December 'Round the World

An International Holiday Celebration-CELEBRATE December traditions center stage this holiday season as 'round the world we go! DISCOVER the special preparations for Chinese New Year Germany's St. Nicholas Day tradition of a hidden pickle in the Tannenbaum the sevenprinciples of Kwanzaa from our African ancestors the miracle and lights of Jewish Hanukkah the festive atmosphere of Mexico's Las Posadas and Christmas American-style! SHARE the universal messages of peace hope and goodwill inyour school and community all year long. Ideal for upper elementary to middle school performers this 40-minute holiday revue features seven original songs for unison voices with some optional harmony connecting narration easilyadapted to casts of varying sizes and John Jacobson's choreography and production tips. Available: Teacher Edition Singer Edition 5-Pak Preview Pak (1 Singer book 1 Preview CD) Preview CD (with vocals only) Performance/Accompaniment CD Performance Kit/CD (Teacher 20 Singer books P/A CD). Performance Time: Approx. 40 min. For Grades 4-8.

An International Holiday Celebration-CELEBRATE December traditions center stage this holiday season as 'round the world we go! DISCOVER the special preparations for Chinese New Year Germany's St. Nicholas Day tradition of a hidden pickle in the Tannenbaum the sevenprinciples of Kwanzaa from our African ancestors the miracle and lights of Jewish Hanukkah the festive atmosphere of Mexico's Las Posadas and Christmas American-style! SHARE the universal messages of peace hope and goodwill inyour school and community all year long. Ideal for upper elementary to middle school performers this 40-minute holiday revue features seven original songs for unison voices with some optional harmony connecting narration easilyadapted to casts of varying sizes and John Jacobson's choreography and production tips. Available: Teacher Edition Singer Edition 5-Pak Preview Pak (1 Singer book 1 Preview CD) Preview CD (with vocals only) Performance/Accompaniment CD Performance Kit/CD (Teacher 20 Singer books P/A CD). Performance Time: Approx. 40 min. For Grades 4-8.

A Multicultural Holiday Celebration-The magic of the season explodes into a kaleidoscope of color when a group of young artists transform the main street of Graysville into a watercolor wonderland! From Hanukkah and Kwanzaa to Christmas Las Posadas and beyond discover the colors and celebrations of December in your town and around the world with this creative 30-minute holiday revue that's ideal for young performers. Includes John Jacobson's choreography in the Teacher's Edition and ona handy video showing the moves from the front and the back a helpful production guide and seven original songs. Available: Teacher Edition Singer 5-Pak Performance/Accompaniment CD Preview CD (with vocals) and Choreography &Staging Video (featuring John Jacobson). Performance Time: Approx. 30 minutes. For Grades 1-6.

A Multicultural Holiday Celebration-The magic of the season explodes into a kaleidoscope of color when a group of young artists transform the main street of Graysville into a watercolor wonderland! From Hanukkah and Kwanzaa to Christmas Las Posadas and beyond discover the colors and celebrations of December in your town and around the world with this creative 30-minute holiday revue that's ideal for young performers. Includes John Jacobson's choreography in the Teacher's Edition and ona handy video showing the moves from the front and the back a helpful production guide and seven original songs. Available: Teacher Edition Singer 5-Pak Performance/Accompaniment CD Preview CD (with vocals) and Choreography &Staging Video (featuring John Jacobson). Performance Time: Approx. 30 minutes. For Grades 1-6.

Easy guitar arrangements with TAB for 25 of Merle Haggard's greatest songs including: Big City · Carolyn · I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink · If We Make It Through December · Mama Tried · Misery and Gin · Okie from Muskogee · Rainbow Stew · Sing Me Back Home · Workin' Man Blues · more.

Par CORP RONALD. Both as composer and conductor, Ronald Corp is steeped in the English choral tradition, and in A Spotless Rose he has traversed by his own path the hallowed ground of words immortalised by Herbert Howells. Corp’s own music, chordal yet contrapuntal, and likewise redolent in its modality of a distant past ‘of ancient seers’ foreshowing’, flows smoothly in flexible rhythm, each voice a shapely strophic melody. Mindful of the famous close of Howells’s setting, Corp concludes with an exquisite ending all of his own. A Spotless Rose was written for the Highgate Choral Society, who gave the world premiere on 2 December 2017 at St Michael’s Church, Highgate. / Date parution : 1905-07-10/ Feuillet / SATB

