SKU: CL.RWS-2119-01

A dragonfly is a fast, agile flier that sometimes migrates great distances and across oceans. In some cultures, dragonflies are symbols of courage, strength and happiness, and in others, they are seen as dark and sinister. Flight Of The Dragonfly captures the power and energy of this amazing creature through music. Featuring a soaring melody over driving rhythms, this work for the young band utilizes colorful percussion scoring as well as insect effects using brass mouthpieces. An exciting work that will captivate your developing musician and their audience!

SKU: HL.50490228

ISBN 9790080145531. UPC: 884088531638. 7.5x10.75x0.365 inches. Hungarian, English, German. Sandor Veress; Melinda Berlasz.

Volume II of the collected edition of the choral works of Veress contains seven Hungarian folksong cycles or cantatas, a choral poem in Hungarian and a choral cycle in English. In his first creative period (1929-1939), which he spent in Hungary, Sandor Veress's direct involvement in Hungarian folk music research played a decisive part: his folksong experience gained through personal collecting work found expression in his first period of composition for mixed choir. In the course of the 1960s, after his emigration, he returned on two occasions to the a cappella mixed choir genre: in 1962 he wrote a piece for mixed choir to mark the 60th birthday of the great Hungarian poet Gyula Illyes (Oda Europahoz - Ode to Europe, based on the poem by Illyes), and in 1967, at the request of the Australian Radio Company, he composed for the 'Adelaide Singers' chamber choir Songs of the Seasons, a seven-movement madrigal cycle making exceptional demands on the performers, to verses by the Australian poet Christopher Brennan (1870-1932).

SKU: HL.49045272

ISBN 9783795780845. German. Author: Juergen Schebera.

Kurt Weills Leben ist tief verflochten mit den kulturellen Hohepunkten und politischen Katastrophen der ersten Halfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Der Sohn des Kantors der Dessauer Synagoge wird Meisterschuler von Feruccio Busoni in Berlin, er steigt auf vom Schopfer avancierter Orchester- und Kammermusik zum fuhrenden Opernerneuerer der Weimarer Republik, begrundet gemeinsam mit Bertolt Brecht einen revolutionierenden Songstil und wird schliesslich nach seiner Emigration in den USA erfolgreicher Komponist von Musicals und <> in der Nachfolge George Gershwins. Das vorliegende Buch wurde vom Autor Jurgen Schebera fur diese Auflage vollstandig aktualisiert.

SKU: BR.BV-382

Hanns Eislers Wiener Arbeiten nach der Ruckkehr aus dem Exil

ISBN 9783765103827. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.

Hanns Eisler's native Vienna is the point of convergence for the approach to three complexes in his life and works: re-emigration, film music and incidental music. At the center is the period between Eisler's return from exile in the U.S. in 1948 and the end of his compositional engagement in Vienna, which was closely connected to the withdrawal of the Soviet occupational forces from Austria in 1955. At the center of Eisler's film and incidental music are three major works which Peter Schweinhardt examines on the basis of widely unknown musical material and documents: the filming of Brecht's Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti (1955), the work on the script of the Fidelio screen adaptation by Walter Felsenstein (1953-56) and the incidental music to Nestroy's Hollenangst (1948). This lengthy score is characteristic of Eisler's post-war project of a new, folkloristic-classicistic music.