Santorella Publications' proudly boasts our connection to some of the best studio players in the Los Angeles studio circuit. Each one of these great musicians, when they are not in a session or performing on a new movie soundtrack, are giving lessons to horn players of all ages. Santorella Publications is setting a new trend in the industry by making it possible for you to study with these talented professionals in a virtual world with Learn From A Pro. Chris Tedesco will walk you through all 23 lessons as if you're sitting in a studio by his side. If you went to Los Angeles and took 23 lessons, it would cost over $1,000.00. Now you can Learn "Trumpet" From A Pro for only $12.95 and in the privacy of your own home. Whether you are an early beginner or an adult, here is your chance to fulfill that dream. Do something for yourself and learn to play today with Santorella's Learn From A Pro series. About your private instructor, Chris Tedesco Chris Tedesco has distinguished himself as a soloist, chamber artist, orchestral and commercial trumpeter in Los Angeles for over 20 years. His early classical training included studies with Chuck Lirette of the Buffalo Philharmonic and college training with Gilbert Johnson, (former principal trumpet of the Philadelphia Philharmonic) at the University of Miami in Florida. Chris Tedesco's road travels included concert tours with the Glenn Miller Band, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, but it was Cruise Ships that brought him to Los Angeles in 1987. Chris Tedesco can be heard on the movie soundtracks of Finding Nemo, Road to Perdition, Boat Trip, The Mexican, Best in Show, Ring of Fire, After the Storm, Durango Kids, Winchell, Absolute Power, Star Trek - First Contact, Nixon, Stonebrook, Heaven and Earth, Cool World and Lorenzoes Oil. On the small screen you can hear his solo Trumpet on the theme to the hit TV show "The District" along with many national TV commercials. Chris Tedesco has recorded with Joe Cocker, Natalie Merchant, Ellis Hall, Royal Crown Revue, Pat Boone, Cher, Brian Setzer, Dwight Yoakum, Juan Carlos Quintero, Thom Rotella, Jump with Joey, Leslie Paula, Boom Shaka and for The Disney Afternoon. For more information about Chris Tedesco visit: www.christedesco.com.

By Victoria de los Angeles. Edited by Jose Maria Lamana. For voice and piano. Vocal music. Language: Spanish. Published by Noten Roehr

Santorella Publications' proudly boasts our connection to some of the best studio players in the Los Angeles studio circuit. Each one of these great musicians, when they are not in a session or performing on a new movie soundtrack, is giving lessons to horn players of all ages. Santorella Publications is setting a new trend in the industry by making it possible for you to study with these talented professionals in a virtual world with Learn From A Pro. Nick Lane will walk you through all 23 lessons as if you're sitting in a studio by his side. If you went to Los Angeles and took 23 lessons, it would cost over $1,000.00. Now you can Learn "Trombone" From A Pro for only $12.95 and in the privacy of your own home. Whether you are an early beginner or an adult, here is your chance to fulfill that dream. Do something for yourself and learn to play today with Santorella's Learn From A Pro series. About your private instructor, Nick Lane Nick Lane has been active in the Los Angeles music scene for over twenty five years. He joined Maynard Ferguson's Band after graduating from Bostones Berklee College of Music and remained on the road for three years before moving to Los Angeles. He continued touring while based in L. A. with Rod Stewart, The Who and Tom Petty and The Heart Breakers. Nick Lane continues to perform with Etta James, Chicago, Shakira, Alejandro Sans and has even performed with Jennifer Lopez. Nick has also been featured in a special PBS broadcast about "the blues" with T-Bone Burnett. Nick remains active in the commercial recording fields for movies, television, commercials and has recorded with such Pop artists as; Macy Gray, Tim Mc Graw, Baby Face, Destiny's Child, The Offspring, The Wallflowers, Fast Ball, Green Day, No Doubt, Natalie Merchant, Everclear, Barbara Streisand and Joe Cocker. Nick has recorded with such Jazz artists as; Rick Braun, Jeff Golub, David Benoit, Dave Koz, Kombo, Greg Karukus and Warren Hill. Nick's popular "lounge jazz" CD performed with baritone saxophonist Greg Smith and an organ trio is recorded on the Oakland Stroke Label.

