SKU: GI.G-008293
UPC: 641151082936. English. Text by Geoffrey Bernard.
SKU: GI.G-CD-883
UPC: 747313273775.
James Whitbourn is known for his 'boundless breadth of choral imagination' (The Observer) resulting in compositions of brilliance and power. His extraordinary work for choir, saxophone and organ, Son of God Mass, receives a new recording from the young voices of one of the finest chamber choirs from Rider University's Westminster Choir College under one of the leading American choral conductors, James Jordan. It is heard alongside premiere recordings of other works associated with life and death, including the Requiem canticorum and Living Voices, a work to commemorate the date of 9/11 with a poem by Andrew Motion. The luminosity and sheer beauty of Whitbourn's composing style is brought to unusual heights by the skills of the Williamson Voices and their conductor, James Jordan. The entire album is a collection of choral music with a spiritual center. The composer's use of saxophone and organ, interweaving with those lovely young Westminster voices, attain a kind of choral glory unusual for any music, extraordinary for 'contemporary' music. The album soothes, stretches, pulls the listener to places of fascination and high emotion, captivates and can often amaze. It is an exalted achievement. — Roger Ames A truly stunning recording.
SKU: GI.G-6050IB
ISBN 9781579993573.
The title says it all! In this new, expanded, and updated collection, we bring you the very best songs GIA has to offer for the blessed occasion of First Communion. Carefully chosen, the music in this collection is assembly-friendly and easy to sing for both children and adults. A demo recording of all songs is available. Separate choral octavos are also available for most titles. A must-have for every parish! CONTENTS: Come to the Table ALONSO - Take and Eat JONCAS - Come and Eat This Living Bread GLOVER - Eat This Bread BERTHIER - We Will Take What You Offer BELL - I Received the Living God - Come to the Banquet CHEPPONIS - Live-giving Bread, Saving Cup CHEPPONIS - All Who Hunger MOORE - Come All You People BELL - Jesus, Be Our Bread WOLD - Stand Up, Friends - We Come to Your Table - Now in This Banquet - I Am the Bread of Life / Yo soy el pan de vida TOOLAN - Song of the Body of Christ / Cancin del cuerpo de Cristo HAAS - Pues si vivimos / If We Are Living - Bread of Life from Heaven / Pan de vida eterna HAUGEN - All Who Hunger DUNSTAN - Prepare a Room for Me STUEMPFLE - I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light - Let the Children Come BRINGLE - I Come with Joy - Come to the Feast MOORE - Taste and See MOORE - Final Blessing (from Jesus, the Compassion of God) HAAS - In the Lord I-ll Be Ever Thankful BERTHIER - Jubilate Servite BERTHIER - I Am Special MOORE - Psalm 78: The Lord Gave Them Bread GUIMONT - Psalm 34: Taste and See GUIMONT - Psalm 23: The Lord Is My Shepherd SENSMEIER.
SKU: GI.G-6050CD
ISBN 9781579992743. English, Spanish.
SKU: SU.91480530
Vs. 2-5 Text: The First Letter of Peter: Chapter 2.
The words, Surely thou hast tasted that the Lord is good, open the anthem. This gentle and lyrical section, marked by dialogue between the sections of the choir, unfolds and eventually reaches a climax on the words precious in the sight of God. A quick, energetic and imitative middle section soon emerges to proclaim the words, Come, and let yourselves be built, as living stones, into a spiritual temple. Here the spirit of medieval music, the building stones for Western music, is invoked. After the anthem’s primary climax is reached on the words Jesus Christ, a solo soprano emerges from the choral texture to close this work with a serene Amen. The first performance of Dan Locklair’s anthem, In the sight of God took place on Sunday 4 October 2009. The occasion was Dedication Sunday, and the text was selected by John Scott from The First Letter of Peter, vv 2-5. Professor Locklair has provided us with a delightful addition to our repertoire at St Thomas. The work is grateful to sing, well written for voices, lyrical in style with a well-crafted sense of architecture and climax. In every sense it is an enjoyable piece for the choir, quite approachable, and judging from the many positive comments I heard afterwards from members of the congregation, it was very well received. -- Reflections on the premiere by John Scott, Director of Music, St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York, NY SATB Chorus, a cappella Duration: 4' Text: The First Letter of Peter: Chapter 2, vs. 2-5 Composed: 2009 Published by: Subito Music Publishing Minimum order quantity: 8 copies. Perusal copies are available by contacting perusalrequest@subitomusic.com (include the organization name with your request). To order quantities fewer than 8, please call customer service at (973) 857-3440. YouTube:.
SKU: GI.G-007231
UPC: 641151072319.
