SKU: KJ.WB463F
UPC: 084027046418.
About Tradition of Excellence: Excellence in Performance
Excellence in performance is a concert band repertoire series correlated with the Tradition of Excellence Comprehensive Band Method by Bruce Pearson and Ryan Nowlin. The compositions in the series correlate to a specific page in Tradition of Excellence Books 1, 2, or 3 and reinforce and expand on skills and concepts introduced in the method./Selections include exciting parts for every player, grade-appropriate cross-cueing, accessible ranges and rhythms, creative percussion writing, electric bass and rehearsal piano parts, and full conductor scores with rehearsal suggestions, program notes and composer biographies. In addition, the Grade 1 works provide an Advanced Snare Drum part for percussionists who have achieved a higher level of ability, playable simultaneously with the more basic Snare Drum part to facilitate differentiated learning.
SKU: CF.MXE51F
ISBN 9780825898778. UPC: 798408098773. 9 x 12 inches.
Made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund, Book of Memory is Lansky's conversation with music from the medieval, renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic, early-modern, and modern periods. These dialogs are sometimes obvious, sometimes not. Written for the Janus Trio, Book of Memory consists of seven movements preceded and connected by short interludes that comprise a setting of a poem by William Blake about memory. The seven main movements can also be performed as a group or individually, without the prelude and interludes.
SKU: CF.MXE51
ISBN 9780825898297. UPC: 798408098292. 9x 12 inches.
SKU: CF.CM9315
ISBN 9780825891960. UPC: 798408091965. 6.875 x 10.5 inches. Text: Clare of Assisi. Clare of Assisi.
The opening oboe and keyboard duet opening foreshadow themes of “Walk forth securely” and “Never abandon,” echoed by the voices later in the work. The inclusion of macaronic text (optional Latin in the chorus) speaks to the timelessness of the message while honoring the memory of the female Medieval poet Claire of Assisi.
SKU: HL.14043068
6.75x9.75x0.105 inches.
The Song Sung True was expertly composed by Judith Weir . The piece was commissioned by Lawyers' Music, in memory of Helen M. Sibthorp , singer and promenader. The first performance of The Song Sung True was on the 4th December 2013, at St Lawrence Jewry, London, performed by London Lawyers' Chorus and conducted by Christopher Oakley. Judith Weir is a British composer, best known for her Operas and Theatrical works, although she has also achieved international recognition for her Orchestral and Chamber works. Weir 's music is often created from ideas from medieval history, as well as the traditional stories and music of her native Scotland.
