SKU: PR.114417610
ISBN 9781491107904. UPC: 680160636051. 9x12 inches.
SONATA CHO-CHO-SAN(Based on themes from Puccini’s Madama Butterfly)In the spirit of the great 19th-century opera fantasies for woodwinds, Michael Webster has created a concert trio on the many great arias from Puccini's Madama Butterfly. However, as its name implies, Sonata Cho-Cho-San is not the typical virtuosic operatic potpourri. Rather, it follows the plot, resembling a sonata mirroring Puccini's use of recurring and developing themes. Webster makes the most of the winds as versatile performers - equally suited to deliver Puccini's beautiful vocal writing, and to ornament and embroider the poignant themes in symphonic style. For advanced performers._______________________________________Text from the scanned back cover:Born in 1944, Michael Webster made his New York recital debutat Town Hall in 1968 with his eminent father, Beveridge Webster, as pianist. In the same year, he won the Young Concert Artists International Competition and succeeded his teacher, Stanley Hasty, as Principal Clarinet in the Rochester Philharmonic, a position he held for twenty years. Webster has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the 92nd Street Y, with the Tokyo, Cleveland, Muir, Ying, Enso, and Dover String Quartets, and with the festivals of Marlboro, Santa Fe, Norfolk, Chamber Music Northwest, Angel Fire, Steamboat Springs, Park City, Sitka, Kapalua, Bowdoin, Orcas Island, Skaneateles, La Musica di Asolo, Stratford, Victoria, and Domaine Forget.As soloist he has appeared with many orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra under Aaron Copland and the Boston Pops under John Williams. His travels have taken him as performer and teacher to most of the 50 states, as well as Canada, Mexico,Puerto Rico, Central and South America, Europe, Japan, China, Australia, and New Zealand. Webster was Acting Principal Clarinet of the San Francisco Symphony, and has served on the clarinet and/or conducting faculties of New England Conservatory, Boston University, University of Michigan, and the Eastman School, from which he earned his three degrees. Currently he is Professor of Music at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and Artistic Director of the Houston Youth Symphony, which has won multiple first prizes in national performance competitions.With his wife, flutist Leone Buyse, and pianist Robert Moeling, he plays in the Webster Trio, which has recorded his arrangements on Tour de France and World Wide Webster for Crystal Records. Otherarrangements were recorded for Nami and Camerata Tokyo in Japan with pianist Chizuko Sawa. Webster has also recorded for Albany, Arabesque, Beaumont, Bridge, Centaur, CRI, and New World. He has played at many ClarinetFests for the International Clarinet Association and written a column entitled “TeachingClarinet†in The Clarinet Magazine since 1998. Michael Webster is a Buffet artist-clinician, performing on Buffet clarinets exclusively.
SKU: BT.DHP-1185903-404
ISBN 9789043154635. English.
Look, Listen and Learn has set the standard for contemporary brass and woodwind teaching. These exciting method book/CD packs for beginners engage students and develop their understanding of music and their instrument through songs, puzzles, games and lots of fun pieces to play. Three progressive method books form the basis of the series, enhanced by several corresponding supplementary volumes.
With Play The Beatles, students will embark on a journey through time to the 1960s to get to know one of the most important bands in the history of rock. This pack includes fifteen of the best-known songs by The Beatles, arranged in increasing order of difficulty in such a waythat they can be used in conjunction with all three volumes of Look, Listen and Learn. Authentic-sounding accompaniment tracks are also provided online to download or stream directly.
SKU: HL.14047863
ISBN 9780711979635. 9.0x12.0x0.135 inches. English.
Selected and edited by Emma Coulthard.A great collection of flute duets in every style from folk, spiritual, baroque, classical, pop, shows and contemporary for players between grades 1-3.
SKU: CF.W2650
ISBN 9780825882920. UPC: 798408082925. Sc.9x112 - pt.8.5 x 12 inches. Key: C major.
