Fabulous music and delightfully funny - and touching - lyrics make this folio a must-have for any fan of this classic holiday film, or of musicals in general. Opening on Broadway this holiday season, A Christmas Story has already garnered great acclaim in regional and touring productions. Contains 10 songs: A Christmas Story - Counting Down to Christmas - The Genius on Cleveland Street - Just like That - A Kid at Christmas - Ralphie to the Rescue - Red Ryder Carbine Action BB Gun - Somewhere Hovering over Indiana - What a Mother Does - When You're a Wimp. / Voix

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

Par CAVALLI FRANCESCO. La Calisto is an opera by Francesco Cavalli from a libretto by Giovanni Faustini based on the mythological story of Callisto. This is the vocal score and piano reduction, with English translation by Geoffrey Dunn and German translation by Karl Robert Marz.  / Vocal Music / Répertoire / Voix

Par WAGNER RICHARD. The second opera in Richard Wagner’s mighty The Ring cycle, Die Walkure remains among the most popular and frequently performed of his works. It is a masterful epic, with themes and motifs that combine and interplay to create some of the finest woven musical threads ever. From its gripping opening, in which the hero finds himself weaponless in the house of his enemy; to its heartrending finale, when a father bids farewell to his favourite daughter, generations of listeners have swooned to this story and its majestic, fantastical music. This Vocal Score of this Opera, with lyrics in German and English, features a piano reduction of the orchestral part and isideal for study, rehearsal, and concert performances./ Répertoire / Voix

Par SULLIVAN SIR ARTHUR SEYMOUR. W.S. Gilbert's complete libretto for H.M.S Pinafore, which opened May 28, 1878, at the Opera Comique and ran for 571 performances. Subtitled 'The Lass That Loved A Sailor', the story concerns a captain's daughter and a common sailor that fall in love./ Recueil / Voix

At last a superb musical to transform the face of the festive season!Nativity News is a tremendously fun Christmas cantata for young voices which tells the story of the birth of Jesus through the eyes of those well-known characters. From a chorus of rumbustious shepherds to the villainous Herod, they are there, but with a difference! The vocal music is unison, catchy and simple, providing opportunities for children at any musical level to take on a solo role.Chord symbols are provided for instrumentalists.Great fun for children and parents - a vital ingredient for the festive season.Suitable for Key Stage 2-3. / Voix

'Easy Charts Ensemble' is a new series containing the latest hits which can also be played by bands of beginners. The score comes with parts for piano/keyboard including overlaid first part in C, for B flat and E flat instruments (first and second parts each) and for the rhythm section (guitar, bass, drums). The first volume starts with the superhit 'Happy' by Pharrell Williams, the cool hipster song 'I Follow Rivers' by the dancing elf Lykke Li and other fantastic chart hits. / Voix

A Beginner\'s Guide, Featuring Step-By-Step Lessons with Audio, Video, and Popular Songs!. Par SCHMIDT ELAINE. The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor, you\'ll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson, learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practicing the many exercises, concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away, with a free online tuner and metronome! The acoustic guitar book features lessons on: guitar fundamentals, music reading, chords, strumming, arpeggios, time signatures, syncopation, hammer-ons and pull-offs, double stops, harmonics, fingerpicking, alternate picking, and scales and basic theory. / Pédagogie / Méthode / Voix

Third Edition. 42 songs for the Broadway belter. All songs have been especially chosen for this voice type, with careful attention to range and key. / TV, Film, Comédie musicale / Date parution : 2018-05-04/ Recueil / Voix