| Shulamit Ran: Soliloquy Piano Trio: piano, violin, cello [Score and Parts] Theodore Presser Co.
For Violin, Cello, and Piano - Score and Parts. By Shulamit Ran. Text: Shulamit ...(+)
For Violin, Cello, and Piano - Score and Parts. By Shulamit Ran. Text: Shulamit Ran. For Violin, Cello, Piano. Score and parts. Composed 1997. 12 pages. Duration 8:00. Published by Theodore Presser Company.
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Judith Clurman - Rejoice: Honoring the Jewish Spirit Series. Composed by Shula...(+)
Judith Clurman - Rejoice:
Honoring the Jewish Spirit
Series. Composed by Shulamit
Ran (1949-). Rejoice Honoring
Jewish Spirit. Concert,
Festival, Jewish. Octavo. 16
pages. Published by Hal
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| Shulamit Ran : Verticals Piano solo [Solo Part] Theodore Presser Co.
By Shulamit Ran. For piano. Duration 17:. Published by Theodore Presser Company....(+)
By Shulamit Ran. For piano. Duration 17:. Published by Theodore Presser Company.
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| Birkat Haderekh Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano [Set of Parts] Theodore Presser Co.
(Blessing For The Road). Composed by Shulamit Ran (1949-). For mixed quartet: cl...(+)
(Blessing For The Road). Composed by Shulamit Ran (1949-). For mixed quartet: clarinet, violin, cello, piano. Set of parts. 28 pages. Duration 6 minutes. Published by Theodore Presser Company
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| Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello [Score and Parts] Theodore Presser Co.
(String Quartet No. 3). Composed by Shulamit Ran (1949-). For string quartet (2 ...(+)
(String Quartet No. 3). Composed by Shulamit Ran (1949-). For string quartet (2 violins, 2 violas, violoncello). Contemporary. Score and Parts. Standard Notation. Composed March 9 2013. 92 pages. Duration 23 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41690. Published by Theodore Presser Company
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| Song and Dance Vibraphone, Soprano Saxophone Theodore Presser Co.
(Duo for Saxophones and Percussion). By Shulamit Ran (1949-). Solo instrument wi...(+)
(Duo for Saxophones and Percussion). By Shulamit Ran (1949-). Solo instrument with accompaniment. For Soprano Saxophone, Vibraphone. Set of 3 scores. Standard notation. Composed 2007
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| Spirit Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Clarinet SKU: PR.114419200 For solo Bb Clarinet. Com...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet SKU: PR.114419200 For solo Bb Clarinet. Composed by Shulamit Ran. Solo part. With Standard notation. 8 pages. Duration 7 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41920. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114419200). ISBN 9781491114223. UPC: 680160671731. 9 x 12 inches. Spirit was composed in memory of the renowned clarinetist Laura Flax. Laura commissioned Ran’s first solo clarinet work, For an Actor: Monologue for Clarinet, to premiere with the Da Capo Chamber Players in 1978. Ran returned to the clarinet in many compositions over the years, sometimes as a lead instrument and at other times as an important voice, yet always inspired by Laura’s rich sound, blazing technique, and the “brain and guts†that she brought to her playing. As a memorial, Spirit is not about absence, but rather a celebration displaying a wide range of emotions, with at least a tiny glimpse of Laura’s brilliant spirit and spiritedness. Only in the work’s final stretch does the sense of parting and loss take over. SPIRIT was composed in memory of Laura Flax (1952-2017), the renowned New York-based clarinetist and my cherished friend. Our musical and personal association began in 1977 when Laura invited me to compose a solo clarinet work, For an Actor: Monologue for Clarinet, in memory of her mother, Hazel Flax, whom I had known.After composing For an Actor for Laura I came back to the clarinet in many of my compositions over the years, sometimes as a lead instrument and at other times as an important voice. In all of my clarinet music Laura is present. The rich sound, blazing technique, the “brain and guts†that she brought to her playing, and her remarkable person, have inspired me in so many ways during the four decades of our friendship, and beyond.I did not want Spirit to be about absence, though. I wanted the piece to exhibit a wider range of emotions, as well as capture at least a tiny glimpse of Laura’s brilliant spirit and spiritedness. Only in the work’s final stretch does the sense of “parting,†and of loss, take over.Upon completing Spirit on October 21, 2017 I found myself compelled to add at the bottom of the score the words “To Laura, always in my heart,†as though in an effort to reach out, for a brief moment, and touch the unreachable.—Shulamit Ran. $9.99 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| All Roads Leading Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Flute, Harp, Viola SKU: PR.114423470 Composed by Shulamit R...(+)
