Format : Sheet music + CD
SKU: PR.16400222S
UPC: 680160037841.
This work follows my Quartet No. 1 by five years. In terms of style and aesthetic aim, however, it seems light years away. Where the first work, a 28-minute, four-movement piece, took aim at cosmic conflicts and heroic resolutions, the present work is intended as a kind of divertissment. Harbor Music lasts a mere eleven minutes, is cast in a single movement with six sections, and should leave both performers and listeners with a feeling of good humor and affection. The title comes from my experience as a guest in the magnificent city of Sydney, Australia. One of its most attractive features is its unique system of ferry boats: the city is laid out around a large, multi-channeled harbor, with destinations more easily approached by water than by land. Consequently, inhabitants of Sydney get around on small, people-friendly boats that come and go from the central docks at Circular Quay. During a week's visit in 1991, I must have boarded these boats at least a dozen times, always bound for a new location - the resort town of Manley, or the Zoo at Taronga Park, or the shopping district at Darling Harbour. In casting about for a form for my second string quartet, a kind of loose rondo came to mind. Each new destination would be approached from the same starting-out point (although there are subtle variations in the repeating theme; it's always in a new key, and the texture is never the same). The result, I hope, is a sense of constant new information presented with introductory frames of a more familiar nature. The embarkation theme, which begins the piece, is a sort of bi-tonal fanfare in which the violins are in G major and the viola and cello are in B-flat major. It is bold, eager, and forward-looking. The first voyage maintains this bi-tonality, beginning as a 9/8 due for second violin and viola in a kind of rocking motion -much as a boat produces when reaching the deeper water in the harbor. A sweet, nostalgic theme emerges over this rocking accompaniment. This music is developed somewhat, then transforms quickly into a much faster and lighter episode, filled with rising and falling scales (again, in differing keys). A scherzando interlude in short notes and changing meters provides contrast, and the episode ends with a reprise of the scales. The second embarkation follows, this time in A major/C major. It leads quickly into a very warm and slow theme, in wide-leaping intervals for the viola. This section is interrupted twice by solo cadenzas for the cello, suggesting distant boat-horns in major thirds. The end of the episode becomes a transition, with boat-horns leading into the final appearance of the embarkation music, this time in trills and tremolos instead of sharply accented chords. The nostalgic theme of the first episode makes a final appearance, serving now as a coda. The rocking motion continues, in a lullaby fashion, leaving us drowsy and satisfied on our homeward journey. Harbor Music was written for the Cavani Quartet, and is dedicated to Richard J. Bogomolny. Commissioned by his employees at First National Supermarkets as a gift, it represents a thank you from many of the people (including this composer) who have benefitted from his vision and generosity. An ardent advocate of chamber music (and a cellist himself), Mr. Bogomolny has for many years been Chairman of the Board of Chamber Music America. -- Dan Welcher.
SKU: CA.2335200
ISBN 9790007144548. Text language: Russian/German.
Sergei Rachmanioff's Sacred Concerto W molitwach neussypajuschtschuju Bogorodizu (The Theotokos, ever-vigilant in praying) was composed in 1893 for four-voice mixed choir. It was his first contribution to the repertoire of the Russian Orthodox Church. The text is derived from the Feast of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, the counterpart to the Roman Catholic Assumption Day. In accordance with the standards of the Orthodox Church, Rachmaninoff set it a cappella. This new edition presents the original church Slavonic text in Latin transcription, as well as in a singable German translation. It also contains an English pronunciation table.
SKU: CU.EC8977
SKU: CA.2335205
ISBN 9790007144531. Text language: Russian/German.
Sergei Rachmanioff's Sacred Concerto W molitwach neussypajuschtschuju Bogorodizu (The Theotokos, ever-vigilant in praying) was composed in 1893 for four-voice mixed choir. It was his first contribution to the repertoire of the Russian Orthodox Church. The text is derived from the Feast of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, the counterpart to the Roman Catholic Assumption Day. In accordance with the standards of the Orthodox Church, Rachmaninoff set it a cappella. This new edition presents the original church Slavonic text in Latin transcription, as well as in a singable German translation. It also contains an English pronunciation table. Score available separately - see item CA.2335200.
SKU: CA.4017820
ISBN 9790007104115.
