Quirky New Piano Pieces-'In choosing to call this set of 25 pieces The FitzTanner Collection I make a tongue-in-cheek allusion to the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.The FitzTanner Collection doffs its cap in the direction of this seminal ancient tome by borrowing some of the more fanciful and suggestive titles from which it is comprised but beyond this there is no musical connection with the original pieces at all. And yet stirred into the mix is my fondness for melding together bygone musical styles. Hence this album of piano pieces pitched at the more robust intermediate pianist combines quirky originality with older musical styles drawinginspiration not just from Renaissance dances and fantasies but from more elaborate Baroque and Classical styles too. That said the music is conceived very much with the qualities of the modern piano in mind and hence requires a good many pedal effects dynamics and plenty of expression. What emerges is I hope a collection of attractive piano pieces which cheerfully bear the traces of a time when the modern piano was but a twinkle in the eye.There is an enjoyable charisma to the Old English spellings of these pieces (as well as a healthy margin for idiosyncrasy I might add) and to my own creations I have taken great delight in adding a few light-hearted directions which I trust won't cause too much consternation. Not all of the Fitzwilliam titles are easily fathomed but the playful risqué and politically incorrect overtones are sometimes quite striking leading me to contemplate a similarly unserious vein in my own writing. To what (or indeed to whom) you may ask does 'Quodlings Delight' refer? I'm not sure I'd recognise a Quodling if it crawled out of my porridge (and likewise who the eponymous Barafostus might have been is anybody's guess). Perhaps on balance the music is best left to speak for itself and regardless of how many ways an old title can be reworked it will always come down to living breathing

Themes from 71 popular TV shows are showcased in this updated second edition including: The Addams Family · The Big Bang Theory · Breaking Bad · Cheers · Downton Abbey · Friends · Game of Thrones · Hawaii Five-O Theme · I Love Lucy · Jeopardy · Law and Order · M*A*S*H · NFL on Fox · The Office · Perry Mason · Sesame Street · The Simpsons · The Sopranos · Star Trek® · That '70s Show · The Walking Dead · The Young and the Restless · and more.

Full Score-Morton Gould's musical score for the CBS television series 'World War I' has been acclaimed as one of the most exciting and original yet commissioned for this medium. His music has truly evoked the moods of the era:the nostalgia the doomed romanticism and the tragic human drama.As one of America's most agile musical intellects Morton Gould has pioneered in the creation of a meaningful repertoire for the symphonic band. Thissetting of the 'Prologue' which is the musical signature of the series adheres strictly to the original television scoring. The dramatic intensity of the theme will make its performance a compelling musicalexperience for performer and audience alike.'World War I' permiered on the CBS Television Network in the fall of 1964 and featured Robert Ryan as narrator. The series was produced by CBS news and has been shown throughoutthe world.The original soundtrack album 'World War I' conducted by Morton Gould is available on RCA Victor Red Seal Record: L M-2791/LSC-2791.