First Recital Series

Childrens Songs-In Recital With Little Pieces For Little Fingers is a fun motivational series for the beginner-level Piano student. It is the very first book in the In Recital series and is best used as a prepatory level book before students go on to Book 1. The In Recital series offers terrific music that has been carefully leveled to ensure success. It complements other FJH publications and will help you plan student recital repertoire. In Recital With Little Pieces For Little Fingers can be used in conjunction with any preparatory level of any method.Students reinforce reading by combining Middle C intervallic and C positionreading approaches. Traditional note reading balanced with intervallic reading is the sure way for students to succeed!Students reinforce rhythm by playing pieces that are fun cheerful and motivational.Students learn how to play musically by experiencing pieces with contrasting moods and emotions. Playing music written by several composers helps students to expand their musical horizons and tap into the different composers' personalities!Students have a different and fun writing activity in each book that reinforces what they are learning in the preparatory level of their method.

This new publication in the Recital Series for Piano features duet arrangements of five favorite Christmas carols: Away in a Manger £ The First Noel £ Good King Wenceslas £ O Come All Ye Faithful £ Silent Night.

In Flanders Fields is a series of poignant and evocative choral works with a theme of reconciliation and remembrance set to iconic texts by John McCrae and Rupert Brooke.Alan Smith was born in London in 1962 and spent his childhood in Croydon. He sang with various local choirs and attended the nearby Royal School of Church Music where he began organ lessons with Michael Fleming at the age of ten. He was appointed as Organist and Choirmaster of a local church at the age of 16 and later became Organ Scholar at Kings' College London where he studied from 1981 to 1984. As part of his music degree he specialized in composition studying with Nicola LeFanu David Lumsdaine and George Nicholson.Following postgraduate training at the London Institute of Education Alan began his teaching career. After working in various schools he became Head of Music at Hazelwick School Crawley in 1990 a post he continues to hold. In the same year he came to some prominence by winning the RSCM's annual composing competition. His successful entry Let the Peoples Praise You became his first published piece and continues to be widely performed. Since then his choral compositions have won several awards most recently the Thornesian Prize in 2003 and an honorable mention in the 2004 Vanguard Premieres Competition.Alan's output is predominantly of choral and vocal music much of it written for specific choirs or occasions and his catalogue runs to over 150 works. In the UK his music is published by Animus Curiad Cantiones Press Escorial Edition Fagus Music and RSCM while in America he is published by Abingdon Press CanticaNOVA OUP Pavane and Roger Dean.Since 1998 Alan has been Director of Music at St Andrew's church in Burgess Hill West Sussex where he lives with his wife and three children.

The Best of the Phillip Keveren Series. This addition to the Best of the Phillip Keveren Series features 36 stunning piano solo arrangements by Phillip, and includes seven seasonal medleys perfect for recitals, church performances, or personal enjoyment! All were individually selected by Phillip, and the collection features five new arrangements not found anywhere else! In addition, the book is comb-bound so pages will always stay open. Songs include: Angel Suite Medley (Angels We Have Heard on High, Angels from the Realm of Glory, and Hark, the Herald Angels Sing) · Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus · Deck the Hall · Go, Tell It on the Mountain · The Holly and the Ivy · Joy to the World · O Christmas Tree · Still, Still, Still · What Child Is This' · and more.

Concert Band Signature Series. Par WALKER GEORGE. In 1946, George Walker was still doing graduate work at the Curtis institute when he composed Lyric for Strings, which would prove over the coming decades to become one of the most performed and enduring string orchestra works of the 20th Century. This first-ever edition for symphonic wind band was arranged by Dr. Luci Disano and premiered by The President's Own United States Marine Band on August 24, 2022. George Walker (June 27, 1922 - August 23, 2018) began his groundbreaking career as a young piano virtuoso and was admitted to Oberlin College on a scholarship following his first public recital at the age of 14. Graduating with the highest honors in his Conservatory class, he was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music, becoming the first black graduate of this renowned music school. His works demonstrate a wide range of artistic excellence in genres ranging from instrumental and vocal solos and chamber music to compositions for orchestra and other large ensembles. He is the first black composer to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize. / Date parution : 2023-07-31/ Répertoire / Concert Band

Part of the Michala Petri Recorder Series this collection of eight variations from Der Fluyten Lust-Hof is derived from the first edition of the complete set and is intended as a performance edition and contains corrections and includes suggestions for phrasing and slurs. Set for Solo Recorder these wonderful pieces are ideal for performance recital or simply as an enjoyable addition to your repertoire.

