Concert Band/Harmonie and Piano SKU: BT.BMP8095417 Composed by Leroy Ande...(+)
Concert Band/Harmonie and
Piano
SKU:
BT.BMP8095417
Composed by Leroy
Anderson. Arranged by
Jörg Murschinski.
Score Only. Composed
2008. Beriato Music
#BMP8095417. Published by
Beriato Music
(BT.BMP8095417).
A lot is known
about the American
composer Leroy Anderson.
This son of Swedish
immigrants played the
piano, organ, accordion,
trombone, tuba and double
bass. He spoke several
languages fluently and
graduated from Harvard
with first-class
honours.While on military
service, the army also
commissioned him to write
a manual on Icelandic
grammar.He already
started writing musical
arrangements as a
student, and from his
30th year arranged and
composed for the Boston
Pops Orchestra. Such
melodiesas Serenata, The
Typewriter, Sleigh Ride
and Bugler�s
Holiday made him world
famous. His best-known
work, Blue Tango, reached
number one in the US
charts in 1952, and it
sold more than a million
copies. In 1975, a year
after hisdeath, he was
given a star at the Walk
of Fame in Hollywood.Most
of his works last no
longer than three
minutes, about the
maximum length of a
single at that time. One
work that lasts longer is
his 1953 Piano Concerto
in C for piano and
orchestra.The first
performance was in
Chicago, conducted by the
composer and with Eugene
List at the piano.
However, after three
performances he was no
longer happy with the
work and withdrew it. He
always intended to revise
it, but never got round
to it. Itwas only in 1989
that the Anderson family
decided to republish the
work.This three-part
composition is on the one
hand characterised by a
careless elegance, but on
the other one can hear
the influence of
Rachmaninoff, Copland,
Gershwin, and
evenBeethoven and Mozart,
as well as the Viennese
classics.Anderson used
the sonata form for the
first movement. It ends
with a cadenza that
carries us on into the
second part (in e minor).
The third part is a
typically cheerful
American folk dance in2/4
time, a so-called Hoe
Down, with a lilting,
lyrical passage as its
middle section. At the
end comes a solo passage
followed by a rapid
close.In this piano
concerto, Anderson
combines a rigidly
classical form of
composition with simple
andappealing themes and
elements from light
music. So this work is a
perfect synthesis of
light music and what is
called serious music, in
the same way as
Gershwin�s
Rhapsody in Blue. A work
that can be played
equally well in a
concerthall, at an
open-air concert or even
a pop
concert.
Concert Band/Harmonie and Piano SKU: BT.BMP8091417 Composed by Leroy Ande...(+)
Concert Band/Harmonie and
Piano
SKU:
BT.BMP8091417
Composed by Leroy
Anderson. Arranged by
Jörg Murschinski. Set
(Score & Parts). Composed
2008. Beriato Music
#BMP8091417. Published by
Beriato Music
(BT.BMP8091417).
A lot is known
about the American
composer Leroy Anderson.
This son of Swedish
immigrants played the
piano, organ, accordion,
trombone, tuba and double
bass. He spoke several
languages fluently and
graduated from Harvard
with first-class
honours.While on military
service, the army also
commissioned him to write
a manual on Icelandic
grammar.He already
started writing musical
arrangements as a
student, and from his
30th year arranged and
composed for the Boston
Pops Orchestra. Such
melodiesas Serenata, The
Typewriter, Sleigh Ride
and Bugler�s
Holiday made him world
famous. His best-known
work, Blue Tango, reached
number one in the US
charts in 1952, and it
sold more than a million
copies. In 1975, a year
after hisdeath, he was
given a star at the Walk
of Fame in Hollywood.Most
of his works last no
longer than three
minutes, about the
maximum length of a
single at that time. One
work that lasts longer is
his 1953 Piano Concerto
in C for piano and
orchestra.The first
performance was in
Chicago, conducted by the
composer and with Eugene
List at the piano.
However, after three
performances he was no
longer happy with the
work and withdrew it. He
always intended to revise
it, but never got round
to it. Itwas only in 1989
that the Anderson family
decided to republish the
work.This three-part
composition is on the one
hand characterised by a
careless elegance, but on
the other one can hear
the influence of
Rachmaninoff, Copland,
Gershwin, and
evenBeethoven and Mozart,
as well as the Viennese
classics.Anderson used
the sonata form for the
first movement. It ends
with a cadenza that
carries us on into the
second part (in e minor).
The third part is a
typically cheerful
American folk dance in2/4
time, a so-called Hoe
Down, with a lilting,
lyrical passage as its
middle section. At the
end comes a solo passage
followed by a rapid
close.In this piano
concerto, Anderson
combines a rigidly
classical form of
composition with simple
andappealing themes and
elements from light
music. So this work is a
perfect synthesis of
light music and what is
called serious music, in
the same way as
Gershwin�s
Rhapsody in Blue. A work
that can be played
equally well in a
concerthall, at an
open-air concert or even
a pop
concert.
Orchestra SKU: AP.12-0571572162 Composed by Carl Vine. Full Orchestra (Fu...(+)
Orchestra
SKU:
AP.12-0571572162
Composed by Carl Vine.
Full Orchestra (Full
Score); Masterworks;
Performance Music
Ensemble; Single Titles.
