Noted jazz pianist, composer, recording artist and educator Andy LaVerne has drawn from his decades of experience playing with master musicians from Getz to Lovano to create this comprehensive compendium of contemporary moving voicings. Quartal, quintal, drop 2, dominant 7b9/diminished, triadic, whole tone and chromatic performance proven voicings pioneered by McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Herbie Hanc…

Uses: Palm SundayScripture: Matthew 21:1-11; Luke 19:28-38This stately anthem for Palm Sunday offers the flexibility of use with choirs of children youth and adults or a solo cantor with choirs.Opening with an optional processional choirs have the chance to sing antiphonally as a fanfare-like piano accompaniment and optional finger cymbals support the singing. An easy descant near the end of th…

Ideal for a popular school or informal concert. Programme note by Rodney Slatford 2008:Jack Snow Hester was born on 2 March 1907 in Chorlton Lancashire and joined the music profession as a double bass player when he was seventeen. His father Arthur Darrell Hester appears on his birth certificate as 'Manufacturer (chemicals)'; his mother was Minnie Frances Hester formerly Stamp and the family …

from Joyful Noise-From the film Joyful Noise two young performers (Keke Palmer and Jeremy Jordan) give their all to sing Gods praise and win a national choir competition despite overwhelming odds. In this arrangement Paul McCartneys classic songhas a freshness that will enchant choirs and listeners alike! Available separately: SATB SAB 2-Part and ShowTrax CD. Rhythm Parts available as a digita…

Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. Jim Palmer's arrangement of Music for the Royal Fireworks is an exciting two-movement work that is perfect for your young string orchestra. The movements work together or are effective played on their own. Terraced dynamics and authentic articulations will help your students gain an understanding of music from the Baroque era. A perfect opener or closer to any concert.…

Easy two-part Palm Sunday selection for young or inexperienced choir from Sleeth's collection: Laudamus (HMB126)

Opera in 3 acts-Like few other theatre works—The Magic Flute A Midsummer Night’s Dream—Tippett’s first opera creates a wholly other place one where human actions can be seen as in a tilted mirror. Since this is indeed an opera the place or dreamspace is conjured by music: by luminescent music that in its flowing abundance radiant harmonies and evocative wind colourings represents t…

Young Jazz ensemble-With a sound similar to the pop hits of the 1960s this upbeat tune was recording by Cee Lo Green and also performed on the TV show Glee by Gwyneth Paltrow. Paul's effective chart for young players features a tenor soloist in the beginning then joined by the entire sax section. The brass get their chance and a modulation kicks things into high gear to finish up.

While teaching at the Montreuil Conservatoire between 1978 and 2014 Flautist and composer Yves Queyroux developed an original and dynamic pedagogical approach. Le Fil d’Ariane [Ariadne’s Thread] provides young Flautists with many key techniques that allow them under a teacher’s guidance to create a personalised learning experience. Written in clear direct terms this learning…

h-Moll. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. Telemann’s unusually lightly scored Kyrie-Gloria Mass is a work of his Leipzig period [1701–1705]. In seven movements the young composer knew how to create with the voice [a–d2] and the small instrumental ensemble a rich palette of forms and affections. / Messe / Répertoire / Solo à (B), 2 Violons et Basse Continue

h-Moll. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. Telemann’s unusually lightly scored Kyrie-Gloria Mass is a work of his Leipzig period [1701–1705]. In seven movements the young composer knew how to create with the voice [a–d2] and the small instrumental ensemble a rich palette of forms and affections. / Messe / Répertoire / Solo à (B), 2 Violons et Basse Continue

Arrangeur: Claude Georgel. Since the success of the first volume in 2015, OpenSax has spoken for instrumentalists across the world who identify with an unbounded literature for saxophone that' s firmly in touch with today' s musical world. Claude Georgel, who directs the Vent de Sax collection at the Editions Leduc, here presents a sequel to this great adventure that widens its scope: while the 1…

PAUL WETZGER (1870-1937) was a German flutist composer born in Dahme near Lübeck. At a young age he took violin lessons from the local music director later switching to flute. By 15 years of age Wetzger had played his first concert in the main church of Dahmen and was second flutist of the municipal orchestra. He later became solo flutist with the municipal orchestra of Essen and taught at the…