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For Violin, Cello, and Piano - Score and Parts. By Shulamit Ran. Text: Shulamit ...(+)
For Violin, Cello, and
Piano - Score and Parts.
By Shulamit Ran. Text:
Shulamit Ran. For Violin,
Cello, Piano. Score and
parts. Composed 1997. 12
pages. Duration 8:00.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company.
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Judith Clurman - Rejoice: Honoring the Jewish Spirit Series. Composed by Shula...(+)
Judith Clurman - Rejoice:
Honoring the Jewish
Spirit
Series. Composed by
Shulamit
Ran (1949-). Rejoice
Honoring
Jewish Spirit. Concert,
Festival, Jewish. Octavo.
16
pages. Published by Hal
Leonard
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By Shulamit Ran. For piano. Duration 17:. Published by Theodore Presser Company....(+)
By Shulamit Ran. For
piano. Duration 17:.
Published by Theodore
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(Blessing For The Road). Composed by Shulamit Ran (1949-). For mixed quartet: cl...(+)
(Blessing For The Road).
Composed by Shulamit Ran
(1949-). For mixed
quartet: clarinet,
violin, cello, piano. Set
of parts. 28 pages.
Duration 6 minutes.
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(String Quartet No. 3). Composed by Shulamit Ran (1949-). For string quartet (2 ...(+)
(String Quartet No. 3).
Composed by Shulamit Ran
(1949-). For string
quartet (2 violins, 2
violas, violoncello).
Contemporary. Score and
Parts. Standard Notation.
Composed March 9 2013. 92
pages. Duration 23
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41690.
Published by Theodore
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(Duo for Saxophones and Percussion). By Shulamit Ran (1949-). Solo instrument wi...(+)
(Duo for Saxophones and
Percussion). By Shulamit
Ran (1949-). Solo
instrument with
accompaniment. For
Soprano Saxophone,
Vibraphone. Set of 3
scores. Standard
notation. Composed 2007
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| Spirit Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Clarinet SKU: PR.114419200 For solo Bb Clarinet. Com...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet
SKU: PR.114419200
For solo Bb
Clarinet. Composed by
Shulamit Ran. Solo part.
With Standard notation. 8
pages. Duration 7
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41920.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114419200). ISBN
9781491114223. UPC:
680160671731. 9 x 12
inches. Spirit was
composed in memory of the
renowned clarinetist
Laura Flax. Laura
commissioned Ran’s
first solo clarinet work,
For an Actor: Monologue
for Clarinet, to premiere
with the Da Capo Chamber
Players in 1978. Ran
returned to the clarinet
in many compositions over
the years, sometimes as a
lead instrument and at
other times as an
important voice, yet
always inspired by
Laura’s rich
sound, blazing technique,
and the “brain and
guts†that she
brought to her playing.
As a memorial, Spirit is
not about absence, but
rather a celebration
displaying a wide range
of emotions, with at
least a tiny glimpse of
Laura’s brilliant
spirit and spiritedness.
Only in the work’s
final stretch does the
sense of parting and loss
take over. SPIRIT was
composed in memory of
Laura Flax (1952-2017),
the renowned New
York-based clarinetist
and my cherished friend.
Our musical and personal
association began in 1977
when Laura invited me to
compose a solo clarinet
work, For an Actor:
Monologue for Clarinet,
in memory of her mother,
Hazel Flax, whom I had
known.After composing For
an Actor for Laura I came
back to the clarinet in
many of my compositions
over the years, sometimes
as a lead instrument and
at other times as an
important voice. In all
of my clarinet music
Laura is present. The
rich sound, blazing
technique, the
“brain and
guts†that she
brought to her playing,
and her remarkable
person, have inspired me
in so many ways during
the four decades of our
friendship, and beyond.I
did not want Spirit to be
about absence, though. I
wanted the piece to
exhibit a wider range of
emotions, as well as
capture at least a tiny
glimpse of Laura’s
brilliant spirit and
spiritedness. Only in the
work’s final
stretch does the sense of
“parting,â€
and of loss, take
over.Upon completing
Spirit on October 21,
2017 I found myself
compelled to add at the
bottom of the score the
words “To Laura,
always in my
heart,†as though
in an effort to reach
out, for a brief moment,
and touch the
unreachable.—Shula
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| All Roads Leading Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Flute, Harp, Viola SKU: PR.114423470 Composed by Shulamit R...(+)
Chamber Music Flute,
Harp, Viola SKU:
PR.114423470 Composed
by Shulamit Ran. Set of
Score and Parts.
24+12+12+16 pages.
