John Corigliano: John Corigliano - The Mannheim Rocket: Orchestra: Score

John Corigliano's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (The Red Violin) draws upon music he composed for the film of the same name which won an Academy Award for best film score. The story spans three centuriesin the life of a magnificent but haunted Violin in its travels through space and time. Corigliano composed this 36-minute concerto in memory of his father the former concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic. For Violin andPiano reduction.

For Voice and Piano Corigliano's Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan was a commission by The Carnegie Hall Corporation for Sylvia McNair and was premiered at her Carnegie Hall recital given March 15 2002with Martin Katz at the piano. Corigliano who had never encountered Dylan's own musical settings of the chosen poems has given us new musical settings of icons of American folk music from the 1960s.

Set of Parts-John Corigliano winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his Symphony No.2 is internationally celebrated as one of the leading composers of his generation. In orchestral chamber opera and film work he has won globalacclaim for his highly expressive and compelling compositions as well as his kaleidoscopic ever-expanding technique.

Duet for Two Sopranos (Or Soprano and Mezzo-Soprano) and Piano. From John Corigliano's stunning opera The Ghost of Versailles with a libretto by William M. Hoffman.

Medium Voice Organ Guitar and a melody instrument-John Corigliano (b. 1938) is an American composer. Wedding Song was originally written in 1971 for Oboe Voice and Organ for an oboist friend of the composer. It has been arranged for any melody instrument (Flute Oboe Clarinet Trumpet Violin etc.) medium Voice and either Guitar Organ or any other keyboard instrument. The lyrics were intended to be taken from a text by Khalil Gibran but when Gibran’s estate refused permission the American playwright editor and teacher William M. Hoffman (b. 1939) was asked to create a new text.

The song cyclette Petit Fours was composed in 1959 by John Corigliano for Voice and Piano based on the four poems by Robert Herrick Ogden Nash Aloysius Bertrand and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Contents: The Ancient Mariner The Turtle Une Allee Luxembourg and Upon Julia's Clothes. One of contemporary music's most distinguished composers John Corigliano has infused classical music with new life by engaging an unusually broad audience. The only person to have won two Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Classical Composition he has alsoreceived three other Grammy Awards the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his Symphony No. 2 the 2000 Academy Award for his score for The Red Violin (his third film score) and the 1991 Grawemeyer Award for Best New Orchestral Composition for his Symphony No. 1.

for Mezzo-Soprano Male Chorus and Boy Soprano Piano Reduction. Of Rage and Remembrance is a profoundly moving choral tribute to AIDS victims based on the third movement of Corigliano's Symphony No. 1.