Smart PianoSoft. Performed by Sammy Davis Jr. Arranged by Bill Cunliffe. Pianoso...(+)
Smart PianoSoft.
Performed by Sammy Davis
Jr. Arranged by Bill
Cunliffe. Pianosoft Sync
(this is NOT sheet
music). Floppy disk. Size
5x5 inches. Published by
Yamaha.
Dvorak's Als Die Alte Mutter (Songs My Mother Taught Me) Op.55 No.4 is an...(+)
Dvorak's Als Die Alte
Mutter (Songs My Mother
Taught Me) Op.55 No.4
is an expressive and
impassioned piece,
arranged for Violin with
Piano Accompaniment by
Fritz Kreisler. The piano
accompaniment part is
also included on
aseparate insert
(Words and Chords to Nearly 1200 Songs 9x12 Spiral Bound). Edited by Annie Patte...(+)
(Words and Chords to
Nearly 1200 Songs 9x12
Spiral Bound). Edited by
Annie Patterson and Peter
Blood. For Vocal. Vocal.
Softcover. 304 pages.
Published by Hal Leonard
(Words and Chords to Nearly 1200 Songs Spiral-Bound). Edited by Annie Patterson ...(+)
(Words and Chords to
Nearly 1200 Songs
Spiral-Bound). Edited by
Annie Patterson and Peter
Blood. For Vocal. Vocal.
Softcover. 304 pages.
Published by Hal Leonard
(Viola Section Feature). By Antonin Dvorák. Arranged by Christina Hans. Orche...(+)
(Viola Section Feature).
By Antonin Dvorák.
Arranged by Christina
Hans. Orchestra. For
strings w/ vln3.
Masterworks; Part(s);
Score; String Orchestra.
Belwin Intermediate
String Orchestra. Form:
Transcription. Masterwork
Arrangement; Mother's
Day; Romantic; Spring.
Grade 3. 72 pages.
Published by Belwin Music
For voice and C instrument. Format: fakebook. With vocal melody, lyrics and chor...(+)
For voice and C
instrument. Format:
fakebook. With vocal
melody, lyrics and chord
names. Folk. Series: Hal
Leonard Fake Books. 536
pages. 9.6x12 inches.
Published by Hal Leonard.
By Amy Appleby. For Piano and Voice, with Guitar chord symbols. Irish, Folk, Cel...(+)
By Amy Appleby. For Piano
and Voice, with Guitar
chord symbols. Irish,
Folk, Celtic. Level:
Intermediate to Advanced.
Sheet Music. Published by
Wise Publications.
Piano (Piano Solo) SKU: HL.49047037 Piano Solo. Composed by Vijay ...(+)
Piano (Piano Solo)
SKU: HL.49047037
Piano Solo.
Composed by Vijay Iyer.
Piano Solo. Classical.
Softcover. 11 pages.
Duration 600 seconds.
Schott Music #ED30416.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49047037).
ISBN
9781705182024. UPC:
842819116998.
9.0x12.0x0.123
inches.
My father,
Y. “Raghuâ€
Raghunathan, came from
India to the U.S. in
1963, followed soon after
by my mother Sita. Dad
enjoyed a substantial
career as a
pharmaceutical chemist,
but he drew satisfaction
from a simple life among
family and friends, never
allowing professional
demands to overshadow his
devotion to loved ones.
Modest, compassionate,
and ardently egalitarian,
he was careful not to
take anything too
seriously, especially
himself. He embraced his
own ordinariness because
it connected him to
everyone else; it made
him no better or worse
than his neighbor, no
more or less deserving of
friendship or kindness
than any of his fellow
human beings. He showed
us how to live with
dignity, compassion,
grace, and boundless
love. His last piece of
advice to me: “Go
slow.†Several
weeks after his passing,
I happened upon a
recording of
ShostakovichÂ’s 24
Preludes and Fugues, opus
87. I couldnÂ’t
understand why at the
time, but the sixteenth
prelude and fugue took
hold of me and would not
let go. I completely
immersed myself in that
piece for ten days, until
it became a mystical
conduit for something
else: in this semi-trance
state I produced a
prelude and fugue of my
own, in prayer (orison)
and in praise (upastuti).
It shadows
ShostakovichÂ’s form,
but it somehow expresses
my fatherÂ’s
unhurried, loving spirit.
IÂ’ve come to believe
that he sent me this
piece as a blessing. I
hope you feel his
presence in it as I do.
Vijay Iyer.
Edited by Amy Appleby. Music Sales America. Baroque, Classical Period and World....(+)
Edited by Amy Appleby.
