SKU: P2.60052

Alice Gomez has served as Composer!In-Residence with the award winning San Antonio
Symphony, the Midland-Odessa Symphony, the Performing Arts Center of Gallup, New Mexico, and the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, a renowned Chicano music and arts center in Texas. Gomez has received numerous composer awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Internationally recognized for her concert music, compositions, musical talent and creativity, Gomez's contributions to a multitude of musical genres is widely acclaimed. Gomez's compositions capture the awe-inspiring spirit of ethnicity in the language of contemporary music. Gomez preserves and promotes traditions of her own Latin culture, Native American, Music of the Americas, Asian, African, and many other cultures. Today, her compositions are used at many institutions of higher learning, elite universities, and schools of musical study around the world. Professor Gomez serves as the Director of Programs for the San Antonio College Department of Music, in Texas. She keeps a very active schedule composing, lecturing, performing, and recording. Professor Gomez teaches private, individualized theory based music for percussion, guitar, electric bass, piano, and several other instrument groupings as a highly sought expert. Her current work is in symphony, ballet, opera and underscoring for film and drama. She is developing her own adaptations of the opera Carmen,the ballet, The Nutcracker, and Gomez's Sonata Azteca for orchestra. In addition to concert music, Gomez continues to compose chamber music, instrumental and choral collections that are unique in the cultural aspect that only Gomez can provide.

SKU: AP.36003S

UPC: 038081420424. English.

Three of the most memorable operatic vocal arias are presented here for young strings. The arias are set in comfortable keys and remain in first position. Your audiences will appreciate hearing these familiar tunes from the world of Italian Grand Opera, which are performable as separate movements or as a small suite. Features La Donna Mobile from Rigoletto, Quando me'n vo (Musetta's Waltz) from La Boheme, and Libiamo ne'lieti calici from La Traviata.

Students will be additionally challenged as they work to follow the conductor's rubato interpretations that characterize the style of Musetta's Waltz, and strive to create a wide range of dynamics that are required for the dance-like rollicking flow of the other two waltzes.

SKU: HL.48025212

UPC: 196288133407.

With Der Wind in den Weiden (The Wind in the Willows), premiered in 2021, Elena Kats-Chernin created the first adaptation of KennethGrahame's famous book for the opera stage. Modelled on classic wind band music or 'Harmoniemusik', this little suite for wind ensemble brings together some of the play's catchiest numbers, introducing the protagonists: the Voices in Nature in the opening Waltz, the cheerful Rat in The River is My Friend, the boastful Toad, imprisoned by the humans, in the lament Oh, poor, poor Mister Toad, Rat, Mole and Badger's search for him in Where Is Toad, and the festive final chorus. All four instruments are shown to advantage, equally and in accordance with their sound characteristics, with the cor anglais, playing throughout in place of the oboe, providing a special colour.

SKU: BT.DHP-1012709-140

Ook buiten de theatrale context heeft de operamuziek van Bizet een beeldende kracht. Tohru Takahahsi’s bewerking van de Carmen Suite doet recht aan de dramatiek en grandeur van het origineel.

Carmen ist wohl das berühmteste und meistgespielte Werk des Musiktheaters. Auch außerhalb des Theaterkontexts mangelt es der Musik von Georges Bizet nicht an Ausdruckskraft und Dramatik. Nach dem Tode des Komponisten wurden einige Passagen der Oper für die Carmen Suite exzerpiert, die mit dieser Bearbeitung von Tohru Takahashi, die der Dramatik und Größe des Originals vollkommen gerecht wird, nun auch für Blasorchester zugänglich ist.

Carmen est l’œuvre la plus célèbre du compositeur français Georges Bizet (1838-1875). Cette brillante transcription reste fidèle l’atmosphère pétillante et vive des scènes de l’opéra.

SKU: PR.11441915S

UPC: 680160673698. 9 x 12 inches.

The Chinese Zodiac Suite is the culmination of a three-year project to honor the partnership of Old Dominion University with Minzu University of Beijing, a cooperative effort to bridge the cultures of both sides. In his new composition, Hailstork uses Western musical language to depict the 12 animal signs of the zodiac from Eastern folklore. The suite was performed by the Minzu University student orchestra at a meeting with the Board of Directors of the Confucius Institute at Old Dominion University (CIODU) in Beijing. Executive director of the CIODU, Dr. Qiu Jin Hailstork, prefaced the performance with, You can hear the sounds of rats scratching behind the walls; cows working hard in the fields; rabbits jumping up and down; a snake slithering through the grass; galloping horses and grazing sheep; a monkey swinging through the trees; the rooster, boss of the barnyard, crowing; the sleeping dog who wakes up and starts barking; and the poor pig, so sad because his life's only purpose is to be someone's dinner!.

SKU: BT.EMBZ13591

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Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909), the renowned pianist and composer, was one of the most significant Spanish masters of the second half of the 19th century. Following studies in Paris and Brussels he went on a world tour and earned great success as a pianist. From 1880 onwards he belonged to Ferenc Liszt's circle and improved his piano technique as a pupil of the Hungarian master. Besides his operas, orchestral works and songs he also composed a considerable number of piano works. One of his most popular cycles for the piano is the Op. 47 Suite espagnola (1886), the movements of which he named after Spanish towns and provinces. The composition is thus an enthusiastic tribute to hishomeland: a fascinating embodiment of Spanish folk music elaborated with Lisztian virtuosity.

SKU: RM.MESS00363-CO

SKU: RM.MESS00362-CO