Duration 13 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-42347. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114423470). ISBN
9781491137314. UPC:
680160687473. A
commission from the Santa
Fe Chamber Music
Festival, for any
combination of
instruments of her
choosing, quickly sparked
Shulamit Ran to create a
trio for Flute, Viola,
and Harp. She writes of
this instrumentation:
“something about
its color palette
reminded me of the image
I have of Santa Fe as a
sun-drenched city of warm
hues, a thriving arts
scene, and a spirit of
relaxed tolerance.â€
In this subtle, yet
dramatic work, the
instruments begin the
journey with distinct,
contrasting musical
personalities, which
gradually begin to
coalesce, though not
without surprise twists
along the road. Being
commissioned by the Santa
Fe Chamber Music Festival
to create a new work for
the major milestone of
its 50th anniversary was
both an honor and a
special delight. My
choice of the flute,
viola, and harp
combination for this
composition was reached
quickly and almost
instinctively, motivated
not only because I
relished the thought of
composing for an
instrumental ensemble I
had not previously
written for, but also
because something about
its color palette
reminded me of the image
I have of Santa Fe as a
sun-drenched city of warm
hues, a thriving arts
scene, and a spirit of
relaxed tolerance.In All
Roads Leading I treat the
instruments
intermittently as three
distinct characters who
have their own individual
“voices†and
musical materials, while
at other times they
coalesce into a single,
more unified entity. In
the sections expressive
of the
instruments’
individual
“soulsâ€â€
as I like to call
them—the music
ranges from the songful,
to the impassioned, but
also the volatile. In
contrast, where all three
instruments act as a
single entity, the music
tends to be highly
rhythmic, sometimes
dance-like, even angular,
and spiky.As the work
progresses, the
boundaries between these
contrasting approaches
become deliberately
blurrier and more
intertwined, perhaps
reminding one of a tale
with various twists and
turns in the plot. And
although eschewing a
formal recapitulation,
various motivic threads
as well as emotive
“states†are
eventually brought full
circle, as if to fulfill
an intended role that
crystallizes only as All
Roads Leading plays out
its full journey.
Simultaneously with the
general unwinding and
relaxation that is
reached nearthe end, a
mutation of an earlier
more threatening element
appears at the very
closing of the work,
perhaps a reminder that
the unknown always lies
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| O the Chimneys Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Clarinet, Flute, Percussion, Piano, Tape, Violoncello, soprano voi...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet,
Flute, Percussion, Piano,
Tape, Violoncello,
soprano voice SKU:
PR.11140180S For
Mezzo-soprano Voice and
Chamber Ensemble with
Tape. Composed by
Shulamit Ran. Text: Five
Poems of Nelly Sachs,
Translation from German
of Nos. I, III and IV by
Ruth and Matthew Mead, of
No. II by Michael Roloff
and No. V by Michael
Hamburger. Contemporary.
Set of performance
scores. With Standard
notation. Composed 1969.
52 pages. Duration 18
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #111-40180S.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.11140180S). UPC:
680160601691. Text: Nelly
Sachs. Nelly Sachs. Text:
Five Poems of Nelly
Sachs, Translation from
German of Nos. I, III and
IV by Ruth and Matthew
Mead, of No. II by
Michael Roloff and No. V
by Michael
Hamburger. O The
Chimneys is a setting of
five poems by Nelly
Sachs, the great
German-Jewish 1966 Nobel
Prize co-winner in
literature, whose writing
concerned itself almost
entirely with the subject
of the holocaust.
Composed in 1969, the
work was my own personal
way of saying, through my
own art, do not forget.
Shockingly, these words
have as much relevance
today as they did when
the work was written.
Today we find ourselves
having to say do not
forget, do not distort,
do not deny it ever
happened. I
selected the five poems
from Sachs' O The
Chimneys collection,
retaining its grimly
evocative title even
though I did not include
the actual poem by that
name. In scoring the work
for female voice, flute,
clarinet/bass clarinet,
cello, piano and
percussion, I aimed to
give myself the broadest
possible palette of
instrumental colors while
using the smallest number
of participants. Yet as I
was planning the final
moments of my cycle, I
felt that instrumental
sound alone would not
suffice to express the
horror. An electronic
tape segment was added to
the work's final climax.
The first two
poems (A Dead Child
Speaks and Already
Embraced by the Arm of
Heavenly Solace), both
depicting the tearing of
a child away from his
mother, are treated
essentially as one unit,
with the first acting as
an introduction to the
second. These two, and
the cycle's apocalyptic
fifth poem (Hell is Naked
from Glowing Enigmas II),
act as the two weighty
pillar points, so to
speak, surrounding the
more introspective two
middle poems (Fleeing and
Someone Comes). To
maximize dramatic
differentiation within
the constraints of a
relentlessly tragic
subject matter, I used
range as a means to
delineate contrast, by
dividing the sounds
available to me into low
and dark (mvt. III) vs.
high and, at times,
eerily bright (mvt. IV)
colors. Thus the two
middle poems are intended
to balance the frenzied
madness of which the
work's outer parts are
made. The work
received its first
performance in New York
at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art's Grace
Rainey Auditorium on
January 19, 1970.
