SKU: CF.CM9548
ISBN 9781491150801. UPC: 680160908301. 6.875 x 10.5 inches.
Eugene Butler's Sure on This Shining Night is a setting of the popular text by James Agee. It is filled with rich, yet accessible harmonies. Butler's beautiful signature accompaniment compliments and accentuates the vocal harmonies and melody, making this a spectacular concert and festival piece.
SKU: HL.279258
ISBN 9781787600058.
24 popular works for tenor voice with piano accompaniment featuring selected works from the major exam board syllabuses, spanning grades 5 to 8 and beyond. Includes a preface and performance notes by James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook, and a digital version of the book to view on any device. Contents: DVORAK: Jsem Jako Lipa Kosata * ORR: Into My Heart an Air that Kills * CHAUSSON: Serenade Italienne * MENDELSSOHN: Be Thou Faithful Unto Death * OBRADORS: Con Amores, La Mi Madre * LISZT: Du Bist Wie Eine Blume * SCHUBERT: An Sylvia * FAURE: les Roses d'Isphahan * HANDEL: Where'er You Walk * BIZET: Chanson D'Avril * PURCELL: Ah! How Sweet It Is to Love * VENABLES: Because I Liked You Better * BACH: Mein Verlangen ist, den Heiland zu umfangen * HAYDN: Piercing Eyes * BERKELEY: The Riverside Village * DRING: It Was a Lover and His Lass * HURD: Prayer * BOULANGER: Soleils Couchants * HAHN: C'est a Paris! * L'heure exquise * HAGEMAN: Do Not go, My Love * BARBER: Sure on this Shining Night * ARNE: Where the Bee Sucks * HELY-HUTCHINSON: Old Mother Hubbard * sullivan: Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast.
SKU: HL.279259
ISBN 9781787600065. 0.309 inches.
25 popular works for baritone or bass voice with piano accompaniment featuring selected works from the major exam board syllabuses, spanning grades 5 to 8 and beyond. Includes a preface and performance notes by Donald Maxwell and Angela Livingstone, and a digital version of the book to view on any device. Contents: JOLIVET: Nous Baignons * PARRY: Love is a Bable * DEBUSSY: Beau Soir * PALADILHE: Psyche * CHAUSSON: Le charme * POULENC: Chanson a boire * Mazurka * FAURE: Aurore * Clair de lune * Munro: My Lovely Celia * BIZET: Chonson d'avril * DUTILLEUX: La Faute en est a toi * PUIG-ROGET: Le Diable dans la Nuit * VENABLE: Flying Crooked * ABOULKER: Le Lion devenu vieux * IBERT: Chanson de Fortunio * Chanson du Rien * DUKE: Loveliest of Trees * Weir: Blackbirds and Thrushes * Dring: It was a lover and his Lass * WARLOCK: Chopcherry * VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Silent Noon * HAHN: A Chloris * HAGEMAN: Do Not o, My Love * BARBER: Sure on this Shining Night.
SKU: GI.G-8657
ISBN 9781622770649.
Edit ed and Photographed by Michael Stillwater Waldron Island Reflections offers images and words from Shining Night, the award-winning documentary film about the life and music of Morten Lauridsen. Morten Lauridsen, among the leading American composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, draws his inspiration from the serenity of nature. In his summer residence on remote Waldron Island in the San Juan Archipelago many of his greatest works are composed. For anyone who appreciates nature as inspiration for creativity, Waldron Island Reflections provides a glimpse into a unique Pacific Northwest haven where timeless words are given a musical voice through Lauridsen’s sublime artistry. About the music of Morten Lauridsen: In 2007 Morten Lauridsen received the National Medal of Arts, the highest artistic award in the United States, from the President in a White House ceremony “for his composition of radiant choral works combining musical beauty, power, and spiritual depth.” He is Distinguished Professor of Composition at the USC Thornton School of Music, Los Angeles. www.mortenlauridsen.net/ “For those of us who need great music to live and feel more fully, these works speak clearly to the soul and illuminate our greater hope.”– St. Louis Post-Dispatch “This is celestial and spine-tingling stuff. Contemporary choral music really doesn’t come any better than this.” – Daily Express Michael Stillwater is a filmmaker and music educator whose award-winning documentary, Shining Night: A Portrait of Composer Morten Lauridsen, was deemed “a heartening rarity” by Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal. www.shiningnightfilm.net.
SKU: BT.PMC3865
The Two Songs on American Poems were composed in late May and early June of 2011 by candlelight at my rustic waterfront cabin on a remote island off the northwest coast of Washington State. It was in this locale that I havecompleted a number of works over the years, including the Lux Aeterna, O Magnum Mysterium, Nocturnes, Canticle/O Vos Omnes and others. Prayer was written in memory of Michael Jasper Gioia, Dana and Mary Gioia's infant son, whosebrief life was tragically ended by SIDS.Mr. Gioia served as Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003-2010 and has authored several books of poems, numerous anthologies, articles, essays and two opera libretti. Amonghis many awards are the American Book Award and Presidential Citizens Medal. He currently holds the Judge Widney Chair of Poetry and Public Policy at the University of Southern California. Sure on this Shining Night was originallycomposed as a choral piece, the third movement of my Nocturnes on poems by Rilke, Neruda and Agee. Rod Gilfry, an international star of opera, recital and musical theater, premiered the mixed duet version with his daughter, Carin,in 2009. He is Professor of Vocal Studies at the USC Thornton School of Music. Both he and Mr. Gioia are national treasures. The Two Songs are designed as a pair but may be sung independently - when paired, Sure On This ShiningNight should begin immediatelyfollowing the final, sustained chord of Prayer with no break in between the songs. Both of these songs, premiered by Mr. Gilfry accompanied by the composer at a USC Visions & Voices tribute to DanaGioia on September 27, 2011, have their roots in the American musical theater and should be sung as such.
