SKU: CL.026-4911-01

A New Orleans Promenade is fun-filled from start to finish! This unique medley, arranged in traditional New Orleans Jazz style, consists of three classic songs, What A Friend We Have In Jesus, St. Louis Blues, and When The Saints Go Marching In. To spice things up even more, an optional jazz combo can be featured as part of the ensemble. This cheerful, engaging arrangement will provide a treat for your students and audience alike. Great fun, and excellent for small groups and distance learning!

SKU: BR.CHB-5297-02

Marker's Urtext edition is based on the first edition of the score from 1835.

ISBN 9790004412237. 7.5 x 10.5 inches.

One can truly say that Mendelssohn's St. Paul oratorio is a genuine work in progress - such as one finds repeatedly in the composer's works. After the world premiere in Dusseldorf in 1836, the composer sighed: Since I changed a number of things after the performance, notably in the recitatives, and omitted a few pieces entirely, I really don't know how these changes can be made in the quartet parts that have already been engraved.Luckily, the score had not yet been printed at this point in time. It was published not long afterwards (1837) and served as the basis for the old Complete Edition, where, however, it was mixed together with other sources.Michael Marker's present Urtext edition uses the first edition of the score as the main source for the first time. Its inconsistencies were emended by the editor in agreement with other contemporary sources.By forgoing the version transmitted by Julius Rietz (1878), on which all later reprintings were based, in favor of the score of the first edition of 1835, which was personally supervised by the composer, a new Paulus has come to light: freed from a number of conventionalizing, adulterating retouchings, at times more angular in detail and thus more characteristic. (Michael Marker about his New Edition, 1997)

Marker's Urtext edition is based on the first edition of the score from 1835.

SKU: MN.12-111

UPC: 688670121111.

Of Things Hoped For begins with a modest arching phrase, supported by a descending pedal line. The ensuing meditation develops a new melismatic idea along with toccata elements, leading to a grand statement. A dance follows, based on the melisma, which stretches and flips the material. The little bass line from the opening re-asserts itself as a soprano tune, first in a quiet B-major episode, then triumphantly and in D major in the trumpet. Thomas was commissioned to write this work by Marilyn Biery in honor of James Biery's birthday in 2001; it was premiered by James in May, 2001, at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul, MN.