| The Fiddler's Fakebook
Violon [Fake Book] Oak Publications
Edited by David Brody. For violin. Format: fake book. With lead melody, chord na...(+)
Edited by David Brody.
For violin. Format: fake
book. With lead melody,
chord names,
instructional text and
performance notes. Folk,
americana and british.
302 pages. 9x12 inches.
Published by Oak
Publications.
(7)$29.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 24 hours - In Stock | | |
| The Phillips Collection of Traditional American Fiddle Tunes Vol 1 Violon [Partition] Mel Bay
by Stacy Phillips. For fiddle. All styles, fiddle tunes. Level: Multiple Levels....(+)
by Stacy Phillips. For
fiddle. All styles,
fiddle tunes. Level:
Multiple Levels. Book.
Solos. Size 8.75x11.75.
268 pages. Published by
Mel Bay Pub., Inc.
(1)$39.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| Intimate Apparel Theodore Presser Co.
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. $110.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| Without Music Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Piano, Voice SKU: PR.111402850 Five Songs for Mezzo-sopr...(+)
Chamber Music Piano,
Voice SKU:
PR.111402850 Five
Songs for Mezzo-soprano
and Piano. Composed
by Ricky Ian Gordon.
Collection - Performance.
28 pages. Duration 25
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #111-40285.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.111402850). ISBN
9781491132005. UPC:
680160680627. What the
Living Do by Maria
Howe. The poetry of
Marie Howe has a special
place in Ricky Ian
Gordon’s heart and
mind, both haunting and
soothing. WITHOUT MUSIC
is a five-movement work
in which Howe’s
words and Gordon’s
music together give voice
to longterm grieving for
a loved one lost to AIDS.
The work was commissioned
by Music Academy of the
West for their 2019
Marilyn Horne Song
Competition
Winners’ Recital
Tour. For a long time,
I have been in dialogue
with the poems of Marie
Howe. Some poets speak so
directly to you that they
become a second voice
inside you. I have so
many of her poems
memorized, and I speak
them so often because at
certain moments I know
she will say it better
than me.Many I have set
or tried to set and felt
dissatisfied and put them
away. Marie’s
poems are so plain
spoken, you want them to
feel, if you are taking
the trouble to set them
to music, that the songs
are plain spoken as
well... because it would
be criminal to set
Marie’s poems in a
way that obscures the
words and makes them feel
distant or remote.I first
heard Kelsey Lauritano in
a Master Class that
Stephanie Blythe was
giving at Juilliard. I
was bowled over by her
poise, the beauty of her
voice, her engagement
with her body and her
connection to text. She
is a real artist through
and through. I wanted to
create a cycle for her
where it felt like she
was talking to the
audience in the most
intimate way possible. I
wanted to be able to see
her heart.These five
poems are from
Marie’s book,
“What the Living
Do,†the book which
was published eight years
after her brother Johnny
died at 28 from AIDS. The
book is impossibly
beautiful, as clear as a
spring in a remote
forest... the poems
simply tell the story of
Johnny’s illness
and Marie’s
relationship with it, and
him... as Marie would put
it, they are “how
some of it
happened.â€I lost my
partner Jeffrey Grossi to
AIDS in 1996, so needless
to say, this book, and
Marie’s poems were
balm for me... one of the
myriad ways I got through
an excruciating time, as
Jeffrey’s death
followed practically, the
death of my entire
community. I feel bad,
and even awkward, that
this is still so much a
part of my story, but it
is. Is it PTSD, or just,
not wanting to forget? I
don’t know. But
these songs are steeped
in that time. $18.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| Frederic Chopin : Variations on a Theme By Rossini Flûte, Hautbois, Clarinette (trio) [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Avancé Wonderful Winds
By Frederic Chopin (1810-1849). Arranged by Mel Orriss. For wind trio: flute, ob...(+)
By Frederic Chopin
(1810-1849). Arranged by
Mel Orriss. For wind
trio: flute, oboe,
clarinet in Bb. Pick and
Mix series. Grade 7 to 9.
Score and parts. Duration
6'30. Published by
Wonderful Winds
$23.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
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