SKU: HL.14034952

English.

A new musical with nine original songs set in Victorian Britain during the Crimean War. This fun look at the upstairs/downstairs life in a well-to-o household is seen through the eyes of a young orphan chimney sweep. It is a brilliant cross-curricular musical which combines all the fun of a traditional christmas party with a look at the Victorian period. A Victorian Christmas Party offers an alternative to those who want to put on a Christmas production but don't want to do a typical Nativity play. Duration: 45 mins. If you need to license a school/youth theatre performance of this product, please use the online application form.

SKU: HL.49015392

ISBN 9783795718640. German.

Vorwort - P. Rummenholler: Er ist der Vater, wir sind die Buben - H.-G. Ottenberg: Die Klaviersonaten Wq 55 im Verlage des Autors - G. Wagner: Anmerkungen zur historischen Auffuhrungspraxis am Beispiel von C.Ph.E. Bachs Versuch - L. Hoffmann-Erbrecht: Mit aller Freyheit und zu meinem eigenen Gebrauch gemacht - G. Puchelt: Fur Kenner und Liebhaber - P. Dinslage: Anspruch und Anpassung - I. Pfingsten: Er ubersetzte, indem er phantasierte, die Sprache des Verstandes in die Sprache der Empfindungen: denn dazu diente ihm die Musik - H. Poos: C.P.E. Bachs Rondo a-Moll aus der Zweiten Sammlung... fur Kenner und Liebhaber - C. Thorau: Kuhn, nie gehort und doch sachrichtig - U. Ringhandt: Die Litaneien von C.P.E. Bach als musikalische Lehrgedichte - R. Brandt: Der Konig und sein Zuhorer - W. Busch: Joseph Wright of Derby: Das Experiment mit der Luftpumpe - D. Diderot: Aus der Klavierschule von Bemetzrieder - J.N. Forkel: Reszension - J.J. Engel: Uber die musikalsiche Malerei - G.J. Vogler: Wie verhalten sich die zwei grossen Clavierspieler C.P.E. Bach und Alberti von Rom gegeneinander - J.F. Reichhardt: Uber die musikalische Idylle - C.F.Cramer: Rezension - C.F. Michaelis: Einige Bemerkungen uber das Erhabene der Musik - H.G. Nageli: Vorlesungen uber Musik mit Berucksichtigung der Dilettanten - F.Chrysander: Eine Klavier-Phantasie von Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach mit nachtraglich von Gerstenberg eingefugten Gesangsmelodien zu zwei verschiedenen Texten - H. Mermann: Ein Programmtrio K.P.E. Bachs - A. Schering: C.P.E. Bach und das redende Prinzip in der Musik - R. Peters: Chronologische Bibliographie des Schrifttums zu C.P.E. Bach - Sach- und Personenregister zur Bibliographie.

SKU: SU.91140151

Orville and Wilbur Wright's pioneering first flight.Shows off double reeds; 6/8 meter; nurtures independence.GRADE 3Instrumentation: Concert Band [2fl, ob, 3cl, bcl, bn, 2asx, tsx, bari; 3tp, 2hn, 3tb, euph, tba; timp, perc, xylo/glock, mar, vibr; cb]
Duration: 4'
Composed: 2018
Published by: Subito Music Publishing
AMERICAN WONDERS is a set of lyrical symphonic band works created by composer Edward Knight in collaboration with nationally known music educator Michael Raiber, and award-winning journalist M.J. Alexander, inspired by episodes from American history. These cross-curricular pieces focus on specific areas of musical growth in individual musicianship and ensemble experience. Each piece has unique features that offer musicians and teachers learning experiences beyond typical repertoire for bands at these performance levels.

SKU: SU.91140150

Orville and Wilbur Wright's pioneering first flight.Shows off double reeds; 6/8 meter; nurtures independence.GRADE 3Instrumentation: Concert Band [2fl, ob, 3cl, bcl, bn, 2asx, tsx, bari; 3tp, 2hn, 3tb, euph, tba; timp, perc, xylo/glock, mar, vibr; cb]
Duration: 4'
Composed: 2018
Published by: Subito Music Publishing
AMERICAN WONDERS is a set of lyrical symphonic band works created by composer Edward Knight in collaboration with nationally known music educator Michael Raiber, and award-winning journalist M.J. Alexander, inspired by episodes from American history. These cross-curricular pieces focus on specific areas of musical growth in individual musicianship and ensemble experience. Each piece has unique features that offer musicians and teachers learning experiences beyond typical repertoire for bands at these performance levels.

