SKU: FP.FDD02
ISBN 9790570503834.
Vernon Park, Stockport’s oldest park, was created on land donated by Lord Vernon (George John Warren). It was built by poor mill workers who called it pinch-belly park and opened on 20th September 1858. Comprising twenty-one acres, it houses a museum, a bandstand, ornamental fountains, a fernery, rockery, borders and sunken rose garden as well terraced walkways that overlook the river and weir. The piece depicts a solitary walker engrossed in his own thoughts on a winter’s day, the landscape, and the park’s Victorian past.At the very end of the piece a reminder of the park’s Victorian origins can be detected in a quote from Elgar’s Salut d’amour of 1899, which may well have been played by a band in the bandstand. Stockport market celebrated its 750th anniversary in 2010. It dated back to September 1260 when a Royal Charter allowed Robert de Stokeport, the Mayor, to hold a weekly market within the defensive walls of the Norman Castle on the present site of Castle Yard.The Glass Umbrella was a popular name given to the 1861 covered market built of timber, glass and iron - nine bays with open sides and a glass canopy. In 1912, one bay was removed to enable electric trams and trolley buses to turn a sharp corner.The piece depicts a lively market day, the multiculturalism of the present day and the old cries of pick and pay without delay. The bells of St Mary’s Church are depicted by a cascading peel tuned to the ten bells of the church tower, and a fleeting reference to John Wainwright’s famous Christmas hymn Christians Awake, and the Westminster chimes striking the hour from St Mary’s, bring to piece to a conclusion. Separate parts are provided for recorder and oboe.
SKU: M7.ART-42104
ISBN 9783866421042.
Du hast Schwierigkeiten Noten zu lesen? Besonders der Bassschlüssel bereitet Dir Schwierigkeiten? Du stehst auf gefühlvolle, schön klingende Klaviermusik? 'Deine Noten, Dein Klavier, Deine Musik' enthält 26 leichte und sehr leichte Klavierstücke, die fast nur in Viertelnoten geschrieben sind und dennoch anspruchsvoll klingen. Dadurch hast Du die Möglichkeit Noten fehlerfrei zu erlernen und gleichzeitig legst Du den Grundstein für einen sicheren Umgang mit dem Violin- und dem Bassschlüssel. In allen Stücken sind die Fingersätze und der Pedaleinsatz ausführlich gekennzeichnet. Die Begleitung mit der linken Hand beschränkt sich auf einzelne ganze Noten, damit Du Dich auf Deine Fingerhaltung, Deinen deutlichen und sauberen Anschlag sowie auf die Koordination Deiner Finger konzentrieren kannst. Die einfachen Dur- und Mollharmonien sind zudem abwechslungsreich gestaltet und schulen Dein Gehör. Da Du die hier gesammelten Stücke ohne Schwierigkeiten spielen kannst, empfindest Du das Üben nicht als etwas Mühsames oder Anstrengendes - ganz im Gegenteil: Du erlebst das Klavierspielen so, wie wir es lernen und spielen wollen. Als eine wundervolle Art und Weise, die eigenen Gefühle in Musik auszudrücken. Der optionale Download dient als praktische Lernhilfe und soll eine Anregung dafür sein, wie diese Klavierstücke beim Spielen klingen könnten.
SKU: PR.110418140
ISBN 9781491129432. UPC: 680160640379.
Matheson’s five-movement work is a setting of stained glass windows created by Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse for a rustic country church adjoining the Rockefeller estate near Sleepy Hollow on the Hudson River. Matheson’s suite draws from four Chagall windows: 1. Jeremiah, 2. Isaiah, 3. Crucifixion, 4. The Good Samaritan, and culminates with Matisse’s 5. The Rose.In 1954, the Rockefeller family asked Henri Matisse to create a stained glass Rose Window for the Union Church of Pocantico Hills, New York as a memorial to Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, the great art patroness and a founder of the Museum of Modern Art. It was to be the artist’s last work. A few years later, Mrs. Rockefeller’s youngest son, David, acting on behalf of the family, commissioned Marc Chagall to create an entire series of stained glass windows to fill the rest of the small church resulting in the large, majestic “Good Samaritan†window and eight sublime smaller windows, each depicting a biblical figure or scene. In 2015, Premiere Commission commissioned James Matheson to compose WINDOWS to celebrate the centennial of the Union Church of Pocantico Hills and the 100th birthday of David Rockefeller. This deeply touching, epic cycle distills into music the intimate, often heart-rending, visions of Chagall as well as the powerful simplicity of Matisse’s modern design which utilizes the striking collage forms he employed in his final years. Matheson’s work also reflects the influence of Olivier Messiaen’s own theologically-inspired music. Like the French master, Matheson utilizes large-scale blocks of harmonies with organ-like sonorities to support and shift the music’s kaleidoscopic planes of color and set into relief the work’s piercing motifs and intricate patterns. The universal themes of love and sacrifice (“Jeremiah†and “Isaiahâ€), loss and altruism (“Crucifixion†and “The Good Samaritanâ€) and the jubilant celebration of life and nature (“The Roseâ€) are memorably portrayed in this poignant tribute to the human spirit.—Bruce Levingston.
SKU: HL.50602262
ISBN 9781540092182. UPC: 888680987596. 9.0x12.0x0.07 inches.
The Not-Doings of an Insomniac - Partita for Solo Double Bass with spoken texts - was premiered by Robert Black at the International Society of Bassist Convention at the Griffin Concert Hall in Fort Collins, Colorado. The Not-Doings of an Insomniac developed as a result of Philip Glass's frequent travels to unfamiliar cities and different time-zones, changes that often bring on bouts of insomnia. While on a trip in Europe in 2015, Glass decided to turn these redundant waking hours into something useful, and one of the results is this Partita for Solo Double Bass, written for Robert Black of Bang on a Can All-Stars fame. The piece is written in seven movements, each with its own title: Not Dreaming, Tasting, Smelling, Hearing, Seeing, Touching respectively, and finishing with Not Beginning. Not Ending. What raises this set into something atmospheric and theatrical are the poems in between each movement. These are by Glass's friends or associates, and the texts by Lou Reed, John Cale, Laurie Anderson, Yoko Ono, David Byrne, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith and Arthur Russell are read on the recording of this work by Robert Black.
SKU: HL.50603586
ISBN 9781705112670. UPC: 840126941463. 8.5x11.75x0.529 inches.
Composed from the music of David Bowie and Brian Eno; Philip's fourth symphony for orchestra named after the song by David Bowie.
