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For voice and C instrument. Format: fakebook. With vocal melody, lyrics, chord n...(+)
For voice and C
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fakebook. With vocal
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| Family Hymn Book [Partition] - Intermédiaire Mel Bay
By Pamela Cooper Bye. For piano/vocal. SongBook. Sacred. Book. 148 pages. Publis...(+)
By Pamela Cooper Bye. For
piano/vocal. SongBook.
Sacred. Book. 148 pages.
Published by Mel Bay
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Level: Intermediate.
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| Prophesies [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Cello, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2 SKU: PR.114419030 Score...(+)
Chamber Music Cello,
Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2
SKU: PR.114419030
Score and Parts.
Composed by Mohammed
Fairouz. Sws. Score and
parts. With Standard
notation. 68 pages.
Duration 25 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-41903. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114419030). ISBN
9781491114124. UPC:
680160669851. 9 x 12
inches. A
fascination with
polycultural synergy
between diverse literary
textsdrives the
inspiration for much of
Mohammed Fairouz’s
prodigiouscreative
output, including
instrumental music as
well as vocal. Inhis
profound and extensive
essay preceding the
score, Fairouz shedslight
on how Edgar Allen
Poe’s “Israfel”
relates to the
prophetsand prophesies of
the Quran, Old Testament,
and New Testament.The
eight-movement quartet
may be heard as a
dramatic galleryof
portraits and of
story-telling,
flourishing in a
post-traditionallanguage
that is at once
vernacular and spiritual,
Middle Easternand
Western. The complete set
of score and parts is
included in
thispublication. (See
pages 2-3 of score for
clear distinction of
paragraphs,
etc.)Prophesies, by
Mohammed FairouzEdgar
Allen Poe’s rendition
of Israfel was the point
of departure for the
final movement of my
previous stringquartet
which is titled The Named
Angels. At the opening of
his poem, Poe evokes the
Quran:“And the angel
Israfel, whose
heartstrings are a lute,
and who has the sweetest
voice of all God’s
creatures.”This informs
the first lines of the
poem that, in turn, gave
me the title for the
final movement of The
Named
Angels,“Israfel’s
Spell”:In Heaven a
spirit doth dwell“Whose
heartstrings are a
lute”None sing so
wildly wellAs the angel
Israfel,And the giddy
stars (so legends
tell),Ceasing their
hymns, attend the spellOf
his voice, all mute.It is
the end of that poem,
however, that is the
starting point for the
current quartet,
Prophesies, which
concernsitself with
mortal prophets rather
than eternal Angelic
spirits.If I could
dwellWhere IsrafelHath
dwelt, and he where I,He
might not sing so wildly
wellA mortal melody,While
a bolder note than this
might swellFrom my lyre
within the sky.Islamic
thought has asked us to
look at the example of
the prophets. That’s
significant because of
the fact thatJoseph and
all the prophets were
human beings with the
flaws of human beings. No
prophet was perfect,
andIslamic tradition has
never asked its followers
to aspire to the example
of the Angels, the
perfected ones. Instead
weare given the gift of
our prophets. While The
Named Angels drew on the
motion and energy of
everlasting
spirits,Prophesies is a
depiction of the
movements within our own
mortal coil.This quartet
is a continuation of a
long tradition of Muslim
artists telling their
stories and singing their
songs.Many of these
renditions are, in fact,
figurative and (contrary
to popular belief) the
Quran contains no
“Islamicedict”
prohibiting figurative
renditions of the figures
described in the Old
Testament, New Testament,
or Quran.The majority of
artists, however, have
preferred eternal and
abstract forms such as
words and their
calligraphicrepresentatio
ns, poems (Yusuf and
Zuleikha or the
Conference of Birds come
immediately to mind),
architecture,and many
other non-figurative art
forms to the
representation of man.
These cold, ancient, and
everlasting shapesof
unending time flourished,
and the divine infinity
of representing geometric
forms gained favor over
the placementof the
explicit representation
of mankind and our own
likeness at the center of
the universes.Adding the
string quartet to these
forms which express the
recursive spheres of
heavens and earth
abstractly shouldexplain
why I have chosen to
render higher things
through the use of music
without the addition of
words or anyother
art-form. It is the
abstract art of pure
form, in which all is
form and all is content,
which compels me.
