Another welcome addition to the string orchestra repertoire is this skilled setting taken from Bach's popular collection of preludes and fugues for organ. Arranger John Leavitt provides an outstanding work for school orchestras both as a teaching and performance piece and giving your students a superb musical experience with one of Bach's contrapuntal masterpieces.

Via Della Fortuna by Sadie Harrison. Written in 2013 especially for the St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra and Donatus Katkus.6; for String OrchestraWorld premiere: 25th April 2013 St. Katharine'sChurch Vilnius St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra conducted by Donatus Katkus.UK premiere: 10th May 2013 Cardiff Millennium Centre Vale of Glamorgan Festival.I - Casa di Caccia Antica (The House of the AncientHunt)II - Casa degli Amorini Dorati (The House of the Golden Cupids)III - Casa del poeta tragico (The House of the tragic poet)IV - Return to the Casa di Caccia Antica and northwards to Lithuania and the Amber Road(Gintaro Kelias)The piece is in four short movements each taking its title from one of the houses that line the main streets in Pompeii. Borrowing Mussorgsky's 'Promenade' from Pictures at an Exhibition the piece has twowalkers (violas) who take the listener with them onto the Via Della Fortuna then lead them from house to house. Several amber objects were found within the houses linking Pompeii with Lithuania. The lastmovement returns to the House of the Ancient Hunt then heads northwards along the Gintaro Kelias. The jubilant closing music refers to an earlier work (Geda's Weavings) based on Lithuanian folksongs.

This book which includes 308 tune transcriptions is organized around individual Fiddlers who typically combine Appalachian-style Fiddling with rags pop standards Midwest-style Fiddling and sometimes a touch of Western swingto create a style often identifiable as Ozarks.Thirty Ozarks fiddlers and their lives are highlighted with biographical sketches photographs and tune histories. Another 50 great Ozarks fiddlers are presented in a similarmanner but with less detail.The book and accompanying audio (with 37 tunes many recorded in the field) emphasize the older fiddling traditions connected to the square dances and community events more than those connectedto bluegrass music and modern contest Fiddling. Some of the tunes in the collection are old standbys such as 'Bile Them Cabbage' while others such as 'Finley Creek Blues' are unique to the region. 

Teacher Resource Kit-This valuable source of support materials includes lesson plans reproducible student activity pages and much more on CD-ROM. It's all designed to help you get the most out of your Essential Elements experience.Over 30Lesson PlansCorrelated to Essential Elements 2000 - Book 1 and organized into three parts:- Learning Objectives- Teaching Strategies- AssessmentReproducible Student ActivityPagesThese worksheets have been developed to provide support materials to enhance learning and help develop comprehensive musicianship. Some activities can be done in class while others may be used as homeworkassignments; all pages are reproducible. Activities include:- Rhythm Studies- Creating Music- Music Theory- Listening Exercises- QuizzesAll documents are available on the includedCD-ROM. Lesson plans can be imported into any word processing program allowing you to edit personalize and print.