Music Sales America.
Baroque, Classical Period
and World. Softcover
collection (spiral
bound). With fingerings
(does not include words
to the songs). 240 pages.
Music Sales #AM967440.
Published by Music Sales
Orchestra Bass Clarinet,
Bass Trombone, Bassoon 1,
Bassoon 2, Cello,
Clarinet in Bb 1,
Clarinet in Bb 2,
Clarinet in Bb 3,
Contrabassoon, Double
Bass, English Horn, Flute
1, Flute 2, Flute 3,
Harp, Horn 1, Horn 3,
Horn 4, Oboe 1, Oboe 2,
Percussion 1 and more.
SKU: PR.11642143L
Composed by Stacy Garrop.
Spiral. Large Score. 68
pages. Duration 20
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #116-42143L.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.11642143L).
UPC:
680160693320. 11 x 17
inches.
For most of
my life, I never knew
where my father’s
family came from, beyond
a few broad strokes: they
had emigrated in the
early 1900s from Eastern
Europe and altered the
family name along the
way. This radically
changed in the summer of
2021 when my mother and
sister came across a
folder in our family
filing cabinet and made
an astounding discovery
of documents that
revealed when, where, and
how my great-grandfather
came to America. The
information I had been
seeking was at home all
along, waiting over forty
years to be
discovered.Berko
Gorobzoff, my
great-grandfather, left
Ekaterinoslav in 1904. At
that time, this city was
in the southern Russian
area of modern-day
Ukraine; as his family
was Jewish, he and his
siblings were attempting
to escape the ongoing
religious persecution and
pogroms instigated by
Tzar Nicholas II to root
out Jewish people from
Russia. Berko’s older
brother Jakob had already
emigrated to Illinois,
and Berko was traveling
with Chaje, Jakob’s
wife, to join him. Their
timing was fortuitous, as
the following year saw a
series of massive, brutal
pogroms in the region.
After arriving in
Illinois, Berko went on
to Omaha, Nebraska, where
he married my
great-grandmother Anna
about eighteen months
later. They remained in
Omaha for the rest of
their lives.There is one
more intriguing part to
this historical account:
I have a great-aunt in
Texas who, as it turns
out, is the youngest
daughter of Berko and
Anna. Through a series of
phone calls, my
great-aunt and I
discussed what she could
remember: her parents
spoke Yiddish at home,
her mother didn’t learn
to read or write in
English so my great-aunt
was tasked with writing
letters to family
members, Berko ran a
grocery store followed by
a small hotel, and her
parents enjoyed playing
poker with friends. Above
all else, neither of her
parents ever spoke a word
about their past or how
they got to America. This
was a common trait among
Eastern European Jewish
immigrants whose goal was
to “blend in” within
their new communities and
country.To
craft Berko’s
Journey, I melded the
facts I uncovered about
Berko with my own
research into methods of
transportation in the
early 1900s. Also, to
represent his heritage, I
wove two Yiddish songs
and one Klezmer tune into
the work. In movement
1, Leaving
Ekaterinoslav, we hear
Berko packing his
belongings, saying his
goodbyes to family and
friends, and walking to
the train station.
Included in this movement
is a snippet of the
Yiddish song “The
Miller’s Tears” which
references how the Jews
were driven out of their
villages by the Russian
army. In movement 2, In
Transit, we follow Berko
as he boards a train and
then a steamship, sails
across the Atlantic
Ocean, arrives at Ellis
Island and anxiously
waits in line for
immigration, jubilantly
steps foot into New York
City, and finally boards
a train that will take
him to Chicago. While
he’s on the steamship,
we hear a group of fellow
steerage musicians play a
klezmer tune
(“Freylachs in d
minor”). In movement
3, At Home in Omaha, we
hear Berko court and
marry Anna. Their
courtship is represented
by “Tumbalalaika,” a
Yiddish puzzle folksong
in which a man asks a
woman a series of riddles
in order to get better
acquainted with each
other and to test her
intellect.On a final
note, I crafted a musical
motive to represent Berko
throughout the piece.
