What Matters Most

SKU: HL.113413

UPC: 884088868529. 6.75x10.5 inches.

Recorded by Barbra Streisand, this elegant and heartfelt song is almost classical in style, with a warm, acoustic accompaniment and a simple, direct lyric that celebrates the power of love in our lives.

SKU: HL.113414

UPC: 884088868543. 6.75x10.5 inches.

Recorded by Barbra Streisand, this elegant and heartfelt song is almost classical in style, with a warm, acoustic accompaniment and a simple, direct lyric that celebrates the power of love in our lives.

SKU: HL.329321

ISBN 9781540083432. UPC: 840126905694. 9x12 inches.

134 songs particularly good for auditions have been selected from Volumes 1-7 of the Singer's Musical Theatre Anthology and professionally edited for a 30-40 second ?16-bar? version, retaining the original key.

Contents: Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life ? All That Matters ? Almost Real ? Another Suitcase in Another Hall ? Another Winter in a Summer Town ? Art Is Calling for Me ? The Beauty Is ? Bewitched ? Beyond My Wildest Dreams ? A Call from the Vatican ? Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man ? Children of the Wind ? Children Will Listen ? Come to My Garden ? Cry like the Wind ? Daddy's Girl ? Dear Friend ? Falling in Love with Love ? Feelings ? Follow Your Heart ? For the First Time in Forever (Broadway Version) ? From Chopin to Country ? The Glamorous Life ? Glitter and Be Gay ? The Golden Ram ? Gooch's Song ? Green Finch and Linnet Bird ? Hello, Young Lovers ? Home ? Home ? How Lovely to Be a Woman ? I Could Have Danced All Night ? I Don't Know His Name ? I Don't Know What I'd Do Without You ? I Feel Pretty ? I Have a Love ? I Have Confidence ? I Have Dreamed ? I Have to Tell You ? I Know It's Today ? I Wonder What Became of Me ? I'll Know ? I'm Leaving You ? I've Decided to Marry You ? If I Loved You ? If I Were a Bell ? In His Eyes ? In My Life ? Inside Out ? Is It Really Me? ? It Never Was You ? Let Us Be Glad ? Like a Woman Loves a Man ? Listen to Your Heart ? Love, Look Away ? Love Makes Such Fools of Us All ? Lovely ? Make Believe ? Matchmaker ? Migratory V ? Mister Snow ? Moonfall ? Morning Person ? Mr. Right ? Much More ? My Favorite Things ? My Funny Valentine ? My Lord and Master ? My Ship ? My True Love ? My White Knight ? Nelson ? Never ? No One Is Alone - Part I ? No Other Love ? Not a Day Goes By ? Nothing Is Too Wonderful to Be True ? Nothing Stops Another Day ? Old Maid ? On the Steps of the Palace ? Once You Lose Your Heart ? One Boy (Girl) ? One More Kiss ? Only Love ? Out of My Dreams ? People Will Say We're in Love ? Practically Perfect ? Raining ? Raunchy ? Ribbons down My Back ? Rosa's Confession ? The Saga of Jenny ? The Secret Service ? Show Me ? The Simple Joys of Maidenhood ? So in Love ? So Many People ? Some Things Are Meant to Be ? Somebody, Somewhere ? The Song That Goes like This ? Sons of (Fils De) ? Soon ? Speak Low ? Take Me to the World ? Ten Minutes Ago ? Thank Goodness ? That Dirty Old Man ? That'll Show Him ? There's a Small Hotel ? There's Music in You ? Think of Me ? This Is All Very New to Me ? This Place Is Mine ? Till There Was You ? To Build a Home ? Too Much in Love to Care ? Tour de France ? Unexpected Song ? Unusual Way ? Vanilla Ice Cream ? Waiting ? Waitin' for My Dearie ? What More Do I Need? ? When Did I Fall in Love ? When He Sees Me ? When There's No One ? Where or When ? When Was I Born? ? Will He Like Me? ? Will You? ? Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again ? With You ? Without You ? The Wo.

SKU: PR.11441690S

UPC: 680160626021. 9 x 12 inches.

