SKU: AP.35983S

UPC: 038081414959. English.

At my friend's house, they celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah. Now you can too, with the same piece of music. Two traditional seasonal songs, Christmas Is Coming, the Goose Is Getting Fat and The Dreidel Song, are combined. Discuss with your students some of the compositional techniques (imitation, augmentation) or tonalities that are used to fit these two tunes together. The many teachable moments make this a blast to teach and play!

SKU: HL.48025070

ISBN 9783793142898. UPC: 196288059684. 9.0x12.0x0.07 inches.

Composer's note: “This piece (originally for cello and piano) was written for an exhibition devoted to artists suffering schizophrenia in 2006. At the base of the piece is a 4-chord progression, very simple and minimal. A person with schizophrenia hears voices, which can be verydisturbing; there is a yearning for silence. I wrote this work so that my son Alex who suffers from the illness can listen to calmness, meditation. It’s called Blue Silence because blue is sometimes associated with healing. In the 2009 arrangement for clarinet, cello and piano, there is a lot of interplay and echo between the single line instruments, i.e. they are not playing a lottogether, rather one after the other.”.