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

La référence GB3652 B de l'éditeur Billaudot dont l'auteur célèbre est Ancelin Pierre, qui a pour titre CHANT DE L'OISEAU QUI N'EXISTE PAS, a été écrite et composée pour Flûte Traversière et plus particulièrement pour Flûte. Cette partition musicale appartient à la catégorie Classique. / Flûte / Partition

Par PART ARVO. Pärt's take on the Te Deum text, also known as the Ambrosian Hymn, employs his signature tintinnabuli style of composition. The melodic lines, as well as their harmonies, strictly follow the rhythms of the text, resulting in heightened importance given to the text itself and an unconventional setting. For advanced players and vocalists. The liturgical text of the Te Deum consists of immutable truths. I am reminded of the sense of immeasurable serenity imparted by a mountain panorama. Swiss artist Martin Ruf once told me that he can distinguish over twenty shades of blue in the mountains when the air is clear. His words immediately turned into sound; I began tohear those blue mountains. I wished only to convey a mood, a mood that could be infinite in time, by delicately removing one piece - one particle of time - out of the flow of infinity. I had to draw this music gently out of silence and emptiness. The work Te Deum was a quest for something evanescent, something long lost or not yet found, the quest for something believed to be non-existent, but so real that it exists not only within us but beyond our being as well. (Arvo Pärt)/ Répertoire / Choeur SSAA/TTBB/SATB, Piano Préparé, Orchestre à

Quartetto Sereno - String Quartet No.21 Op.197 (op. posth.) by Vagn Holmboe. Holmboe's last quartet work which is unoffi­cially also String Quartet No. 21 was the last work he ever composed and was unfinished on his death in 1996. His pupil Per Nørgård has finished the quartet and himself characterizes his contribution by saying that the score existed “in an only partly completed form which could however be written out with only a few cases of doubt”. With only two movements and a play­ing time of about nine minutes it is at its exist­ing length the shortest of Holmboe's stringquar­tets. The first movement takes the form of one long arch in a rocking triple time which constantly shifts among different tempo and pulse sensations. At the same time the rhythmic en­ergy increases until the movement in a faster Con moto tempo accelerates to a more flowing 12/8 time coloured both rhythmically by cross-­rhythms in duple time and timbrally by harmon­ics in the viola. In its middle section Con fuoco the movement culminates in both tempo and expression until it falls calm in brief recapitula­tions in reverse order of the first two sections. The rocking feeling continues in the second movement but now at a more extroverted level from the outset Allegro and pizzicato. The en­ergy builds up further as the mood intensifies to Con fuoco while all instruments go over to bowed playing but like the first movement this movement ends Adagio here however not as a gradual attenuation but through a sudden shift in tempo to a calm imitative passage before the movement slowly thins out to the almost inaudible through a last dense open sounding chord with a brief violin solo above it. The quartet is dedicated to Holmboe's wife MeLa May Holmboe and was given its first performance by the Kontra Quartet on 22nd March 1997 at the Carl Nielsen Academy of

Five States of Change-Evolution est une commande de l?institut Kunstfactor pour la 4e division des Championnats néerlandais de Brass Band en 2011. Cette oeuvre est dédiée à Jappie Dijkstra et au Music Information Centre (MUI) d?Arnhem aux Pays-Bas en hommage à leur rôle exceptionnel dans le développement du répertoire pour Brass Band. Le compositeur écrit :L?idée de cette composition m?est venue alors que je lisais un article sur un aspect de la philosophie chinoise connu sous l?abréviation de Wu Xing qu?il est impossible de traduire littéralement mais qui peut signifier par exemple cinq éléments cinq phases ou cinq états de changement. Toute chose dans l?univers est le fruitd?un cycle de création (ou d?engendrement) et de domination (ou contrôle). Ce concept est essentiel à tous les éléments de la pensée chinoise y compris les sciences la philosophie la médecine et l?astrologie et en termes simples il représente les multiples rapports cycliques qui existent entre cinq éléments liés à l?univers et à toute chose dans l?univers donc à l?homme.Évoquons le cycle de la création : Terre - Métal - Eau - Bois - Feu - (Terre) etc. la terre contient des minéraux source de métal le métal peut être fondu et se liquéfie l?eau arrose et fait pousser les arbres le bois brûle et produit du feu le feu produit des cendres une sorte de terre dans une dynamique cyclique perpétuelle.Parmi tous les cycles existants celui des émotions éveilla particulièrement mon intérêt : Méditation - Chagrin - Peur - Colère - Joie - (Méditation) etc. et je me suis dit que ce principe cyclique pourrait être à la source d?un puissant et émotionnel voyage musical. Evolution se compose donc de cinq parties égales qui reflètent assez librement ce cycle des émotions. J?ai essayé de faire en sorte que la musique se développe de manière fluide et naturelle avec un minimum de répétitions. Chaque mouvement s?ouvre à partir des éléments musicaux qui parachèvent le mouvement précédent tandis que le motif premier réapparaît

