SKU: GI.G-10310
English, Spanish. Text Source: Based on Psalm 23 / Basado en Salmo 23(22); Translation: Santiago Fernández. Text by J. Michael Joncas. Scripture: Psalm 23.
Based on Psalm 23, the text of “Shelter Me / Protégeme†is paraphrased to adapt the psalmist’s sentiments to respond to present anxieties related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Its soothing, melodic refrain invites congregation participation. This is the edition for two-part equal voices.  Terry Donohoo and Anthony Reed accompanied by Amy Kuebelbeck have recorded the work in a duet version for two mixed voices. Listen here. .
SKU: BT.EMBZ6748
Hungarian-English-Germ an-French.
The volumes of the series cover the entire music literature from the earliest centurties to our days. The material of the individual volumes containing short, easy pieces to be played in the first three-four years of studying the instrument has been compiled by accomplished music teachers. The majority of the contemporary works included in the volumes have been published in this series for the first time. An ABRSM syllabus title, 2010-16, Grade 2-3.
SKU: HL.1198030
UPC: 196288135548. 6.75x10.5x0.029 inches. Psalm 91:1.
Gloria Gaither and Michael W. Smith have combined forces to create a new hymn that reflects thoughtfully on Psalm 91. The Gaither text exquisitely expresses the human need for God's covering and protection throughout life's ever-changing circumstances, and is strongly supported by Smith's memorable hymn tune.
SKU: PR.144407380
ISBN 9781491133903. UPC: 680160683475. 9 x 12 inches.
In her powerful Foreword to the music, violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins has written: “There are great works which give voice to important moments for generations, and this is one of them.†The tragedy of Elijah McClain’s murder has moved us all, and for many musicians the image of this gentle young man playing his violin for kittens at an animal shelter has added a poignant extra layer. Zwilich was a professional violinist before turning exclusively to composing, and A LITTLE VIOLIN MUSIC is a memorial from the heart of one violinist to another.[THESE NOTES MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED OUTSIDE OF THE PUBLICATION; OK TO QUOTE A BIT AND GIVE AUTHOR CREDIT]We often research important pieces of music to gain some glimpse into the mind of the composer by understanding the times in which a piece was written. The times that brought this piece into being, 2020, has been a year like no other in our lifetimes.With the suffering of a once in a century pandemic raging in ever higher waves, and millions of people around the world confined to their homes with a shared attention span for the first time in generations, we watched in horror the 8 minute 46 second killing of George Floyd, a man previously unknown to us, but now unwillingly joining a long list of names of unarmed African Americans killed by police. The anguished backlash of citizens around the world, from Japan to New Zealand to Germany to the United States, of every age, color, and creed, has rallied for weeks and months on end to demand enough and that “Black Lives Matter.â€And yet, in the midst of it all is an America starkly divided against itself with some defiantly pushing back, emboldened by authoritarian-style government actions against its own citizens occurring all over the country. It is against this backdrop that we ever had a chance to know of Elijah McClain. Here in quarantine I sometimes practice my scales in front of the news. And one day the mirror image looking back at me from the screen was a slight young man, warm, affable brown eyes, and also a violin under his chin. The newsreel-style camera pan so familiar now, I knew the only reason we were gazing upon his unfamous face was that he too had been killed by police nearly a year before. But the revelation of it in the broadcast hit me particularly hard.Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, who is not only one of the great composers of our time, is also a dear friend, and called me the next day, also deeply saddened by the news. It was from Ellen that I learned that Elijah used to play for the kittens at the local animal shelter so they wouldn’t be lonely. This kind, gentle soul was aggressively taken into police custody while saying, “I am an introvert. Please respect the boundaries that I am speaking... I’m going home.†He was never seen alive again.Ellen and I spoke of the sadness and the injustice of this several times. She felt a powerful calling to contribute something in a statement and the result is the piece you now hold in your hands. I am deeply honored to be the dedicatee of the piece, to have worked together with Ellen on some of the final details, and to pen this score note. As an invited alumna of the Eastman School of Music, I premiered the work for their virtual event on Diversity and Inclusion. Each time I play it, there is a persistent lump in my throat because Ellen has captured something poignant and powerful here.There are great works which give voice to important moments for generations, and this is one of them. We humbly offer this piece in memory of Elijah McClain.Foreword © 2021 by Kelly Hall-Tompkins. Used by permission.