Ran's third string quartet was written for the Pacifica Quartet, who are featuring it in numerous performances from May 2014 through February 2016, across the country and abroad. Their blog page dedicated to the work also features the composer's notes, for more indepth insight. ...impassioned solos emerge from ominous quiet, and high arpeggios in the violins quiver alongside the earthy cello. Ms. Ran skillfully deploys these extremes of color, volume and pitch, yet the overall somewhat chilly impression is one of poise. -- Zachary Woolfe, The New York Times.
My third string quartet was composed at the invitation of the Pacifica Quartet, whose music-making I have come to know closely and admire hugely as resident artists at the University of Chicago.  Already in our early conversations Pacifica proposed that this quartet might, in some manner, refer to the visual arts as a point of germination.  Probing further, I found out that the quartet members had special interest in art created during the earlier part of the 20th century, perhaps between the two world wars.  It was my good fortune to have met, a short while later, while in residence at the American Academy in Rome in the fall of 2011, art conservationist Albert Albano who steered me to the work of Felix Nussbaum (1904-1944), a German-Jewish painter who, like so many others, perished in the Holocaust at a young age, and who left some powerful, deeply moving art that spoke to the life that was unraveling around him. The title of my string quartet takes its inspiration from a major exhibit devoted to art by German artists of the period of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) titled “Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s”, first shown at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2006-07.  Nussbaum would have been a bit too young to be included in this exhibit.  His most noteworthy art was created in the last very few years of his short life.  The exhibit’s evocative title, however, suggested to me the idea of “Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory” as a way of framing a possible musical composition that would be an homage to his life and art, and to that of so many others like him during that era.  Knowing that their days were numbered, yet intent on leaving a mark, a legacy, a memory, their art is triumph of the human spirit over annihilation. Parallel to my wish to compose a string quartet that, typically for this genre, would exist as “pure music”, independent of a narrative, was my desire to effect an awareness in my listener of matters which are, to me, of great human concern.  To my mind there is no contradiction between the two goals.  As in several other works composed since 1969, this is my way of saying ‘do not forget’, something that, I believe, can be done through music with special power and poignancy.    The individual titles of the quartet’s four movements give an indication of some of the emotional strands this work explores. 1) “That which happened” (das was geschah) – is how the poet Paul Celan referred to the Shoah – the Holocaust.  These simple words served for me, in the first movement, as a metaphor for the way in which an “ordinary” life, with its daily flow and its sense of sweet normalcy, was shockingly, inhumanely, inexplicably shattered. 2) “Menace” is a shorter movement, mimicking a Scherzo.  It is also machine-like, incessant, with an occasional, recurring, waltz-like little tune – perhaps the chilling grimace we recognize from the executioner’s guillotine mask.  Like the death machine it alludes to, it gathers momentum as it goes, and is unstoppable. 3) ”If I must perish - do not let my paintings die”; these words are by Felix Nussbaum who, knowing what was ahead, nonetheless continued painting till his death in Auschwitz in 1944.  If the heart of the first movement is the shuddering interruption of life as we know it, the third movement tries to capture something of what I can only imagine to be the conflicting states of mind that would have made it possible, and essential, to continue to live and practice one’s art – bearing witness to the events.  Creating must have been, for Nussbaum and for so many others, a way of maintaining sanity, both a struggle and a catharsis – an act of defiance and salvation all at the same time. 4) “Shards, Memory” is a direct reference to my quartet’s title.  Only shards are left.  And memory.  The memory is of things large and small, of unspeakable tragedy, but also of the song and the dance, the smile, the hopes.  All things human.  As we remember, in the face of death’s silence, we restore dignity to those who are gone.—Shulamit Ran .

SKU: CF.B3470

ISBN 9781491159460. UPC: 680160918058.