--Shulamit Ran. $38.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
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Chamber Music Clarinet, Flute, Mezzo-soprano voice, Percussion, Piano, Tape, Vio...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet,
Flute, Mezzo-soprano
voice, Percussion, Piano,
Tape, Violoncello SKU:
PR.111401800 For
Mezzo-soprano Voice and
Chamber Ensemble with
Tape. Composed by
Shulamit Ran. Arranged by
Nelly Sachs. Text: Five
Poems of Nelly Sachs,
Translation from German
of Nos. I, III and IV by
Ruth and Matthew Mead, of
No. II by Michael Roloff
and No. V by Michael
Hamburger. Contemporary.
Set of Score and Parts.
With Standard notation.
Composed 1969.
51+16+14+20+14+15 pages.
Duration 18 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#111-40180. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.111401800). UPC:
680160618132. 8.5 x 11
inches. Text: Nelly
Sachs. Nelly Sachs. Text:
Five Poems of Nelly
Sachs, Translation from
German of Nos. I, III and
IV by Ruth and Matthew
Mead, of No. II by
Michael Roloff and No. V
by Michael
Hamburger. O The
Chimneys is a setting of
five poems by Nelly
Sachs, the great
German-Jewish 1966 Nobel
Prize co-winner in
literature, whose writing
concerned itself almost
entirely with the subject
of the holocaust.
Composed in 1969, the
work was my own personal
way of saying, through my
own art, do not forget.
Shockingly, these words
have as much relevance
today as they did when
the work was written.
Today we find ourselves
having to say do not
forget, do not distort,
do not deny it ever
happened. I
selected the five poems
from Sachs' O The
Chimneys collection,
retaining its grimly
evocative title even
though I did not include
the actual poem by that
name. In scoring the work
for female voice, flute,
clarinet/bass clarinet,
cello, piano and
percussion, I aimed to
give myself the broadest
possible palette of
instrumental colors while
using the smallest number
of participants. Yet as I
was planning the final
moments of my cycle, I
felt that instrumental
sound alone would not
suffice to express the
horror. An electronic
tape segment was added to
the work's final climax.
The first two
poems (A Dead Child
Speaks and Already
Embraced by the Arm of
Heavenly Solace), both
depicting the tearing of
a child away from his
mother, are treated
essentially as one unit,
with the first acting as
an introduction to the
second. These two, and
the cycle's apocalyptic
fifth poem (Hell is Naked
from Glowing Enigmas II),
act as the two weighty
pillar points, so to
speak, surrounding the
more introspective two
middle poems (Fleeing and
Someone Comes). To
maximize dramatic
differentiation within
the constraints of a
relentlessly tragic
subject matter, I used
range as a means to
delineate contrast, by
dividing the sounds
available to me into low
and dark (mvt. III) vs.
high and, at times,
eerily bright (mvt. IV)
colors. Thus the two
middle poems are intended
to balance the frenzied
madness of which the
work's outer parts are
made. The work
received its first
performance in New York
at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art's Grace
Rainey Auditorium on
January 19, 1970.
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Chamber Music Cello, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2 SKU: PR.114406980 Vista...(+)
Chamber Music Cello,
Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2
SKU: PR.114406980
Vistas. Composed
by Shulamit Ran. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation. 42 +
112 pages. Duration 25
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-40698.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114406980). UPC:
680160010806. Shula
mit Ran’s second
string quartet, subtitled
“Vistas,â€
occupies a large canvas
that is cast in a
traditional fourmovement
mold, where the outer
movements present,
explore, and later return
to the work’s
principal musical
materials, surrounding a
slow movement and
scherzo-type third
movement with a trio. In
addition to tempo-based
titles, the individual
movements have subtitles
that are evocative of
each movement’s
character, as follows: I.