The 'Marcia' and 'Rondo' are often the first concert pieces for a young Violinist that are not part of a Violin method. Both works have become favourites in class recitals. They give the young musician an opportunity to express a variety of moods in energetic and elegant performances. The series Bärenreiter’s Concert Pieces continues with further works from the Violin repertoire. The editions contain a solo Violin part and a Piano reduction for the accompanist. The series is edited by Kurt Sassmannshaus the internationally-renowned Violin teacher and co-author of the 'Early Start'Sassmannshaus Violin school tradition. His forewords introduce these little gems and include tips for successful first concerts. The editions form an ideal continuation of the Sassmannshaus Violin school tradition; they can be used in parallel from the third volume onwards or alongside any Violin method. The series will be continued and will introduce the student to more demanding repertoire with an increasing level of difficulty.

The volume of duets in the Fröhliche Klarinette series contains easy-to-play duets from various music styles: classical music, jazz, blues, klezmer, rock and folk music.In the first part, the melody is at first in the lower register and, when repeated, an octave higher. Thus, it is possible to become familiar with the overblown tones and stabilize them in a pleasant way. Many of the pieces do not contain any overblown tones in the second part at all.Apart from their use in music lessons, the pieces are also perfect for concerts, recitals or other special events. The duets from jazz, blues, rock, klezmer and folk music contain additional harmonic signs (for C instruments) which allow for accompaniment with guitar, piano, etc. / 2 Clarinettes

Seven Festive Trumpet Solos is a collection of powerful and sparkling settings for trumpet and organ. Several of the compositions are original. Others are new arrangements on well-loved sacred hymns. This text is the first in atwo book series. The follow up is called Trumpet Praise! All selections in this book and in the companion book Trumpet Praise! may be heard in the companion free audio download. Seven Festive Trumpet Solos contains the organ andtrumpet parts. A free download of the trumpet solo parts is also available. The solos in both this book and in Trumpet Praise! are ideal for church worship celebrations concerts festivals and recitals.

An Evening in the Village was composed in 1908 as no. 5 of the Ten Easy Piano Pieces. It has become one of Bartók's favorite works which the composer himself was fond of playing at recitals. As he explained in an American interview it was ''an original composition that is ... with themes of my own invention but ... the themes are in the style of the Hungarian-Transylvanian folk tunes. There are two themes. The first one is a parlando-rubato-rhythm and the second one is more in a dance-like rhythm. The second one is more or less the imitation of a peasant flute playing.'' Bartók also orchestrated the piece in 1931 as no. 1 of HungarianSketches. In 2015 we are launching a series entitled Bartók Transcriptions for Music Students to mark the 70th anniversary of the composer’s death. This involves reissuing our tried publications and publishing some further new transcriptions that fulfill in every respect the strict aesthetic demands of the earlier ones. We trust these publications will allow us to introduce still more music students to the realm of one of the great geniuses of 20th-century music.

While Darke composed extensively for Choir and Organ he wrote many fewer works for solo Organ. The first of the set St Peter dedicated to Herbert Howells is the best known of the three atmospheric and improvisational and Orchestral in style. The second prelude a fantasia on Darwell’s 148th is a virtuosic piece that retains its musical integrity. The final on a theme by Tallis begins by tranquilly setting out its theme before moving into romantic Orchestral style. Harold E. Darke was an English composer and Organist of international renown. In 1916 he established the Monday lunchtime Organ recitals at St Michael’s Cornhillwhich continue to this day the longest-running such series in the world. His setting of Christina Rosetti’s poem In the Bleak Midwinter created a melody and lilting Organ accompaniment that have never fallen from favour. It is regarded as one of the greatest Christmas carols and is still sung at the service of Nine Lessons and Carols.