The awardee of two Guggenheim fellowships, Julia Perry studied composition with Luigi Dallapiccola and Nadia Boulanger, and conducted her works on a tour throughout Europe with the Vienna Philharmonic and the BBC Orchestra. She would become one of the first African-American female composers to have an orchestral work performed by the New York Philharmonic. Although she had an auspicious and promising career in her early life, it was tragically cut short by a series of strokes leading to partial paralysis and eventually, her death, at age 55 in 1979.Perry’s catalog is widely varied, featuring thirteen symphonies, numerous chamber and solo works, pieces for band, choral and vocal music, and four operas. Her Violin Concerto, completed in 1968, shows the influence of Dallapiccola’s teachings: sharp harmonic dissonances organized around specific pitch centers, short repetitive patterns that establish significant musical materials, and contrapuntal textures. Her fastidious performance markings in the solo violin part indicate her profound understanding of the instrument. Angular, muscled, and sparkling by turns, this piece is a sophisticated entry to the serious violinist's concert repertoire.There is no evidence or documentation that the Violin Concerto was ever premiered or performed during her lifetime, despite the fact that the composer prepared a full score, piano reduction and orchestral parts. Regrettably, this is the case with the majority of her works composed in the final decade of her life.
What is extraordinary about Julia Perry’s musical career was the astonishing success she attained in her early years. In her youth she studied piano, voice, violin and cello. She began to compose in her teenage years, her first publication being a choral work in 1947 by Carl Fischer. Her Stabat Mater was published in 1951 and would become one of her most often performed pieces, with performances in Europe and the United States. In 1953 she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to study with the Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola, first at the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood, later in Florence, Italy. During this time, she also pursued studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and was awarded a second Guggenheim fellowship. She studied conducting at this time, touring Europe in 1957 to conduct her own works with the Vienna Philharmonic and the BBC Orchestra. During her European sojourns, she learned and mastered French, German and Italian. She would become one of the first African-American female composers to have an orchestral work performed by the New York Philharmonic.Perry’s circumstances would change dramatically once she reached forty years of age, having returned permanently to the United States. At some point in the spring of 1970, she suffered the first of two strokes that would paralyze her right side and confine her to a wheelchair for the rest of her life. Nonetheless, she continued to compose and to promote her works with publishers and conductors. A second stroke contributed to her death in 1979 at age 55. She likely endured harsh ethnic and gender discrimination in the course of her career, and her later years would witness a period of extreme civil unrest. These matters and the significance of music in her life are undoubtedly what led her to say, “Music has a great role to play in establishing the brotherhood of man.”Perry’s catalog is widely varied, featuring thirteen symphonies, numerous chamber and solo works, pieces for band, choral and vocal music, and four operas. Her Violin Concerto, completed in 1968, is indicative of the influence of Dallapiccola’s teachings: sharp harmonic dissonances organized around specific pitch centers, short repetitive patterns that establish significant musical materials, and contrapuntal textures. The work is a single movement of 392 measures organized around three alternating tempos: Slow (Œ = 60), Moderate (Œ = 84) and Fast (Œ = 120). The opening thirty-measure cadenza for the solo violin introduces most of the thematic material for the piece. The orchestration commonly features antiphonal writing between orchestral groups, for example, strings alternating with brass, or strings alternating with winds. The harp and piano generally appear as solo instruments, rather than as members of the orchestra. Her fastidious performance markings in the solo violin part indicate her profound understanding of the instrument.There is no evidence or documentation that the Violin Concerto was ever premiered or performed during her lifetime, despite the fact that the composer prepared a full score, piano reduction and orchestral parts. Regrettably, this is the case with the majority of her works composed in the final decade of her life.

SKU: BA.BA09038

ISBN 9790006563838. 31 x 24.3 cm inches. Text Language: Latin. Preface: Barry Cooper.

Beethoven described his grandly conceived �??Missa solemnis�?� as �??my greatest work�?� and sold manuscript copies to some of the subscribers even before it had appeared in print.

This Urtext edition takes into account all the sources including the old and the new complete editions whose relationship is clearly explained in a stemma. In several passages the renowned Beethoven specialist Barry Cooper has arrived at variant readings, such as in the �??Sanctus�?�, where the choir enters instead of the soloists, rather than coming in at �??Pleni sunt coeli�?�. No less worthy of mention is the addition of the soloists to the choir in most of the �??Credo�?�. These matters and many other editorial decisions are documented in the detailed Critical Commentary (Eng).

The appendix contains Beethoven�??s arrangement of the Gregorian chant �??Tantum ergo�?� for the first time. This was composed at the same time as the �??Missa solemnis�?� and most probably stands in a close relation to it.

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