Eine echte Novität: Erstmals gibt es ein Liederbuch, das ausschließlich für die Klassenstufen 5 und 6 konzipiert ist. In der Repertoireauswahl, der Ansprache der Schülerinnen und Schüler und im Zuschnitt der Angebote geht dieses neuartige Liederbuch gezielt auf die Belange genau dieser Altersstufe ein. Es ist dabei weit mehr als eine reine Repertoiresammlung: Zu vielen Titeln gibt es weiterführende Optionen rund um die Themen Klassenmusizieren, Tanz, Choreografie, Stimme und vieles mehr.- 150 Titel aus allen stilistischen Bereichen, Kontinenten und Zeiten - zahlreiche Zusatzangebote zu Klassenmusizieren - Tanz und Bewegungsanleitungen, Begleitsätze und -patterns - Hintergrundwissen / Voix

Singer's Choice - Professional Tracks for Serious Singers-Ten tunes from the legendary Jerome Kern are presented in this package which is designed to provide the at-home singer with an actual professional setting.Sing The Songs Of Jerome Kern includes the favourites A Fine Romance Smoke Gets In Your Eyes The Last Time I Saw Paris The Way You Look Tonight Yesterday The Folks Who Live On The Hill Make Believe I'm Old Fashioned All The Things You Are and They Didn't Believe Me.

and Facility - Pro Vocal Mixed Editions-Vocal strength is essential to producing a good sound and singing with control and confidence. A weak voice is one that tires easily one that is inconsistent in sound quality and/or pitch and dynamics and one that gives out many years before the singer is ready to stop singing. Vocal strength is not all about singing loudly it's about singing well. The exercises and musical selections in Vocal Exercises For Building Strength Endurance And Facility are designed to help singers hone and refine their skills to develop the kind of control and consistency professional singers need to compete and find work. But mastering these skills is notjust a task for professional singers ' amateur singers who work on the exercises in this book will find singing easier and more fun with each new level of control they achieve. The online audio contains demos for listening and separate backing tracks so you can sing along. In addition to vocal exercises several songs are included for practice including Danny Boy The House of the Rising Sun Look for the Silver Lining Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child and more.

Par MC NEFF STEPHEN. My research for Banished began with a small group of students during a Trinity Laban co-lab period in 2013, though the idea goes back over 30 years when I first saw Steve Gooch’s Female Transport and stored the idea of adapting it as an opera until the right opportunity arose. I have been involved in opera for a long time and it has always been a frustration for me that while there is an abundance of female talent (particularly so in conservatories and colleges) there is a noticeable lack of challenging roles available for young women. The roles most often undertaken are maids or innocent girls, compliant wives or tomboys. Not that the problem is necessarily confined exclusively to young women, but where good roles exist, the women are all too often merely passive or victims. Things happen to them rather than them making things happen. They are unable to influence their circumstances and are usually resigned to their fate. Worse still, they are often judged in some way responsible for what happens to them, culpable even because of their looks, their way of life or a streak of independence. Just think about Mimi, Carmen and Violetta (to name only three on a long list). All these characters die, and their attempts at individuality contribute to their demise in some way that they have no control over. With some exceptions female characters in opera are too often sad, mad or bad. Redressing this balance and taking advantage of the richness in vocal talent is only one reason to write an opera reflecting the reality of a group of strong women who work things out for themselves. The transportation of people to Australia at the beginning of the nineteenth century is not a particularly well understood part of history beyond a sort of folk myth. What were the circumstances, who were the people and what happened to them? Opera does not exist to completely answer these questions, but it can focus on the women as individuals and help tell their story. (All the women named in the opera actually existed.) My approach has to been to put the women’s narrative centre stage and, in the confines of an oppressive, dangerous environment go with them on their journey as they survive or sink. The demands on the women are huge. At every turn they are oppressed by their jailers, the system that brought them here and their own low expectations. They have to work out ways to overcome these odds. We discover them through their music in solos and ensembles, sometimes reflective, at other times boasting about their lives a petty criminals and trying to establish status and pecking order. Alongside this I have used references to music of the time to create another reality built on larger ensembles and choruses. This is a sort of collective consciousness aware of loss, longing and context – even of a broad political dimension to the realities of Transportation. Despite the acute awareness of their circumstances in these ensembles, there is also a resilience and strength that transcends the individual stories. Stephen McNeff / Instrumental Music / Répertoire / Voix