SKU: GI.G-CD-585
This ground-breaking new collection for young people, grades K–8, features all the music found in the Silver Burdett Ginn school catechetical series, Blest Are We. All music (grades 1–6) found here will be included in the new hymnal, Gather Comprehensive, Second Edition. Using Blest Are We music in classrooms and religious education settings is a great unprecedented way to connect youth activities to the larger Sunday Eucharist. This eight-CD set is available for this collection and includes both fully performed tracks as well as instrumental backing tracks for each song. There are also bonus meditation and catechetical tracks—perfect for classroom learning! CONTENTS: Blest Are We - We Praise You DAMEANS - Come All You People ARR. BELL - He Came Down ARR. BELL - If You Believe and I Believe ARR. BELL - Laudate Dominum BERTHIER - You Have Put on Christ HUGHES - Psalm 51: Be Merciful, O Lord HAUGEN - Go and Listen to the Word of God BATASTINI - Eat This Bread BERTHIER - Celtic Alleluia O'CARROLL / WALKER - We Are One ARR. FOSTER - Jesus, Heal Us - Gather Round This Table HAUGEN - Jubilate Servite BERTHIER - Bring Forth the Kingdom HAUGEN - All You Works of God HAUGEN - Blest Are They - O Breathe on Me, O Breath of God GAELIC HYMN - Hands of Healing HAUGEN - Song of the Body of Christ - The Lord's Prayer CHANT - Sing Out, Earth and Skies HAUGEN - Who Calls You by Name - I Am the Bread of Life / Yo Soy el Pan de Vida TOOLAN - The Hand of God - The Summons BELL - I Say Yes / Digo SÃ, Señor PEÑA - Wade in the Water SPIRITUAL - Let Us Go Rejoicing JONCAS - We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder SPIRITUAL - Creator of the Stars of Night CHANT - With You by My Side - Come, Emmanuel ALONSO - We Are the Hope TATE - In Remembrance of You TATE - Hold Us in Your Mercy: Penitential Litany COONEY/DAIGLE - Send Us Your Spirit - Hope at the Crossroads MAHLER - We Are Called - Give Us Your Peace MAHLER - I Have Been Anointed ROSE WARNER - Shelter Your Name ROSE - Send Down the Fire HAUGEN - We Have Been Told - Gloria CHANT - Glory to God (from Mass of Creation) HAUGEN - Come to the Table ALONSO - God Is ROSE - Set Your Heart on the Higher Gifts WARNER.
SKU: HL.14001903
ISBN 9788759859605. Danish.