Five States of Change est une commande de l?institut Kunstfactor pour la 4e division des Championnats néerlandais de Brass Band en 2011. Cette œuvre est dédiée à Jappie Dijkstra et au Music Information Centre (MUI) d?Arnhem aux Pays-Bas en hommage à leur rôle exceptionnel dans le développement du répertoire pour Orchestre à Vent.Le compositeur écrit : 'L?idée de cette composition m?est venue alors que je lisais un article sur un aspect de la philosophie chinoise connu sous l?abréviation de Wu Xing* qu?il est impossible de traduire littéralement mais qui peut signifier par exemple cinq éléments cinq phases ou cinq états de changement. Toutechose dans l?univers est le fruit d?un cycle de création (ou d?engendrement) et de domination (ou contrôle). Ce concept est essentiel à tous les éléments de la pensée chinoise y compris les sciences la philosophie la médecine et l?astrologie et en termes simples il représente les multiples rapports cycliques qui existent entre cinq éléments liés à l?univers et à toute chose dans l?univers donc à l?homme.Évoquons le cycle de la création : Terre - Métal - Eau - Bois - Feu - (Terre) etc. La terre contient des minéraux source de métal le métal peut être fondu et se liquéfie l?eau arrose et fait pousser les arbres le bois brûle et produit du feu le feu produit des cendres une sorte de terre dans une dynamique cyclique perpétuelle.Parmi tous les cycles existants celui des émotions éveilla particulièrement mon intérêt : Méditation - Chagrin - Peur - Colère - Joie - (Méditation) etc. et je me suis dit que ce principe cyclique pourrait être à la source d?un puissant et émotionnel voyage musical. Five States of Change se compose donc de cinq parties égales qui reflètent assez librement ce cycle des émotions. J?ai essayé de faire en sorte que la musique se développe de manière fluide et naturelle avec un minimum de répétitions. Chaque mouvement s?ouvre à partir des éléments musicaux qui parachèvent le mouvement précédent tandis que

Five States of Change-Evolution est une commande de l?institut Kunstfactor pour la 4e division des Championnats néerlandais de Brass Band en 2011. Cette oeuvre est dédiée à Jappie Dijkstra et au Music Information Centre (MUI) d?Arnhem aux Pays-Bas en hommage à leur rôle exceptionnel dans le développement du répertoire pour Brass Band. Le compositeur écrit :L?idée de cette composition m?est venue alors que je lisais un article sur un aspect de la philosophie chinoise connu sous l?abréviation de Wu Xing qu?il est impossible de traduire littéralement mais qui peut signifier par exemple cinq éléments cinq phases ou cinq états de changement. Toute chose dans l?univers est le fruitd?un cycle de création (ou d?engendrement) et de domination (ou contrôle). Ce concept est essentiel à tous les éléments de la pensée chinoise y compris les sciences la philosophie la médecine et l?astrologie et en termes simples il représente les multiples rapports cycliques qui existent entre cinq éléments liés à l?univers et à toute chose dans l?univers donc à l?homme.Évoquons le cycle de la création : Terre - Métal - Eau - Bois - Feu - (Terre) etc. la terre contient des minéraux source de métal le métal peut être fondu et se liquéfie l?eau arrose et fait pousser les arbres le bois brûle et produit du feu le feu produit des cendres une sorte de terre dans une dynamique cyclique perpétuelle.Parmi tous les cycles existants celui des émotions éveilla particulièrement mon intérêt : Méditation - Chagrin - Peur - Colère - Joie - (Méditation) etc. et je me suis dit que ce principe cyclique pourrait être à la source d?un puissant et émotionnel voyage musical. Evolution se compose donc de cinq parties égales qui reflètent assez librement ce cycle des émotions. J?ai essayé de faire en sorte que la musique se développe de manière fluide et naturelle avec un minimum de répétitions. Chaque mouvement s?ouvre à partir des éléments musicaux qui parachèvent le mouvement précédent tandis que le motif premier réapparaît