Concentric: from the
inside out II. Stasis
III. Flashes IV.
Vistas. My second
string quartet,
“Vistasâ€, is
a work cast in a
traditional four-movement
formal mold, with the
outer movements,
presenting and later
returning to the
work’s principal
musical materials,
surrounding a slow
movement and a
scherzo-type third
movement.While the four
movements’
“properâ€
names -- Maestoso con
forza, Lento, Scherzo
impetuoso, and
Introduzione; Maestoso e
grande – give some
indication of the general
character of the
individual movements, I
have also subtitled, less
formally, each movement
as follows:Â 1)
Concentric:Â from the
inside out 2)Â
Stasis 3) FlashesÂ
4) Vista. The images
evoked by these titles
tell one, I think, a bit
more about the inner
workings of the
quartet.In the first
movement, a prominently
presented opening pitch
(E) reveals itself, as
the movement unfolds, to
be a center of gravity
from which ever-growing
cycles of activity
gradually evolve.Â
While various important
themes come into being as
the movement progresses,
their impact on the
listener has, I believe,
a great deal to do with
their juxtaposition and
relationship to the
initial central point of
gravity.Stasis is, as the
name implies, a movement
where activity seems, at
times, almost
suspended. Being
also, as Webster’s
Dictionary reminds us,
“a state of static
balance and equilibrium
among opposing tendencies
or forces,†it
develops various
materials, including ones
from the first movement,
without bringing them to
points of
resolution.Flashes is
short and very fast,
evoking in my mind the
quick shimmer of
fireflies, a
“sudden burst of
lightâ€, but also a
“brief
timeâ€. Perhaps,
even, a
“smile�Final
ly, the last movement,
Vista, is not only
“a view or
outlookâ€, but also
“a comprehensive
mental view of a series
of remembered or
anticipated
events.â€Â After
a brief recall of the
opening of the second
movement, this movement
brings back all the
important themes of the
first movement in their
original order. But
just as going back can
never really mean going
back in time, the
movement is much more
than recapitulatory.Â
By cutting through
previously transitory
passages and presenting
the main ideas in a
fashion more direct yet
more evolved, it also
sheds new light on
earlier events, offering
a retrospective, synoptic
view of the first
movement as it brings to
culmination the work as a
whole. “Vistasâ
€ was commissioned by
C. Geraldine Freund for
the Taneyev String
Quartet of what was then
Leningrad. It was the
first commission given in
this country to a Soviet
chamber ensemble since
the 1985 cultural
exchange accord between
the Soviet Union and the
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| SONG AND DANCE [Conducteur] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Vibraphone, soprano Saxophone SKU: PR.11441378S Duo for ...(+)
Chamber Music Vibraphone,
soprano Saxophone SKU:
PR.11441378S Duo
for Saxophones and
Percussion. Composed
by Shulamit Ran. Spiral.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2007. 12 pages.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-41378S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11441378S). UPC:
680160585939. 11 x 14
inches. Commissione
d by Network for New
Music, who premiered the
work in April 2008, with
support from Philadelphia
Music Project, an
Artistic Initiative of
The Pew Charitable
Trusts, administered by
the University of the
Arts. “Song and
Dance†began its
life as a nascent melody
in the late eighties,
employing a similar
motivic cell as did three
of my works written over
a period of several years
— East Wind,
String Quartet No. 2
(Vistas), and Mirage.Â
At the ore of these three
works is the simplest of
melodic kernels —
a note encircled by its
two neighboring tones
(and more specifically, a
half step above and whole
step below). At the
time, I envisioned
writing a work for voice,
oboe, and marimba, and
had just begun it, only
to drop it in favor of
more pressing
compositional
assignments. Almost
twenty years later, the
vocal fragment finally
evolved into the
“song†of
this work, played here by
the soprano
saxophone. But it
seems that the song, all
these years, had been
waiting for its
counterpart, a dance.Â
Singing and dancing are
two of humankind’s
most basic and essential
impulses, transcending
time and place, reaching
back to the earliest
civilizations. The
resulting composition,
“Song and
Danceâ€, moves back
and forth between the
two, delineating its
various parts further
with the use of both
soprano and alto
saxophones, partnered by
mallet percussion
instruments —
mostly vibraphone and
marimba, with bells added
at the very end of the
work. The song
portions return to the
same melody, varied and
evolved over time, as new
materials are introduced
in the dance sections,
affecting the
presentation of the
recurring song
music. My thanks to
the Network for New Music
for commissioning this
work and allowing me the
freedom to choose its
format and
instrumentation.—S
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| Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory [Conducteur] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Viola 1, Viola 2, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello SKU: PR.11441...(+)
Chamber Music Viola 1,
Viola 2, Violin 1, Violin
2, Violoncello SKU:
PR.11441690S
String Quartet No.
3. Composed by
Shulamit Ran. Sws.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed March 9 2013. 32
pages. Duration 23
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41690S.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.11441690S). UPC:
680160626021. 9 x 12
inches. Ran's third
string quartet was
written for the Pacifica
Quartet, who are
featuring it in numerous
performances from May
2014 through February
2016, across the country
and abroad. Their blog
page dedicated to the
work also features the
composer's notes, for
more indepth insight.