Thisquartet should be
seen as no more
programmatic than the
arches of the Great
Mosque at Cordoba.The
first movement, Yāqub
(Jacob), is slow, quiet
and prayerful. It evokes
the patient sorrow of a
slow choraledeveloping
over time as it coaxes
our pulse out of the
ticking of a clock-like
meter that defines our
day-to-day livesand into
a divine eternity.The
second, Saleh, imagines
the spirit of that
desert-prophet through
the use of a Liwa; the
dance-sequence that
hasbeen such a prevalent
form of expression in the
Arabian Peninsula for
much of our recorded
history.The third
movement is titled
Dawoōd, and it is
emblematic of the beloved
Prophet, King, and
Psalmist, David.Though it
has no lyrics, the
movement functions as a
dabkeh (an ancient dance
native to the Levant) and
also “sets”the
opening of Psalm 100
(Make a joyful noise unto
the Lord, all ye lands).
This line is never set to
music or sung inthe
quartet but is evoked
through the rhythmic
shape of the violin part
which imitates the
phonology and rhythmof my
speaking the opening line
in the Hebrew and
develops the contours of
that line incessantly
throughout
themovement.3The fourth
movement is an ode to
Yousef (Joseph) and
relates to the first
movement in tempo and
tone just as
Josephrelates to Jacob,
his father. Together, the
first and fourth
movements provide a sort
of Lamentation and
relief.Joseph had the
appearance of a noble
angel, but he was very
much a human being. And
the story of this
particularprophet had
tragic beginnings many
years before he found
himself in a position of
power in Egypt. Back in
his youth,still among the
Israelites, Joseph
experienced a series of
revelations through his
dreams that spoke of his
impendingcareer in
prophecy. He confided his
dreams to his father, the
Prophet Jacob, who told
his son of the greatness
thatawaited him in his
future only to have his
brothers throw him into a
well and leave him for
dead. Joseph
eventuallyfound his way
from Israel to Egypt and
rose out of slavery into
a position of power.
Meanwhile, famine engulfs
Israel.Forty years pass,
and back in the land of
Jacob and Rachel, of
Joseph’s brothers and
Abraham’s tribe, Israel
wasnot spared the effects
of the famine. They
sorely lacked Joseph’s
prophecy and his vision.
The Qur’an then tells
usthat Jacob, sensing
Joseph, sends the other
brothers to Egypt
instructing them to come
back with food and
grain.Arriving in Egypt,
they unwittingly appear
before Joseph. They
don’t recognize their
little brother who has
risen toa position of
might, dressed in his
Egyptian regalia. They
ask for the food and the
grain.After some
conversation, Joseph is
no longer able to contain
his emotion. Overcome, he
reveals himself to his
nowterrified brothers. He
embraces them. He asks
them eagerly, “How is
our father?” Joseph
gives them the gift of
thefood and the grain
that they came in search
of. He relieves them from
hunger and alleviates
their fear. He sendsthem
back with proof that he
is alive, and it is this
joyful proof from the
miraculous hands of a
prophet that bringsback
the ancient Jacob’s
vision after 40 years of
blindness.In this story,
I am struck by the fact
that Joseph may not have
made the decision to
forgive his brothers on
thespot, but that
something inside the
prophet’s soul found
forgiveness and peace for
the brothers who had so
gravelywronged him at
some point along his
journey. I would suspect
this point to have been
present at Joseph’s
inception,even before he
had ever been
wronged.This is proof, if
we needed it, that
Joseph’s angel-like
beauty was not only
physical and external,
but also internalas well:
Joseph possessed a
profound loveliness of
spirit that bound his
appearance and his soul.
In Joseph, formand soul
are one.Time is to
musicians what light is
to a painter. In this
way, the story of Joseph
also shows us that time
can affectour perception
of even the most tragic
wounds. In fact, the most
common Arabic word for
“human being” is
insaan,which shares its
roots with the word
insaa, “to forget.”
While our ability to
remember is essential to
how we learnabout
ourselves, our capacity
to “forgive and
forget” may also be one
of our great gifts as
human beings.The fifth
movement follows my ode
to Joseph with a
structural memory of
Mūsa (Moses). The
movement consistsentirely
of descending motifs
which I constructed as an
indication of Moses’
descending movement as he
emergedto his people from
the heights of Mt. Sinai.