SKU: PR.416414460
ISBN 9781598064766. UPC: 680160610631. 9x12 inches.
Roger Zare is living every young composer's dream. At a tender age, he has already been lauded by the best, and his compositions continue to earn awards. Green Flash, his first publication with Theodore Presser Company, was written in 2007 for the USC Thornton Symphony, received a BMI Student Composer award in 2007, was chosen to be read at the 2008 American Composers Orchestra Underwood New Music Readings, won the ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Prize in 2009, and has now won the 2012 Symphony in C Young Composers' Competition. For more about Green Flash and a YouTube video of the premiere performance, see the composer's website (www.rogerzare.com/greenflash.htm).A “green flash” is a rare atmospheric phenomenon that occurs as a sunset reaches its end. If conditions are just right, then a spark of green will hover on the horizon for a fleeting moment as the sun disappears. I first witnessed this subtle effect in Florida in 2005. Seeing the mythical event for the first time inspiredthis composition. Green Flash is a musical journey from daybreak to sunset. It focuses on the manipulation of colors and textures throughout its five sections. The musical events are designed to paint a picture of various scenes during the day. The piece begins with the heartbeat of the world emerging from the silentdarkness of the night. As night transitions to dawn, waves of color propagate from the repeating low C, building up through the harmonic series to become the vibrant colors of sunrise. Eventually all twelve notes of the chromatic scale are sounding together. Abruptly, a morning fog engulfs the scene. Out of the mist rises the only melodic theme in the work, played by a solo English horn, and later taken up by other solo winds. Once the fog dissipates, the sky fills with the playful dance of wispy cirrus clouds. A rainbow-like halo surrounds the sun, adding a burst of color to the scene. This carefree, optimistic cloud dance is invaded by a menacing front of cumulonimbus clouds. A storm rages at a frantic pace, but in its dying breath yields the most glorious of sunsets. Only as the last glint of sunlight disappears below the horizon, a faint sparkle of green lingers in the atmosphere.
SKU: GI.G-007232
UPC: 641151072326.
SKU: GI.G-3071INST
English.
Oboe and string quintet parts are optional.
SKU: HL.48024683
ISBN 9781784545062. UPC: 888680952570. 8.25x11.75 inches.
TEMPUS FUGIT was commissioned to celebrate the centenary of Finnish independence on 6 December 2017 and it received its first performance in Helsinki on that day, given by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.The composer says that “if you translate TEMPUS FUGIT as 'Time Flies', you could say that Finland has travelled a long way already -but 100 years is a short time-span, and living as a human in this part of the world started long ago and, we hope, will continue formillennia to come. This relates to my fascination with Bernd Alois Zimmermann's concept of spherical time - that the past, the present and the future are continuously linked and within reach. You can also examine the inter-connection of musical time in the earlier works of Stockhausen such as Kontakte and Gruppen which had a big impact on me as a young composer. A translation of TEMPUS FUGIT that I prefer is 'Time in Flight', offering the idea that time escapes from us but bequeaths a tangible residue, rather like aplane travelling towards the distance but leaving a visible vapour trail.” This 30-minute score is a major addition to the orchestral repertory.
SKU: HL.35017179
UPC: 884088660055. 8.5x11 inches. Johann Sebastian Bach, Livingston Gearhart.
SKU: HL.35016777
UPC: 884088868765. 9.0x12.0x0.046 inches. Gabriel Faure/transcr. Livingston Gearhart.
SKU: HL.49045929
9.0x12.0x0.057 inches.
The Austro-Hungarian composer Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942) was musically precocious: At the suggestion of Antonín Dvorák, he receivedpiano lessons at the age of seven, and at the age of ten became a student at the Prague Conservatory. Further piano studies in Vienna, Cologne and Leipzig as well as composition lessons with Max Reger supplemented his education. His Jewish heritage, which defamed his music as “degenerate”, and his sympathy for communism, however, cost him his life. In Prague and finally interned in Wülzburg near Weissenburg in Bavaria, he died of tuberculosis. Schulhoff's musical significance lies in the integration of jazz into art music, for example in his oratorio H.M.S. Royal Oak or in his Hot Sonata for alto saxophone and piano. He earned his living as a jazz pianist for a long time. In August 1922 he wrote four short piano pieces, his Rag Music, to which he added four more phrases in November: released as Partita, also known as Jazz-like Partita - with the fashion dances Ragtime, Foxtrott, Shimmy, Boston and - as No. 7 - a tango. From a piano to a string quartet movement, the arrangement presents itself as a delicate and smart, technically not too difficult sweet, suitable as a diversion or addition in a quartet program.
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SKU: HL.35021921
UPC: 888680608149. 8.5x11 inches.