SKU: HL.248688

UPC: 888680729080. 9x12 inches. English.

“Gor don Wright was the friend of a lifetime. For thirty years Gordon and I shared our two greatest passions: music and Alaska. Gordon was my musical collaborator, my next-door neighbor, my fellow environmentalist and my camping buddy. These miniatures are musical sketches of three moments and places in our friendship. Like Alaska, Gordon was larger than life. He always lived his own way. And he died just as he would have wanted. We found him lying on the deck of his cabin in the Chugach Mountains, curled up against his favorite birch tree, looking across the waters of Turnagain Arm toward the Resurrection Valley and the tiny settlement of Hope.” - John Luther Adams

This music contains no normal stopped tones. All the sounds are produced as natural harmonics or on open strings. There are no harmonics higher than the sixth. So these sounds should be clear and resonant. Even so, balancing the harmonics with the open strings requires careful attention.

The durations of the individual pieces are given at the end of each.

The total duration of the set is about ten minutes.

SKU: GI.G-9357

SKU: GI.G-CD-952

UPC: 785147095224.

Welco me to the revival! Come on in and leave your troubles at the door. “Worthy God” is a moving declaration of faith and devotion by a true emerging voice on the contemporary gospel scene. Part of the full-length CD Building Up the Kingdom, “Worthy God” is sure to ignite the fire of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of all the assembled, and our raised voices will set the rafters ablaze. About M. Roger Holland II: What do you get when you mix a musician who is a pianist, organist, singer, composer, arranger and symphony maestro together? M. Roger Holland, II!! A man who knows Jesus and thanks him with every note he sings, plays, or writes. When you listen to Roger, you will know that God has touched His servant and in that touch, there will be a blessing for you! Roger has always had a passion for music. It started with him tinkering on his toy piano as a child and grew to him being accepted to the High School of Performing Arts in New York City. Roger's falsetto has opened many doors for him. He was a member of the All City High School Choir. Hearing his vocal abilities, he was recruited by the internationally known Boys Choir of Harlem. His musical talents garnered him a position playing keys on two Broadway plays in New York, The Color Purple and Memphis. When you witness the musicianship of M. Roger Holland II you will recognize the influences of some of the people he has worked with like Walter J. Turnbull, James Williams, Joseph Joubert, and Bettye Forbes. When you hear his writing, you may notice the stylings of Stevie Wonder. There is no denying the influences of Marvin Gaye, Peabo Bryson, and Luther Vandross when it comes to his vocals. The gospel inflections are representative of Richard Smallwood, Thomas Whitfield, and Kirk Franklin. The compositional techniques of classical composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the arranging styles of Negro Spirituals by Roland Carter, Jester Hairston, and Moses Hogan are prominent as well. Leading the Gospel Choir of Union Theological Seminary fueled Roger's fire and drew him into seminary. His passion for music led him on a spiritual journey from Westminster Choir College to Manhattan School of Music where he received his graduate degree and ultimately the very same Union Theological Seminary where he received a Master of Divinity degree. Roger is the Minister of Worship & Christian Arts at Calvary Baptist Church in Jamaica, NY, where weekly he ushers in the Holy Spirit through praise and worship. He also serves as Liturgical Consultant for the Office of Black Ministry in the Archdiocese of New York. God is truly using Roger as an instrument to share His message!   For Bookings Contact: Cortney Wright Thomas 646-269-4055 cwthomas406@gmail.com.

SKU: PR.411411630

ISBN 9781491137635. UPC: 680160691081. English. Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage.