Chamber Music Flute, Harp, Viola SKU: PR.114423470 Composed by Shulamit Ran. Set of Score and Parts. 24+12+12+16 pages. Duration 13 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-42347. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114423470). ISBN 9781491137314. UPC: 680160687473. A commission from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, for any combination of instruments of her choosing, quickly sparked Shulamit Ran to create a trio for Flute, Viola, and Harp. She writes of this instrumentation: “something about its color palette reminded me of the image I have of Santa Fe as a sun-drenched city of warm hues, a thriving arts scene, and a spirit of relaxed tolerance.†In this subtle, yet dramatic work, the instruments begin the journey with distinct, contrasting musical personalities, which gradually begin to coalesce, though not without surprise twists along the road. Being commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival to create a new work for the major milestone of its 50th anniversary was both an honor and a special delight. My choice of the flute, viola, and harp combination for this composition was reached quickly and almost instinctively, motivated not only because I relished the thought of composing for an instrumental ensemble I had not previously written for, but also because something about its color palette reminded me of the image I have of Santa Fe as a sun-drenched city of warm hues, a thriving arts scene, and a spirit of relaxed tolerance.In All Roads Leading I treat the instruments intermittently as three distinct characters who have their own individual “voices†and musical materials, while at other times they coalesce into a single, more unified entity. In the sections expressive of the instruments’ individual “soulsâ€â€”as I like to call them—the music ranges from the songful, to the impassioned, but also the volatile. In contrast, where all three instruments act as a single entity, the music tends to be highly rhythmic, sometimes dance-like, even angular, and spiky.As the work progresses, the boundaries between these contrasting approaches become deliberately blurrier and more intertwined, perhaps reminding one of a tale with various twists and turns in the plot. And although eschewing a formal recapitulation, various motivic threads as well as emotive “states†are eventually brought full circle, as if to fulfill an intended role that crystallizes only as All Roads Leading plays out its full journey. Simultaneously with the general unwinding and relaxation that is reached nearthe end, a mutation of an earlier more threatening element appears at the very closing of the work, perhaps a reminder that the unknown always lies ahead. $34.99 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| O the Chimneys Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Clarinet, Flute, Percussion, Piano, Tape, Violoncello, soprano voi...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet, Flute, Percussion, Piano, Tape, Violoncello, soprano voice SKU: PR.11140180S For Mezzo-soprano Voice and Chamber Ensemble with Tape. Composed by Shulamit Ran. Text: Five Poems of Nelly Sachs, Translation from German of Nos. I, III and IV by Ruth and Matthew Mead, of No. II by Michael Roloff and No. V by Michael Hamburger. Contemporary. Set of performance scores. With Standard notation. Composed 1969. 52 pages. Duration 18 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #111-40180S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11140180S). UPC: 680160601691. Text: Nelly Sachs. Nelly Sachs. Text: Five Poems of Nelly Sachs, Translation from German of Nos. I, III and IV by Ruth and Matthew Mead, of No. II by Michael Roloff and No. V by Michael Hamburger. O The Chimneys is a setting of five poems by Nelly Sachs, the great German-Jewish 1966 Nobel Prize co-winner in literature, whose writing concerned itself almost entirely with the subject of the holocaust. Composed in 1969, the work was my own personal way of saying, through my own art, do not forget. Shockingly, these words have as much relevance today as they did when the work was written. Today we find ourselves having to say do not forget, do not distort, do not deny it ever happened. I selected the five poems from Sachs' O The Chimneys collection, retaining its grimly evocative title even though I did not include the actual poem by that name. In scoring the work for female voice, flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, cello, piano and percussion, I aimed to give myself the broadest possible palette of instrumental colors while using the smallest number of participants. Yet as I was planning the final moments of my cycle, I felt that instrumental sound alone would not suffice to express the horror. An electronic tape segment was added to the work's final climax. The first two poems (A Dead Child Speaks and Already Embraced by the Arm of Heavenly Solace), both depicting the tearing of a child away from his mother, are treated essentially as one unit, with the first acting as an introduction to the second. These two, and the cycle's apocalyptic fifth poem (Hell is Naked from Glowing Enigmas II), act as the two weighty pillar points, so to speak, surrounding the more introspective two middle poems (Fleeing and Someone Comes). To maximize dramatic differentiation within the constraints of a relentlessly tragic subject matter, I used range as a means to delineate contrast, by dividing the sounds available to me into low and dark (mvt. III) vs. high and, at times, eerily bright (mvt. IV) colors. Thus the two middle poems are intended to balance the frenzied madness of which the work's outer parts are made. The work received its first performance in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Grace Rainey Auditorium on January 19, 1970. --Shulamit Ran. $38.99 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