...impassioned solos
emerge from ominous
quiet, and high arpeggios
in the violins quiver
alongside the earthy
cello. Ms. Ran skillfully
deploys these extremes of
color, volume and pitch,
yet the overall somewhat
chilly impression is one
of poise. -- Zachary
Woolfe, The New York
Times. My third string
quartet was composed at
the invitation of the
Pacifica
Quartet, whose
music-making I have come
to know closely and
admire hugely as resident
artists at the University
of Chicago. Already
in our early
conversations Pacifica
proposed that this
quartet might, in some
manner, refer to the
visual arts as a point of
germination. Probing
further, I found out that
the quartet members had
special interest in art
created during the
earlier part of the 20th
century, perhaps between
the two world wars.Â
It was my good fortune to
have met, a short while
later, while in residence
at the American Academy
in Rome in the fall of
2011, art conservationist
Albert Albano who steered
me to the work of Felix
Nussbaum (1904-1944), a
German-Jewish painter
who, like so many others,
perished in the Holocaust
at a young age, and who
left some powerful,
deeply moving art that
spoke to the life that
was unraveling around
him. The title of my
string quartet takes its
inspiration from a major
exhibit devoted to art by
German artists of the
period of the Weimar
Republic (1919-1933)
titled “Glitter and
Doom: German Portraits
from the 1920sâ€,
first shown at New
York’s
Metropolitan Museum of
Art in 2006-07.Â
Nussbaum would have been
a bit too young to be
included in this
exhibit. His most
noteworthy art was
created in the last very
few years of his short
life. The
exhibit’s
evocative title, however,
suggested to me the idea
of “Glitter, Doom,
Shards, Memory†as
a way of framing a
possible musical
composition that would be
an homage to his life and
art, and to that of so
many others like him
during that era.
 Knowing that their
days were numbered, yet
intent on leaving a mark,
a legacy, a memory, their
art is triumph of the
human spirit over
annihilation. Parallel
to my wish to compose a
string quartet that,
typically for this genre,
would exist as
“pure musicâ€,
independent of a
narrative, was my desire
to effect an awareness in
my listener of matters
which are, to me, of
great human concern.
 To my mind there is
no contradiction between
the two goals. Â As in
several other works
composed since 1969, this
is my way of saying
‘do not
forget’, something
that, I believe, can be
done through music with
special power and
poignancy. Â Â The
individual titles of the
quartet’s four
movements give an
indication of some of the
emotional strands this
work explores. 1)
“That which
happened†(das was
geschah) – is how
the poet Paul Celan
referred to the Shoah
– the Holocaust.
 These simple words
served for me, in the
first movement, as a
metaphor for the way in
which an
“ordinaryâ€
life, with its daily flow
and its sense of sweet
normalcy, was shockingly,
inhumanely, inexplicably
shattered. 2)
“Menace†is a
shorter movement,
mimicking a Scherzo.
 It is also
machine-like, incessant,
with an occasional,
recurring, waltz-like
little tune –
perhaps the chilling
grimace we recognize from
the executioner’s
guillotine mask. Â Like
the death machine it
alludes to, it gathers
momentum as it goes, and
is
unstoppable. 3) â
If I must perish - do
not let my paintings
dieâ€; these words
are by Felix Nussbaum
who, knowing what was
ahead, nonetheless
continued painting till
his death in Auschwitz in
1944. Â If the heart of
the first movement is the
shuddering interruption
of life as we know it,
the third movement tries
to capture something of
what I can only imagine
to be the conflicting
states of mind that would
have made it possible,
and essential, to
continue to live and
practice one’s art
– bearing witness
to the events.
 Creating must have
been, for Nussbaum and
for so many others, a way
of maintaining sanity,
both a struggle and a
catharsis – an act
of defiance and salvation
all at the same
time. 4)
“Shards,
Memory†is a direct
reference to my
quartet’s title.
 Only shards are left.
 And memory.  The
memory is of things large
and small, of unspeakable
tragedy, but also of the
song and the dance, the
smile, the hopes. All
things human. Â As we
remember, in the face of
death’s silence,
we restore dignity to
those who are
gone.—Shulamit
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| Stream Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Clarinet, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello SKU: PR.114417...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet,
Viola, Violin 1, Violin
2, Violoncello SKU:
PR.114417500 For
Clarinet And String
Quartet. Composed by
Shulamit Ran. Premiered
by Anthony McGill,
clarinet, and Brentano
String Quartet; Kimmel
Center, Philadelphia, PA.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 2016.
32+12+12+12+12+12 pages.
Duration 16 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-41750. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114417500). UPC:
680160634910. 9.5 x 13
inches. Stream for
Clarinet and String
Quartet (2015) was
commissioned by the
Philadelphia Chamber
Music Society in
celebration of its 30th
Anniversary Season,
through support of The
William Penn Foundation.
The first performance was
in April 2016 at the
Kimmel Center in
Philadelphia. Notes from
the composer: The 'line'
in Stream is often
threaded together into a
chain made up of separate
'points' played by the
strings, and sometimes by
the string and the
clarinet. An analogy
might be that each
instrument, at times,
produces a single 'ray of
light' from within the
larger light source.
