for soloist and string orchestra. Par CURTIS MIKE. Featuring largely original writing and five highly descriptive movements. The solo part in C treble clef is playable by oboe or flute, and the string parts incorporate a variety of arco, pizzicato and spiccato techniques./ Répertoire / Instrument Solo en Do et Orchestre à Cordes

Par CURTIS MIKE. Langue: Italiano/ Répertoire / Flûte Traversière Hautbois, Clarinette, Basson et

Par CURTIS MIKE. After the success we enjoyed with Klezmer Wedding the demand for a new piece from professionals and school ensembles, was overwhelming so the composer wrote this new unique three-movement suite. Each movement can be performed individually. / Niveau : Avancé / score and parts / Recueil / 4 Clarinettes (2 Clarinettes en Sib, Alto-Clarinet

Luc Lévesque. Par DI CURTIS ERNESTO. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Répertoire / Mandoline, Mandole et Guitare

In this composition William Vean takes you on a journey through the fascinating and exciting world of animals. Apart from it being a composition filled with 'special effects' Animal Kingdom contains many educational elements such as playing inswing (triplets feeling) chromatics flutter tonguing gypsy tuning varying keys and of course dynamics and articulation. The melodic lines occur in all four voices as well as in all percussion parts providing each musician with theopportunity to play a solo or to accompany. Highly recommended for your youth band! William Vean is an educational composer. He knows how to musically shape the special elements from our daily lives. His music is therefore veryexpressive containing creative solutions to possible problems. Special ways of playing make his music particularly interesting for the winds but the percussion section is also featured in his special effects. The world of the animalsalways plays on ones imagination. In Animal Kingdom William Vean has portrayed a number of animals in a special manner: Kevin Kangaroo - The jumping character of this animal can be heard in different voices. The swing style alsoemphasizes the characteristic movements of the kangaroo. Playing in swing style can be practised by using scales. Eddy Elephant - For some of his smaller fellow fauna friends this can be quite an ordeal but for Eduard (Eddy for friendsand intimates) it is his daily walk. Baldrick Bat - Baldrick the Bat is a mysterious character. This can be heard in the fast moving valves and keys accompanied by special effects in the percussion section. Curtis Camel - Curtisthe Camel trudges across the desert feeling bored. The idea that the horizon will never change does not affect him anymore. He has accepted his fate. The distinctive tones from the gypsy scale provide the suitable oriental sounds. BettyButterfly - Butterfly Betty elegantly and without worries flutters from flower to flower in the garden. Her motto: Carpe Diem (Seize the Day). Betty is a one-day butterfly. Marvin Monkey - A 'swing' monkey stirs up the feelings. Evenmembers of the orchestra will look like real monkeys. How about your audience? Each part has its own difficulties and challenges. Important in the first part is playing 'in swing' (triplets feeling). This can be practised usingscales. In the second part ensemble playing and balance are important. In Baldrick additional information on the effects that have to be played might be useful. 'New' sounds are of course welcome. Curtis the Camel introduces thegypsy scale. Additional explanation of the use of the scale might be useful. Key changes are interesting in this part. A slight accent on the first beat of the bar will add to the charm of this part. Marvin the Monkey brings back the swingrhythm that was introduced in the first part altern

13 selected arias from early baroque to classic-A clearly defined theme: strong triumphant but also forsaken and suffering protagonists all of royal blood have their say in a series of arias from the early Baroque up to the early Classical period that cover an enormous range of musical soul searching and character-drawing. It was to be an attractive mixture of the well-known and unknown for a new CD project with II Complesso Barocco - Arias with which the celebrated American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato could show all facets of her mastry. Alan Curtis pioneer of historical performance practice outstanding interpreter and musicologist set out to find unknown treasures for her that alongside the highlights of therepertoire also provide for surprises.Joyce DiDonato and Alan Curtis' Drama Queens became an exciting foray through two centuries of opera history from the dawn of the young genre in the early seventeenth up to the end of the eighteenth century in which famous aria by Monteverdi ('Disprezzata Regina' from L'incoronazione di Poppea in the complete version) Cesti ('Intorno all'idol mio' from Orontea) Handel ('Ma Quando Tornerai' from Alcina 'Piangero La Sortie Mia' from Giulio Cesare 'Brilla nell'alma' from Alessandro) and Hasse 'Morte col fiero aspetto' from Antonio e Cleopatera) are combined with Giacomelli's original 'Sposa son disprezzata' (from Merope parodied by Vivaldi in his pasticco 'Bajazet' and splendid finds by Orlandini (Da Torbida Procella' and 'Col Versar Barbaro Il Sangue' from Berenice) Keiser ('Lasciami Piangere' from Fredegunda 'Geloso Sospetto' from Octavia) and Porta ('Madre Diletta abbracciami' from Ifigenia in Aulide). Hadyn's 'Vedi se t'amo' from Armida in a transposition that is more comfortable for a mezzo-soprano concludes the program.The arias in the present edition were newly edited in some cases for the first time for the CD project. As the first volume of the 'Complesso Barocco Edition' it marks the beginning of a collaboration between Alan Curtis and Boosey & Hawkes within

