I wrote The Nonantum Bulgar in response to a request for a klezmer-style piece for middle school band. Since my local middle school (F. A. Day) is located in close proximity to Nonantum the oldest area of Newton MA I decided to imagine the dedication of the Adams St. Shul our city's oldest synagogue which took place around a hundred years ago (December 15 1912). According to the Yiddish and …

Funeral March-Beethoven?s four-movement Sonata in A-flat major Op.26 belongs to his most popular works. It is dedicated to Prince Lichnowsky one of his most generous patrons and the dedicatee of for example the Grande Sonate pathétique Op.13 and Symphony No.2 Op.35.The work?s initial drafts date from 1800 01; it was first published in March 1802.This demanding sonata is highly varied in its fo…

The Battle on the Heath On 24 January 1597, the ?Tielenheide? - a stretch of moorland near the Belgian village of Tielen, south of Turnhout-was the scene of a great battle. Prince Maurice of Nassau, commander of the Dutch army, crushingly defeated Count Varax, a Burgundian general of the Spanish army. In military circles, the Battle of Turnhout caused quite a stir: a Spanish army of five thousand …

The perfect supplementary songbook for those using the Hal Leonard Guitar Method this collection contains 20 popular songs from some of the greatest artists in the history of rock and pop music. With Easy Pop Rhythms - Third Edition you can strum along to your favourite hits from classic rock artists including Jimi Hendrix Van Morrison Lynyrd Skynyrd and Nirvana.All of the pieces in this book a…

The 12th of November 2014 was a day of glory for the Rosetta mission: after a ten-year journey in space the Philae lander – a minuscule robot whose job was to gather scientific data – set down on the comet Churi to analyse the composition of the soil and evolution of its structure when the shooting star approaches the Sun. This technical prowess also produced photos. Contemplating the…

Fascinated by the beauty of Chicago, Franco Cesarini has translated his emotions into music: this is how Symphony No. 3 ?Urban Landscapes? Op. 55, was born, a musical portrait of this metropolis overlooking Lake Michigan. The composition is divided into three movements: The Wrigley Building from Dawn to Noon, Blue Silhouette and Cloud Gates, which by sharing the same thematic material arranged in…

Lights up on the most traditional of all musical settings - a toxic waste dump off the New Jersey Turnpike. As the citizens of Tromaville cry for help (?Who Will Save New Jersey??) Melvin Ferd the Third an aspiring earth scientist vows to clean up the state. Everyone is skeptical. This is the setting for The Toxic Avenger a rock musical based on Lloyd Kaufman's film. This songbook includes Pian…

for Wind Orchestra Additional European Parts. Fascinated by the beauty of Chicago, Franco Cesarini has translated his emotions into music: this is how Symphony No. 3 ?Urban Landscapes? Op. 55, was born, a musical portrait of this metropolis overlooking Lake Michigan. The composition is divided into three movements: The Wrigley Building from Dawn to Noon, Blue Silhouette and Cloud Gates, which by…

The first movement is a fantasia on a popular Ukrainian carol melody the style is impressionistic by turns melancholy and vigorous. The second movement is a setting of the Irish Wexford Carol the third a rhythmic theme and variations on Tomorrow shall be my dancing day.

Volume 3. Par THEVET. In three books, Lucien Thevet (1914-2007), a virtuoso Horn player of his day, provides detailed and progressive studies and exercises for the Horn. The third volume of Complete Method of Horn is essential to all Horn players seeking to improve their technique on the instrument. Thevet 's book focuses on elements including transposition, accidentals, adapting to a Horn with fo…

Michael Nyman is a composer pianist librettist writer musicologist photographer and film-maker whose work encompasses opera concert music and film soundtracks of which The Draughtsman's Contract and The Piano arethe best-known. Since founding the Michael Nyman Band in 1977 which tours the world he has worked with leading film directors and has collaborated with artists such as Mary Kelly …

for soprano and piano. Par CASKEN JOHN. Chansons de Verlaine were completed in 2006. The third song, Colloque sentimental, was written in 2003 for Alison Smart and Katharine Durran’s New French Song project. It was as a result of having written one short song to words by Verlaine that I subsequently decided to set two further poems to make a group of three. All three were also set by Debussy: L’…

Cantata for the 19th Sunday after Trinity-Ich Will Den Kreuzstab Gerne Tragen 'Kreuzstabkantate' (I will my cross-staff gladly carry) 'Cross Staff Cantata (Kreuzstabkantate)') BWV 56Cantata for the 19th Sunday after TrinityBach’s solo cantata Ich Will Den Kreuzstab Gerne Tragen is taken from his third cantata cycle for Leipzig. To judge from its position in the liturgy it was probably first per…

Cantata for the 19th Sunday after Trinity-Ich Will Den Kreuzstab Gerne Tragen 'Kreuzstabkantate' (I will my cross-staff gladly carry) 'Cross Staff Cantata (Kreuzstabkantate)') BWV 56Cantata for the 19th Sunday after TrinityBach’s solo cantata Ich Will Den Kreuzstab Gerne Tragen is taken from his third cantata cycle for Leipzig. To judge from its position in the liturgy it was probably first per…