SKU: SU.28040080
A set of four somewhat neo-impressionistic works for piano solo, inspired by scenes from life in Downeast Maine. The movements are: I. Stopping By the Piano On a Sunny Morning II. Winter Winds III. Two Crows In a Tree Watching Sea Smoke IV. Yes, ReallyPiano Duration: 15' Composed: 2015 Published by: Abierto Music.
SKU: AP.29473
UPC: 038081318844. English.
Imagine the exciting sensation and thrill of traveling with friends to a foreign country in another hemisphere for the first time! Companions on the Journey is a song of joy, camaraderie and celebration. It was composed for the Xavier College Wind Ensemble from Melbourne, Australia, in conjunction with the group's 2006 tour of the United States. (3:20).
SKU: GI.G-9370
UPC: 785147937036. English.
Timely and evocative, Pilgrims and Companions is filled with music that can accompany us on our personal journey of faith and on our common journey as community. It is a powerful collection of liturgical music suitable for Sundays, seasons, and special celebrations throughout the year. Each song has the potential to fill our mouths with “words that have the power to shape our faith and the faith of those who sing with us.†The inclusion of any one of these titles in your worship will help to break open God’s word and inscribe it on the hearts of those gathered.
SKU: PR.114417130
ISBN 9781491110409. UPC: 680160626687. 9x12 inches.
A recipient of the New Music USA 2013 Live Music For Dance Award commissioning grant, Not Alone is inspired by the ancient Chinese poet Li Bai's poem Drinking Alone under the Moon with the Shadow. The premiere was given on April 26, 2014 by the PRISM Quartet with the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, which commissioned the work to celebrate its 25th Anniversary NYC Season. From the Program Note by Matthew Levy (The PRISM Quartet), Not Alone (2014) is an interdisciplinary work...but it stands alone in a chamber music setting. The work spans a stunning range of textures, from introspective solos for each of the four saxophones to majestic hyper-active gestures. The PRISM Quartet recorded Not Alone for a 2017 release on XAS Records titled Paradigm Lost. But we're excited for a wider community of saxophonists to embrace the work, and share it with their own audiences. Not Alone is published together with Happy Birthday to PRISM, a brief miniature that Chen Yi wrote for the quartet's 20th anniversary celebration in 2004. For advanced performers.______________ ___________Text from the scanned back cover:NOT ALONE for Saxophone QuartetHAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PRISM for Saxophone QuartetNot Alone is a 14-minute saxophone quartet and dance score inspired by the ancient Chinese poet Li Bai’s “Drinking Alone under the Moon with the Shadow.†The expansively-textured sax quartet matches the exploratory and dramatic movements and gestures in the dance. NOT ALONE was commissioned by the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company which premiered the work in collaboration with the PRISM Quartet. Also included in this publication is Chen Yi’s fascinating take on “Happy Birthday to You,†composed in celebration of Prism’s 25th anniversary season.A recipient of the New Music USA 2013 Live Music For Dance Award commissioning grant, Not Alone is inspiredby the ancient Chinese poet Li Bai’s poem “Drinking Alone under the Moon with the Shadow.†The premierewas given on April 26, 2014 by the PRISM Quartet with the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, which commissioned thework to celebrate its 25th Anniversary NYC Season. Program Note by composer Chen YiThe original inspiration for this work for both the choreographer and the composer came from the Tang Dynasty poem - Alone Under the Moon by Li Bai. The poem describes the poet being alone in a garden. The moon and his shadow became his companions that night. The choreographer brings this idea to modern life in an urban setting. She created a series of “mindscapes†which are the result of the exploration of the different mental and physical states of being alone.Through self-examination, the choreographer raises the question: are we ever really alone? Our physical being may be standing by itself, but what about our introspective self? When we are still, we let our thoughts pass by like flowing water. If we could engage with our shadows, what would it be like?Program Note by Matthew Levy, The PRISM QuartetThe PRISM Quartet has commissioned a great many composers since our founding days in 1984. Chen Yi is among ahandful of our very favorites, and one to whom we’ve returned time and time again. Her music is powerful, expansive,intimate, and draws connections between Eastern and