St. Anger

SKU: HL.50603430

UPC: 840126923926. 9.0x12.0x0.168 inches.

Scored for Tenor and String Quartet, Stranger was commissioned by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society with support from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. The World Premiere was given by Nick Phan (tenor) and Brooklyn Rider at the Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia on January 24, 2020. Parts available: SRO100197-01.

SKU: HL.14005162

ISBN 9780711987586. 7.0x10.0x0.259 inches.

Love from a Stranger was a 'thriller' starring Ann Harding and Basil Rathbone, based on an Agatha Christie short story, Philomel Cottage. As well as Britten's score, the film also included excerpts from Grieg's Peer Gynt music, and a contemporary dance band. Not all of the present score was used - No. 3, Brighton, was omitted and cuts were made in nos. 5 and 6. In the latter, a savage cut deleted the references to the music of the other numbers in bars 13-20, including the trombone's scale, which alludes to a scene in which a child practices the piano unseen. Britten was not happy with the way his music was used, and this was to remain his only work for the commercial cinema composed in 1936.

SKU: HL.402773

UPC: 196288057802. 6.75x10.5x0.029 inches. Luke 2:11-14, Philippians 2:8-10.

As a baby in a manger, as a star to warm the night; as a song to fill our silent hearts, as a voice of love and light. These words begin the journey of this powerful contemporary carol. An ideal traditional/transitional offering for Christmas.

SKU: PR.446413420

UPC: 680160667444. 9 x 12 inches.

Anger Management is a study in aggression and heartbreak. Its inspiration comes from a particularly nasty breakup and Tennysons maxim, Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. The piece considers and ultimately rejects this notion. My goal was to combine the narrative of romantic loss - with its elements of anger, nostalgia, despair and ultimately defiance - with a strict compositional technique and economy of material. The piece is based on two motives: the gruff, ascending three notes of the first bar and a descending half-step sigh, which is eventually transformed and intensified into a glissando ascending major-7th. Anger Management was premiered and recorded on April 1st, 2013 by Derek Cooper and the Manhattan School of Music String Ensemble.