Faber Edition. Form:
Concerto. 20th Century;
Masterwork. Score. Faber
Music #12-0571572162.
Published by Faber Music
(AP.12-0571572162).
ISBN 9780571572168.
English.
Carl
Vine's Piano Concerto No.
1 (1997) is one of three
large-scale works
composed with pianist
Michael Kieran Harvey in
mind---the others being
his first two piano
sonatas. Vine describes
it as a conscious and
continuous tribute to the
piano concerto as a
medium and historical
entity, a fact most
apparent in the slow
movement, with its long
melodic lines evoking
both Ravel and Bach. This
25-minute concerto is
cast in the familiar
three-movement form, with
fast outer movements
framing a central slow
movement. The outer
movements share some
material (particularly in
some lively
conversational
interchanges between
piano and trumpet), and
also some typically
pianistic glitter across
the orchestra, with harp
and glockenspiel ensuring
that the piano is less of
an outsider than might
have otherwise been the
case.
Composed by Derek
Bourgeois. Band Music.
Score and parts. Duration
17:40. Published by G & M
Brand Music Publishers
(CN.R10193).
With
inspiration taken from
composers Maurice Ravel,
Arthur Benjamin and
Charles Ives, Bourgeois
take s a tongue-in-cheek
approach to this
challenging 3-movement
work. While the work is
infused with humor
throughout, it still
showcases his mastery of
the wind band
idiom.
In 1972, I
wrote a Sonata for Two
Pianos for two friends
who were piano teachers
at Wellington College.
When in 1995 I was asked
to write a work for wind
band, I returned to this
Sonata and have
re-arranged and in the
new version renamed it
Fantasy Triptych. There
are three movements: 1.
Le Tombeau d'Arthur
Benjamin Ravel wrote 'Le
Tombeau de Couperin,'
Arthur Benjamin wrote 'Le
Tombeau de Ravel' and so
the temptation to write
'Le Tombeau d'Arthur
Benjamin' was
overwhelming. At the end
of the movement there is
an oblique reference to
Benjamin's own 'Jamaican
Rumba' which accompanies
a quote from an old
Spanish folk song 'Loro,
enciende el hervidor de
agua.' 2. Mr. Bolt goes
for a ride in his motor
car, and Monsieur Ravel
turns in his grave. The
movement is dedicated to
an old friend, Geoffrey
Bolt, who adores the
music of Ravel. but at
the time of writing was
learning to drive. He
always described his
vehicle as a motor car.
To describe him as an
impatient motorist would
be a gross
understatement. The
refined suavity of
Ravel's music was in
complete contrast to
these early
manifestations of road
rage, hence the central
angry outburst. 3. The
War March of the
Ostriches The music of
Charles Ives was
fascinating me at the
time of writing this
movement and some of the
influence has rubbed off
in this rondo-like march.
At the end there is a
quote from the very
beginning of the first
movement. The title was
inspired by the amusing
antics of a group of
ostriches during a visit
to Bristol Zoo.
Composed by Derek
Bourgeois. Band Music.
Score only. Duration
17:40. Published by G & M
Brand Music Publishers
(CN.S11193).
With
inspiration taken from
composers Maurice Ravel,
Arthur Benjamin and
Charles Ives, Bourgeois
take s a tongue-in-cheek
approach to this
challenging 3-movement
work. While the work is
infused with humor
throughout, it still
showcases his mastery of
the wind band
idiom.
In 1972, I
wrote a Sonata for Two
Pianos for two friends
who were piano teachers
at Wellington College.
When in 1995 I was asked
to write a work for wind
band, I returned to this
Sonata and have
re-arranged and in the
new version renamed it
Fantasy Triptych. There
are three movements: 1.
Le Tombeau d'Arthur
Benjamin Ravel wrote 'Le
Tombeau de Couperin,'
Arthur Benjamin wrote 'Le
Tombeau de Ravel' and so
the temptation to write
'Le Tombeau d'Arthur
Benjamin' was
overwhelming. At the end
of the movement there is
an oblique reference to
Benjamin's own 'Jamaican
Rumba' which accompanies
a quote from an old
Spanish folk song 'Loro,
enciende el hervidor de
agua.' 2. Mr. Bolt goes
for a ride in his motor
car, and Monsieur Ravel
turns in his grave. The
movement is dedicated to
an old friend, Geoffrey
Bolt, who adores the
music of Ravel. but at
the time of writing was
learning to drive. He
always described his
vehicle as a motor car.
To describe him as an
impatient motorist would
be a gross
understatement. The
refined suavity of
Ravel's music was in
complete contrast to
these early
manifestations of road
rage, hence the central
angry outburst. 3. The
War March of the
Ostriches The music of
Charles Ives was
fascinating me at the
time of writing this
movement and some of the
influence has rubbed off
in this rondo-like march.
At the end there is a
quote from the very
beginning of the first
movement. The title was
inspired by the amusing
antics of a group of
ostriches during a visit
to Bristol Zoo.
Concert
Band, Grade 3.5, 3:30
Score. Composed by
Edward Elgar. Arranged by
Franco Cesarini. Editions
Franco Cesarini.
Classical, Concert Band,
Variations. Softcover.
Duration 210 seconds. Hal
Leonard #EFC025-SC.
Published by Hal Leonard
(HL.4008688).