Santorella Publications' proudly boasts our connection to some of the best studio players in the Los Angeles studio circuit. Each one of these great musicians, when they are not in a session or performing on a new movie soundtrack, are giving lessons to horn players of all ages. Santorella Publications is setting a new trend in the industry by making it possible for you to study with these talented professionals in a virtual world with Learn From A Pro. Mark Hollingsworth will walk you through all 23 lessons as if you're sitting in a studio by his side. If you went to Los Angeles and took 23 lessons, it would cost over $1,000.00. Now you can Learn "Clarinet" From A Pro for only $12.95 and in the privacy of your own home. Whether you are an early beginner or an adult, here is your chance to fulfill that dream. Do something for yourself and learn to play today with Santorella's Learn From A Pro series. About your private instructor, Mark Hollingsworth Mark Hollingsworth began studying music at five years of age. His background includes both classical and jazz training. After high school Mark won a scholarship from Berklee College of Music in Boston and graduated Magna Cum Laude, with a major in woodwind performance. Mark has over fifteen years experience as a studio musician in Los Angeles recording for movies, albums, television broadcasts and numerous "jingles" as well as cartoons for Warner Brothers and Walt Disney. He has also performed in concerts with a wide range of artists including Quincy Jones, Natalie Cole, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Donna Summer and Manhattan Transfer to name a few. Some of Mark's most significant accomplishments include memorable television appearances with Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Michael Bolton and Michael McDonald . He has worked on numerous recordings with Tom Petty, Luther Vandross, U2, the Library of Congress and soundtracks for the Ren and Stimpy show. Mark's musical breadth also includes skills on an extensive collection of flutes from around the world. For more information about Mark Hollingsworth visit: www.windshoremusic.com.

Santorella Publications' proudly boasts our connection to some of the best studio players in the Los Angeles studio circuit. Each one of these great musicians, when they are not in a session or performing on a new movie soundtrack, are giving lessons to horn players of all ages. Santorella Publications is setting a new trend in the industry by making it possible for you to study with these talented professionals in a virtual world with Learn From A Pro. Mark Hollingsworth will walk you through all 23 lessons as if you're sitting in a studio by his side. If you went to Los Angeles and took 23 lessons, it would cost over $1,000.00. Now you can Learn "Flute" From A Pro for only $12.95 and in the privacy of your own home. Whether you are an early beginner or an adult, here is your chance to fulfill that dream. Do something for yourself and learn to play today with Santorella's Learn From A Pro series. About your private instructor, Mark Hollingsworth Mark Hollingsworth began studying music at five years of age. His background includes both classical and jazz training. After high school Mark won a scholarship from Berklee College of Music in Boston and graduated Magna Cum Laude, with a major in woodwind performance. Mark has over fifteen years experience as a studio musician in Los Angeles recording for movies, albums, television broadcasts and numerous "jingles" as well as cartoons for Warner Brothers and Walt Disney. He has also performed in concerts with a wide range of artists including Quincy Jones, Natalie Cole, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Donna Summer and Manhattan Transfer to name a few. Some of Mark's most significant accomplishments include memorable television appearances with Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Michael Bolton and Michael McDonald . He has worked on numerous recordings with Tom Petty, Luther Vandross, U2, the Library of Congress and soundtracks for the Ren and Stimpy show. Mark's musical breadth also includes skills on an extensive collection of flutes from around the world. For more information about Mark Hollingsworth visit: www.windshoremusic.com.

(For String Orchestra, Harp, Timpani, And Percussion). By Arvo Part (1935-). For String Orchestra, Harp, Timpani, Percussion. Study score. 58 pages. Duration 34 minutes. Published by Universal Edition

Arranged by Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. Squareback saddle stitch, Solos/Studies. Book. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.21756M).

(arranged for percussion ensemble). Composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim. Arranged by Murray Gusseck. For Percussion Ensemble (8 players). Percussion Ensembles. Medium. 12 pages. Duration 3 minutes. Published by Tapspace Publications

Orchestra Bass Clarinet, Bass Drum, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Celesta, Chimes, Clarinet, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Claves, Contrabass, Contrabassoon, Cowbell, Crotales, English Horn, Glockenspiel, Harp, Horn 1, Horn 2, Horn 3, Horn 4, Maracas, Marimba, Oboe 1 and more.

