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 1920s”, 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 music”, 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 die”; 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 .

Choral (SATB Choir)

SKU: HL.232818

Sheet music. Pavane Choral. Festival, Concert. Octavo. 1574. 12 pages. Pavane Publishing #P1574. Published by Pavane Publishing (HL.232818).

UPC: 888680679101. 6.75x10.5 inches.

Kevin Memley used the words of Soren Engström for this tender piece commissioned in memory of a college student. The text carries questions that remind us of the fraility of life and encourage us to enjoy our time alive. The music holds all the characteristics that have made Memley one of the most sought-after composers of our day – an inspiring melody, rich harmonies, a captivating piano part, and a touching ending. Medium in difficulty for high school, community and college choirs.

Concert Band Concert Band - Grade 3

SKU: FJ.B1675

Composed by Randall Standridge. Concert Band. FJH Concert Band. Score and Part(s). Duration 6:00. The FJH Music Company Inc #98-B1675. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc (FJ.B1675).

UPC: 241444371336. English.

This emotionally charged piece was written in memory of an aspiring rock musician. At turns nostalgic and triumphant, this new work for concert band brings together elements of symphonic and pop music to create both a memorial for a young life lost as well as a portrait of the final days of Autumn, fading in their golden glory.

About FJH Concert Band

Desig ned for high school groups and upper-level middle school groups. Independence is encouraged, but many lines are cross-cued. Usually includes an expanded percussion section. Grades 3 - 3.5

Performed by Dream Theater. Guitar tablature songbook for guitar and voice. 172 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Advanced

SKU: CL.012-3967-01

Composed by Mogensen. Concert Band. Opus III Series. Audio recording available separately (item CL.WFR368). Extra full score. Composed 2010. Duration 8 minutes. Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications #012-3967-01. Published by Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications (CL.012-3967-01).

This extraordinary work was written in lasting memory of those lost during the September 11, 2001 tragedies. September offers a musical journey through the varied emotions and feelings experienced during that heartbreaking time in history. In distinctive writing style, the composer touchingly reminds us to never forget. The work is nearly through-composed, providing continuous interest and contrasting segments; and included within the chamber sections are solos for euphonium, oboe, and clarinet. Well-crafted and very poignant, this exceptional composition is destined to become part of every wind ensemble’s repertoire. Certain to move and arouse audiences everywhere, September is afforded our highest recommendation.

Advanced

SKU: CL.012-3967-75

Composed by Mogensen. Concert Band. Opus III Series. Audio recording available separately (item CL.WFR368). Oversized, spiral-bound score. Composed 2010. Duration 8 minutes. Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications #012-3967-75. Published by Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications (CL.012-3967-75).

This extraordinary work was written in lasting memory of those lost during the September 11, 2001 tragedies. September offers a musical journey through the varied emotions and feelings experienced during that heartbreaking time in history. In distinctive writing style, the composer touchingly reminds us to never forget. The work is nearly through-composed, providing continuous interest and contrasting segments; and included within the chamber sections are solos for euphonium, oboe, and clarinet. Well-crafted and very poignant, this exceptional composition is destined to become part of every wind ensemble's repertoire. Certain to move and arouse audiences everywhere, September is afforded our highest recommendation.

Composed by Mogensen. Concert Band. Opus III Series. Audio recording available separately (item CL.WFR368). Score and parts. Composed 2010. Duration 8 minutes. Published by Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications

Fake Book (Includes melody line and chords). Size 9x12 inches. 568 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Organ - intermediate to advanced

SKU: HL.49017039

For Organ. Composed by Hermann Schroeder. Edited by Clemens Ganz. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Piano. Classical. Composed 1984. 24 pages. Duration 11'. Schott Music #ED 20205. Published by Schott Music (HL.49017039).

ISBN 9790001148504. UPC: 841886009141. 9.0x12.0x0.175 inches.

The three movement Concerto da chiesa is the last organ work by Hermann Schroeder (1904-1984), composed a few months before his death. The premiere was performed by Clemens Ganz, then organist at the Cathedral of Cologne, in memory of the esteemed teacher and college colleague. The three-movement composition is an unmistakable 'Schroeder' work: emphasis of linearity according to high baroque standards, conciseness and sometimes impulsive gestures of the themes and rhythms, layers of parallel chords within a freely tonal modern harmony, not forgetting the plasticity of form and the motor functions which are surprisingly energetic for an eighty-year-old.

C Edition. Fake Book (Includes melody line and chords). Size 9x12 inches. 816 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Bb Edition. Fake Book (Includes melody line and chords). Size 9x12 inches. 816 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

(4th Edition ) For voice and C instrument. Format: fakebook. With vocal melody, lyrics and chord names. Pop rock, rock and pop. Series: Hal Leonard Fake Books. 584 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.

C Edition. Composed by Various. Fake Book. Broadway, Country, Jazz, Pop, Standards. Softcover. 802 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Lyrics and Chords. Composed by Radiohead. This edition: Lyric and Chord Book. Artist/Personality; Book; Personality Book. Faber Edition. Rock. Leadsheet. Published by Faber Music

By Various. For Ukulele. Ukulele Chord Songbook. Softcover. 320 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

By Various. Easy Piano Songbook (Easy arrangements for piano and voice). Softcover. Size 9x12 inches. 552 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

(C Instruments). By Various. For C Instruments. Fake Book. Softcover. 520 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

By Various. E-Z Play Today (Easy big-note right-hand-only arrangements for piano, organ, and electronic keyboard). Size 9x12 inches. 368 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.