Niels Marthinsen's Symphony No. 2 - Snapshot Symphony (2009). 1st movement Fiesta Mexicana: fortissimo accelerando (ca. 6 minutes) 2nd movement Arabian Nights: adagio intensivo e furioso (ca. 11 minutes) 3rd movement Great Fireworks in China: giocoso esplosivo e marcatissimo (ca. 8 minutes)   Programme note I’ve never been to Mexico and Arabia or to China. But I love the way those countries sound in Hollywood movies and inpop culture generally: When Clint Eastwood rides south of the border when Disney’s Alladin or Mulan takes me far east when arabic pop music roars past me out of the open windows of a car... and bull fighter music and the sound of acrobatic beat-em-up’s in John Woo’s Hong Kong karate movies – and so on: powerful images splashed all over my eye balls and ear drums. My recollections of this ethnic-pop-film-music has turned itself into a symphony. And I don’t even have to just remember what I have heard: A few internet clicks gives me access to incredible sound libraries containing live-and-kicking ethnic music from my three favorite countries just waiting to be put together in new combinations and energize my personal imagery.  The symphony is like a huge slide show – musical snapshots from my travels in the western pop culture versions of three exotic locations: Mexico Arabia and China – original and popular melodies welded together by my personal musical language and associations. I use all the effects of modern pling-plong-music plus a few of my own inventions to create a spectacular contemporary orchestral sound sporting a bee hive of melodies from either East or West played simultaneously in different keys and differents tempos at once while kept firmly in place by

Composer's Program Note Repertoire operas occationally have orchestral suites: Bits and pieces of overture interlude etc. tied upin a bouquet of 'schönste Tränen'. Contemporary opera usually wither after the first season so the focusis on getting people to come and have a sniff before it's too late. Consequently it seemed obvious to meto start making orchestral excerpts from my operas that are meant to be played before the premiere (andafter please); I call them 'opera trailers' when they're substantial enough to be considered independent works and 'opera demos' when they're relatively short and moreappetizer-ish. SNOW WHITE'S MIRROR is a full scale two act dramatic opera written for the Danish National Opera. The opera is a modern re-telling for grown-ups of the brothers Grimm's fairy tale: Snow White is a self-centered teenage narcissist and the villain of the opera; she ends up loosing everyone but herself either because she kills them or because they decide they can't stand being around her anymore. But apparently she's o.k. with that...The music is intended for a large audience: it's basically pop music done with all the craftmanship of aclassical composer who's equally at home with large scale symphonic form avantgarde technique opera singing - and modern pop. The Trailer is in three movements. It contains three sections of the opera; the prelude an interlude close to the beginning of the second act and the final scene but one. It's a gloomy sort of trailer starting out in grand title sequence style moving on to a decidedly odd piece where Snow White find her way to the dwarfs (who're creepy junkies doing pornography to get money to buy dope) and ending in kind of an eerie rejection mood: Everyone still alive walks out on Snow White singing 'skin as white as snow hands red with blood soul as black as ivory'.(NM 2010)

Blue Tango by Leroy Anderson was a #1 hit in 1951 juxtaposing the charismatic melody over a traditional tango pulse. The work captured the spirit of an era.At the height of his career in the mid-1930s Leroy Anderson began arranging for Arthur Fiedler's Boston Pops Orchestra. Later Fiedler encouraged him to write his own tunes for the Pops. His compositions more than 50 in number virtually define the sound of the contemporary American pops orchestra.

Die Schönsten Weihnachtslieder In Gut Singbaren Tonarten, Leicht Gesetzt Für Klavier/Keyboards. Par PUBLIG MICHAEL. 44 Weihnachtslieder aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum, Internationale Traditionals, Pop- und Jazz-Weihnachtslieder in gut singbaren Tonarten, leicht gesetzt für Klavier/Keyboard / Niveau : Facile / Répertoire / Orchestre

Par ZEHM FRIEDRICH. Friedrich Zehm, élève de Harald Genzmer, qui vit à Wiesbaden combine des éléments stylistiques du classicisme et du pop dans son rhythmophony de trois mouvements./ Répertoire / Orchestre

Friedrich Zehm, élève de Harald Genzmer, combine des éléments stylistiques du classicisme et du pop dans son rhythmophony de trois mouvements. / Orchestre

Enjoy the fabulous arrangement of the music from this hit TV series. Great for a pops concert! (2:20) / Orchestre

The ’Low’ Symphony composed in the spring of 1992 is based on the record ‘Low’ by David Bowie and Brian Eno first released in 1977. The record consisted of a number of songs and instrumentals and used techniqueswhich were similar to procedures used by composers working in new and experimental music. As such this record was widely appreciated by musicians working both in the field of ‘pop’ music and in experimental music and was alandmark work of that period.Having taken themes from three of the instrumentals on the record and combining them with material of his own Glass has used them as the basis of three movements of this Symphony.Thisis the Full Score of Glass’ orchestral work.

This four-language dictionary of music contains more than 4000 terms and is intended for musicians, teachers, students and amateurs who wish to understand and use specialist foreign terms. The book is not academic in scope- it is based on practical experience, derived from the examination of directions given on a large number of orchestral scores, piano pieces and transcriptions, and instrumental parts. In order to complement and clarify this vocabulary, specialist dictionaries and reference books have been consulted. Contemporary musical terms taken, for example, from the fields of jazz, pop and electronic music, have also been included. / Livre

Lessons In Darkness for Ensemble by Eivind Buene (2017). Commissioned by Donaueschinger Musiktage for Ensemble Musikfabrik. First performance: Donaueschingen Oct. 22 2017 with Ensemble Musikfabrik and Enno Poppe.

If you need the perfect closer this year, look no further than You Raise Me Up. This gorgeous song in the spirit of Wind Beneath My Wings was recorded by pop singing sensation Josh Groban and was performed at this year's Super Bowl in tribute to the astronauts of the Space Shuttle Columbia. Expertly arranged for any band, this one is sensational!