Description Over 150 songs from across the unique and remarkable career of this master songwriter. From his roots as a folk musician, to his phenomenal success with Art Garfunkel and his subsequent inventive and collaborative solo work, Paul Simon has remained a figurehead in song craft. Each song presented here is arranged with melody line, full lyrics and chord guide. Songlist (Everything I Do) I Do It For You 7 O'clock News/Silent Night A Church Is Burning A Hazy Shade Of Winter A Most Peculiar Man A Poem On The Underground Wall A Simple Desultory Philippic Ace In The Hole Adios Hermanos All Around The World All Because Of You Allergies America American Tune April Come She Will Armistice Day At The Zoo Baby Driver Bernadette Blessed Bookends Born At The Right Time Born In Puerto Rico Bridge Over Troubled Water Can I Forgive Him Can't Run But Cars Are Cars Cecilia Cloudy Congratulations Crazy Love Vol.II Darling Lorraine Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes Duncan El Condor Pasa (If I Could) Everything Put Together Falls Apart Fakin' It Father And Daughter Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her Further To Fly God Bless The Absentee Gone At Last Graceland Gumboots Have A Good Time Hearts And Bones Hey Schoolgirl Hobo's Blues Homeless Homeward Bound How The Heart Approaches What It Yearns Hurricane Eye I Am A Rock I Know What I Know Jonah Kathy's Song Keep The Customer Satisfied Killer Wants To Go To College Killer Wants To Go To College 2 Kodachrome Late In The Evening Learn How To Fall Leaves That Are Green Let Me Live In Your City Long, Long Day Look At That Love Loves Me Like A Rock Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard Mother And Child Reunion Mrs Robinson My Little Town Night Game Nobody Oh, Marion Old Old Friends One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor One-trick Pony Overs Papa Hobo Paranoia Blues Patterns Peace Like A River Pigs, Sheep And Wolves Proof Punky's Dilemma Quality Quiet Red Rubber Ball Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War Richard Cory Run That Body Down Satin Summer Nights Save The Life Of My Child Scarborough Fair/Canticle Senorita With A Necklace Of Tears She Moves On Shelter Of Your Arms Shoplifting Clothes Silent Eyes Slip Slidin' Away So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright Some Folks Lives Roll Easy Something So Right Somewhere They Can't Find Me Song About The Moon Song For The Asking Sparrow Spirit Voices St Judy's Comet Still Crazy After All These Years Stranded In A Limousine Sunday Afternoon Take Me To The Mardi Gras Ten Years Tenderness That Was Your Mother That's Where I Belong That's Why God Made The Movies The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine The Boxer The Boy In The Bubble The Coast The Cool, Cool River The Dangling Conversation The Late Great Johnny Ace The Obvious Child The Only Living Boy In New York The Rhythm Of The Saints The Sound Of Silence The Teacher The Vampires Thelma Think Too Much (A) Think Too Much (B) Time Is An Ocean Trailways Bus Train In The Distance Under African Skies Virgil Was A Sunny Day Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. We've Got A Groovy Thing Going When Numbers Get Too Serious Why Don't You Write Me? You Can Call Me Al You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies You're Kind You're The One