Score available separately - see item CA.4017800.
SKU: HL.354338
ISBN 9781705107669. UPC: 840126936964. 9.0x12.0x0.109 inches.
Richard Wilson was born in Cleveland on May 15, 1941. He studied piano with Roslyn Pettibone, Egbert Fischer, and Leonard Shure, andcello with Robert Ripley and Ernst Silberstein. After beginning composition studies with Roslyn Pettibone and Howard Whittaker, he went on in 1959 to Harvard, studying with Randall Thompson, G.W. Woodworth, and principally with Robert Moevs, and graduating in 1963 magna cum laude. Awarded the Frank Huntington Beebe Award for study abroad, he continued studying piano with Friedrich Wührer in Munich, and composition, again with Moevs, in Rome, where he also gave piano recitals. Wilson joined the faculty of Vassar College in 1966. He was appointed to the Mary Conover Mellon Professorship of Music there in 1988, and he has served three times as chairman of the Department of Music. Wilson has been commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony, the American Symphony, the New Juilliard Ensemble, the Koussevitzky Foundation, the Fromm Foundation, Chamber Music America, the Chicago Chamber Musicians, the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation, and the Library of Congress. His works have been heard in such American musical centers as New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, Cleveland, and Los Angeles and at the Aspen Music Festival, but also in London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Zurich, Milan, Amsterdam, Graz, Leningrad, Stockholm, Tokyo, Bogota, and a number of Australian cities. The recipient in 1992 of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he was awarded the Elise L. Stoeger Prize of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in 1994, the Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004, and has served as composer in residence with the American Symphony Orchestra since 1992. Wilson has been praised by 21st Century Music as a “splendidly talented and highly accomplished composer whose music rewards seeking out†and by the New York Sun as “possessed of a hard-won idiom that has grown and developed over the years into a probing blend of wit, classic form, modern harmony, and impressionistic color.†Writing in the New Yorker, Andrew Porter called his String Quartet No. 3 a “richly wrought and unusual composition,†while the New York Times called it “a work of substance and expressivity ... [that] merits a place in the active repertory.â€.
SKU: GI.G-CD-529
From the Taizé Community comes another stunning new recording! Venite Exultemus features many of the never-before-recorded chants that have become popular in Taizé over the past few years including The Kingdom of God, Venite Exultemus Domino, and several wonderful chants in Spanish. Many different languages are represented on this recording as well as two songs from the eastern Christian tradition, Alleluia, slava tiebie Boze and Bogoroditse Dievo.  .
SKU: SU.YR3506
Arranged by Steve MilloyTTBB Composed: 2004 Published by: Yelton Rhodes Music Minimum order quantity: 8 copies. To order quantities fewer than 8, please email customer service at sales@subitomusic.com.
SKU: GI.G-10808
ISBN 9781622777143.
Bode’s witty, personal, thought-provoking chapters each focus on a specific choral work that has meant something important to him over the course of a career that has established him as one of the most highly esteemed practitioners of the choral conducting art. —Melinda Bargreen   from the Foreword With his hallmark wit and humor, choral conductor and poet Robert Bode brings readers on a journey through twelve great choral works, offering anecdotes, valuable insights, and interpretive advice for each. Along the way, Bode chronicles his own learning journey and shares candidly about his mistakes, his triumphs, and his love for the repertoire that has played a significant role in his life and illustrious career. This wisdom-filled volume will forever change your understanding and interpretation of these twelve choral gems—a must-read for all choral conductors and musicians. Contents: Josquin: Ave Maria Palestrina: Ave Redemptoris Mater Monteverdi: O Mirtillo Mozart: Ave verum corpus Brahms: O schöne Nacht! Brucker: Os Justi Rachmaninoff: Bogoroditse Devo Finzi: My Spirit Sang All Day Poulenc: Hodie Christus natus est Spencer: At the Round Earth’s Imagin’d Corners Duruflé: Ubi Caritas Lauridsen: Sure on This Shining Night Robert Bode is a noted teacher, award-winning conductor, and prize-winning poet, having written texts for over a hundred choral works. He is currently Visiting Professor of Choral Music at The Ohio State University and Artistic Director Emeritus of Choral Arts Northwest, a Seattle-based chamber chorus.