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Chamber Music Clarinet, Flute, Mezzo-soprano voice, Percussion, Piano, Tape, Vio...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet, Flute, Mezzo-soprano voice, Percussion, Piano, Tape, Violoncello SKU: PR.111401800 For Mezzo-soprano Voice and Chamber Ensemble with Tape. Composed by Shulamit Ran. Arranged by Nelly Sachs. Text: Five Poems of Nelly Sachs, Translation from German of Nos. I, III and IV by Ruth and Matthew Mead, of No. II by Michael Roloff and No. V by Michael Hamburger. Contemporary. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed 1969. 51+16+14+20+14+15 pages. Duration 18 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #111-40180. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.111401800). UPC: 680160618132. 8.5 x 11 inches. Text: Nelly Sachs. Nelly Sachs. Text: Five Poems of Nelly Sachs, Translation from German of Nos. I, III and IV by Ruth and Matthew Mead, of No. II by Michael Roloff and No. V by Michael Hamburger. O The Chimneys is a setting of five poems by Nelly Sachs, the great German-Jewish 1966 Nobel Prize co-winner in literature, whose writing concerned itself almost entirely with the subject of the holocaust. Composed in 1969, the work was my own personal way of saying, through my own art, do not forget. Shockingly, these words have as much relevance today as they did when the work was written. Today we find ourselves having to say do not forget, do not distort, do not deny it ever happened. I selected the five poems from Sachs' O The Chimneys collection, retaining its grimly evocative title even though I did not include the actual poem by that name. In scoring the work for female voice, flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, cello, piano and percussion, I aimed to give myself the broadest possible palette of instrumental colors while using the smallest number of participants. Yet as I was planning the final moments of my cycle, I felt that instrumental sound alone would not suffice to express the horror. An electronic tape segment was added to the work's final climax. The first two poems (A Dead Child Speaks and Already Embraced by the Arm of Heavenly Solace), both depicting the tearing of a child away from his mother, are treated essentially as one unit, with the first acting as an introduction to the second. These two, and the cycle's apocalyptic fifth poem (Hell is Naked from Glowing Enigmas II), act as the two weighty pillar points, so to speak, surrounding the more introspective two middle poems (Fleeing and Someone Comes). To maximize dramatic differentiation within the constraints of a relentlessly tragic subject matter, I used range as a means to delineate contrast, by dividing the sounds available to me into low and dark (mvt. III) vs. high and, at times, eerily bright (mvt. IV) colors. Thus the two middle poems are intended to balance the frenzied madness of which the work's outer parts are made. The work received its first performance in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Grace Rainey Auditorium on January 19, 1970. --Shulamit Ran. $90.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 2 String Quartet: 2 violins, viola, cello Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Cello, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2 SKU: PR.114406980 Vista...(+)
Chamber Music Cello, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2 SKU: PR.114406980 Vistas. Composed by Shulamit Ran. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 42 + 112 pages. Duration 25 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-40698. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114406980). UPC: 680160010806. Shulamit Ran’s second string quartet, subtitled “Vistas,†occupies a large canvas that is cast in a traditional fourmovement mold, where the outer movements present, explore, and later return to the work’s principal musical materials, surrounding a slow movement and scherzo-type third movement with a trio. In addition to tempo-based titles, the individual movements have subtitles that are evocative of each movement’s character, as follows: I. Concentric: from the inside out II. Stasis III. Flashes IV. Vistas. My second string quartet, “Vistasâ€, is a work cast in a traditional four-movement formal mold, with the outer movements, presenting and later returning to the work’s principal musical materials, surrounding a slow movement and a scherzo-type third movement.While the four movements’ “proper†names -- Maestoso con forza, Lento, Scherzo impetuoso, and Introduzione; Maestoso e grande – give some indication of the general character of the individual movements, I have also subtitled, less formally, each movement as follows: 1) Concentric: from the inside out 2) Stasis 3) Flashes 4) Vista. The images evoked by these titles tell one, I think, a bit more about the inner workings of the quartet.In the first movement, a prominently presented opening pitch (E) reveals itself, as the movement unfolds, to be a center of gravity