Pan Penseroso (2009) is a concerto for solo flute or two flutes and orchestra in three movements: 1. The Noise of Folly 2. Prophetic Strain 3. More is Meant (than meets the ear) Pan Penseroso and the titles of its three movements are taken from John Miltons great poem Il Penseroso (The Contemplative Man). The music aligns itself with this response to the poets earlier LAllegro (the Cheerful Man). In my concerto the flutist Pan, like the mature Milton, casts a reflective musical eye on the world, renouncing all vain deluding joyes, so as to better hear the Sweet Bird that shunnst the noise of folly Written for the master flutist Robert Dick, Pan Penseroso includes a number of procedures explored in his pioneering book The Other Flute: A Performance Manual of Contemporary Techniques.Pan Penseroso (2009) is a concerto for solo flute or two flutes and orchestra in three movements: 1. The Noise of Folly 2. Prophetic Strain 3. More is Meant (than meets the ear) Pan Penseroso and the titles of its three movements are taken from John Miltonas great poem Il Penseroso (The Contemplative Man). The music aligns itself with this response to the poetas earlier LaAllegro (the Cheerful Man). In my concerto the flutist Pan, like the mature Milton, casts a reflective musical eye on the world, renouncing all avain deluding joyes,a so as to better hear the aSweet Bird that shunnast the noise of follya|a Written for the master flutist Robert Dick, Pan Penseroso includes a number of procedures explored in his pioneering book The Other Flute: A Performance Manual of Contemporary Techniques.Pan Penseroso (2009) is a concerto for solo flute or two flutes and orchestra in three movements: 1. The Noise of Folly 2. Prophetic Strain 3. More is Meant (than meets the ear) Pan Penseroso and the titles of its three movements are taken from John Milton's great poem Il Penseroso (The Contemplative Man). The music aligns itself with this response to the poet's earlier L'Allegro (the Cheerful Man). In my concerto the flutist Pan, like the mature Milton, casts a reflective musical eye on the world, renouncing all vain deluding joyes, so as to better hear the Sweet Bird that shunn'st the noise of folly... Written for the master flutist Robert Dick, Pan Penseroso includes a number of procedures explored in his pioneering book The Other Flute: A Performance Manual of Contemporary Techniques.Pan Penseroso (2009) is a concerto for solo flute or two flutes and orchestra in three movements:1. The Noise of Folly2. Prophetic Strain3. More is Meant (than meets the ear)Pan Penseroso and the titles of its three movements are taken from John Milton’s great poemIl Penseroso (The Contemplative Man). The music aligns itself with this response to the poet’searlier L’Allegro (the Cheerful Man). In my concerto the flutist Pan, like the mature Milton, casts areflective musical eye on the world, renouncing all “vain deluding joyes,†so as to better hear the“Sweet Bird that shunn’st the noise of folly…â€Written for the master flutist Robert Dick, Pan Penseroso includes a number of procedures exploredin his pioneering book The Other Flute: A Performance Manual of Contemporary Techniques.
SKU: PR.144405820
UPC: 680160614134.
In this ballad, Reise ponders the Red Sea Swallow, of which only one was ever found (and dead, at that). The Flight of the Red Sea Swallow imagines the final flight of what may have been the last of its kind. Originally written for violin and piano, and premiered by Maria Bachmann, Flight has also been transcribed for flute and piano. For advanced performers. Duration: 17'.
SKU: PR.144402570
UPC: 680160027729. 8.5 x 11 inches.
SKU: UT.XXS-84
ISBN 9790215320413. 9 x 12 inches.
Racconto (Tale)/ Capri/ Cielo sereno (Clear sky)/ Tano/ Napolitango/ Luci della spiaggia (Beach lights)/ Fantasia mediterranea (Mediterranean fantasy)/ Una lacrima ridente (A smiling tear)/ Quartieri spagnoli/ Marcia dei pomodori (March of the tomatos)Being interested in certain aspects of popular music, I became aware of several similarities between popular Neapolitan melodies and the Argentinean tango. Napolitango is based on an imaginary journey to Naples and Buenos Aires. In retaining certain characteristics of the original music, Napolitango embodies an inspiration and an almost theatrically passionate character which is common to these two genres.The piece has been composed for the Parisian Festival Paris Banlieues Tango 2001.(S. Di Stefano).
SKU: PR.114415130
UPC: 680160600403. 8.5 x 11 inches.
The Two Short Pieces are just that - each is a one-page study of the compositional style of a master of the contemporary art form. Where the first is marked tenderly, the second calls for strong and moving, and both feature the intricate rhythmic and chordal structure expected from Shapey. For advanced performers.