Animals In Concert - Three pieces for Piano solo by Per Norgard. Programme Note 1. A Tortoise's Tango (1984) - dur.: 4' 2. Light of a Night - Paul meets bird (1989) - dur.: 6' 3. Hermit Crab Tango - Esperanza (1997) - dur.: 5' The pieces can be performed together or one by one. In the1980s, quite a few finds turned up in Per Norgard's music. The material could be, say, a number of song birds' equilibrist melodic lines, the overtones of the ocean surf, or waltzing themes by the schizophrenic artist Adolf Wolfli (1864-1930). Or again, as heard here, it can be the rhythms and motifs of the tango and a Beatles song (with bird), explored in three independent piano pieces that form the Animals in Concert suite, about which the composer writes: A Tortoise's Tango: The tortoise as tango dancer must presumably possess certain rhythmic peculiarities, which I have chosen to express by letting the tune of the tortoise shuffle broadly, tripartite through the strict four partite time of tango. Tortoise Tango was the original title of this piece, written for Achilles (the pianist Yvar Mikhashoff), for his so called tango project, including new tangos for piano by composers from all over the world. Light of a Night (Paul meets bird) was commissioned by pianist Aki Takahashi. It is a reworked arrangement for piano of the Beatles song Blackbird. As some of us will recall, the Beatles on The White Album let the beautiful song to the blackbird be accompanied by an (apparently) live blackbird song. It is this authentic bird-motif world that in Light of a Night weaves itself into the Beatles melody and in turn is gradually infected by it, so that a completely new third entity ensues: a kind of Bird-rock ballad (or maybe it is a Beatle-bird?). Hermit Crab Tango (Esperanza): The tango situation is quite special for a Hermit Crab. It is a well-known fact that the hermit crab - this soft animal - must run the gauntlet among the many perils at the bottom of the sea when it must move hose. I have chosen to express the angers by a tango pattern - sharp as a cactus - through which the tune, optimistic, slips to its new shelter. I have borrowed the tune from songwriter Hanne Methling's Introduction: 'I want to get through this time!' she sings in a ecstatically ascending melody line - and I believe that these words must correspond very well to the mood of the hermit crab: 'Esperanza'- the green runners of hope wind among the latticework formed by the tango rows.
SKU: BT.GOB-000752-140
The young have the future. This is the statement made at the beginning of ‘Like a Child’ by Andreas Ludwig Schulte. The opening radiates strength and ambition, but one is also made to wonder which direction will be chosen, which choices will have to be made.After the introduction the first steps on the path of life are taken, still somewhat unsteadily (the 3/4th time used illustrates this uncertainty). However, the child has now set off and will meet the future with an open mind, unafraid, even though experience will teach it how easily it can be hurt.Fortunately, it is sometimes allowed to be vulnerable and it discovers there will always be someone to offer shelter,support and love. (Adagio) The last part breathes a far greater independence. Youth is able to face the future, it can even take on the whole world! Wie de jeugd heeft, heeft de toekomst. Met dit statement begint deze compositie van Andreas Ludwig Schulte. Het begin straalt kracht en ambitie uit. Maar welke kant gaat het op, welke keuzes moeten gemaakt worden?Na de inleidingworden de eerste schreden op het levenspad gezet, het is nog wat onzeker (de driekwarts maat voelt een beetje wankel). Toch gaan we daarna op pad, onbevangen, met open vizier de toekomst tegemoet al blijken er toch noch kwetsbaremomenten te bestaan. Gelukkig mogen we dat soms ook zijn en dan is er altijd wel iemand bij wie we geborgenheid, steun en liefde ontvangen. (Adagio)Het laatste deel straalt al veel meer zelfstandigheid uit. Laat maarkomen die toekomst, we kunnen de wereld aan!
SKU: HL.14016855
ISBN 9781847729026. 9x12 inches.
A musical celebration of children's rights for narrator, choir and ensemble/backing tracks. It's easy to learn, once heard not easily forgotten, funny yet serious, lighthearted yet touching: a parable of our times and for our times. The chorus of 'Jake And The Juveniles' would have a very good chance of winning the annual Doveton Talent Contest if only they could get Jake out of bed in the morning. But even when they do, down at the shelter where they rehearse, they are met by the demolition men and then the blank face of bureaucracy. Although they are close to despair, this is where, with his unexpected arrival on the scene, the Right Genie comes in very handy. But, instrumental though the genie is in pushing for the rights of our hero and the Juveniles, he also encourages Jake to look beyond his own immediate problems, however important they may seem, to a world where children have more pressing needs than his. This Piano and Vocal score comes with chord symbols throughout and includes the full text plus 2 CDs containing demos and backing tracks for rehearsal or performance. Lyric sheets for Jake And The Right Genie are also available as free downloads with this book at www.hybridpublications.co m.
