Six Poems of Elizabeth Bishop-(Six Poems of Elizabeth Bishop). John Harbison blends his musical voice with the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop to form a work which gives the impression of a poet/composer collaboration rather than just a setting of text to music.Harbison has also set the work with a chamber ensemble accompaniment which is available from the G. Schirmer Rental Library.

This collection features piano works by prominent G. Schirmer composers including: Adams Barber Cowell Dello Joio Harbison Kabalevsky Khachaturian Prokofiev Shostakovich Tan Dun and others. Includes previouslyunpublished first editions by John Corigliano and Gabriela Lena Frank. Suitable for advanced high school and college-level pianists.

From the Opera The Great Gatsby-New York's Metropolitan Opera ushers in the new millennium with the world premiere of John Harbison's splendid opera The Great Gatsby with a libretto based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece. Among the highlights of theproduction are the fourteen “Gatsby Songs ” written in the energetic dance style of the 1920s with sparklingly witty lyrics by Murray Horwitz.Contents: By the Shore • Kind of in Love • Funny NewFeeling • A Saturday Night To-Do • I'm Leavin' It All to You • I Could End Up Loving You Tonight • Dreaming of You • Blowing a Bundle on You • I Can't Believe It • Remember the Old Days •I'm Doin' Fine • Cool • Who Can Say • Strange.

In four movements. The first two choral movements memorialize the composer's mother and mother-in-law. The final movement depicts Mary Magdalene inspired by Harbison's work with Bach's St. John Passion.

G. Schirmer Autograph Edition-Composer John Harbison writes: 'Rubies is a version of Thelonious Monk's 'Ruby My Dear' which he composed while still in his teens. When I was invited by the Seattle Symphony to make a short piecereflecting my first musical passions my thoughts were of Bach and Monk. Since I had recently made some Bach-like chorale preludes I chose to make a version of Monk's tune first in a chamber-musical contrapuntal manner then inthe grand orchestral style I had always heard lurking there.' Dur: 5:30 (Recorded live by the Rutgers Symphony Band - Peter Stanley Martin guest conductor).

Soprano and Piano-Soprano and Piano. G. Schirmer is proud to announce the publication of a set of five concert arias from Harbison's powerful new opera The Great Gatsby based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel about the dark side of theAmerican Dream. The Great Gatsby was commissioned and premiered by the Metropolitan Opera where these arias were performed by Dawn Upshaw Jerry Hadley and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Where is the Old Warm World is Daisy's aria.

Score and Parts-Trio Sonata is written for: Keyboard Solo (any type) GS82605 · String Trio (Violin/Viola/Cello) GS82374 · Double Reed Trio (Oboe/English Horn/Bassoon) GS82451 · Clarinet Trio (Clarinet/Clarinet/Bass Clarinet)GS82450 · Saxophone Trio (Soprano/Alto/Bari) GS82452. Mr. Harbison suggests performers try mixed configurations (e.g. Violin/English Horn/Bass Clarinet).

Mezzo-Soprano and Piano. G. Schirmer is proud to announce the publication of a set of five concert arias from Harbison's powerful new opera The Great Gatsby based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel about the dark side of theAmerican Dream. The Great Gatsby was commissioned and premiered by the Metropolitan Opera where these arias were performed by Dawn Upshaw Jerry Hadley and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Waiting is Myrtle's aria.

Baritone and Piano. G. Schirmer is proud to announce the publication of a set of five concert arias from Harbison's powerful new opera The Great Gatsby based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel about the dark side of theAmerican Dream. The Great Gatsby was commissioned and premiered by the Metropolitan Opera where these arias were performed by Dawn Upshaw Jerry Hadley and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.

Mezzo-Soprano and Piano. G. Schirmer is proud to announce the publication of a set of five concert arias from Harbison's powerful new opera The Great Gatsby based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel about the dark side of theAmerican Dream. The Great Gatsby was commissioned and premiered by the Metropolitan Opera where these arias were performed by Dawn Upshaw Jerry Hadley and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.

'Romance for violin and piano is a short reflective piece that exploits the lyrical qualities inherent in the combination. Originally written for a very young but talented violinist Romance travels through numerous moods andcolours within a continuous musical development of the opening material. At first gentle and reflective with increasing dramatic outbursts outlined by the violin sforzandi and parallel sixths in the piano writing numerous shortsolo passages in both instruments culminate in a fiery climax. Quickly subsiding into the calmer yet now more melancholy strains of the earlier stages of the piece the ending is somewhat incomplete. This seems to suggest acontinuous turn of events alluded to in the music.'???????????? - Helen GrimeBorn in 1981 Helen studied oboe with JohnAnderson and composition with Julian Anderson and Edwin Roxburgh at the Royal College of Music. She graduated from the BMus course with First Class Honours and completed her Masters with Distinction in 2004. From 2005-07 Helenwas a Legal & General Junior Fellow at the Royal College of Music. In 2003 she won a British Composer Award for her Oboe Concerto and was awarded the intercollegiate Theodore Holland Composition Prize in 2003 as well as allthe major composition prizes in the RCM. In 2008 she was awarded a Leonard Bernstein Fellowship to study at the Tanglewood Music Center where she studied with John Harbison Michael Gandolfi Shulamit Ran and Augusta Read Thomas.Helen has had works commissioned by some of the most established performers and organisations including ENO London Symphony Orchestra BCMG Britten Sinfonia BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Music Center.Conductors who have performed her work include Daniel Harding Oliver Knussen Pierre Boulez and Yan Pascal Tortelier. Helen is the 2010 recipient of the Lili Boulanger Memorial Fund and Associate Composer of The Hall? from the

Score and Parts-Quintet For Winds was composed in the summer of 1978 for the Aulos Quintet on commission for the Naumburg Foundation. The piece has been performed by many groups most notably the Emmanuel Wind Quintet who have performedit over 40 times and gave the first New York performance in 1980. The piece especially emphasises mixtures and doublings and maintains a classically simple surface. Scored for Flute Oboe Clarinet Bassoon and Horn.