SKU: PR.11641737S

Composed by Steven Stucky. Study Score. 68 pages. Duration 9 minutes. Merion Music #116-41737S. Published by Merion Music (PR.11641737S).

ISBN 9781491136133. UPC: 680160688432.

Son et lumière (“sound and light,” a kind of show staged for tourists at historic sites or famous buildings) is an orchestral entertainment whose subject is the play of colors, bright surfaces, and shimmery textures. I have tried in this music to recapture the élan and immediacy that regular meters and repetitive rhythms make possible—something forbidden during the modernist regime but recently restored in the post-modern work of composers like John Adams, Steve Reich, and others. Throughout its brief nine-minute span, then, the piece is built almost exclusively of short, busy ostinato figures—my attempt, I suppose, to achieve the rhythmic vitality of minimalism, but without giving in to the over-simple harmonic language that usually comes with it.Surprisingly, the musical materials seemed determined to shape themselves into an approximation of nineteenth-century sonata form. We hear an introduction, a first theme (based on triadic broken chords), a second theme (beginning with the flute solo), and a closing theme (led by two piccolos). In a sort of development section, these materials are recombined in new ways; in a recapitulation, both the first and second themes are recalled more or less intact (part of the second is actually repeated quite literally).Then, in the coda, a second surprise: as if another, different music has been lurking all the while behind the shiny surface, the strings now unexpectedly split off from the rest of the orchestra to assert a new, more passionate, more “serious” voice, transcending the external show of sound and light.Son et lumière, commissioned by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, was composed between June and December 1988 in Ithaca (N.Y.), in Los Angeles, and at the artists’ colony Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs (N.Y.). David Zinman conducted the first performance in Baltimore on 18 May 1989; André Previn gave the West Coast premiere with the Los Angeles Philharmonic on 18 January, 1990.
Son et lumière (“sound and light,” a kind of show staged for tourists at historic sites or famous buildings) is an orchestral entertainment whose subject is the play of colors, bright surfaces, and shimmery textures. I have tried in this music to recapture the élan and immediacy that regular meters and repetitive rhythms make possible—something forbidden during the modernist regime but recently restored in the post-modern work of composers like John Adams, Steve Reich, and others. Throughout its brief nine-minute span, then, the piece is built almost exclusively of short, busy ostinato figures—my attempt, I suppose, to achieve the rhythmic vitality of minimalism, but without giving in to the over-simple harmonic language that usually comes with it.Surprisingly, the musical materials seemed determined to shape themselves into an approximation of nineteenth-century sonata form. We hear an introduction, a first theme (based on triadic broken chords), a second theme (beginning with the flute solo), and a closing theme (led by two piccolos). In a sort of development section, these materials are recombined in new ways; in a recapitulation, both the first and second themes are recalled more or less intact (part of the second is actually repeated quite literally).Then, in the coda, a second surprise: as if another, different music has been lurking all the while behind the shiny surface, the strings now unexpectedly split off from the rest of the orchestra to assert a new, more passionate, more “serious” voice, transcending the external show of sound and light.Son et lumière, commissioned by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, was composed between June and December 1988 in Ithaca (N.Y.), in Los Angeles, and at the artists’ colony Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs (N.Y.). David Zinman conducted the first performance in Baltimore on 18 May 1989; André Previn gave the West Coast premiere with the Los Angeles Philharmonic on 18 January, 1990.

Solo organ with orchestra or piano - Advanced

SKU: MN.12-123A

Composed by James F. Hopkins. Non Hymn-Based, Recital Music. Secular. Full score. MorningStar Music Publishers #12-123A. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers (MN.12-123A).

UPC: 688670212314.

Th is work was commissioned for performance at the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California. Though specifically designed for the Glatter-Götz / Rosales organ, it is appropriate for any large organ with at least three manuals and a generous combination action memory.