from which ever-growing cycles of activity gradually evolve. While various important themes come into being as the movement progresses, their impact on the listener has, I believe, a great deal to do with their juxtaposition and relationship to the initial central point of gravity.Stasis is, as the name implies, a movement where activity seems, at times, almost suspended. Being also, as Webster’s Dictionary reminds us, “a state of static balance and equilibrium among opposing tendencies or forces,†it develops various materials, including ones from the first movement, without bringing them to points of resolution.Flashes is short and very fast, evoking in my mind the quick shimmer of fireflies, a “sudden burst of lightâ€, but also a “brief timeâ€. Perhaps, even, a “smileâ€?Finally, the last movement, Vista, is not only “a view or outlookâ€, but also “a comprehensive mental view of a series of remembered or anticipated events.â€Â After a brief recall of the opening of the second movement, this movement brings back all the important themes of the first movement in their original order. But just as going back can never really mean going back in time, the movement is much more than recapitulatory. By cutting through previously transitory passages and presenting the main ideas in a fashion more direct yet more evolved, it also sheds new light on earlier events, offering a retrospective, synoptic view of the first movement as it brings to culmination the work as a whole. “Vistas†was commissioned by C. Geraldine Freund for the Taneyev String Quartet of what was then Leningrad. It was the first commission given in this country to a Soviet chamber ensemble since the 1985 cultural exchange accord between the Soviet Union and the United States. $285.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| SONG AND DANCE [Score] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Vibraphone, soprano Saxophone SKU: PR.11441378S Duo for ...(+)
Chamber Music Vibraphone, soprano Saxophone SKU: PR.11441378S Duo for Saxophones and Percussion. Composed by Shulamit Ran. Spiral. Contemporary. Full score. With Standard notation. Composed 2007. 12 pages. Theodore Presser Company #114-41378S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11441378S). UPC: 680160585939. 11 x 14 inches. Commissioned by Network for New Music, who premiered the work in April 2008, with support from Philadelphia Music Project, an Artistic Initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts, administered by the University of the Arts. “Song and Dance†began its life as a nascent melody in the late eighties, employing a similar motivic cell as did three of my works written over a period of several years — East Wind, String Quartet No. 2 (Vistas), and Mirage. At the ore of these three works is the simplest of melodic kernels — a note encircled by its two neighboring tones (and more specifically, a half step above and whole step below). At the time, I envisioned writing a work for voice, oboe, and marimba, and had just begun it, only to drop it in favor of more pressing compositional assignments. Almost twenty years later, the vocal fragment finally evolved into the “song†of this work, played here by the soprano saxophone. But it seems that the song, all these years, had been waiting for its counterpart, a dance. Singing and dancing are two of humankind’s most basic and essential impulses, transcending time and place, reaching back to the earliest civilizations. The resulting composition, “Song and Danceâ€, moves back and forth between the two, delineating its various parts further with the use of both soprano and alto saxophones, partnered by mallet percussion instruments — mostly vibraphone and marimba, with bells added at the very end of the work. The song portions return to the same melody, varied and evolved over time, as new materials are introduced in the dance sections, affecting the presentation of the recurring song music. My thanks to the Network for New Music for commissioning this work and allowing me the freedom to choose its format and instrumentation.—Shulamit Ran. $23.99 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory [Score] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Viola 1, Viola 2, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello SKU: PR.11441...(+)
Chamber Music Viola 1, Viola 2, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello SKU: PR.11441690S String Quartet No. 3. Composed by Shulamit Ran. Sws. Contemporary. Full score. With Standard notation. Composed March 9 2013. 32 pages. Duration 23 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41690S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11441690S). UPC: 680160626021. 