Moreover, there are many
passages where the
intended effect is that
of the strings providing
a 'halo' surrounding the
solo clarinet. Similarly,
the clarinet often
dovetails with, as well
as emerges or submerges
in and out of, a strand
in the string
music.. What's in a
name? Â Â In my
titles, I generally aim
to capture something that
I believe to be essential
about the particular
work. Â At some level
this is to offer an
entry-point for the
listener, a glimpse of
the composition in its
totality. Â STREAM as a
title came to be when
much of the music was
already fully composed,
and it encapsulates much
of what I wish to say in
words about this work: it
suggests flow - whether
gentle or forceful; it
implies a journey, one
that could take us onto
unexpected terrains yet
is always moving forward;
embedded into this word
is also the idea of
stream of consciousness,
and with it, free
association and
unexpected twists of
fancy. Approximately
16 minutes in duration,
STREAM is to be played
without a break, yet
there are strong elements
of a three-movement
structure here. An
expository
quasi-first-movement lays
out important materials
of varying character; the
middle part, suggesting
contrast and repose, is
initially slow and
reflective, but then
embarks on new
explorations of the
notion of stasis, while
the final movement is
dominated by fast-moving
music of high energy that
consolidates the previous
materials. Important
throughout is the way in
which seemingly
transitional stretches of
music emerge and propel
the music onward in ways
that are at once
unexpected and
fantastical. A
composer's statement
about this work would not
be complete without
acknowledging the degree
to which the work was
inspired by the awareness
that it was being created
for a quintet of
extraordinary performers
of the most beautiful and
flowing musicianship -
clarinet virtuoso Anthony
McGill and the intrepid
Brentano
Quartet. Shulamit
Ran . $63.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Stream [Conducteur] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Clarinet, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello SKU: PR.114417...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet,
Viola, Violin 1, Violin
2, Violoncello SKU:
PR.11441750S For
Clarinet And String
Quartet. Composed by
Shulamit Ran. Premiered
by Anthony McGill,
clarinet, and Brentano
String Quartet; Kimmel
Center, Philadelphia, PA.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2016. 32 pages.
Duration 16 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-41750S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11441750S). UPC:
680160634934. 9.5 x 13
inches. Stream for
Clarinet and String
Quartet (2015) was
commissioned by the
Philadelphia Chamber
Music Society in
celebration of its 30th
Anniversary Season,
through support of The
William Penn Foundation.
The first performance was
in April 2016 at the
Kimmel Center in
Philadelphia. Notes from
the composer: The 'line'
in Stream is often
threaded together into a
chain made up of separate
'points' played by the
strings, and sometimes by
the string and the
clarinet. An analogy
might be that each
instrument, at times,
produces a single 'ray of
light' from within the
larger light source.
Moreover, there are many
passages where the
intended effect is that
of the strings providing
a 'halo' surrounding the
solo clarinet. Similarly,
the clarinet often
dovetails with, as well
as emerges or submerges
in and out of, a strand
in the string
music.. What's in a
name? Â Â In my
titles, I generally aim
to capture something that
I believe to be essential
about the particular
work. Â At some level
this is to offer an
entry-point for the
listener, a glimpse of
the composition in its
totality. Â STREAM as a
title came to be when
much of the music was
already fully composed,
and it encapsulates much
of what I wish to say in
words about this work: it
suggests flow - whether
gentle or forceful; it
implies a journey, one
that could take us onto
unexpected terrains yet
is always moving forward;
embedded into this word
is also the idea of
stream of consciousness,
and with it, free
association and
unexpected twists of
fancy. Approximately
16 minutes in duration,
STREAM is to be played
without a break, yet
there are strong elements
of a three-movement
structure here. An
expository
quasi-first-movement lays
out important materials
of varying character; the
middle part, suggesting
contrast and repose, is
initially slow and
reflective, but then
embarks on new
explorations of the
notion of stasis, while
the final movement is
dominated by fast-moving
music of high energy that
consolidates the previous
materials. Important
throughout is the way in
which seemingly
transitional stretches of
music emerge and propel
the music onward in ways
that are at once
unexpected and
fantastical. A
composer's statement
about this work would not
be complete without
acknowledging the degree
to which the work was
inspired by the awareness
that it was being created
for a quintet of
extraordinary performers
of the most beautiful and
flowing musicianship -
clarinet virtuoso Anthony
McGill and the intrepid
Brentano
Quartet. Shulamit
Ran . $28.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Sonnet 73 Chorale SATB SATB, Piano Theodore Presser Co.
Choral SATB choir, piano SKU: PR.312418720 For SATB Chorus, a cappella...(+)
Choral SATB choir, piano
SKU: PR.312418720
For SATB Chorus, a
cappella. Composed by
Shulamit Ran. Sws.