Mike Curtis Contains six traditional Klezmer compositions and four originals by Mike Curtis: Boruch Ato Bo'ir Miserlou Rumanian Hora, Chusidl and Bulgar Alcazaba Hey Judah Andalucian Lily Rebn's Tanz Khyberian Catfit Street Song Yoshke, Yoshke.

Concert Band Signature Series. Par WALKER GEORGE. In 1946, George Walker was still doing graduate work at the Curtis institute when he composed Lyric for Strings, which would prove over the coming decades to become one of the most performed and enduring string orchestra works of the 20th Century. This first-ever edition for symphonic wind band was arranged by Dr. Luci Disano and premiered by The President's Own United States Marine Band on August 24, 2022. George Walker (June 27, 1922 - August 23, 2018) began his groundbreaking career as a young piano virtuoso and was admitted to Oberlin College on a scholarship following his first public recital at the age of 14. Graduating with the highest honors in his Conservatory class, he was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music, becoming the first black graduate of this renowned music school. His works demonstrate a wide range of artistic excellence in genres ranging from instrumental and vocal solos and chamber music to compositions for orchestra and other large ensembles. He is the first black composer to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize. / Date parution : 2023-07-31/ Répertoire / Concert Band

Opera in three acts edited by Alan Curtis. This opera was first performed in Venice in 1666. It may with justice be considered to be the finest opera written between Monteverdi's 'Poppea' and the dramatic works of the mature Purcell. Having in 1983 presided over the first modern revival of 'Il Tito' in Innsbruck the city of its original commissioning Alan Curtis has now produced the first complete performing edition to be drawn from available sources.

The surviving second and third acts of Catone in Utica, one of Metastasio's most dramatic libretti, premiered in Verona in the spring of 1737 in a setting by Vivaldi, contain some of his finest, most mature, and most original arias, and are published here for the first time. They evince a potential dramatic intensity that makes us regret all the more the loss of the first act. Only one aria of Act I can be definitely recovered from a surviving opera, but the rest has now also been successfully reconstructed by Alessandro Ciccolini, whose intimate knowledge of Vivaldi's working methods, combined with brilliant stylistic insight won universal acclaim for his work on Vivaldi's Motezuma and Ercole sul Termodoonte. Ciccolini has also composed cadenzas and da capo variations for all the arias, published here in an appendix.A complete recording under the direction of Alan Curtis is available from Naïve Records(OP30545).Press Quotes:'[For his completion,] Alessandro Ciccolini, who, mindful that Vivaldi frequently adapted vocal music for his instrumental works and vice versa, has composed the missing passages using themes from the concertos as his starting point. His arias dovetail beautifully with Vivaldi's scheme of things...' The Guardian'Ciccolini and Curtis deserve enormous credit for transforming an incomplete obscurity into a coherent and compelling opera.'Gramophone'The opera survives incomplete, but this is a fascinating and apt reconstruction and there is some marvellous stuff here.' BBC Music Magazine / Chant Et Piano

Par PURCELL HENRY / ECCLES JOHN. 3 parts, 1694 - 96. Facsimile: Printed scores, Samuel Briscoe. Introduction by Curtis Price 3 parts, 1694 - 96. Facsimile: Printed scores, Samuel Briscoe. Introduction by Curtis Price/ Répertoire / Fac-similé