9 x 12 inches. Ran's third string quartet was written for the Pacifica Quartet, who are featuring it in numerous performances from May 2014 through February 2016, across the country and abroad. Their blog page dedicated to the work also features the composer's notes, for more indepth insight. ...impassioned solos emerge from ominous quiet, and high arpeggios in the violins quiver alongside the earthy cello. Ms. Ran skillfully deploys these extremes of color, volume and pitch, yet the overall somewhat chilly impression is one of poise. -- Zachary Woolfe, The New York Times. My third string quartet was composed at the invitation of the Pacifica Quartet, whose music-making I have come to know closely and admire hugely as resident artists at the University of Chicago. Already in our early conversations Pacifica proposed that this quartet might, in some manner, refer to the visual arts as a point of germination. Probing further, I found out that the quartet members had special interest in art created during the earlier part of the 20th century, perhaps between the two world wars. It was my good fortune to have met, a short while later, while in residence at the American Academy in Rome in the fall of 2011, art conservationist Albert Albano who steered me to the work of Felix Nussbaum (1904-1944), a German-Jewish painter who, like so many others, perished in the Holocaust at a young age, and who left some powerful, deeply moving art that spoke to the life that was unraveling around him. The title of my string quartet takes its inspiration from a major exhibit devoted to art by German artists of the period of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) titled “Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920sâ€, first shown at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2006-07. Nussbaum would have been a bit too young to be included in this exhibit. His most noteworthy art was created in the last very few years of his short life. The exhibit’s evocative title, however, suggested to me the idea of “Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory†as a way of framing a possible musical composition that would be an homage to his life and art, and to that of so many others like him during that era.  Knowing that their days were numbered, yet intent on leaving a mark, a legacy, a memory, their art is triumph of the human spirit over annihilation. Parallel to my wish to compose a string quartet that, typically for this genre, would exist as “pure musicâ€, independent of a narrative, was my desire to effect an awareness in my listener of matters which are, to me, of great human concern.  To my mind there is no contradiction between the two goals.  As in several other works composed since 1969, this is my way of saying ‘do not forget’, something that, I believe, can be done through music with special power and poignancy.   The individual titles of the quartet’s four movements give an indication of some of the emotional strands this work explores. 1) “That which happened†(das was geschah) – is how the poet Paul Celan referred to the Shoah – the Holocaust.  These simple words served for me, in the first movement, as a metaphor for the way in which an “ordinary†life, with its daily flow and its sense of sweet normalcy, was shockingly, inhumanely, inexplicably shattered. 2) “Menace†is a shorter movement, mimicking a Scherzo.  It is also machine-like, incessant, with an occasional, recurring, waltz-like little tune – perhaps the chilling grimace we recognize from the executioner’s guillotine mask.  Like the death machine it alludes to, it gathers momentum as it goes, and is unstoppable. 3) â€If I must perish - do not let my paintings dieâ€; these words are by Felix Nussbaum who, knowing what was ahead, nonetheless continued painting till his death in Auschwitz in 1944.  If the heart of the first movement is the shuddering interruption of life as we know it, the third movement tries to capture something of what I can only imagine to be the conflicting states of mind that would have made it possible, and essential, to continue to live and practice one’s art – bearing witness to the events.  Creating must have been, for Nussbaum and for so many others, a way of maintaining sanity, both a struggle and a catharsis – an act of defiance and salvation all at the same time. 4) “Shards, Memory†is a direct reference to my quartet’s title.  Only shards are left.  And memory.  The memory is of things large and small, of unspeakable tragedy, but also of the song and the dance, the smile, the hopes. All things human.  As we remember, in the face of death’s silence, we restore dignity to those who are gone.—Shulamit Ran . $29.99 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Stream Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Clarinet, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello SKU: PR.114417...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello SKU: PR.114417500 For Clarinet And String Quartet. Composed by Shulamit Ran. Premiered by Anthony McGill, clarinet, and Brentano String Quartet; Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA. Contemporary. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed 2016. 32+12+12+12+12+12 pages. Duration 16 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41750. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114417500). UPC: 680160634910. 9.5 x 13 inches. Stream for Clarinet and String Quartet (2015) was commissioned by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society in celebration of its 30th Anniversary Season, through support of The William Penn Foundation. The first performance was in April 2016 at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. Notes from the composer: The 'line' in Stream is often threaded together into a chain made up of separate 'points' played by the strings, and sometimes by the string and the clarinet. An analogy might be that each instrument, at times, produces a single 'ray of light' from within the larger light source. Moreover, there are many passages where the intended effect is that of the strings providing a 'halo' surrounding the solo clarinet. Similarly, the clarinet often dovetails with, as well as emerges or submerges in and out of, a strand in the string music.. What's in a name?   