Visión escondida: During the quiet, ethereal introduction, the main theme is presented in short segments by the brass. The first main section reveals the theme intact in the solo organ. Successive thematic statements are embellished by the increasingly elaborate ornamentation. A development section leads to a series of increasingly dramatic fanfares. After a short organ cadenza, the Visión revelada presents the transformed main theme as an accompanied fugue. The dance-like secular nature is underscored by jazz-derived harmonies and insinuating contours, balanced by the scholarly contrapuntal devices.

Band/Orchestra (Mallet and Miscellaneous Percussion). Published by Alfred Publishing. This comprehensive new method by Mitchell Peters (principal percussionist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic) helps percussionists at any level develop solid skills. The method contains an abundance of essential exercises and etudes for both 2- and 4-mallet technique in two convenient volumes! Covers the grip, stroke, playing position, reading and technical studies, and more!

(Score and Guitar 1). By Laurindo Almeida. For Guitar (Classical). Ensemble (Mixed). Bill's Music Shelf. Classic. Intermediate. Book Online PDF. 52 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc

Voice and piano or guitar

SKU: LM.PB743

Composed by Julien Dore. Album. Pop, jazz. Score. Bookmakers International #PB743. Published by Bookmakers International (LM.PB743).

ISBN 9790231307436.

Acac ia - Les bords de mer - Les limites - Bouche pute - Figures imposees - Dans tes reves - Pudding morphina - Piano lys - Soirees parisiennes - J'aime pas - First lady - SS in Uruguay - Los Angeles - Des mots.

Concert Band/Harmonie/Fanfare Band - Grade 3

SKU: BT.DHP-1216335-215

Composed by Peter Kleine Schaars. Peter's Compact Collection. Original Light Music. Score Only. Composed 2021. 18 pages. De Haske Publications #DHP 1216335-215. Published by De Haske Publications (BT.DHP-1216335-215).

English-German-French- Dutch.

In the 1980s and 1990s there was a new surge of interest in the old swing of the 30s and 40s. The epicentre of this swing revival lay in the American state of California, Los Angeles and San Francisco in particular. Based on therules of the old swing in which each beat has a ternary subdivision but with more contemporary sounds and harmonies, Peter Kleine Schaars composed this work San Fransisco Swing. Through the frequent use of the rhythmiccells 22, 23 and 24 in all parts of this composition, each band, irrespective of its experience with swing music, will be able to give a swinging performance!

In de jaren tachtig en negentig van de vorige eeuw ontstond er een nieuwe golf van belangstelling voor de oude swing van de jaren dertig en veertig. Het epicentrum van deze swingrevival lag in de Amerikaanse staat Californië, metname in Los Angeles en San Francisco. Gebaseerd op de wetten van de oude swing waarin elke beat een ternaire onderverdeling heeft maar met meer hedendaagse klanken en harmonieën, componeerde Peter Kleine Schaars deze SanFransisco Swing. Door middel van het veelvuldig gebruik van de ritmische cellen 22, 23 en 24 in alle stemmen van deze compositie zal elk orkest, ongeacht de ervaring met swingmuziek, in staat zijn een swingende performanceneer te zetten!

In den 1980er und 1990er Jahren konnte man ein gesteigertes Interesse am alten Swing der 1930er und 1940er Jahre beobachten. Das Zentrum dieser Entwicklung befand sich insbesondere im amerikanischen Bundesstaat Kalifornien, in LosAngeles und San Francisco. Peter Kleine Schaars komponierte das Stück San Fransisco Swing nach den Regeln des alten Swings, bei dem jeder Schlag eine ternäre Unterteilung hat, allerdings mit modernen Klängen und Harmonien.Durch die häufige Verwendung der Rhythmus-Einheiten 22 und 24 in allen Stimmen der Komposition kann jedes Orchester unabhängig von seiner Erfahrung mit Swingmusik eine swingende“ Aufführung präsentieren!

L es années 1980-90 ont connu un regain d’intérêt pour le swing des années 1930-40. L’épicentre de cette renaissance se trouvait dans l’état américain de Californie, notamment Los Angeles et San Francisco. Peter Kleine Schaars acomposé San Fransisco Swing en respectant les principes du swing traditionnel où chaque battement est subdivisé en ternaire mais en lui apportant des sons et harmonies plus contemporains. Gr ce l’emploi généreux descellules rythmiques 22 et 24 dans toutes les parties de cette composition, tous les ensembles, quelle que soit leur expérience du swing, seront en mesure de l’interpréter en swinguant !