The music is constructed
in five phrases which
function as a
formalreference to the
five books of Moses, the
Pentateuch. The movement
is placed as the fifth of
the quartet for the
samereason.While Joseph
is always evoked as
supremely beautiful in
the Books of Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam,
Suleiman(Solomon) is
described as surpassing
in his quicksilver
intelligence. This
movement is composed of a
seven-partriddle which
passes by in an instant
but can be caught by the
attentive listener. From
Solomon, we work our
wayback to Yishak (Isaac)
in a seventh movement
that evokes Isaac’s
literal meaning in Arabic
and Hebrew: laughter.The
eighth and final movement
of this quartet is named
for the Patriarch of the
entire Book: Ibrahim
(Abraham). Itrelates to
Isaac just as Joseph
relates to Jacob; they
are father and son. The
lines are prayerful and
contemplative;the form of
the music evolves from a
fugue joining together
many different forms of
prayer into a single
tapestry ofcounterpoint,
to the cyclical form of
this entire quartet which
is rendered through the
motion of pilgrims
circling theKaaba (cube)
in Mecca — a structure
which was built by
Abraham for Hagaar and
their son Ismail.These
are just some of the
figures that are
cherished by all three of
the Middle Eastern
monotheisms
(Judaism,Christianity,
and Islam) that the
Qur’an refers to
collectively as Ahl
Al-Kitab. This Arabic
phrase is most
commonlytranslated as
“The People of the
Book,” but here the
most common translation
is a flawed one: the
Arabic word“ahl”
means “family” and
not just “people.” A
better translation would
be “Family of the
Book.” Each of the
eightmovements of
Prophesies grows from a
single musical cell.This
quartet is a family
album.—Mohammed Fairouz
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| The Movies Collection Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Facile De Haske Publications
String Quartet - early intermediate SKU: BT.DHP-1196090-070 10 Great F...(+)
String Quartet - early
intermediate SKU:
BT.DHP-1196090-070
10 Great Film Music
Themes. Arranged by
Anthony Gröger. De
Haske Pops for String
Quartet.
TV-Film-Musical-Show. Set
(Score & Parts). Composed
2019. 36 pages. De Haske
Publications #DHP
1196090-070. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1196090-070).
ISBN 9789043157674.
English-German-French-Dut
ch. Cinema has
always aimed to do one
thing above all else:
arouse emotions. Yet
however exciting,
entertaining or
fascinating a story might
be, its full impact is
really only felt with the
help of the right music.
While most original
soundtracks demand a
large orchestra, a much
smaller ensemble is
sufficient: Anthony
Gröger has taken ten
of the all-time most
beautiful film scores and
created stunning
arrangements for string
quartet. In keeping with
the Pops for String
Quartet series, this
volume also includes an
optional third violin
part in case a viola is
not available. This is an
indispensable collection
for any
occasion!
Van
oudsher is de film
bovenal bedoeld geweest
om emotie op te roepen.
Maar hoe spannend,
vermakelijk of boeiend
een verhaal ook is, pas
met de ondersteuning van
de juiste muziek komt het
volledig tot zijn recht.
Hoewel de meeste
originele soundtracks een
orkest met een grote
bezetting vereisen,
voldoet in dit geval een
kleiner ensemble. Anthony
Gröger heeft tien van
de mooiste
filmmuziektitels
verzameld en er prachtige
arrangementen voor
strijkkwartet van
gemaakt. Net als bij de
andere uitgaven in de
serie Pops for String
Quartet bevat ook
deze bundel een optionele
derde vioolpartij, voor
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Seit jeher
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Doch wie spannend,
lustig, interessant eine
Story auch immer sein mag
erst mit Hilfe der
passenden Filmmusik kann
sie ihre volle Wirkung
entfalten. Während die
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Original ein groß
besetztes Orchester
erfordern, genügt hier
bereits eine viel
kleinere Besetzung:
Anthony Gröger hat
sich zehn der
schönsten
Filmmusik-Titel aller
Zeiten vorgenommen und
wirkungsvoll für
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bearbeitet. Eine
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Pops for String
Quartet üblich,
enthält das Set auch
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dritteViolinstimme für
den Fall, dass keine
Bratsche zur Verfügung
steht.
Le
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tout, éveiller des
émotions. Cependant,
aussi passionnante,
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tante que soit une
histoire, son impact
n’est ressenti
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sonores exigent un grand
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suffit. Anthony Gröger
a pris dix des plus
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produit de splendides
arrangements pour quatuor
cordes. Comme les autres
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Pops for String
Quartet, le
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comprend une troisième
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violon au cas où un
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| Great Big Praise for a Great Big God, Book 1 - CD/Book Combo Voix d'Enfants [Accompaniment Cassette|Book and Cassette|CD] Lillenas Publishing Co.
117 Fun, Exciting, Singable Songs for Younger Children. Edited by Thomas Fettke,...(+)
117 Fun, Exciting,
Singable Songs for
Younger Children. Edited
by Thomas Fettke, Ken
Bible. Arranged by Thomas
Fettke, Ken Bible.
(unison). This edition:
MD492. Suggested Use: For
children pre-school to
third grade. Use at
Sunday school, children's
choir, children's church,
VBS, camps, Christian
schools, and home.
