Par SONDHEIM STEPHEN. Initialement intitulé The Girls Upstairs, ' Follies ' sont définies dans un théâtre de Broadway croulant, à démolir, au cours d'une réunion de tous les membres du passé des ' de Weismann Follies, ' une revue musicale (basée sur les Ziegfeld Follies) qui a joué dans ce théâtre entre les deux guerres mondiales. La comédie musicale se concentre sur deux couples, Buddy et Sally Durant Plummer et Ben et Phyllis Rogers Stone, qui assistent à la réunion. Sally et Phyllis étaient les deux showgirls dans le drame comme beaucoup des autres invités. Les deux mariages sont des problèmes parce que Buddy, un voyageur, a une liaison avec une jeune fille sur la route, Sally est toujours en amour avec Ben qu'elle était il y a ans, Ben est tellement renfermé que Phyllis se sent émotionnellement abandonnées. Les deux couples interagissent avec les autres et autres fêtards, et tout au long du premier semestre, les numéros musicaux des vieilles Follies sont effectuées par les personnages, parfois accompagnés par les fantômes de leur ancien moi. Ces chansons sont des pastiches de.../ Recueil / Chant

Following up on the first collection of Sondheims songs, this volume includes selections from Anyone Can Whistle, Company, Dick Tracy, Evening Primrose, Follies, The Frogs, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Into the Woods, A Little Night Music, Merrily We Roll Along, Passion, The Seven Percent Solution, Sunday in the Park with George, and Sweeney Todd arranged for voice with piano accompaniment. Includes detailed notes about the shows and films. / Chant Et Piano

Par SPINK IAN. Selected from Musica Britannica, Volume 33, edited by Ian Spink CONTENTS Wilt thou forgive the sin? D - G (John Hilton) Wilt Chloris cast her sun-bright eyes? G sharp - F (Simon Ives) Mark how the blushful morn D - G (Nicholas Lanier) Stay, silly heart, and do not break D - F (Nicholas Lanier) Bid me but live, and I will live G - F (Henry Lawes) No, no, fair heretic, it cannot be E - F(G) (Henry Lawes) Out upon it, I have lov'd C - D (Henry Lawes) Sweet stay awhile, why do you rise? D - G (Henry Lawes) Will you know my mistress' face? E flat - F (Henry Lawes) Faith be no longer coy F - G (William Lawes) Since 'tis my fate to be thy slave E - E(William Webb) In a season all oppressed G sharp - E (John Wilson) Since love hath in thine and mine eye D - F (John Wilson) Take, O take those lips away G - G (John Wilson) Wherefore peep'st thou, envious day? G - A (John Wilson) Set for the Associated Board Grade 5 examination./ Répertoire / Chant et Piano

Kammeroper Nr. 2. Par RIHM WOLFGANG. Chamber opera does not mean “little opera.” On the same scale as chamber music is to the symphony, it is rather the other way of talking onstage. The movable apparatus permits sophisticated voice-leading. A large ensemble demands simple conception to achieve the complexity it perhaps intends; this can be formulated more sharply and nuanced in a chamber ensemble. Therefore it is the subject which this type of presentation must sustain – or, better, provoke. Büchner’s Lenz is a description of the conditions within a process of collapse, moments of destruction already occurred but not yet accepted, evident in the points of contact with the environment. And it was those points of contact which Michael Fröhling attempted to reconstruct onstage. Lenz’s distraught state is always the same; only the proximity of the environment to that distraught state grows and ebbs. The musical consequence An hour of extreme chamber music results from this description: always bound for the main character – actually, not a commentary, but the main character himself as a multilayered level of action. Although Lenz acts on many levels – or tries to or believes he is – he has no room to manoeuvre. That is why he is also tightly interwoven in his sonic surroundings; the voices which only he hears are just as much himself as the two men with whom he foregathers (the liberal pragmatist Oberlin and the alert merchant who always “does the right thing” in every situation) – they evoke responses which he deeply desires. Omnipresent Friederike is just as much his inner world as Nature is – Nature, which he can no longer perceive unless it is personified, enlivened or dead. Therefore, the music’s task is both to motivate the “situation” (atmospherically) and to be the psychological constant (via a network of entangled references per se) in an action as it is played out. The compositional process December 1977 to June 1978 – a period identical to the stepwise understanding of an existence as that of Jakob Lenz. Yet the more the historical figure became precisely attendant in my intellect in terms of data and atmosphere, the more it retreated in favour of a cipher of disturbance as I began to understand Lenz. Thence the explanation for the failure of the attempts to approach him – including my attempt to interpret him via musical representation – because, essentially, Lenz himself is the failure. Only the naked stages of that failure remain portrayable, i.e. including the failure of those who wish to “help” Lenz, for example, while Lenz himself is already trapped inextricably in a state of complete destruction. I tried to compose my way into that situation as far as possible; the insistence of several rhythmic and harmonic configurations is the palpable expression of the main character’s ever-recurring rigidity. One sound pervades the entire work. The musical stage For me, this is a place where very magical and very human things take place. In Jakob Lenz, the human aspects often switch to magical ones, since the realism of a self-suasive, unhinged soul takes on surreal traits – or we simply cannot understand that otherwise except as not being real. A character like Jakob Lenz on the stage is complex due to the fact alone that it harbours many stages within itself, and music must represent those constantly present stages. I have tried to do so in the most direct way – by not cleanly separating the musical layers, but keeping them constantly in evidence until they must break forth, each in accord with its own dramaturgy. In an overview, the large form takes on aspects of a rondo, performed in overlapping layers – a type of rondo relief, since perspectives of psychological proximity and distance are indeed formulated musically as atmospheric relations. Above all: the thread on which Jakob Lenz hangs is the current onto the listeners’ hearts. Wolfgang Rihm (January 1979)/ Répertoire / Chant et Piano

Easy piano arrangements of 50 songs, including everything from pop hits to jazz classics. Complete with song background notes, and playing hints and tips. / Piano

Musical numbers that one after another hit the jackpot. Par DREWE ANTHONY. This is the official songbook for the brand new stage version of Half a Sixpence. The show opened to rave reviews and is currently playing at the Noël Coward Theatre, London. This musical adaptation of H.G. Wells's semiautobiographical novel 'Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul', is a completely fresh adaptation which reunites Julian Fellowes (creator of Downton Abbey) with George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, the musical team that co-creator Cameron Mackintosh first put together to create the hit stage adaptation of Mary Poppins. The score is inspired by and features several of composer David Heneker's exhilarating songs from the original production, including Flash Bang Wallop, Money to Burn and Half A Sixpence./ Recueil / Chant et Piano