Composed by Carlos Campos. Spiral bound. Salsa/Piano Instruction. Book and Downloadable audio. Duration 70 minutes. Published by ADG Productions

Mixed Choir (SATB divisi)

SKU: HL.1496054

For SATB Divisi. Composed by Ellen Reid. Choral. Choral. Octavo. Duration 300 seconds. Chester Music #CH88309. Published by Chester Music (HL.1496054).

UPC: 196288218333.

Lost in the Blue by Ellen Reid, with text by Roxie Perkins, comes from her 2018 chamber opera p r I s m, premiered by the Los Angeles Opera.

Chamber Music Bass Clarinet, Cello, Clarinet, Finger Cymbals, Flute, Glockenspiel, Marimba, Percussion, Piano, Vibraphone, Violin, soprano voice

SKU: PR.111402590

For Soprano and Chamber Ensemble. Composed by James Matheson. This edition: Full Set. The world premiere was given at Carnegie Hall, New York City, on October 10, 2004. Contemporary. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed August 29 2004. 60+12+12+12+16+8+8 pages. Duration 18 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #111-40259. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.111402590).

UPC: 680160638208. 9x12 inches. Text: Alan Dugan. Alan Dugan. Poems Seven, ©Alan Dugan, published by Seven Stories Press, New York.

The poetry of Pulitzer Prize winner Alan Dugan struck a chord with Matheson, who notes a certain contradiction in the poems and in his own writings - an emotional directness combined with complexity. Matheson chose seven Dugan poems, which span decades, in answering a 2004 commission by Carnegie Hall through the Weill Music Institute, and also chose the Pierrot ensemble to convey his impressions. Matheson tends to build to a punch line,which often helps clarify Dugan's slight obscurities. You may not know what the poet means, but the music at least directs you to the right place emotionally. - Mark Swed, The Los Angeles Times.

Piano (Piano Solo)

SKU: HL.354338

For Solo Piano. Composed by Richard Wilson. Peermusic Classical. Classical. Softcover. Duration 600 seconds. Peermusic Classical #70303-501. Published by Peermusic Classical (HL.354338).

ISBN 9781705107669. UPC: 840126936964. 9.0x12.0x0.109 inches.

Richard Wilson was born in Cleveland on May 15, 1941. He studied piano with Roslyn Pettibone, Egbert Fischer, and Leonard Shure, andcello with Robert Ripley and Ernst Silberstein. After beginning composition studies with Roslyn Pettibone and Howard Whittaker, he went on in 1959 to Harvard, studying with Randall Thompson, G.W. Woodworth, and principally with Robert Moevs, and graduating in 1963 magna cum laude. Awarded the Frank Huntington Beebe Award for study abroad, he continued studying piano with Friedrich Wührer in Munich, and composition, again with Moevs, in Rome, where he also gave piano recitals. Wilson joined the faculty of Vassar College in 1966. He was appointed to the Mary Conover Mellon Professorship of Music there in 1988, and he has served three times as chairman of the Department of Music. Wilson has been commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony, the American Symphony, the New Juilliard Ensemble, the Koussevitzky Foundation, the Fromm Foundation, Chamber Music America, the Chicago Chamber Musicians, the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation, and the Library of Congress. His works have been heard in such American musical centers as New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, Cleveland, and Los Angeles and at the Aspen Music Festival, but also in London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Zurich, Milan, Amsterdam, Graz, Leningrad, Stockholm, Tokyo, Bogota, and a number of Australian cities. The recipient in 1992 of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he was awarded the Elise L. Stoeger Prize of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in 1994, the Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004, and has served as composer in residence with the American Symphony Orchestra since 1992. Wilson has been praised by 21st Century Music as a “splendidly talented and highly accomplished composer whose music rewards seeking out” and by the New York Sun as “possessed of a hard-won idiom that has grown and developed over the years into a probing blend of wit, classic form, modern harmony, and impressionistic color.” Writing in the New Yorker, Andrew Porter called his String Quartet No. 3 a “richly wrought and unusual composition,” while the New York Times called it “a work of substance and expressivity ... [that] merits a place in the active repertory.”.