Premiered by University
of Chicago Rockefeller
Chapel Choir, James
Kallembach, Music
Director; original male
choir version premiered
by Cornell University
Glee Club, Scott Tucker,
Music Director. Choral.
Performance Score. With
Standard notation.
Composed 2011. 12 pages.
Duration 5 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#312-41872. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.312418720). ISBN
9781598066708. UPC:
680160619337. Letter
inches. English. Text:
William Shakespeare.
William Shakespeare. Text
by William
Shakespeare. In
2011, the Cornell
University Glee Club
premiered Shulamit
Ran’s SONNET 73 in
its original voicing for
men’s chorus,
which they commissioned.
The following year, Ran
made this S.A.T.B.
adaptation of her tender
choral setting of
Shakespeare’s 73rd
sonnet, commissioned and
premiered by the
University of Chicago
Rockefeller Chapel Choir,
presented here in a
full-size open score plus
rehearsal piano
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| LYRE OF ORPHEUS [Conducteur] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Viola 1, Viola 2, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello 1, Violoncello 2...(+)
Chamber Music Viola 1,
Viola 2, Violin 1, Violin
2, Violoncello 1,
Violoncello 2 SKU:
PR.11441429S For
String Sextet.
Composed by Shulamit Ran.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed December 16
2008. 22 pages. Duration
15 minutes. Theodore
Presser Company
#114-41429S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11441429S). UPC:
680160594054. 9.5 x 13
inches. Written for
Concertante, a string
sextet which has
commissioned six
different works, each
highlighting one of its
players. In Ran's new
work, the second cellist,
Zvi Plesser, was
spotlighted with an
outgoing, intensely
lyrical opening theme,
according to a New York
Times review. Yet, Lyre
of Orpheus never
overlooks the
collaborative,
conversational essence of
the ensemble. Read the
full review here:
http://www.nytimes.com/20
09/03/18/arts/music/18con
c.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&part
ner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnl
x=1286200920-wRrt7MJ416+F
pOYAUe/IOQ For advanced
performers. Lyre of
Orpheus was composed for
Concertante, the New
York-based string sextet,
for its One Plus Five
Project, a three-year,
six-composer
commissioning project
designed to create six
string sextets, each
featuring one of
Concertante’s core
players. This
particular commission was
made with the goal of
giving center-stage to
the ensemble’s
first cello, a choice I
was especially grateful
for, not only because it
features Zvi Plesser, the
outstanding Israeli
cellist, but also because
it gave ma an opportunity
to highlight an
instrument for which,
from a very early stage
in my life, I have felt a
special affinity. The
cell’s
“soulâ€, so
naturally combining
passion and lyricism, has
always touched me in a
special way. As
sometimes happens, naming
the piece was the final
act in the process of
creation. Once
titled, though, I found
myself looking through
the piece with a mixture
of delight and
astonishment – the
narrative of the almost
iconic mythological story
of love and loss seems as
one entirely plausible,
and to my mind
convincing, way to tract
the unfolding of the
musical events. Of
course, the music was
written with no such tale
(or any tale, for that
matter) in mind. But
perhaps some stories are
emblematic of so much
that is part of our lives
and psyches, of our
desires, fears and
wishes. Orpheus,
whose longing for
Eurydice recognizes no
boundaries of heaven and
hell… Love
regained, then forever
lost…Â
Orpheus’ lyre
intoning his sorrowful
yearning… Lyre
of Orpheus, approximately
fifteen minutes in
length, composed in late
2008, is intermittently
songful, caressing,
passionate, pained,
ferocious, longing.Â
The instrumentation
consists of 2 violins, 2
violas, 2 cellos, the
first of which is the
soloist/protagonist, the
second notable for having
its lowest string tuned
down a third to achieve
extra lower
notes. This commission
has been made possible by
the Chamber Music America
Commissioning Program,
with funding generously
provided by the Aaron
Copland Fund for Music,
and the Chamber Music
America Endowment
Fund.—Shulamit
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| Five Phrases from the Song of Solomon Voix Soprano, Piano [Vocal Score] Theodore Presser Co.
By Virgil Thomson (1896-1989). For Soprano, Piano. Classical. Piano/Vocal Score....(+)
By Virgil Thomson
(1896-1989). For Soprano,
Piano. Classical.
Piano/Vocal Score.
Standard notation. 7
pages
$5.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| Moon Songs [Conducteur] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Cello, Flute, Piano, Piccolo, soprano voice SKU: PR.11140240S(+)
Chamber Music Cello,
Flute, Piano, Piccolo,
soprano voice SKU:
PR.11140240S A
Song Cycle In Four Acts
for Soprano, Flute
(Doubling Piccolo),
Violoncello, and
Piano. Composed by
Shulamit Ran.
Contemporary. Score. With
Standard notation.
Composed 2011. 54 pages.