In my titles, I generally aim to capture something that I believe to be essential about the particular work.  At some level this is to offer an entry-point for the listener, a glimpse of the composition in its totality.  STREAM as a title came to be when much of the music was already fully composed, and it encapsulates much of what I wish to say in words about this work: it suggests flow - whether gentle or forceful; it implies a journey, one that could take us onto unexpected terrains yet is always moving forward; embedded into this word is also the idea of stream of consciousness, and with it, free association and unexpected twists of fancy. Approximately 16 minutes in duration, STREAM is to be played without a break, yet there are strong elements of a three-movement structure here. An expository quasi-first-movement lays out important materials of varying character; the middle part, suggesting contrast and repose, is initially slow and reflective, but then embarks on new explorations of the notion of stasis, while the final movement is dominated by fast-moving music of high energy that consolidates the previous materials. Important throughout is the way in which seemingly transitional stretches of music emerge and propel the music onward in ways that are at once unexpected and fantastical. A composer's statement about this work would not be complete without acknowledging the degree to which the work was inspired by the awareness that it was being created for a quintet of extraordinary performers of the most beautiful and flowing musicianship - clarinet virtuoso Anthony McGill and the intrepid Brentano Quartet. Shulamit Ran . $63.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Stream [Score] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Clarinet, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello SKU: PR.114417...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello SKU: PR.11441750S For Clarinet And String Quartet. Composed by Shulamit Ran. Premiered by Anthony McGill, clarinet, and Brentano String Quartet; Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA. Contemporary. Full score. With Standard notation. Composed 2016. 32 pages. Duration 16 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41750S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11441750S). UPC: 680160634934. 9.5 x 13 inches. Stream for Clarinet and String Quartet (2015) was commissioned by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society in celebration of its 30th Anniversary Season, through support of The William Penn Foundation. The first performance was in April 2016 at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. Notes from the composer: The 'line' in Stream is often threaded together into a chain made up of separate 'points' played by the strings, and sometimes by the string and the clarinet. An analogy might be that each instrument, at times, produces a single 'ray of light' from within the larger light source. Moreover, there are many passages where the intended effect is that of the strings providing a 'halo' surrounding the solo clarinet. Similarly, the clarinet often dovetails with, as well as emerges or submerges in and out of, a strand in the string music.. What's in a name?   In my titles, I generally aim to capture something that I believe to be essential about the particular work.  At some level this is to offer an entry-point for the listener, a glimpse of the composition in its totality.  STREAM as a title came to be when much of the music was already fully composed, and it encapsulates much of what I wish to say in words about this work: it suggests flow - whether gentle or forceful; it implies a journey, one that could take us onto unexpected terrains yet is always moving forward; embedded into this word is also the idea of stream of consciousness, and with it, free association and unexpected twists of fancy. Approximately 16 minutes in duration, STREAM is to be played without a break, yet there are strong elements of a three-movement structure here. An expository quasi-first-movement lays out important materials of varying character; the middle part, suggesting contrast and repose, is initially slow and reflective, but then embarks on new explorations of the notion of stasis, while the final movement is dominated by fast-moving music of high energy that consolidates the previous materials. Important throughout is the way in which seemingly transitional stretches of music emerge and propel the music onward in ways that are at once unexpected and fantastical. A composer's statement about this work would not be complete without acknowledging the degree to which the work was inspired by the awareness that it was being created for a quintet of extraordinary performers of the most beautiful and flowing musicianship - clarinet virtuoso Anthony McGill and the intrepid Brentano Quartet. Shulamit Ran . $28.99 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Sonnet 73 Choral SATB SATB, Piano Theodore Presser Co.
