Aphorisms II

SKU: FG.55011-648-1

ISBN 9790550116481.

Lars Karlsson's Five Aphorisms (1973, originally for piano) combines playful characters with long-lined melodies. Kari Jamback's arrangement for flute and guitar is suitable also for pedagogical use. The set includes a full score and separate parts. Duration c. 6' 1. Prelude 2. Romans 3. Humoresque 4. Canon 5. Final.

SKU: HL.256157

ISBN 9781540015235. UPC: 888680723460. 8.5x11 inches.

The pieces in Warren Benson's one-of-a-kind liturgical, choral “activity book” (for lack of a better term) are meant to be sung, used, enjoyed, admired, and drawn from as a well. This never-before-published collection is filled with the joy of singing and communion, with selections that range from the sacred to the secular, the unison to the contrapuntal, the technical to the simple, the modern to the historical. Each piece is 1-2 pages in length and a very few use keyboard accompaniment. Sacred and secular texts range from the Bible to Dickens and Balzac.

SKU: HL.48025427

ISBN 9781784546175. UPC: 196288207788.

Composed in 2008-09, GRAFFITI is Lindberg's first work for chorus and orchestra, and it earned him the 2009 Finnish Composer Society's Award. The libretto for the half-hour work is compiled from ancient Latin graffiti discovered during excavations of Pompeii, the city destroyed by volcanic eruption in 79 CE. Some of the writings are specific to the time and place, such as publicity for gladiatorial combats, but many of the political denunciations, silly aphorisms, and sexual encounters either documented or solicited could, with the Roman names changed, be found in present-day settings. Lindberg assembled the brief texts without aiming to create a narrative or thematic scheme, his intention being to evoke 'a grand choral and orchestral fresco of the life of the town'. A work of great energy and originality, and a significant addition to the repertoire of large-scale choral writing.