Chamber Music Clarinet, Flute, Piano SKU: PR.114417610 Based on themes...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet,
Flute, Piano
SKU:
PR.114417610
Based
on themes from Puccini's
Madama Butterfly.
Composed by Michael
Webster. Sws each. See
the notes on Madama
Butterfly on page two and
the notes on Sonata
Cho-Cho-San on page three
of the full score.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 1997. 44+8+12
pages. Duration 24
minutes, 28 seconds.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-41761. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114417610).
ISBN
9781491107904. UPC:
680160636051. 9x12
inches.
SONATA
CHO-CHO-SAN(Based on
themes from
Puccini’s Madama
Butterfly)In the spirit
of the great 19th-century
opera fantasies for
woodwinds, Michael
Webster has created a
concert trio on the many
great arias from
Puccini's Madama
Butterfly. However, as
its name implies, Sonata
Cho-Cho-San is not the
typical virtuosic
operatic potpourri.
Rather, it follows the
plot, resembling a sonata
mirroring Puccini's use
of recurring and
developing themes.
Webster makes the most of
the winds as versatile
performers - equally
suited to deliver
Puccini's beautiful vocal
writing, and to ornament
and embroider the
poignant themes in
symphonic style. For
advanced
performers.______________
_________________________
Text from the scanned
back cover:Born in 1944,
Michael Webster made his
New York recital debutat
Town Hall in 1968 with
his eminent father,
Beveridge Webster, as
pianist. In the same
year, he won the Young
Concert Artists
International Competition
and succeeded his
teacher, Stanley Hasty,
as Principal Clarinet in
the Rochester
Philharmonic, a position
he held for twenty years.
Webster has performed
with the Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln
Center, the 92nd Street
Y, with the Tokyo,
Cleveland, Muir, Ying,
Enso, and Dover String
Quartets, and with the
festivals of Marlboro,
Santa Fe, Norfolk,
Chamber Music Northwest,
Angel Fire, Steamboat
Springs, Park City,
Sitka, Kapalua, Bowdoin,
Orcas Island,
Skaneateles, La Musica di
Asolo, Stratford,
Victoria, and Domaine
Forget.As soloist he has
appeared with many
orchestras, including the
Philadelphia Orchestra
under Aaron Copland and
the Boston Pops under
John Williams. His
travels have taken him as
performer and teacher to
most of the 50 states, as
well as Canada,
Mexico,Puerto Rico,
Central and South
America, Europe, Japan,
China, Australia, and New
Zealand. Webster was
Acting Principal Clarinet
of the San Francisco
Symphony, and has served
on the clarinet and/or
conducting faculties of
New England Conservatory,
Boston University,
University of Michigan,
and the Eastman School,
from which he earned his
three degrees. Currently
he is Professor of Music
at Rice
University’s
Shepherd School of Music
and Artistic Director of
the Houston Youth
Symphony, which has won
multiple first prizes in
national performance
competitions.With his
wife, flutist Leone
Buyse, and pianist Robert
Moeling, he plays in the
Webster Trio, which has
recorded his arrangements
on Tour de France and
World Wide Webster for
Crystal Records.
Otherarrangements were
recorded for Nami and
Camerata Tokyo in Japan
with pianist Chizuko
Sawa. Webster has also
recorded for Albany,
Arabesque, Beaumont,
Bridge, Centaur, CRI, and
New World. He has played
at many ClarinetFests for
the International
Clarinet Association and
written a column entitled
“TeachingClarinetâ
€ in The Clarinet
Magazine since 1998.
Michael Webster is a
Buffet artist-clinician,
performing on Buffet
clarinets
exclusively.
Flute and Piano (Score) SKU: HL.14008426 Strathclyde Concerto No. 6 (F...(+)
Flute and Piano (Score)
SKU: HL.14008426
Strathclyde Concerto
No. 6 (Flute Part).
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover].
Composed 1999. 60 pages.
Chester Music #CH61024.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14008426).
ISBN
9780711942042.
The
solo flute here is kept
in high profile by the
absence from the
orchestra not only of
other flutes, but also of
violins and oboes; in
addition, the trumpets
are used sparingly (they
do not, for instance,
play in the slow
movement), so that for
much of the time the
flute is playing against
a mellow ensemble of
clarinets, horns,
bassoons and low strings.
If this is, nevertheless,
one of Davies's most
open-spirited pieces,
that comes partly from
the ready flights of the
soloist, partly from its
glockenspiel
accompaniments in the
outer movements (replaced
by ticking claves in the
Adagio), partly from the
dancing character of so
much of the music, and
partly from the harmonic
clarity, in a light
region not far from C
minor. Flute part with
piano reduction of the
orchestral score.