First Recital Series

Childrens Songs-In Recital With Little Pieces For Little Fingers is a fun motivational series for the beginner-level Piano student. It is the very first book in the In Recital series and is best used as a prepatory level book before students go on to Book 1. The In Recital series offers terrific music that has been carefully leveled to ensure success. It complements other FJH publications and will help you plan student recital repertoire. In Recital With Little Pieces For Little Fingers can be used in conjunction with any preparatory level of any method.Students reinforce reading by combining Middle C intervallic and C positionreading approaches. Traditional note reading balanced with intervallic reading is the sure way for students to succeed!Students reinforce rhythm by playing pieces that are fun cheerful and motivational.Students learn how to play musically by experiencing pieces with contrasting moods and emotions. Playing music written by several composers helps students to expand their musical horizons and tap into the different composers' personalities!Students have a different and fun writing activity in each book that reinforces what they are learning in the preparatory level of their method.

The best solos from the In Recital® series, all under one cover. Book 2 includes 12 sensational selections-ten original pieces including blues, rags, and Latin styles by Kevin Olson, Edwin McLean, and Robert Schultz. Original pieces by Christopher Goldston, Mary Leaf, and Elizabeth Greenleaf also add to the mix. There is even one folk song and one classical piece. New musical concepts are introduced such as tied notes, legato and staccato articulations, accents and first and second endings. Most pieces call for limited hands-together playing. Students play in a variety of keys using accidentals instead of key signatures. / Piano

This new publication in the Recital Series for Piano features duet arrangements of five favorite Christmas carols: Away in a Manger £ The First Noel £ Good King Wenceslas £ O Come All Ye Faithful £ Silent Night.

In Flanders Fields is a series of poignant and evocative choral works with a theme of reconciliation and remembrance set to iconic texts by John McCrae and Rupert Brooke.Alan Smith was born in London in 1962 and spent his childhood in Croydon. He sang with various local choirs and attended the nearby Royal School of Church Music where he began organ lessons with Michael Fleming at the age of ten. He was appointed as Organist and Choirmaster of a local church at the age of 16 and later became Organ Scholar at Kings' College London where he studied from 1981 to 1984. As part of his music degree he specialized in composition studying with Nicola LeFanu David Lumsdaine and George Nicholson.Following postgraduate training at the London Institute of Education Alan began his teaching career. After working in various schools he became Head of Music at Hazelwick School Crawley in 1990 a post he continues to hold. In the same year he came to some prominence by winning the RSCM's annual composing competition. His successful entry Let the Peoples Praise You became his first published piece and continues to be widely performed. Since then his choral compositions have won several awards most recently the Thornesian Prize in 2003 and an honorable mention in the 2004 Vanguard Premieres Competition.Alan's output is predominantly of choral and vocal music much of it written for specific choirs or occasions and his catalogue runs to over 150 works. In the UK his music is published by Animus Curiad Cantiones Press Escorial Edition Fagus Music and RSCM while in America he is published by Abingdon Press CanticaNOVA OUP Pavane and Roger Dean.Since 1998 Alan has been Director of Music at St Andrew's church in Burgess Hill West Sussex where he lives with his wife and three children.

Concert Band Signature Series. Par WALKER GEORGE. In 1946, George Walker was still doing graduate work at the Curtis institute when he composed Lyric for Strings, which would prove over the coming decades to become one of the most performed and enduring string orchestra works of the 20th Century. This first-ever edition for symphonic wind band was arranged by Dr. Luci Disano and premiered by The President's Own United States Marine Band on August 24, 2022. George Walker (June 27, 1922 - August 23, 2018) began his groundbreaking career as a young piano virtuoso and was admitted to Oberlin College on a scholarship following his first public recital at the age of 14. Graduating with the highest honors in his Conservatory class, he was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music, becoming the first black graduate of this renowned music school. His works demonstrate a wide range of artistic excellence in genres ranging from instrumental and vocal solos and chamber music to compositions for orchestra and other large ensembles. He is the first black composer to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize. / Date parution : 2023-07-31/ Répertoire / Concert Band

Allegro Scherzando by Andre Messager and Molto Lento by Augusta Holmes. A series of short recital pieces which were originally sight-reading pieces for the examinations at the Paris conservatoire from the 1870s until the first World War researched and edited by the BBC's Andrew Lyle.