Stephen Sondheim: Sondheim: Jazz Ensemble: Instrumental Album

From Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music here is one of the all-time favorite ballads. With sensitive lyrics and a superb melodic treatment this is sure to be a hit at any performance.

Matching folio to Pizzarelli's intimate tribute to Jo'o Gilberto featuring 12 pieces by luminaries such as Antonio Carlos Jobim the Gershwins Stephen Sondheim and two originals. Titles include: Aguas De Marco (Waters of March)

Beautifully adapted for younger groups here is the classic arrangement by Dave Barduhn of Send in the Clowns first published in 1983. Featuring a piano soloist throughout plus lush scoring for the ensemble this chart stands thetest of time and is a wonderful addition for contest or festival.

The well known song Send In The Clowns from the 1973 musical ?A Little Night Music? is now arranged for SSA Voices with Piano accompaniment.The musical composed by Stephen Sondheim is an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's film ?Smiles of a Summer Night? and tells the romantic stories of many couples with a main focus on the actress Desirée and the lawyer Fredrik. In the ballad Send In The Clowns Desirée reflects on the ironies and disappointments of her life after Fredrik?s initial rejection. The song is later reprised as a coda after Fredrik's young wife runs away and he is finally free to accept Desirée'soffer.Send In The Clowns became Sondheim's most popular song after Frank Sinatra recorded it in 1973 and Judy Collins' version charted in 1975 and 1977. It has since become a jazz standard with subsequent recordings by Grace Jones Barbra Streisand Cher Dame Judi Dench and many other artists and is a guaranteed audience-favourite!

Contemporary marimba virtuoso William Moersch has consistently commissioned the best musicians possible to create works for his instrument. In 1984 Bennett wrote his first work for Moersch After Syrinx II based on Debussyâ??s Syrinx for Flute solo and written. Then in 1988 Richard Rodney Bennett agreed to create an â??Americanâ?? concerto and so composed this concerto in two movements I con moto and II con brio that display the versatility of the instrument. Both movements feature blazing cadenzas by the marimba but it is in the cadenza in the second movement that the marimba essentially becomes the entire Orchestra in the Orchestraâ??s dominant 6/8 time signature andleads the piece on to a brilliant ending. Composer performer and arranger Richard Rodney Bennett was internationally respected for his serious music and many award-winning film scores (Murder on the Orient Express Nicholas and Alexandra) as well as his works for children and his religious pieces. In addition this markedly versatile musician frequently performed as a jazz pianist. On his move to the United States the two sponsors for his green card (work permit) were Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim.

Le livre Vocal réelle est la réponse à l'ouvrage de faux. C'est une alternative à la pléthore de volumes mal conçues, illisibles, inexacts, mal edited qui abondent sur le marché aujourd'hui. Le livre Vocal réelle est extrêmement précis, soignée et vise, avant tout, pour un usage pratique. Tous les efforts réalisés pour le rendre agréable à effectuer. La sélection de musiques pour ce volume met en évidence les principaux compositeurs jazz du passé des années 60, avec une attention particulière pour les années 1960 et 1970. Un certain nombre de chansons par Rogers