Full orchestra Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Contrabass, Crash Cymbals, Flute 1, Flute 2, Glockenspiel, Harp, Horn 1, Horn 2, Horn 3, Oboe 2, Percussion 1, Percussion 2, Piccolo, Suspended Cymbal, Timpani, Trombone 1, Trombone 2, Trumpet 1 and more.

SKU: CF.SC88

Composed by William Grant Still. Full score. 32 pages. Duration 9 minutes, 20 seconds. Carl Fischer Music #SC88. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.SC88).

ISBN 9781491158845. UPC: 680160917563.

Willi am Grant Stillas catalog of works comprises over 200 pieces, including five symphonies, nine operas, four ballets and numerous works for chamber ensembles. He initially found employment as an oboist in pit orchestras in New York City, later as an arranger of popular music for various ensembles, including those by William C. Handy, James P. Johnson and Paul Whiteman. His career as a composer was launched with a performance in 1931 of his Symphony No. 1 aAfro-Americana by the Rochester Philharmonic, conducted by Howard Hanson, who would remain a life-long champion of Stillas orchestral works. By the 1950s the symphony had been performed in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and various European capitals. This notoriety earned Still a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1934, after which he moved to Los Angeles. He is credited as the first African-American to conduct a major orchestra (the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra), the first to have an opera performed by a major company (Troubled Island by the New York City Opera in 1949), and one of the first composers to write for radio, films and television. So numerous were his awards and accolades, including three Guggenheim Fellowships and a variety of honorary doctorates, that he was designated as the aDean of Afro-American Composers.a Still composed his Serenade for Orchestra in 1957 on a commission by the Great Falls High School in Great Falls, Montana. He later transcribed the work for a chamber ensemble of flute, clarinet, harp and strings. The piece reflects Stillas interest in American folk idioms, with conventional melodies and harmonies that nonetheless express a fresh and individual compositional voice.
William Grant Still's catalog of works comprises over 200 pieces, including five symphonies, nine operas, four ballets and numerous works for chamber ensembles. He initially found employment as an oboist in pit orchestras in New York City, later as an arranger of popular music for various ensembles, including those by William C. Handy, James P. Johnson and Paul Whiteman. His career as a composer was launched with a performance in 1931 of his Symphony No. 1 Afro-American by the Rochester Philharmonic, conducted by Howard Hanson, who would remain a life-long champion of Still's orchestral works. By the 1950s the symphony had been performed in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and various European capitals. This notoriety earned Still a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1934, after which he moved to Los Angeles. He is credited as the first African-American to conduct a major orchestra (the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra), the first to have an opera performed by a major company (Troubled Island by the New York City Opera in 1949), and one of the first composers to write for radio, films and television. So numerous were his awards and accolades, including three Guggenheim Fellowships and a variety of honorary doctorates, that he was designated as the Dean of Afro-American Composers. Still composed his Serenade for Orchestra in 1957 on a commission by the Great Falls High School in Great Falls, Montana. He later transcribed the work for a chamber ensemble of flute, clarinet, harp and strings. The piece reflects Still's interest in American folk idioms, with conventional melodies and harmonies that nonetheless express a fresh and individual compositional voice.
William Grant Still’s catalog of works comprises over 200 pieces, including five symphonies, nine operas, four ballets and numerous works for chamber ensembles. He initially found employment as an oboist in pit orchestras in New York City, later as an arranger of popular music for various ensembles, including those by William C. Handy, James P. Johnson and Paul Whiteman. His career as a composer was launched with a performance in 1931 of his Symphony No. 1 “Afro-American† by the Rochester Philharmonic, conducted by Howard Hanson, who would remain a life-long champion of Still’s orchestral works. By the 1950s the symphony had been performed in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and various European capitals.This notoriety earned Still a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1934, after which he moved to Los Angeles. He is credited as the first African-American to conduct a major orchestra (the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra), the first to have an opera performed by a major company (Troubled Island by the New York City Opera in 1949), and one of the first composers to write for radio, films and television. So numerous were his awards and accolades, including three Guggenheim Fellowships and a variety of honorary doctorates, that he was designated as the “Dean of Afro-American Composers.”Still composed his Serenade for Orchestra in 1957 on a commission by the Great Falls High School in Great Falls, Montana. He later transcribed the work for a chamber ensemble of flute, clarinet, harp and strings. The piece reflects Still’s interest in American folk idioms, with conventional melodies and harmonies that nonetheless express a fresh and individual compositional voice.