This motive is heard at
the beginning of the
first movement; its first
pitches are B and E,
which represent the first
two letters of Berko’s
name. I scatter this
theme throughout the
piece as Berko travels
towards a new world and
life. As the piece
concludes, we hear
Berko’s theme
repeatedly and in close
succession, representing
the descendants of the
Garrop line that came
from Berko and
Anna. For most of my
life, I never knew where
my father’s family came
from, beyond a few broad
strokes: they had
emigrated in the early
1900s from Eastern Europe
and altered the family
name along the way. This
radically changed in the
summer of 2021 when my
mother and sister came
across a folder in our
family filing cabinet and
made an astounding
discovery of documents
that revealed when,
where, and how my
great-grandfather came to
America. The information
I had been seeking was at
home all along, waiting
over forty years to be
discovered.Berko
Gorobzoff, my
great-grandfather, left
Ekaterinoslav in 1904. At
that time, this city was
in the southern Russian
area of modern-day
Ukraine; as his family
was Jewish, he and his
siblings were attempting
to escape the ongoing
religious persecution and
pogroms instigated by
Tzar Nicholas II to root
out Jewish people from
Russia. Berko’s older
brother Jakob had already
emigrated to Illinois,
and Berko was traveling
with Chaje, Jakob’s
wife, to join him. Their
timing was fortuitous, as
the following year saw a
series of massive, brutal
pogroms in the region.
After arriving in
Illinois, Berko went on
to Omaha, Nebraska, where
he married my
great-grandmother Anna
about eighteen months
later. They remained in
Omaha for the rest of
their lives.There is one
more intriguing part to
this historical account:
I have a great-aunt in
Texas who, as it turns
out, is the youngest
daughter of Berko and
Anna. Through a series of
phone calls, my
great-aunt and I
discussed what she could
remember: her parents
spoke Yiddish at home,
her mother didn’t learn
to read or write in
English so my great-aunt
was tasked with writing
letters to family
members, Berko ran a
grocery store followed by
a small hotel, and her
parents enjoyed playing
poker with friends. Above
all else, neither of her
parents ever spoke a word
about their past or how
they got to America. This
was a common trait among
Eastern European Jewish
immigrants whose goal was
to “blend in” within
their new communities and
country.To
craftxa0Berko’s
Journey,xa0I melded the
facts I uncovered about
Berko with my own
research into methods of
transportation in the
early 1900s. Also, to
represent his heritage, I
wove two Yiddish songs
and one Klezmer tune into
the work. In movement
1,xa0Leaving
Ekaterinoslav,xa0we hear
Berko packing his
belongings, saying his
goodbyes to family and
friends, and walking to
the train station.
Included in this movement
is a snippet of the
Yiddish song “The
Miller’s Tears” which
references how the Jews
were driven out of their
villages by the Russian
army. In movement 2,xa0In
Transit,xa0we follow
Berko as he boards a
train and then a
steamship, sails across
the Atlantic Ocean,
arrives at Ellis Island
and anxiously waits in
line for immigration,
jubilantly steps foot
into New York City, and
finally boards a train
that will take him to
Chicago. While he’s on
the steamship, we hear a
group of fellow steerage
musicians play a klezmer
tune (“Freylachs in d
minor”). In movement
3,xa0At Home in
Omaha,xa0we hear Berko
court and marry Anna.
Their courtship is
represented by
“Tumbalalaika,” a
Yiddish puzzle folksong
in which a man asks a
woman a series of riddles
in order to get better
acquainted with each
other and to test her
intellect.On a final
note, I crafted a musical
motive to represent Berko
throughout the piece.
This motive is heard at
the beginning of the
first movement; its first
pitches are B and E,
which represent the first
two letters of Berko’s
name. I scatter this
theme throughout the
piece as Berko travels
towards a new world and
life. As the piece
concludes, we hear
Berko’s theme
repeatedly and in close
succession, representing
the descendants of the
Garrop line that came
from Berko and Anna.
Orchestra Bass Clarinet,
Bass Trombone, Bassoon 1,
Bassoon 2, Cello,
Clarinet in Bb 1,
Clarinet in Bb 2,
Clarinet in Bb 3,
Contrabassoon, Double
Bass, English Horn, Flute
1, Flute 2, Flute 3,
Harp, Horn 1, Horn 3,
Horn 4, Oboe 1, Oboe 2,
Percussion 1 and more.
SKU: PR.11642143S
Composed by Stacy Garrop.
Sws. Score. 68 pages.
Duration 20 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#116-42143S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11642143S).
UPC:
680160693313. 11 x 17
inches.
For most of
my life, I never knew
where my father’s
family came from, beyond
a few broad strokes: they
had emigrated in the
early 1900s from Eastern
Europe and altered the
family name along the
way. This radically
changed in the summer of
2021 when my mother and
sister came across a
folder in our family
filing cabinet and made
an astounding discovery
of documents that
revealed when, where, and
how my great-grandfather
came to America. The
information I had been
seeking was at home all
along, waiting over forty
years to be
discovered.Berko
Gorobzoff, my
great-grandfather, left
Ekaterinoslav in 1904. At
that time, this city was
in the southern Russian
area of modern-day
Ukraine; as his family
was Jewish, he and his
siblings were attempting
to escape the ongoing
religious persecution and
pogroms instigated by
Tzar Nicholas II to root
out Jewish people from
Russia. Berko’s older
brother Jakob had already
emigrated to Illinois,
and Berko was traveling
with Chaje, Jakob’s
wife, to join him. Their
timing was fortuitous, as
the following year saw a
series of massive, brutal
pogroms in the region.
