Take Him, Earth Chorale SATB SATB, Piano Theodore Presser Co.
Choral SATB choir, piano SKU: PR.342402020 In Memoriam John F. Kennedy...(+)
Choral SATB choir, piano
SKU: PR.342402020
In Memoriam John F.
Kennedy, 1917-1963.
Composed by Steven
Stucky. Sws. Premiered by
ACDA National Conference,
Craig Jessop, cond.;
Meyerson Symphony Center,
Dallas, TX. Secular
choral. Performance
Score. With Standard
notation. Composed
November 3 2012. 24
pages. Duration 13
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #342-40202.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.342402020).
ISBN
9781598064995. UPC:
680160616084. 8.5 x 11
inches. English. Text:
William Shakespeare;
Aurelius Prudentius
Clemens; Aeschylus.
Aurelius Clemens, William
Shakespeare, Aeschylus.
Texts from Aurelius
Prudentius Clemens,
Aeschylus, and William
Shakespeare.
When
Tim Sharp, Executive
Director of the ACDA,
offered Stucky the Brock
Memorial Commission, it
was decided that the text
would commemorate the
50th anniversary of the
assassination of John F.
Kennedy, since the annual
convention would take
place in Dallas of that
year. To that end, Stucky
chose four different but
pertinent texts to honor
the occasion, although
never referencing JFK by
name. Take Him, Earth was
premiered at the ACDA
convention in March,
2013. Originally scored
for chorus and chamber
ensemble of nine
instruments (available on
a rental basis), Take
Him, Earth is presented
here in piano reduction.
For advanced choirs.
Duration: 13'. When
Tim Sharp, Executive
Director of the American
Choral Directors
Association, very
kindlyoffered me the
Raymond W. Brock Memorial
Commission for 2013, he
suggested that because
thepremiere would take
place at the national
conference in Dallas in
the 50th year since the
assassinationof John F.
Kennedy in that city, the
text might refer in some
way to that grim
anniversary. Hesuggested,
too, that I consider
using a chamber ensemble
or chamber orchestra to
accompany thechorus.I
took these suggestions to
heart, but at the same
time I wanted to write
something universal
enoughto be appropriate
on other occasions, in
other settings. Thus the
score is dedicated to
PresidentKennedy’s
memory, but otherwise he
is never referred to by
name. Instead, I
assembled a group oftexts
that are associated with
him in some way, but that
also stand alone as a
more general eulogy.As a
refrain, there are a few
lines from the early
Christian burial hymn
that begins “Take
him,Earth, for
cherishingâ€
— lines that were
earlier set to music by
Herbert Howells in his
classic motetcommissioned
for Kennedy’s
memorial service in 1963.
The lines of Aeschylus
“Drop, drop
— inour sleep,
upon the heart sorrow
falls†from
Agamemnon were quoted by
Robert F. Kennedy uponthe
death of Martin Luther
King in April 1968. The
celebrated “When he
shall die, cut him out
inlittle starsâ€
from Act III of
Shakespeare’s
Romeo and Juliet was
cited by RFK a few months
after hisbrother’s
murder.
Orchestra (Study Score) SKU: HL.49046988 Lyric Trilogy After Maurice M...(+)
Orchestra (Study Score)
SKU: HL.49046988
Lyric Trilogy After
Maurice Maeterlinck Study
Score, French.
Composed by Aribert
Reimann. Edition Schott.
Classical. Softcover. 280
pages. Duration 5400
seconds. Schott Music
#ED23491. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49046988).
ISBN
9781705174333. UPC:
842819115281.
8.25x11.75x0.695
inches.
SYNOPSIS
Aribert Reimann's
'Trilogie lyrique' is
based on three plays by
Maurice Maeterlinck: In
L'Intruse, a family is
sitting at the table with
their blind grandfather.
They are waiting for the
doctor to arrive and tend
to his daughter who is
lying ill in bed after
having given birth: her
new-born son has not yet
made a single sound. The
old man senses that
something is wrong due to
the uneasy atmosphere in
the room. Who is sitting
in our midst? he asks. He
is the only one who
cansee the presence of
death. Interieur: Once
again a family is
gathered round the table
in the evening, but this
time we observe the
action from outside,
looking through the
window with the
grandfather and a
stranger: no sound can be
heard. Outside the house,
the stranger reports that
the eldest daughter has
drowned and that he has
pulled her out of the
river. Although the
corpse is already being
carried through the
village to the family,
the grandfather cannot
bring himself to destroy
this idyll. La Mort de
Tintagiles: The young
Tintagiles is told a
story about a mysterious
castle and the aged queen
who has all potential
heirsto the throne
murdered. His siblings
sense that Tintagiles has
been summoned to the
castle to be murdered,
but nobody openly
expresses this fact. It
is the sinister
messengers of death from
the interludes, now
visible as the queens
servants, who ful?l her
demand and snatch the
sleeping boy from his
sisters'arms. Commentary
'In comparison with his
Medea for example with
its stormy outbreaks of
emotion and violence,
Reimann's score is worked
in an impressive
refinement of sound. It
begins with rumbling,
hesitating and expressive
music in the first
section, demanding highly
ingenious sound effects
from the lower strings
including tapping and
faltering glissandos in
its noisy expression of
mortal fear. Inthe second
part, the woodwind
formation plays at times
almost in chamber music
fashion and is then
suddenly painfully
shrill. The third part
luxuriates and rages in
its rich, full
orchestration. The manner
in which Reimann displays
his mastery in textural
shading, the invention of
sounds welling up and
fading away, the rhythmic
and melodic capacity of
suffering and the music's
inner violence are all
utterly
compelling.'(Wolfgang
Schreiber, Opernwelt,
November 2017).
Performed by Rancid. For guitar and voice. Format: guitar tablature songbook. Wi...(+)
Performed by Rancid. For
guitar and voice. Format:
guitar tablature
songbook. With guitar
tablature, standard
notation, vocal melody,
lyrics, chord names,
guitar chord diagrams and
guitar tab glossary. Punk
Rock and Ska. Series: Hal
Leonard Guitar Recorded
Versions. 120 pages. 9x12
inches. Published by Hal
Leonard.
Libretto SKU: HL.49016078 Composed by Georges Bizet. Edition Schott. Clas...(+)
Libretto
SKU:
HL.49016078
Composed
by Georges Bizet. Edition
Schott. Classical. Book
Only. 352 pages. Schott
Music #GS34003. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49016078).
UPC:
073999205350. 305 X 229
inches.
English
Only. Like 'The Consul'
(1950), 'The Saint of
Bleecker Street' is a
full-length, serious work
which features several
characteristics of
traditional opera. It is
in three acts, has a
large cast, including a
chorus, and a large
orchestra.The subject
matter is very serious
and touches on religious
experiences, violence,
and murder. Suggestions
of incest also appear in
the story, and there is
no happy ending.
The Saint of
Bleecker Street is set
incontemporary New York
City, in the Italian
community in and around
Bleecker Street.
Menotti's libretto
concerns the young
Annina, who every Good
Friday develops stigmata
on her hands. Her
possessive brother,
Michele, fights tokeep
the miracle-hungry
neighbors away from her
and to prevent her from
becoming a nun. When
Michele's mistress,
Desideria, accuses him of
being in love with his
sister, he stabs her in
the back. Very ill,
Annina take the nun'sveil
in a ceremony at her home
and dies in the process.