Western, ancient and modern traditions in a voice all her own.Chen Yi has written or adapted four works for the PRISM Quartet. She penned a wonderful miniature called HappyBirth day to PRISM to celebrate the ensemble’s 20th anniversary back in 2004 (Dedication, Innova Recordings).We subsequently commissioned her to compose Septet (2008) for Erhu, Pipa, Percussion, and Saxophone Quartet(2008), premiered and recorded with the New York ensemble Music From China (Antiphony, Innova Recordings 2010).In 2015, the PRISM Quartet performed and recorded (XAS Records) a new version of her saxophone quartet concerto,BA YIN, with the University of Missouri-Kansas City Wind Ensemble under the baton of Steven Davis (originally writtenfor the Rascher Quartet and scored for saxophones and string orchestra.).Finally, Not Alone (2014) is an interdisciplinary work written for the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company with the PRISMQuartet, but it stands alone in a chamber music setting. The work spans a stunning range of textures, from introspectivesolos for each of the four saxophones to majestic hyper-active gestures. The PRISM Quartet recorded Not Alonefor a 2017 release on XAS Records titled Paradigm Lost. But we’re excited for a wider community of saxophonists toembrace the work, and share it with their own audiences.In his liner notes for the recording, WNYC’s John Schaefer writes: “As with much of her music, Chen employs percussiveeffects and glissandi; in Chinese music these are not considered “extended techniques†or special effects, but animportant part of the performer’s arsenal. Here, they help create the twilit mood of the opening moments. The piecesoon becomes more dramatic, suggesting the arrival of the drinker’s companions (real or imagined) and his or herincreasingly garrulous outbursts. Passages of consonance and discord can easily be heard as companionable singingand bouts of drunken argument. The piece bustles along on a kind of restless energy, until, finally, that restlessnesssubsides, giving way to a gently humorous ending where a short falling phrase signals the drinker falling asleep.â€.
SKU: WD.679143057051
UPC: 679143057051.
Chris ty Semsen and Daniel Semsen - the groundbreaking creative team who brought you The Agape League and We Three Spies - are back again...this time better than ever! Isaiah Jones and the Seekers of the Lost Christmas Treasure delivers action and adventure galore as your Kids Choir is transported into a video game world of mystery, intrigue, and adrenaline-generating Christmas fun!
SKU: WD.080689511097
UPC: 080689511097.
SKU: SU.28040130
A motley set of four short works for piano solo. The movements are: 1. Aardvark Dreams2. Procession of Days3. Totentanz: To Man's Inhumanity4. A Pleasant Fugue. Piano Duration: 12' Composed: 1979-83 Published by: Abierto Music Audio and score previews are available at: johnnewellmusic.com/works /instrumental-solo/.
SKU: WD.679143057044
UPC: 679143057044.
SKU: WD.080689420771
UPC: 080689420771.
SKU: WD.679143057037
UPC: 679143057037.
SKU: CA.1245043
Language: German.
A play in three acts for children. Score and part available separately - see item CA.1245000.
SKU: WD.679143057013
UPC: 679143057013.
SKU: WD.679143056993
UPC: 679143056993.
SKU: GI.G-9985
UPC: 785147998501. English.
As a result of the shared wisdom of Pope Francis at a 2013 World Youth Day prayer event, Lori True reveals that Francis’ “awe-inspiring instruction has prompted me to compose...for the church at prayer. ‘I Send You with the Grace of My Spirit’ is intended to bless us as we go forth from our gatherings as ‘companions of peace,’ and calls us to include the least among us as friend along the journey.â€.
SKU: WD.080689452772
UPC: 080689452772.
SKU: HL.14008406
ISBN 9780711948716.
A work for solo violin and orchestra, commissioned by Donald McDonald for the 21st birthday of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the 60th birthday of the composer. It was first performed in November 1993 in Glasgow, by James Clark and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Maxwell Davies. The spell is one quoted by George Mackay Brown in his book An Orkney Tapestry: 'Let not plough be put to acre except a fiddle cross first the furrow.' Davies's dancing concerto imagines the fiddler following a route from field to field, from dance to dance, accompanied by a bunch of companions in the form of an orchestra. As the music goes on, so it gets brighter and livelier, moving from the dark colouring of clarinets, bassoons and strings to full ensemble with prominent brass and (solo) tuned percussion, as if the dancers as much as the fields were beginning to glow with new life. Score (miniature). Duration c. 20mins.
