a music critic for several major newspapers, then launched yet another career, this time in broadcasting. Her popular radio concert series “Nora Holt’s Concert Showcase” broadcast to New York’s classical music audience, with a focus on Black composers and performers.Ahead of her time, larger than life, full of ideas…. I am so pleased to introduce you to the feisty and free spirited Nora Douglas Holt!

SKU: PR.140400950

UPC: 680160023530. 8.5 x 11 inches.

Character Sketch No. 5: About a Waltz for piano was written for the composer and pianist Eric Moe in 2003, as part of his Waltz Project Revisited and recorded by Moe on Albany Records CD No. 689. Duration: 2' 15.