Orchestra Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Contrabass, Flute 1, Flute 2, Harp, Horn 1, Horn 2, Horn 3, Oboe, Percussion, Timpani, Trumpet 1, Trumpet 2, Trumpet 3, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello

SKU: CF.SC89L

Seven Little Pieces. Composed by William Grant Still. Large Score. 36 pages. Duration 12 minutes. Carl Fischer Music #SC89L. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.SC89L).

William Grant Still’s catalog of works comprises over 200 pieces, including five symphonies, nine operas, four ballets and numerous works for chamber ensembles. He initially found employment as an oboist in pit orchestras in New York City, later as an arranger of popular music for various ensembles, including those by William C. Handy, James P. Johnson and Paul Whiteman. His career as a composer was launched with a performance in 1931 of his Symphony No. 1 “Afro-American† by the Rochester Philharmonic, conducted by Howard Hanson, who would remain a life-long champion of Still’s orchestral works. By the 1950s the symphony had been performed in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and various European capitals.This notoriety earned Still a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1934, after which he moved to Los Angeles. He is credited as the first African-American to conduct a major orchestra (the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra), the first to have an opera performed by a major company (Troubled Island by the New York City Opera in 1949), and one of the first composers to write for radio, films and television. So numerous were his awards and accolades, including three Guggenheim Fellowships and a variety of honorary doctorates, that he was designated as the “Dean of Afro-American Composers.”The “Black belt” refers to a region in the southern United States that was distinguished by the color of its fertile soil. It was an area whose rich economy was based on cotton and tobacco plantations that were controlled by rich white people and worked by poor black laborers. Still’s piece From the Black Belt from 1926 is presumably a musical representation of these laborers. He described its seven parts in the following ways: William Grant Still’s catalog of works comprises over 200 pieces, including five symphonies, nine operas, four ballets and numerous works for chamber ensembles. He initially found employment as an oboist in pit orchestras in New York City, later as an arranger of popular music for various ensembles, including those by William C. Handy, James P. Johnson and Paul Whiteman. His career as a composer was launched with a performance in 1931 of his Symphony No. 1 “Afro-American† by the Rochester Philharmonic, conducted by Howard Hanson, who would remain a life-long champion of Still’s orchestral works. By the 1950s the symphony had been performed in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and various European capitals.This notoriety earned Still a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1934, after which he moved to Los Angeles. He is credited as the first African-American to conduct a major orchestra (the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra), the first to have an opera performed by a major company (Troubled Island by the New York City Opera in 1949), and one of the first composers to write for radio, films and television. So numerous were his awards and accolades, including three Guggenheim Fellowships and a variety of honorary doctorates, that he was designated as the “Dean of Afro-American Composers.”The “Black belt” refers to a region in the southern United States that was distinguished by the color of its fertile soil. It was an area whose rich economy was based on cotton and tobacco plantations that were controlled by rich white people and worked by poor black laborers. Still’s piece From the Black Belt from 1926 is presumably a musical representation of these laborers. He described its seven parts in the following ways: Li’l Scamp If one were to base his judgment on the volume of sound, he would think this little fellow, who delights in playing childish pranks, a big scamp. But the aptness of the title is determined by the brevity of the piece rather than by the volume of sound. Honeysuckle A musical suggestion of the saccharine odor of the honeysuckle. Dance This title is self-explanatory. Brown GirlA tone picture of a lovely girl. Mah Bones Is Creakin’An old man, afflicted with rheumatism, complains loudly. BlueThe lament of a weary soul. Clap Yo’ Han’sThe participants in a game for children form a circle and clap their hands at intervals.