Lillenas Publications.
Great resource for
working with younger
kids. Sacred.
Book/Split-Channel
Accompaniment Cassette
Combo. 144 pages.
Published by Lillenas.
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| Best Children's Songs Guitare notes et tablatures Hal Leonard
By Various. For Guitar. Easy Guitar. Softcover. Guitar tablature. 216 pages. Pub...(+)
By Various. For Guitar.
Easy Guitar. Softcover.
Guitar tablature. 216
pages. Published by Hal
Leonard
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| ShowTime Piano Favorites
Piano seul [Partition] - Facile FJH
Arranged by Nancy Faber, Randall Faber. For Piano. PreTime to BigTime Piano Supp...(+)
Arranged by Nancy Faber,
Randall Faber. For Piano.
PreTime to BigTime Piano
Supplementary Library.
This delightful
collection of 17 favorite
folk songs and familiar
melodies offers pieces
useful for recital
performance, family or
group sing-along, and as
motivational material for
the private or group
lesson. Arrangements are
in the 5-finger hand
positions of C, G, F, Dm
and Am, and harmony is
limited to single notes
and harmonic intervals.
Includes: L'il Liza Jane;
My Ma Gave Me a Nickel;
The Three Doughs; Bill
Groggin's Goat; Go Tell
Aunt Rhody; Peter, Peter;
Off to Bed, Now; The Ash
Grove; Old King Cole;
Irish Washerwoman; Shave
and a Haircut; The Old
Gray Mare; Boom Boom!;
The Centipede and the
Frog; Michael Finnegan;
Give My Regards to
Broadway; Music Alone
Shall Live. Favorites.
Lev
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| 100 Greatest Country Artists Piano, Voix et Guitare - Intermédiaire Hal Leonard
100 Songs by 100 Artists. By Various. Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook. Country. So...(+)
100 Songs by 100 Artists.
By
Various.
Piano/Vocal/Guitar
Songbook. Country.
Softcover.
450 pages. Published by
Hal
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| Frog Dance Piano seul Theodore Presser Co.
For Piano. Composed by Vincent Persichetti (1915- 1987). Contemporary. Solo Pa...(+)
For Piano. Composed by
Vincent Persichetti
(1915-
1987). Contemporary. Solo
Part. With Standard
Notation. Composed 1926.
8
pages. Duration 2
minutes,
30 seconds. Theodore
Presser
Company #160-00224.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
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| Dog Tags GIA Publications
SKU: GI.G-8093 Adventures with Music - Book 2. Composed by Ann Kac...(+)
SKU: GI.G-8093
Adventures with Music
- Book 2. Composed by
Ann Kaczkowski Kimpton
and Paul Kimpton.
Adventures with Music.
Music Education. Book.
GIA Publications #8093.
Published by GIA
Publications (GI.G-8093).
ISBN 9781579998509.
English. A young
boy and his faithful dog
face a big decision. Dale
Kingston isn’t
your average boy. He
saved the Conn musical
instrument factory from
burning to the ground in
Book One of the
Adventures with Music
series. In Dog Tags, Book
Two in the Adventures
with Music series, Dale
faces a big decision:
World War II is in full
swing, and he wants to do
his patriotic duty. But
Dale is only twelve years
old. How can he help
America? His dog, Scout,
provides the answer when
his master hears about
the U.S. Army’s
Dogs for Defense program.
Dale loves his pet, but
he knows Scout would do
his country proud by
serving as an animal
courier for American
troops at war. Should he
enroll Scout in the
program? Along the way,
Dale begins trumpet
lessons as his school
forms a band for the
first time. He loves the
Andrews Sisters and their
hot new song, Boogie
Woogie Bugle Boy. His
dream is to play that
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trio. Could that dream
come true? Dog Tags, the
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Adventures with Music
series, answers these
questions and more in a
story told from the heart
that will inspire young
readers everywhere.
Excerpt from the book...
The instruments arrive
and the students have
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son. You're making the
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your dog for the
military. Breaking free
from his grandfather,
Dale ran to Scout and
gave him one last deep
hug. He whispered, Do
your best, Scout. I love
you! Â Paul Kimpton
grew up in a musical
family and was a band
director in Illinois for
34 years. His father Dale
was a band director and
professor at the
University of Illinois,
and his mother Barbara
was a vocalist. When Paul
is not writing, he is
reading or enjoying the
outdoors. Ann Kimpton
played French horn
through college and went
on to be a mother,
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Maryalyce Kaczkowski,
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| Parsifal (Facsimile of the autograph score from the National Archive of the Richard Wagner Foundation Bayreuth) Orchestre [Fac-similé] Barenreiter
Composed by Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Edited by Ulrich Konrad. This edition:...(+)
Composed by Richard
Wagner
(1813-1883). Edited by
Ulrich
Konrad. This edition:
facsimile. Half-leather
binding. Documenta
musicologica II/56 /
Barenreiter Facsimile.