Cantata for the 1st Easter Day-Der Himmel Lacht! Die Erde Jubilieret BWV 31 (The Heavens laugh the earth exults in gladness) BWV 31Cantata for the 1st Easter Day- Performance material (BA10031) vocal score (BA10031-90) and study score (TP1031) available for saleThe text by Salomon Franck who was the librettist of some of Bach's the best-known cantatas is closely linked to the account of Easter and recalls the jubilation at the resurrection of Jesus.Bärenreiter's editions of Bach Cantatas offer the authoritative text of the New Bach Edition meeting Bärenreiter Urtext standards. No group of works in Johann Sebastian Bach?s output is aswide-ranging as the cantatas. This is hardly surprising considering that for over five years Bach was required to compose a work or at least re-work an existing one for every Sunday and festival of the church year as well as for numerous secular occasions such as council inaugurations school and university celebrations and royal birthdays.Unfortunately not all cantatas have survived. However over 200 sacred and secular works exist and form a corpus of works suitable for all possible occasions. This rich musical heritage is still as relevant today as it was then.

Cantata for the 8th Sunday after Trinity-Es Ist Dir Gesagt Mensch Was Gut Ist BWV 45Cantata for the 8th Sunday after Trinity- Performance material (BA10045) vocal score (BA10045-90) and study score (TP1045) available for sale.Bärenreiter's editions of Bach Cantatas offer the authoritative text of the New Bach Edition meeting Bärenreiter Urtext standards. No group of works in Johann Sebastian Bach?s output is as wide-ranging as the cantatas. This is hardly surprising considering that for over five years Bach was required to compose a work or at least re-work an existing one for every Sunday and festival of the church year aswell as for numerous secular occasions such as council inaugurations school and university celebrations and royal birthdays.Unfortunately not all cantatas have survived. However over 200 sacred and secular works exist and form a corpus of works suitable for all possible occasions. This rich musical heritage is still as relevant today as it was then.

Cantata for the Sunday Jubilate-Weinen Klagen Sorgen Zagen (Weeping crying sorrow sighing) BWV 12Cantata for the Sunday Jubilate These editions of Bach Cantatas offer the authoritative text of the New Bach Edition meeting Bärenreiter Urtext standards. No group of works in Johann Sebastian Bach’s output is as wide-ranging as the cantatas. This is hardly surprising considering that for over five years Bach was required to compose a work or at least re-work an existing one for every Sunday and festival of the church year as well as for numerous secular occasions such as council inaugurations school and university celebrations androyal birthdays. Unfortunately not all cantatas have survived. However over 200 sacred and secular works exist and form a corpus of works suitable for all possible occasions. This rich musical heritage is still as relevant today as it was then. - Performance material vocal score & study score available for sale

Cantata for Easter Sunday-Christ lag in Todes Banden (Christ lay by death enshrouded / Christ lay in grim death's prison ) BWV 4Cantata for Easter SundayUrtext of the New Bach Edition.Original German text with English singing translation.Idiomatic and easy-to-play Piano reduction.Performance material (BA10004) vocal score (BA10004-90) & study score (TP1004) available for sale.Bärenreiter's editions of Bach Cantatas offer the authoritative text of the New Bach Edition meeting Bärenreiter Urtext standards. No group of works in Johann Sebastian Bach?s output is as wide-ranging as the cantatas. This is hardly surprisingconsidering that for over five years Bach was required to compose a work or at least re-work an existing one for every Sunday and festival of the church year as well as for numerous secular occasions such as council inaugurations school and university celebrations and royal birthdays. Unfortunately not all cantatas have survived. However over 200 sacred and secular works exist and form a corpus of works suitable for all possible occasions. This rich musical heritage is still as relevant today as it was then.

Cantata for Easter Monday-Bleib Bei Uns Denn Es Will Abend Werden BWV 6Cantata for Easter Monday- Full score & performance material (BA10006) vocal score (BA10006-90) available for saleBarenreiter's editions of Bach's Cantatas offer the authoritative text of the New Bach Edition meeting Bärenreiter Urtext standards. No group of works in Johann Sebastian Bach?s output is as wide-ranging as the cantatas. This is hardly surprising considering that for over five years Bach was required to compose a work or at least re-work an existing one for every Sunday and festival of the church year as well as for numerous secular occasions such ascouncil inaugurations school and university celebrations and royal birthdays.Unfortunately not all cantatas have survived. However over 200 sacred and secular works exist and form a corpus of works suitable for all possible occasions. This rich musical heritage is still as relevant today as it was then.