After arriving in
Illinois, Berko went on
to Omaha, Nebraska, where
he married my
great-grandmother Anna
about eighteen months
later. They remained in
Omaha for the rest of
their lives.There is one
more intriguing part to
this historical account:
I have a great-aunt in
Texas who, as it turns
out, is the youngest
daughter of Berko and
Anna. Through a series of
phone calls, my
great-aunt and I
discussed what she could
remember: her parents
spoke Yiddish at home,
her mother didn’t learn
to read or write in
English so my great-aunt
was tasked with writing
letters to family
members, Berko ran a
grocery store followed by
a small hotel, and her
parents enjoyed playing
poker with friends. Above
all else, neither of her
parents ever spoke a word
about their past or how
they got to America. This
was a common trait among
Eastern European Jewish
immigrants whose goal was
to “blend in” within
their new communities and
country.To
craft Berko’s
Journey, I melded the
facts I uncovered about
Berko with my own
research into methods of
transportation in the
early 1900s. Also, to
represent his heritage, I
wove two Yiddish songs
and one Klezmer tune into
the work. In movement
1, Leaving
Ekaterinoslav, we hear
Berko packing his
belongings, saying his
goodbyes to family and
friends, and walking to
the train station.
Included in this movement
is a snippet of the
Yiddish song “The
Miller’s Tears” which
references how the Jews
were driven out of their
villages by the Russian
army. In movement 2, In
Transit, we follow Berko
as he boards a train and
then a steamship, sails
across the Atlantic
Ocean, arrives at Ellis
Island and anxiously
waits in line for
immigration, jubilantly
steps foot into New York
City, and finally boards
a train that will take
him to Chicago. While
he’s on the steamship,
we hear a group of fellow
steerage musicians play a
klezmer tune
(“Freylachs in d
minor”). In movement
3, At Home in Omaha, we
hear Berko court and
marry Anna. Their
courtship is represented
by “Tumbalalaika,” a
Yiddish puzzle folksong
in which a man asks a
woman a series of riddles
in order to get better
acquainted with each
other and to test her
intellect.On a final
note, I crafted a musical
motive to represent Berko
throughout the piece.
This motive is heard at
the beginning of the
first movement; its first
pitches are B and E,
which represent the first
two letters of Berko’s
name. I scatter this
theme throughout the
piece as Berko travels
towards a new world and
life. As the piece
concludes, we hear
Berko’s theme
repeatedly and in close
succession, representing
the descendants of the
Garrop line that came
from Berko and
Anna. For most of my
life, I never knew where
my father’s family came
from, beyond a few broad
strokes: they had
emigrated in the early
1900s from Eastern Europe
and altered the family
name along the way. This
radically changed in the
summer of 2021 when my
mother and sister came
across a folder in our
family filing cabinet and
made an astounding
discovery of documents
that revealed when,
where, and how my
great-grandfather came to
America. The information
I had been seeking was at
home all along, waiting
over forty years to be
discovered.Berko
Gorobzoff, my
great-grandfather, left
Ekaterinoslav in 1904. At
that time, this city was
in the southern Russian
area of modern-day
Ukraine; as his family
was Jewish, he and his
siblings were attempting
to escape the ongoing
religious persecution and
pogroms instigated by
Tzar Nicholas II to root
out Jewish people from
Russia. Berko’s older
brother Jakob had already
emigrated to Illinois,
and Berko was traveling
with Chaje, Jakob’s
wife, to join him. Their
timing was fortuitous, as
the following year saw a
series of massive, brutal
pogroms in the region.