Facsimile. Baerenreiter
Verlag #BVK02418.
Published
by Baerenreiter Verlag
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| The Bones of Mr. Fortune Flûte traversière et Piano Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music flute, piano SKU: PR.114424240 Free at Last!. Compos...(+)
Chamber Music flute,
piano SKU:
PR.114424240 Free
at Last!. Composed by
Adolphus Hailstork. Set
of Score and Parts.
Duration 11 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-42424. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114424240). ISBN
9781491137581. UPC:
680160691036. THE
BONES OF MR. FORTUNE
(FREE AT LAST!) is an
11-minute concerto-like
work for solo flute
accompanied by symphonic
winds and percussion
– perfect to play
with band or with
orchestra, as well as
with the
composer’s own
piano reduction. The work
features lengthy
cadenzas, and
exhilarating dance-like
sections with the
ensemble. Hailstork
describes the historical
inspiration: Abused in
life and death, an
enslaved man (Mr.
Fortune) was owned by a
surgeon who preserved his
skeleton to study
anatomy. The bones
remained with the
doctor’s family
for generations, and were
given a proper burial
making national news in
2013, 215 years after Mr.
Fortune’s
death. Abused in life
and death, an enslaved
man known as Mr. Fortune
was honored with an
elaborate funeral more
than 200 years after he
died in Connecticut.Mr.
Fortune was owned by Dr.
Preserved Porter on a
farm in Waterbury,
Connecticut. When Fortune
died in 1798, Porter, a
bone surgeon, preserved
his skeleton by having
the bones boiled to study
anatomy at a time when
cadavers for medical
study were
disproportionately taken
from slaves, servants and
prisoners.One of
Porter’s
descendants gave the
skeleton in 1933 to
Mattatuck Museum in
Waterbury, where it was
displayed from the 1940s
until 1970. The
descendant referred to
the slave as
“Larry†and
his name was forgotten at
the time.A study by
forensic anthropologists
at the Quinnipiac
University School of
Medicine concluded that
Fortune was about 5 feet
5 inches tall and died at
around 55 years old. He
suffered a number of
painful ailments,
including a fracture in
his left hand, a severe
ankle sprain and lower
back pain. “He was
an individual who was in
considerable
distress,†a
forensic professor,
Richard Gonzalez said.I
was taken by the bizarre
story of Mr. Fortune and
decided to use it as the
stimulus for this
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| Joby Talbot: Desolation Wilderness (Trumpet/Piano) Chester
Trumpet and Piano (Trumpet) SKU: HL.14032603 Composed by Joby Talbot. Mus...(+)
Trumpet and Piano
(Trumpet) SKU:
HL.14032603 Composed
by Joby Talbot. Music
Sales America. Book
[Softcover]. Composed
2009. 84 pages. Chester
Music #CH72226. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14032603). ISBN
9781847720061.
9.0x12.0x0.25
inches. Joby
Talbot's Trumpet
Concerto, Desolation
Wilderness was
commissioned by the Turku
Philharmonic Orchestra
and the Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra.
First performed on 28th
October 2006 by the Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic
Orchestra at The
Philharmonic Hall,
Liverpool with Alison
Balsom (to whom the work
is dedicated) as soloist,
and JoAnn Falletta,
conductor. The Turku
Philharmonic Orchestra
gave the Finnish premiere
performances on 23rd and
24th November 2006. The
Piano reduction of
Desolation Wilderness
includes Trumpet parts in
B flat and C. (Suitable
for advanced players). In
Early November 2005 my
family and some friends
visited the high Sierra
Nevada in Northern
California. As on former
trips to the area I was
struck by the strange and
disarming contrast
between the bright
sunshine, perfect blue
sky, and warm mountain
air of the Sierran
autumn; and the
occasional icy chill -
sudden drops of
temperature when the sun
vanished behind the
mountains, momentary
glimpses through the
trees of distant snow
clouds over the highest
peaks. Nowhere was this
dichotomy more apparent
than in the vast area of
forests, lakes and
mountains known as
Desolation Wilderness.
Here the twisted shapes
of the aspens are
testament to the
destructive power of
winter. Sure enough, that
night the first snows
fell, and the high
mountain passes we'd just
crossed were closed till
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