Choral SATB choir, piano SKU: PR.312418720 For SATB Chorus, a cappella...(+)
Choral SATB choir, piano SKU: PR.312418720 For SATB Chorus, a cappella. Composed by Shulamit Ran. Sws. Premiered by University of Chicago Rockefeller Chapel Choir, James Kallembach, Music Director; original male choir version premiered by Cornell University Glee Club, Scott Tucker, Music Director. Choral. Performance Score. With Standard notation. Composed 2011. 12 pages. Duration 5 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #312-41872. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.312418720). ISBN 9781598066708. UPC: 680160619337. Letter inches. English. Text: William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare. Text by William Shakespeare. In 2011, the Cornell University Glee Club premiered Shulamit Ran’s SONNET 73 in its original voicing for men’s chorus, which they commissioned. The following year, Ran made this S.A.T.B. adaptation of her tender choral setting of Shakespeare’s 73rd sonnet, commissioned and premiered by the University of Chicago Rockefeller Chapel Choir, presented here in a full-size open score plus rehearsal piano reduction. $4.50 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| LYRE OF ORPHEUS [Score] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Viola 1, Viola 2, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello 1, Violoncello 2...(+)
Chamber Music Viola 1, Viola 2, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello 1, Violoncello 2 SKU: PR.11441429S For String Sextet. Composed by Shulamit Ran. Contemporary. Full score. With Standard notation. Composed December 16 2008. 22 pages. Duration 15 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41429S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11441429S). UPC: 680160594054. 9.5 x 13 inches. Written for Concertante, a string sextet which has commissioned six different works, each highlighting one of its players. In Ran's new work, the second cellist, Zvi Plesser, was spotlighted with an outgoing, intensely lyrical opening theme, according to a New York Times review. Yet, Lyre of Orpheus never overlooks the collaborative, conversational essence of the ensemble. Read the full review here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/arts/music/18conc.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1286200920-wRrt7MJ416+FpOYAUe/IOQ For advanced performers. Lyre of Orpheus was composed for Concertante, the New York-based string sextet, for its One Plus Five Project, a three-year, six-composer commissioning project designed to create six string sextets, each featuring one of Concertante’s core players. This particular commission was made with the goal of giving center-stage to the ensemble’s first cello, a choice I was especially grateful for, not only because it features Zvi Plesser, the outstanding Israeli cellist, but also because it gave ma an opportunity to highlight an instrument for which, from a very early stage in my life, I have felt a special affinity. The cell’s “soulâ€, so naturally combining passion and lyricism, has always touched me in a special way. As sometimes happens, naming the piece was the final act in the process of creation. Once titled, though, I found myself looking through the piece with a mixture of delight and astonishment – the narrative of the almost iconic mythological story of love and loss seems as one entirely plausible, and to my mind convincing, way to tract the unfolding of the musical events. Of course, the music was written with no such tale (or any tale, for that matter) in mind. But perhaps some stories are emblematic of so much that is part of our lives and psyches, of our desires, fears and wishes. Orpheus, whose longing for Eurydice recognizes no boundaries of heaven and hell… Love regained, then forever lost… Orpheus’ lyre intoning his sorrowful yearning… Lyre of Orpheus, approximately fifteen minutes in length, composed in late 2008, is intermittently songful, caressing, passionate, pained, ferocious, longing. The instrumentation consists of 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, the first of which is the soloist/protagonist, the second notable for having its lowest string tuned down a third to achieve extra lower notes. This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Commissioning Program, with funding generously provided by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.—Shulamit Ran. $37.99 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Five Phrases from the Song of Solomon Soprano voice, Piano [Vocal Score] Theodore Presser Co.
