A shimmering a cappella refrain provides an especially memorable highlight at the end of Mark Hayes', otherwise accompanied, choral arrangement. Originally penned by the 'Father of American Music,' this beloved song has long been associated with the grand pageantry of the Kentucky Derby. / Choeur SAB

A shimmering a cappella refrain provides an especially memorable highlight at the end of Mark Hayes', otherwise accompanied, choral arrangement. Originally penned by the 'Father of American Music,' this beloved song has long been associated with the grand pageantry of the Kentucky Derby. / Choeur TTBB

Par WOOD MARK. Fireball was originally composed for the television broadcast of the bike race, Tour de France, for CBS Sports. The footage that inspired me featured dozens of bike racers at top speed racing down a mountain road. The stress and competition forces the riders into extremely dangerous situations reflected in the music. Thank you to Lynne Latham for the great ending idea. (2:25) / Date…

Par WILLIAMS LYNNE. A collection of trios aimed at Grade 2-3 standard players. / Niveau : Facile / Répertoire / Flûte Traversière, Clarinette et Basson

Chorale Settings - Praeambula. Par PRAETORIUS JACOB. Jakob Praetorius, who was born in Hamburg on 8 February 1586, studied with Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck 1602-1603 and was organist at the church of St Peter in Hamburg from 1603-1651. This edition contains seven chorale settings and three Praeambula (in C, D and F)./ Recueil / Orgue

Par BRITTEN BENJAMIN. Scored for solo voice, unison chorus and piano, The Twelve Apostles was written for Peter Pears and the London Boy Singers. The text was adopted from The Ten Commandments as given in 'English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians' (1932)./ Répertoire / Choeur (Unisson), Voix Hautes et Voix Egales

Opera in Seven Scenes. Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. Picture a day like this is the fourth collaboration between George Benjamin and Martin Crimp, whose acclaimed partnership produced Written on Skin, Lessons in Love and Violence, and Into the Little Hill. Playwright Martin Crimp’s text for the opera is a bittersweet fable on grief and renewal. It tells the story of a Woman (mezzosoprano) who has lost her …

Par HARVEY JONATHAN. Bhakti was written in 1982, to a commission from IRCAM, Paris. It is in twelve short movements totalling about fifty minutes. There are 36 subsections - each one defined by a certain number of instruments playing a certain pitch cell. As there are only 12 types of subsection, each occurs (with variation) 3 times, thus making for repetitions over the course of the work. Scored …

You'll feel the wind at your back as this bright march weighs anchor with a bold opening and sets sail with flutes and oboes stating the main theme. Sails unfurl and the rest of the fleet (ensemble) joins in. Counter-lines and flourishes are added. Eventually the seas calm during a passage through a slower lyrical section where the opening thematic material is developed. But wait, there is land in…

Par SHELDON ROBERT. Robert Sheldon's Megawatt Rock will light up your next concert. This high-energy rock-style piece with its rhythmic drive and power chords is sure to amp up the spirit in the performance level of the students. Using only the first seven notes that most beginning band students learn, it is written in Mixolydian mode, with the key signature including the added flat. The rhythms, …

Nach den erfolgreichen Liederbüchern Farbenfroh Band 1 und Band 2 legt Klaus Heizmann eine weitere Sammlung mit Werken für Frauenchor vor. In Lasst euer Lob erklingen finden sich 10 Kompositionen aus Romantik und Gegenwart. Darunter sind bekannte Lieder wie Noel oder Christ ist geboren aber auch wiederentdeckte Werke der Spätromantiker Louis Jungmann, David Herrmann Engel und Carl-Friedrich Cursch…