Par MC NEFF STEPHEN. My research for Banished began with a small group of students during a Trinity Laban co-lab period in 2013, though the idea goes back over 30 years when I first saw Steve Gooch’s Female Transport and stored the idea of adapting it as an opera until the right opportunity arose. I have been involved in opera for a long time and it has always been a frustration for me that while there is an abundance of female talent (particularly so in conservatories and colleges) there is a noticeable lack of challenging roles available for young women. The roles most often undertaken are maids or innocent girls, compliant wives or tomboys. Not that the problem is necessarily confined exclusively to young women, but where good roles exist, the women are all too often merely passive or victims. Things happen to them rather than them making things happen. They are unable to influence their circumstances and are usually resigned to their fate. Worse still, they are often judged in some way responsible for what happens to them, culpable even because of their looks, their way of life or a streak of independence. Just think about Mimi, Carmen and Violetta (to name only three on a long list). All these characters die, and their attempts at individuality contribute to their demise in some way that they have no control over. With some exceptions female characters in opera are too often sad, mad or bad. Redressing this balance and taking advantage of the richness in vocal talent is only one reason to write an opera reflecting the reality of a group of strong women who work things out for themselves. The transportation of people to Australia at the beginning of the nineteenth century is not a particularly well understood part of history beyond a sort of folk myth. What were the circumstances, who were the people and what happened to them? Opera does not exist to completely answer these questions, but it can focus on the women as individuals and help tell their story. (All the women named in the opera actually existed.) My approach has to been to put the women’s narrative centre stage and, in the confines of an oppressive, dangerous environment go with them on their journey as they survive or sink. The demands on the women are huge. At every turn they are oppressed by their jailers, the system that brought them here and their own low expectations. They have to work out ways to overcome these odds. We discover them through their music in solos and ensembles, sometimes reflective, at other times boasting about their lives a petty criminals and trying to establish status and pecking order. Alongside this I have used references to music of the time to create another reality built on larger ensembles and choruses. This is a sort of collective consciousness aware of loss, longing and context – even of a broad political dimension to the realities of Transportation. Despite the acute awareness of their circumstances in these ensembles, there is also a resilience and strength that transcends the individual stories. Stephen McNeff / Instrumental Music / Répertoire / Voix

The Easy Gospel Fake Book. A beginning fake book for players new to ?faking?! This great collection contains over 100 favorite gospel songs all in the key of C. Each song features lyrics and simplified chords that remain true to each original tune, with large, easy-to-read music notation. Includes: Amazing Grace ? At Calvary ? Because He Lives ? Blessed Assurance ? Church in the Wildwood ? Do Lord ? Give Me That Old Time Religion ? He Touched Me ? Higher Ground ? His Eye Is on the Sparrow ? His Name Is Wonderful ? How Great Thou Art ? I Bowed on My Knees and Cried Holy ? I Saw the Light ? I'll Fly Away ? In the Garden ? Just a Closer Walk with Thee ? Mansion over the Hilltop ? More Than Wonderful ? The Old Rugged Cross ? Precious Lord, Take My Hand ? Precious Memories ? Put Your Hand in the Hand ? Rock of Ages ? Shall We Gather at the River? ? Sweet By and By ? Turn Your Radio On ? Upon This Rock ? When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder ? Whispering Hope ? Will the Circle Be Unbroken ? Wings of a Dove ? and dozens more!

This excellent resource for Gospel titles features 449 songs including: Amazing Grace ? At the Cross ? Because He Lives ? Behold the Lamb ? Blessed Assurance ? Church in the Wildwood ? The Day HeWore My Crown ? Give Me That Old Time Religion ? He Looked Beyond My Fault ? He Touched Me ? Heavenly Sunlight ? His Eye Is on the Sparrow ? Holy Ground ? How Great Thou Art ? I Bowed on MyKnees and Cried Holy ? I Saw the Light ? I'd Rather Have Jesus ? In the Garden ? Joshua (Fit the Battle of Jericho) ? Just a Little Talk with Jesus ? Lord I'm Coming Home ? Midnight Cry ?Morning Has Broken ? My Tribute ? Near the Cross ? The Old Rugged Cross ? Precious Memories ? Rock of Ages ? Shall We Gather at the River? ? There Is Power in the Blood ? We Shall Wear aCrown ? What a Friend We Have in Jesus ? and hundreds more!

Because He Lives. Because He Lives has become a standard Easter hymn for congregations the world over. Lloyd Larson has done a masterful job of bringing this hymn into the choral anthem format. Not just for Easter, it is a song of victory and promise and praise.

Because He Lives has become a standard Easter hymn for congregations the world over. Lloyd Larson has done a masterful job of bringing this hymn into the choral anthem format. Not just for Easter it is a song of victory and promise and praise.