Duration 26 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#111-40240S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11140240S). UPC:
680160671489. 9 x 13.5
inches. Text: Haim Gouri;
Shlomo Ibn Gvirol; Almog
Behar; Albert Giroux;
Samuel Menashe; Yehuda
Halevi; Shmu'el Hanagid.
Various. Ran was
asked for a new work for
Mimi Stillman's Dolce
Suono Ensemble and their
Mahler/Schoenberg 2012
concert series. Creating
a piece that would be at
once an homage and a
companion piece to
Schoenberg's Pierrot
Lunaire was an intriguing
challenge. Ran ultimately
chose poems and excerpts
that reference the moon
in a riveting performance
setting for flute
(doubling piccolo),
piano, cello, and
soprano/narrator/actress.
With English and Hebrew
texts, Moon Songs
consists of four acts
with two entr-actes.
Extensive program notes
and performance notes are
included. Ran advises,
Demanding as her sung
part is, the
singer...needs to be as
much an actress as a
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| Moon Songs [Conducteur] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Cello, Flute, Piano, Piccolo, soprano voice SKU: PR.111402400(+)
Chamber Music Cello,
Flute, Piano, Piccolo,
soprano voice SKU:
PR.111402400 A
Song Cycle In Four Acts
for Soprano, Flute
(Doubling Piccolo),
Violoncello, and
Piano. Composed by
Shulamit Ran.
Contemporary. Score. With
Standard notation.
Composed December 11
2011. 54+54+16+16 pages.
Duration 26 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#111-40240. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.111402400). ISBN
9781598064865. UPC:
680160613137. 9 x 13.5 /
9 x 12 inches. Text:
Almog Behar; Yehuda
Halevi; Shlomo Ibn
Gvirol; Haim Gouri;
Samuel Menashe; Albert
Giroux; Shmu'el Hanagid.
Various. Ran was
asked for a new work for
Mimi Stillman's Dolce
Suono Ensemble and their
Mahler/Schoenberg 2012
concert series. Creating
a piece that would be at
once an homage and a
companion piece to
Schoenberg's Pierrot
Lunaire was an intriguing
challenge. Ran ultimately
chose poems and excerpts
that reference the moon
in a riveting performance
setting for flute
(doubling piccolo),
piano, cello, and
soprano/narrator/actress.
With English and Hebrew
texts, Moon Songs
consists of four acts
with two entr-actes.
Extensive program notes
and performance notes are
included. Ran advises,
Demanding as her sung
part is, the
singer...needs to be as
much an actress as a
singer. $160.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| The Flight of the Brave Chicken: Ode to Nina Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Clarinet, Flute SKU: PR.114422650 After The Brave Chicke...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet,
Flute SKU:
PR.114422650 After
The Brave Chicken
confronts the Ogre, four
panels by Nina Frenkel
(1972-2016). Composed
by Shulamit Ran. Set of
performance scores. 8
pages. Duration 6
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-42265.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114422650). ISBN
9781491134528. UPC:
680160685004. Charm
ingly packed with wit,
grace, symbolism, and
irony, Shulamit
Ran’s THE FLIGHT
OF THE BRAVE CHICKEN
celebrates the life and
work of a graphic artist
and illustrator (who
played clarinet), who
lost her battle with
cancer as a young adult.
The six-minute duo begins
as a dramatic dialog for
bass clarinet and
piccolo, gradually
evolving to peaceful
resolution for flute and
clarinet. The work may be
performed with
projections of the
original art panels that
inspired the
work. Brave Chicken
was a character developed
by Nina Frenkel, gifted
illustrator,
graphicartist, and
beloved friend to many,
who passed away at the
age of 43 having lost
adifficult battle with
cancer. Her parents,
Marcel and Anne Frenkel,
approached mein May 2017
about composing a short
work in Nina’s
memory, suggesting that
it bebased on four
delightful panels that
Nina had painted in 2014
before she knew of
therecurrence of the
disease.Titled
“Brave Chicken
Meets the Ogre,â€
“Brave Chicken
Fights the Ogre,â€
“BraveChicken Flees
to Safety,†and
“Brave Chicken in
the Healing Hut,â€
the four panelsdepict a
progression from darkness
to light. And while my
composition does
notattempt to follow the
four panels literally, I
did aim to create two
distinctly
differentmusical
characters who are posed
against one another with
one clearly perceived
asdominant and
threatening, and trace
the evolving change in
the balance of power,and
with it the journey from
darkness to
light.Inspired by the
knowledge that Nina
herself greatly enjoyed
playing the clarinet,
Idecided to pair bass
clarinet with piccolo,
eventually switching the
piccolo over toflute,
with clarinet appearing
in time for the
work’s peaceful
conclusion. Though I
hadnever met Nina, I felt
honored to compose this
work in her memory. $16.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
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