from Tone and Performance Studies-Julius Weissenborn is best remembered today for the teaching material written for use at the Leipzig Conservatorium where he taught bassoon from 1882. His two famous tutor books are still the most popular bassoon etudes in use today well over 120 years after they were written. This anthology represents the first-ever publication that contains all 11 of the extant full recital pieces for bassoon and piano that Weissenborn envisioned as the third part to this tutor in a single volume. Southern Music is proud to present this fine collection of Tone and Performance Studies to players of all levels edited by veteran Principal Bassoonist for the Detroit Symphony Robert Williams.

French pianist conductor and composer Jean-Michel Damase (1928-2013) was composing by the age of nine. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire under many significant professors and won the 1947 Prix de Rome. 17 Variations for Wind Quintet is no exception to the composer's success. Damase is remembered for tackling every genre of music in order to bring further elegance to the tradition of French music. Frequently played in concerts 17 Variations for Wind Quintet is a charming work for an advanced quintet containing a Flute Clarinet Oboe Bassoon and French Horn. For all aspiring advanced Wind Quintets Damase's 17 Variations is an exciting addition to the ensemble's repertoire.

Apple Records was a noble experiment created in the spirit of the 1960s by four musicians who came to represent everything that was best about those tumultuous, experimental, and liberating times. The Beatles started out with the greatest of intentions, but reality soon got in the way. Much has been written about this period in the history of The Beatles' evolution and dissolution---some of it true, some of it wildly exaggerated, but not much of it first-hand. The Longest Cocktail Party is a rare exception. Written by Richard DiLello, who served as Apple Record's 'House Hippie' from 1968 to 1970, this unusual first-hand glimpse into The Beatles' empire humorously chronicles the stranger-than-life stories that were to become legendary, including visits by the Hell's Angels and endless tales of celebrity antics. Alfred Music is proud to offer this latest edition, which features a new and insightful foreword by the author. Originally published by Playboy Press in 1972, The Longest Cocktail Party has proven itself a timeless chronicle of this most colorful period in pop history. / Divers

Maurice Onderet (1899-1981) was a Belgian violinist and pedagogue who lived and worked in Canada from 1927-1946 and from 1965-1971. He is best remembered for concerts in Toronto and Montreal where he gave the Canadian premiere of the Sibelius Violin Concerto a formidable piece well beyond the technical ability of most soloists. He also taught at the McGill Conservatory Mons La Louvière and Montreal. His Violin Method Book 2b was part of the second of the five volumes of his Méthode de Violon subtitled Systéme des Intervales. It was published in 1948 soon after his first return to Belgium.

Maurice Onderet (1899-1981) was a Belgian violinist and pedagogue who lived and worked in Canada from 1927-1946 and from 1965-1971. He is best remembered for concerts in Toronto and Montreal where he gave the Canadian premiere of the Sibelius Violin Concerto a formidable piece well beyond the technical ability of most soloists. He also taught at the McGill Conservatory Mons La Louvière and Montreal. His Violin Method Book 2a was part of the second of the five volumes of his Méthode de Violon subtitled Systéme des Intervales. It was published in 1948 soon after his first return to Belgium.

Maurice Onderet (1899-1981) was a Belgian violinist and pedagogue who lived and worked in Canada from 1927-1946 and from 1965-1971. He is best remembered for concerts in Toronto and Montreal where he gave the Canadian premiere of the Sibelius Violin Concerto a formidable piece well beyond the technical ability of most soloists. He also taught at the McGill Conservatory Mons La Louvière and Montreal. His Violin Method Book 4 was the fourth of the five volumes of his Méthode de Violon subtitled Systéme des Intervales. It was published in 1948 soon after his first return to Belgium.

Uses: Communion Lent Holy WeekScripture: Psalm 16:11; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26; Isaiah 25:1-9; Luke 22:19-20This J. Paul Williams gem is set to a well-known American folk song with breathtakingresults. Each verse presents a different tableau in the life of Christ and takes us on a journey through his life and ministry. Ideal for Communion or Holy Week services! Thoughtful! Available separately: SATB iPrint Orch CD-ROM(Flt 1&2 Oboe Clnt 1&2 Bassoon Horn 1&2 Perc 1&2 Harp Violin 1 Violin 2 Viola Cello Dbl Bass) StudioTrax CD; Duration: ca. 3:05.

The complete vocal score to the musical that broke all records with its decades-long run in New York. Songs include: Overture - Happy Ending - I Can See It - It Depends on What You Pay - Metaphor - Much More - Never Say No - Plant a Radish - Rape Ballet - Round and Round - Soon It's Gonna Rain - They Were You - This Plum Is Too Ripe - Try to Remember.

Four Pieces For Orchestra was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 2000-2003. Programme note: In 1983 Hans Abrahamsen wrote the first seven of his Ten Studies for Piano. In the early eighties most composers who wrote for the piano were still making strenuous efforts to distance themselves from the instrument?s romantic past for example treating it as a percussion instrument rather than exploiting its expressive ?singing? potential. The piano?s modern identity as a mechanical rational emotionally cool instrument is reflected in Abrahamsen?s studies 5 7; but in the first four studies Abrahamsen allows the piano to?recollect? its past: especially what the composer calls ?the golden German romantic time full of expression night timelessness dream and the irrational?. Accordingly these first four studies were given German one might specifically say Schumanesque - titles: Traumlied (?Dreamsong?) Sturm (?Storm?) Arabeske (?Arabesque?) and Ende (?End?). While Abrahamsen was in no way dissatisfied with the first four Studies as piano music he soon felt the urge to expand them in both time and space. In their new identity as Four Pieces for Orchestra created between 2000-2003 the original studies nearly doubled in length while the forces required expanded from one soloist to an orchestra of Mahlerian/Straussian dimensions including instruments beloved by the late-romantics: Wagner tubas bass trumpet guitar mandolin and the hammer used so memorably in Mahler?s Sixth Symphony and Alban Berg?s Three Pieces for Orchestra. The results are not so much ?arrangements? of the four piano studies more recompositions. A helpful comparison might be made with certain painters: Cézanne portraying the same mountain from different angles; or Monet obsessively returning to Rouen Cathedral in different lights and weather conditions. Abrahamsen himself remembers an important visit to the Munch Museum in Oslo where he saw how Munch painted the same subject

The second volume of a thousand and one all-time hit songs ranging from essential standards to the latest pop hits - a must for all singers and musicians. / Chant Et Guitare

The New Real Book is the best-selling legal fake book of all time, with over 100,000 musicians depending on it for accurate, easy-to-read charts for hundreds of the most important tunes in the jazz canon. Don't go to the gig without it!All living composers have approved these charts - many of them are from the composer's own lead sheets.Charts for the standards were derived from a consensus of the best recorded jazz versions.Created by musicians, for musicians. The new standard in fake books! / Instruments En Do