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- Stay Gold

Libretto

SKU: HL.49016076

Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Edition Schott. Classical. Book Only. 192 pages. Schott Music #GS34001. Published by Schott Music (HL.49016076).

ISBN 9780793558803. UPC: 073999276718. 267 X 171 inches. English(US).

Englis h Only. The first opera written for television, 'Amahl and the Night Visitors' has become the most frequently performed opera of all time, with over five hundred performances annually across the world.

Menotti's take on theChristmas story focuses on Amahl, a young handicapped boy, and his mother, who are visited by three Kings -- Balthazar, Melchior, and Kaspar -- who are on their way to find Jesus. The Kings stay the night, during which Amahl'smother tries to steal some of the Kings' gold and is caught in the act. Melchior suggests that she keep the gold, because the child they are visiting will rule his kingdom with love, not riches. Amahl's mother gives back the gold,wishing she had something to give of her own. Amahl offers his crutch as a gift and suddenly is able to walk. He decides to follow the Kings so that he himself may give his crutch to the Christ child.

The work is ideal foran amateur performance (for example a secondary school or a local dramatic society) since all the action takes place in one act and one place, and the work calls for limited, adaptable musical forces. It also gives each principala chance to shine, either in a solo or an ensemble. This is the Schirmer edition of the Libretto in English only.

English Only.

String Quartet

SKU: HL.14030980

Parts. Composed by Bent Sorensen. Music Sales America. Classical. Set of Parts. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #KP00249. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14030980).

ISBN 9788759871973. 12.0x16.0x0.285 inches.

Score available: KP00250 The composer writes: 'Even when I was writing Adieu, I knew that I wished to write Angel's Music. The title existed in an incomplete form in my mind and gradually more and more ideas and a few outlines became clear. The actual work on Angel's Music was started in Rome, where I spent the autumn of 1987 staying at The Danish Academy. Whether this stay has influenced the quartet or not is impossible to say. however, it is true to say that, in the Roman churches I visited, I saw countless angels playing in the top of frescoes and altars. Without these angels, together with the many crackled-gold paintings in this city and my general fascination with the Italian renaissance painter Fra Angelico, (in fact there are only a few paintings by him in Rome, but even his name..!) I am not sure my quartet would have been what it is. Anyway I do feel that there is a bit of Italy in the piece. The angels apart there are, in the short rhythmic agitating part of the quartet, reminiscences of the Italian medieval Trotto dance, and in the most expressive part of the piece there are flashes of Puccini-like music. From the very beginning of my work on the quartet, the distant, extremely muted sound in the high register which opens the piece, was on my mind. A sound satiated with a dense heterophonic and polyphonic texture of elegiac melody and vibrating trills. I imagined that little songs (maybe angel songs) could be created in this density, these songs constantly echoing themselves. Gradually as this sound got a more and more concrete musical and instrumental form, I felt, that not only should the little songs be created, played and die out in an echo, but also that the general pattern of the quartet should give the feeling of music which, from the distance, is getting closer and closer, culminates and at last disappears like an echo. Related to this, the general pattern of Angel's Music is divided into three: a pre-echo, culmination and echo.. The relationship between the three part is 5: 6: 4. The reason why I can say this precisely and prosaically is that it was necessary to me to mark the overall guidelines before I started to compose. I had to do this in order to enable the relationships to crawl from the general pattern almost fractionally into the smallest cells of the music, or more correctly; crawl from the small cells into the general pattern.'.

(9 Classic Favorites for Flute Quartet or Ensemble). Composed by Various. Edited by Barbara Siesel, Keith Torgan. Arranged by Bruce Lazarus. Woodwind quartet. For solo flute, 2 flutes, piccolo. Classical. Score and part(s). 40 pages. Duration 0:21:45. Published by Theodore Presser Company

(9 Classic Favorites for Flute and Piano). Composed by Various. Edited by Barbara Siesel, Keith Torgan. Arranged by Bruce Lazarus. For flute, piano. Classical. Solo part with piano reduction. 28 pages. Duration 0:21:45. Published by Theodore Presser Company

By Various. For Piano/Keyboard. Piano Solo Songbook. Softcover. 464 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

For Alto Saxophone and Piano. Composed by Lauren Bernofsky (1967-). Premiere: Marc Goldstick, English horn, and Maria Letona, piano; Tuesday Night Music, Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory. Contemporary. Solo part with piano reduction. With Standard notation. Composed 1992. 20 pages. Duration 12 minutes, 10 seconds. Theodore Presser Company #144-40618. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.144406180).