Originally an award-winning play, Lynn Nottage’s INTIMATE APPAREL was inspired by her great-grandmother’s life in New York in the early 20th century. The Pulitzer-laureate also created the libretto for Ricky Ian Gordon’s grand-yet-intimate opera whose complete instrumentation is two pianos. The story follows the life of a young, single seamstress who has recently emigrated from Barbados, the fascinating cast of characters in her life, and her socially-unacceptable feelings of affection for a Jewish fabric salesman. The premiere production of this 2½-hour drama was televised nationally from Lincoln Center on PBS’s “Great Performances.”.
Inti mate Apparel began with an old photograph that I found haphazardly wedged between the pages of a Family Circle magazine. I was helping my grandmother, who’d developed debilitating senile dementia, move from her longtime home in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. In the midst of a pile of weathered magazines I discovered a black and white passport photograph of my grandmother Waple and her younger sister Eurita sitting on their mother’s lap. It was the first time I’d ever seen an image of my great-grandmother Ethel, a striking woman with high West African cheekbones and a gentle intensity. She had been a seamstress from Barbados, who at the age of 18 arrived alone in New York City at the dawn of the Twentieth Century. The image invited a thousand questions, none that could be answered by the living, and it led me on a journey to piece together the history of my great-grandmother Ethel, a woman who was basically a stranger to me. The only clue that I had about Ethel, was a story that my grandmother had once told me about her mother corresponding with a man laboring on the Panama Canal, who would eventually become her husband. I was fascinated by this story, which served as the inspiration for INTIMATE APPAREL.As I began my research for INTIMATE APPAREL at the New York Public Library, I discovered that lives of Black working women in the early 1900s were woefully absent from the archive. So, I found myself perusing help wanted listings, boarding house and clothing advertisements, looking for any sign of women like my great-grandmother on the printed page. As I was doing so, I began to find the characters that would populate the world of INTIMATE APPAREL; Esther the lonely seamstress, Mrs. Dickson the proprietress of the boardinghouse for Black women, Mr. Marks the Jewish fabric salesman on the Lower Eastside, Mrs. Van Buren the wealthy white socialite on the Upper Eastside, Mayme the sex worker in the tenderloin, and George the laborer toiling on the Panama Canal. As I was conjuring the characters, I realized that I was interested in the unexpected intersections between class, race, and gender at the turn of the Twentieth Century, and what happens when people across cultural and economic divides are thrust into spaces of intimacy.INTIMATE APPAREL began its life as a popular play, but it was the brilliant composer Ricky Ian Gordon who invited me to consider adapting it into an opera. He saw something epic and expansive in the life of Esther that he felt demanded to be sung, and with his loving guidance I was able to write my first libretto. It took me several tries to figure out how to wrestle my play into a form that was new to me. As a playwright, I kept wanting to maintain absolute control of the narrative. But, it was Ricky’s words that freed me creatively to find my way into the libretto. He said, “You’re not trusting my music as a narrative tool; I can say “I love you” without any words, with just music. So, allow me to be your collaborator on the storytelling.” And once he said that, we found INTIMATE APPAREL the opera together.

SKU: FP.FDD02

ISBN 9790570503834.

Vern on Park, Stockport’s oldest park, was created on land donated by Lord Vernon (George John Warren). It was built by poor mill workers who called it pinch-belly park and opened on 20th September 1858. Comprising twenty-one acres, it houses a museum, a bandstand, ornamental fountains, a fernery, rockery, borders and sunken rose garden as well terraced walkways that overlook the river and weir. The piece depicts a solitary walker engrossed in his own thoughts on a winter’s day, the landscape, and the park’s Victorian past.

At the very end of the piece a reminder of the park’s Victorian origins can be detected in a quote from Elgar’s Salut d’amour of 1899, which may well have been played by a band in the bandstand. Stockport market celebrated its 750th anniversary in 2010. It dated back to September 1260 when a Royal Charter allowed Robert de Stokeport, the Mayor, to hold a weekly market within the defensive walls of the Norman Castle on the present site of Castle Yard.

The Glass Umbrella was a popular name given to the 1861 covered market built of timber, glass and iron - nine bays with open sides and a glass canopy. In 1912, one bay was removed to enable electric trams and trolley buses to turn a sharp corner.

The piece depicts a lively market day, the multiculturalism of the present day and the old cries of pick and pay without delay. The bells of St Mary’s Church are depicted by a cascading peel tuned to the ten bells of the church tower, and a fleeting reference to John Wainwright’s famous Christmas hymn Christians Awake, and the Westminster chimes striking the hour from St Mary’s, bring to piece to a conclusion. Separate parts are provided for recorder and oboe.