Kammeroper Nr. 2. Par RIHM WOLFGANG. Chamber opera does not mean “little opera.” On the same scale as chamber music is to the symphony, it is rather the other way of talking onstage. The movable apparatus permits sophisticated voice-leading. A large ensemble demands simple conception to achieve the complexity it perhaps intends; this can be formulated more sharply and nuanced in a chamber ensemble. Therefore it is the subject which this type of presentation must sustain – or, better, provoke. Büchner’s Lenz is a description of the conditions within a process of collapse, moments of destruction already occurred but not yet accepted, evident in the points of contact with the environment. And it was those points of contact which Michael Fröhling attempted to reconstruct onstage. Lenz’s distraught state is always the same; only the proximity of the environment to that distraught state grows and ebbs. The musical consequence An hour of extreme chamber music results from this description: always bound for the main character – actually, not a commentary, but the main character himself as a multilayered level of action. Although Lenz acts on many levels – or tries to or believes he is – he has no room to manoeuvre. That is why he is also tightly interwoven in his sonic surroundings; the voices which only he hears are just as much himself as the two men with whom he foregathers (the liberal pragmatist Oberlin and the alert merchant who always “does the right thing” in every situation) – they evoke responses which he deeply desires. Omnipresent Friederike is just as much his inner world as Nature is – Nature, which he can no longer perceive unless it is personified, enlivened or dead. Therefore, the music’s task is both to motivate the “situation” (atmospherically) and to be the psychological constant (via a network of entangled references per se) in an action as it is played out. The compositional process December 1977 to June 1978 – a period identical to the stepwise understanding of an existence as that of Jakob Lenz. Yet the more the historical figure became precisely attendant in my intellect in terms of data and atmosphere, the more it retreated in favour of a cipher of disturbance as I began to understand Lenz. Thence the explanation for the failure of the attempts to approach him – including my attempt to interpret him via musical representation – because, essentially, Lenz himself is the failure. Only the naked stages of that failure remain portrayable, i.e. including the failure of those who wish to “help” Lenz, for example, while Lenz himself is already trapped inextricably in a state of complete destruction. I tried to compose my way into that situation as far as possible; the insistence of several rhythmic and harmonic configurations is the palpable expression of the main character’s ever-recurring rigidity. One sound pervades the entire work. The musical stage For me, this is a place where very magical and very human things take place. In Jakob Lenz, the human aspects often switch to magical ones, since the realism of a self-suasive, unhinged soul takes on surreal traits – or we simply cannot understand that otherwise except as not being real. A character like Jakob Lenz on the stage is complex due to the fact alone that it harbours many stages within itself, and music must represent those constantly present stages. I have tried to do so in the most direct way – by not cleanly separating the musical layers, but keeping them constantly in evidence until they must break forth, each in accord with its own dramaturgy. In an overview, the large form takes on aspects of a rondo, performed in overlapping layers – a type of rondo relief, since perspectives of psychological proximity and distance are indeed formulated musically as atmospheric relations. Above all: the thread on which Jakob Lenz hangs is the current onto the listeners’ hearts. Wolfgang Rihm (January 1979)/ Répertoire / Chant et Piano

Par TAKE THAT. Six fantastic songs from Take That, arranged for Piano, Voice and Guitar. Six of the Best simply does what it says - 6 of the best hits from leading artists available in a convenient and competitively priced format. Take That sold more than 30 million records between 1991-1996. The BBC described Take That as 'the most successful British band since The Beatles, beloved of young and old alike'. After a 2005 documentary and the release of a greatest hits album, they officially announced a 2006 reunion tour around the United Kingdom, entitled The Ultimate Tour. Since then they have recorded two studio albums, Beautiful World , released November 2006 and The Circus , released December 2008./ Recueil / Piano, Chant et Guitare

The Faber Music Christmas Piano Anthology is an essential collection of the greatest Christmas songs and carols, specially arranged for solo piano, for the intermediate pianist. The Faber Music Christmas Piano Anthology is an essential collection of the greatest Christmas songs and carols, specially arranged for solo piano, for the intermediate pianist./ Recueil / Piano

for Alto Sax. Instrumentalists will love this jam-packed collection of 101 holiday favorites!/ Recueil / Saxophone Alto

for Cello. Instrumentalists will love this jam-packed collection of 101 holiday favorites!/ Recueil / Violoncelle