Composed during the summer of 1988. Commissioned by The Norwegian Brass Band Club First performed in the Grieg Hall¬? at the 10th Anniversary Concert for the Norwegian Championship Bergen February 1989. EBML conducted by Michael Antrobus. The work is important for me because it was my first piece to be played outside Norway. Black Dyke/David King performed it and did a recording of it in 1991. The composer: In the original score I quote a Swedish bishop (Olaus Mangnus) who lived in the 15th century. He travelled around Scandinavia and drew maps - very important historic material. When he came to the north of Norway (where I come from) hedescribed the wind from the north as Ciricus: (something like) Worst of all winds is Circius that revolves(?= turn upside down) heaven and earth. (Well not a good translation I¬?m afraid). The fast sections reflects the mighty winds from the north. In the middle section I borrowed a folksong-like tune (by C. Elling a norwegian composer). The text (by Kristoffer Janson) tells about old times when the fishermen used open boats: they had to put their lives in the hands of God. De opening en het slot van dit werk beschrijven 'Circius' de wind die hemel en aarde verwoest. Het middendeel is een bewerking van het Noorse volkslied 'The fisherman's speech to his son'. De inhoud van het lied komt overeen met Circius. De vader verzoekt zijn zoon de krachten van de natuur te trotseren maar bovenal te respecteren. Een kort doch spectaculair concertwerk dat het gehele orkest in de greep heeft.

Composed during the summer of 1988. Commissioned by The Norwegian Brass Band Club First performed in the Grieg Hall¬? at the 10th Anniversary Concert for the Norwegian Championship Bergen February 1989. EBML conducted by Michael Antrobus. The work is important for me because it was my first piece to be played outside Norway. Black Dyke/David King performed it and did a recording of it in 1991. The composer: In the original score I quote a Swedish bishop (Olaus Mangnus) who lived in the 15th century. He travelled around Scandinavia and drew maps - very important historic material. When he came to the north of Norway (where I come from) hedescribed the wind from the north as Ciricus: (something like) Worst of all winds is Circius that revolves(?= turn upside down) heaven and earth. (Well not a good translation I¬?m afraid). The fast sections reflects the mighty winds from the north. In the middle section I borrowed a folksong-like tune (by C. Elling a norwegian composer). The text (by Kristoffer Janson) tells about old times when the fishermen used open boats: they had to put their lives in the hands of God. De opening en het slot van dit werk beschrijven 'Circius' de wind die hemel en aarde verwoest. Het middendeel is een bewerking van het Noorse volkslied 'The fisherman's speech to his son'. De inhoud van het lied komt overeen met Circius. De vader verzoekt zijn zoon de krachten van de natuur te trotseren maar bovenal te respecteren. Een kort doch spectaculair concertwerk dat het gehele orkest in de greep heeft.

A dozen old-time gospel favorites with a ragtime flair arranged for Piano solo. Ragtime Gospel Classics includes the songs: Because He Lives Goodbye World Goodbye He Touched Me I Saw the Light I'll Fly Away Keep on the Firing Line Mansion over the Hilltop No One Ever Cared for Me like Jesus There Will Be Peace in the Valley for Me Victory in Jesus What a Day That Will Be and Where Could I Go.

One-act play by Peter Kien-In September 1942 Viktor Ullmann was interned in the concentration camp of Theresienstadt where he composed the opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis [The Emperor of Atlantis] on a libretto of Peter Kien a fellow prisoner in 1943.This opera was rehearsed by a chamber ensemble founded with the permission of the SS but its first performance was prohibited after the final rehearsal. The autograph of the score only survived because shortly before his deportation to Auschwitz in 1944 Ullmann handed it together with the libretto to a friend who was able to save both manuscripts at the end of the war.The opera is a parable of a cruel emperor whose senseless war isclaiming many lives. Death puts an end to the chaos by refusing his duty - now everyone lives for eternity. The king becomes disempowered but the people long for a release from the pain of life. Only the voluntary death of the emperor can restore death's original purpose. The libretto is a vigorous take on the Third Reich and more particularly the concentration camp of Theresienstadt through the means of a mystery play. The music with its numerous references to jazz and then current light music sometimes by direct quotation puts the composer in the role of political commentator following the tradition of topical opera in the 1920's.

Big-note arrangements of 12 timeless classics: Because He Lives · He Touched Me · His Name Is Wonderful · How Great Thou Art · I Know a Man Who Can · I Will Serve Thee · Put Your Hand in the Hand · Soon and Very Soon · and more.