After arriving in
Illinois, Berko went on
to Omaha, Nebraska, where
he married my
great-grandmother Anna
about eighteen months
later. They remained in
Omaha for the rest of
their lives.There is one
more intriguing part to
this historical account:
I have a great-aunt in
Texas who, as it turns
out, is the youngest
daughter of Berko and
Anna. Through a series of
phone calls, my
great-aunt and I
discussed what she could
remember: her parents
spoke Yiddish at home,
her mother didn’t learn
to read or write in
English so my great-aunt
was tasked with writing
letters to family
members, Berko ran a
grocery store followed by
a small hotel, and her
parents enjoyed playing
poker with friends. Above
all else, neither of her
parents ever spoke a word
about their past or how
they got to America. This
was a common trait among
Eastern European Jewish
immigrants whose goal was
to “blend in” within
their new communities and
country.To
craftxa0Berko’s
Journey,xa0I melded the
facts I uncovered about
Berko with my own
research into methods of
transportation in the
early 1900s. Also, to
represent his heritage, I
wove two Yiddish songs
and one Klezmer tune into
the work. In movement
1,xa0Leaving
Ekaterinoslav,xa0we hear
Berko packing his
belongings, saying his
goodbyes to family and
friends, and walking to
the train station.
Included in this movement
is a snippet of the
Yiddish song “The
Miller’s Tears” which
references how the Jews
were driven out of their
villages by the Russian
army. In movement 2,xa0In
Transit,xa0we follow
Berko as he boards a
train and then a
steamship, sails across
the Atlantic Ocean,
arrives at Ellis Island
and anxiously waits in
line for immigration,
jubilantly steps foot
into New York City, and
finally boards a train
that will take him to
Chicago. While he’s on
the steamship, we hear a
group of fellow steerage
musicians play a klezmer
tune (“Freylachs in d
minor”). In movement
3,xa0At Home in
Omaha,xa0we hear Berko
court and marry Anna.
Their courtship is
represented by
“Tumbalalaika,” a
Yiddish puzzle folksong
in which a man asks a
woman a series of riddles
in order to get better
acquainted with each
other and to test her
intellect.On a final
note, I crafted a musical
motive to represent Berko
throughout the piece.
This motive is heard at
the beginning of the
first movement; its first
pitches are B and E,
which represent the first
two letters of Berko’s
name. I scatter this
theme throughout the
piece as Berko travels
towards a new world and
life. As the piece
concludes, we hear
Berko’s theme
repeatedly and in close
succession, representing
the descendants of the
Garrop line that came
from Berko and Anna.
Two Pianos SKU: SU.24010090 For Two Pianos. Composed by Rachel Gri...(+)
Two Pianos
SKU:
SU.24010090
For
Two Pianos. Composed
by Rachel Grimes.
Keyboard, Piano
4-hands/2+ Pianos. Score.
Grove Music #24010090.
Published by Grove Music
(SU.24010090).
Compassion is
one of the great powers
of women through history
and around the world. In
a time of such intense
conflict, shifting power
structures and upheaval,
let us understand each
other better through the
eyes of our mothers.Two
Pianos Duration: 3'
Composed: 2016 Published
by: Mossgrove Music
(BMI).
Mother, I Love You Chorale SATB SATB, Piano [Octavo] - Intermédiaire Jackman Music Corporation
(A Mother's Day Medley). Arranged by Brent Jorgensen. For Mixed chorus (SATB), c...(+)
(A Mother's Day Medley).
Arranged by Brent
Jorgensen. For Mixed
chorus (SATB), children's
voices, and piano. Medley
includes: Mother, I Love
You; My Mother; and My
Mother Dear. Medium.
Choral octavo. Duration
4:45
My Dearest Ruth Voix Mezzo-Soprano, Piano Theodore Presser Co.
For Mezzo-soprano and Piano. Composed by Stacy Garrop. Sws. Duration 6 minutes...(+)
For Mezzo-soprano and
Piano.
Composed by Stacy Garrop.
Sws. Duration 6 minutes,
40
seconds. Theodore Presser
Company #111-40297.
Published
by Theodore Presser
Company
For Baritone and Piano. Composed by Stacy Garrop. Sws. Duration 6 minutes, 40 ...(+)
For Baritone and Piano.
Composed by Stacy Garrop.
Sws. Duration 6 minutes,
40
seconds. Theodore Presser
Company #111-40298.
Published
by Theodore Presser
Company
Opera Piano, solo Voices SKU: PR.411411630 Opera in Two Acts. Comp...(+)
Opera Piano, solo Voices
SKU: PR.411411630
Opera in Two Acts.
Composed by Ricky Ian
Gordon. Piano Reduction
Score. 438 pages.
Duration 2 minutes, 30
seconds. Theodore Presser
Company #411-41163.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(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.
Edited by Amy Appleby. Collection and examples CD for easy solo piano. Over 200 ...(+)
Edited by Amy Appleby.
Collection and examples
CD for easy solo piano.
Over 200 great
masterpieces from the
baroque, classical,
romantic and modern eras.
Series: Piano Treasury
Series. 399 pages.
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