By Virgil Thomson (1896-1989). For Soprano, Piano. Classical. Piano/Vocal Score....(+)
By Virgil Thomson (1896-1989). For Soprano, Piano. Classical. Piano/Vocal Score. Standard notation. 7 pages
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| Moon Songs [Score] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Cello, Flute, Piano, Piccolo, soprano voice SKU: PR.11140240S(+)
Chamber Music Cello, Flute, Piano, Piccolo, soprano voice SKU: PR.11140240S A Song Cycle In Four Acts for Soprano, Flute (Doubling Piccolo), Violoncello, and Piano. Composed by Shulamit Ran. Contemporary. Score. With Standard notation. Composed 2011. 54 pages. Duration 26 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #111-40240S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11140240S). UPC: 680160671489. 9 x 13.5 inches. Text: Haim Gouri; Shlomo Ibn Gvirol; Almog Behar; Albert Giroux; Samuel Menashe; Yehuda Halevi; Shmu'el Hanagid. Various. Ran was asked for a new work for Mimi Stillman's Dolce Suono Ensemble and their Mahler/Schoenberg 2012 concert series. Creating a piece that would be at once an homage and a companion piece to Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire was an intriguing challenge. Ran ultimately chose poems and excerpts that reference the moon in a riveting performance setting for flute (doubling piccolo), piano, cello, and soprano/narrator/actress. With English and Hebrew texts, Moon Songs consists of four acts with two entr-actes. Extensive program notes and performance notes are included. Ran advises, Demanding as her sung part is, the singer...needs to be as much an actress as a singer. $75.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Moon Songs [Score] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Cello, Flute, Piano, Piccolo, soprano voice SKU: PR.111402400(+)
Chamber Music Cello, Flute, Piano, Piccolo, soprano voice SKU: PR.111402400 A Song Cycle In Four Acts for Soprano, Flute (Doubling Piccolo), Violoncello, and Piano. Composed by Shulamit Ran. Contemporary. Score. With Standard notation. Composed December 11 2011. 54+54+16+16 pages. Duration 26 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #111-40240. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.111402400). ISBN 9781598064865. UPC: 680160613137. 9 x 13.5 / 9 x 12 inches. Text: Almog Behar; Yehuda Halevi; Shlomo Ibn Gvirol; Haim Gouri; Samuel Menashe; Albert Giroux; Shmu'el Hanagid. Various. Ran was asked for a new work for Mimi Stillman's Dolce Suono Ensemble and their Mahler/Schoenberg 2012 concert series. Creating a piece that would be at once an homage and a companion piece to Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire was an intriguing challenge. Ran ultimately chose poems and excerpts that reference the moon in a riveting performance setting for flute (doubling piccolo), piano, cello, and soprano/narrator/actress. With English and Hebrew texts, Moon Songs consists of four acts with two entr-actes. Extensive program notes and performance notes are included. Ran advises, Demanding as her sung part is, the singer...needs to be as much an actress as a singer. $160.00 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| The Flight of the Brave Chicken: Ode to Nina Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Clarinet, Flute SKU: PR.114422650 After The Brave Chicke...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet, Flute SKU: PR.114422650 After The Brave Chicken confronts the Ogre, four panels by Nina Frenkel (1972-2016). Composed by Shulamit Ran. Set of performance scores. 8 pages. Duration 6 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-42265. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114422650). ISBN 9781491134528. UPC: 680160685004. Charmingly packed with wit, grace, symbolism, and irony, Shulamit Ran’s THE FLIGHT OF THE BRAVE CHICKEN celebrates the life and work of a graphic artist and illustrator (who played clarinet), who lost her battle with cancer as a young adult. The six-minute duo begins as a dramatic dialog for bass clarinet and piccolo, gradually evolving to peaceful resolution for flute and clarinet. The work may be performed with projections of the original art panels that inspired the work. Brave Chicken was a character developed by Nina Frenkel, gifted illustrator, graphicartist, and beloved friend to many, who passed away at the age of 43 having lost adifficult battle with cancer. Her parents, Marcel and Anne Frenkel, approached mein May 2017 about composing a short work in Nina’s memory, suggesting that it bebased on four delightful panels that Nina had painted in 2014 before she knew of therecurrence of the disease.Titled “Brave Chicken Meets the Ogre,†“Brave Chicken Fights the Ogre,†“BraveChicken Flees to Safety,†and “Brave Chicken in the Healing Hut,†the four panelsdepict a progression from darkness to light. And while my composition does notattempt to follow the four panels literally, I did aim to create two distinctly differentmusical characters who are posed against one another with one clearly perceived asdominant and threatening, and trace the evolving change in the balance of power,and with it the journey from darkness to light.Inspired by the knowledge that Nina herself greatly enjoyed playing the clarinet, Idecided to pair bass clarinet with piccolo, eventually switching the piccolo over toflute, with clarinet appearing in time for the work’s peaceful conclusion. Though I hadnever met Nina, I felt honored to compose this work in her memory. $16.99 - See more - Buy onlinePre-shipment lead time: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
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