Live Forever

SKU: HL.154551

UPC: 888680101565. 6.75x10.5 inches.

Live Forever by The Band Perry has a big, vivid stadium rock sound that celebrates the energy and excitement of youth and will be a powerful and dramatic closer to any program. A fantastic showcase for pop/show groups!

SKU: HL.35032570

ISBN 9781540041913. UPC: 888680901738. 5.0x5.0x0.15 inches.

Burt Bacharach and Rudy Perez wrote this anthem dedicated to the survivors, victims and families affected by school violence. It's powerful in both lyric and melody and will certainly move your singers, audience and community when performed. We can't live like this forever, gotta have a change of heart. We can live in peace together. Why is it always a fight? If we just respect each other, though we don't see eye to eye, if we do that, love will finally start..

SKU: PR.114419980

UPC: 680160681723. 9 x 12 inches.

The ancient Egyptian empire began around 3100 B.C. and continued for over 3000 years until Alexander the Great conquered the country in 332 B.C. Over the centuries, the Egyptian empire grew and flourished into a highly developed society. They invented hieroglyphics, built towering pyramids (including the Great Pyramid of Giza, the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the World), and the created many household items we still use today, including toothbrushes, toothpaste, eyeliner, black ink, and the forerunner of modern-day paper. Included among their achievements were a series of highly developed funerary practices and beliefs in the Afterlife. As the average lifespan of an Egyptian hovered around 30 years, living past the death of oneAs physical body was a legitimate concern. Egyptians believed that upon death, their souls would undertake a harrowing journey through the Netherworld. If they survived the horrific creatures and arduous trials that awaited them, then their souls would be reunified with their bodies (hence the need to preserve the body through mummification) and live forever in a perfect version of the life they had lived in Egypt. To achieve this, Egyptians devised around 200 magical spells and incantations to aid souls on the path to the Afterlife. These spells are collectively called The Book of the Dead. Particular spells would be chosen by the family of the deceased and inscribed on the tombAs walls and scrolls of papyrus, as well as on a stone scarab placed over the deceasedAs heart. Subsequent collections of spells and mortuary texts, such as The Book of Gates, assisted a soul in navigating the twelve stages of the Netherworld. Not only did these spells protect and guide the soul on this dangerous path, but they also served as a safeguard against any unbecoming behavior an Egyptian did while alive. For instance, if a person had robbed another while alive, there was a spell that would prevent the soulAs heart from revealing the truth when in the Hall of Judgment. Rites for the Afterlife follows the path of a soul to the Afterlife. In Inscriptions from the Book of the Dead (movement 1), the soul leaves the body and begins the journey, protected by spells and incantations written on the tombAs walls. In Passage though the Netherworld (movement 2), the soul is now on a funerary barque, being towed through the Netherworld by four of the regionAs inhabitants. We hear the soul slowly chanting incantations as the barque encounters demons, serpents, crocodiles, lakes of fire, and other terrors. The soul arrives at The Hall of Judgment in movement 3. Standing before forty-two divine judges, the soul addresses each by name and gives a A!negative confessionA(r) connected to each judge (i.e. A!I did not rob,A(r) A!I did not do violence,A(r) and so on). Afterwards, the soulAs heart is put on a scale to be weighed against a feather of MaAat, the goddess of truth. If the heart weighs more than the feather, it will be eaten by Ammut, a hideous creature that lies in wait below the scale, and the soul will die a second and permanent death (this was the worst fear of the Egyptians). But if the heart is in balance with the feather, the soul proceeds onward. The final stage of the journey is the arrival at The Field of Reeds (movement 4), which is a perfect mirror image of the soulAs life in ancient Egypt. The soul reunites with deceased family members, makes sacrifices to the Egyptian gods and goddess, harvests crops from plentiful fields of wheat under a brilliant blue sky, and lives forever next to the abundant and nourishing waters of the Nile. Rites for the Afterlife was commissioned by the Barlow Endowment on behalf of the Akropolis Reed Quintet, Calefax Reed Quintet, and the Brigham Young University Reed Quintet. -S.G.

SKU: LO.10-1942S

UPC: 000308044911.

A galvanizing sermon-inspired text provides the vision for this joyous anthem, extolling the ever-present God in our lives. The energetic organ accompaniment impels the choral forces to their exuberant finale. Thrilling.

SKU: SU.91409193

Modernism Forever Volume 2 - Fulkerson, Boulez, Berio, Seeger, Basart, Kalmar, Humel Disc 1 Christopher Fulkerson 1. At the Mountains of Madness for large orchestra - 13:42 2. A Screaming Comes Across the Sky for two antiphonal quartets - 1:49 3. The Scream That Peaks Past Fear (Live) for eight antiphonal voices - 7:15 Pierre Boulez Le Marteu Sans Maitre for alto voice & six instrumentalists Marcia Gronewold, mezzo & Ken Cramer, alto fulte 4. Avant L'artisanat Furieux (Live) 2:10 5. Commentaire I de Bourreaux de Solitude (Live) - 4:42 6. L'artisanat Furieux (Live) - 3:26 7. Commentaire II de Bourreaux de Solitude (Live) - 4:32 8. Bel Edifice et les Presentiments (Live) - 4:31 9. Bourreaux de Solitude (Live)- 3:57 10. Apres L'artisanat Furieux (Live) - 1:33 11. Commentaire III de Bourreaux de Solitude (Live) - 5:20 12. Bel Edifice et les Presentiments: Double (Live) - 9:40 Luciano Berio Cries of London for eight voices 13. These Are the Cries (Live) - 1:13 14. Where Are Ye Fair Maids (Live) - 1:34 15. Good Garlic (Live) - 2:41 16. Some Go Up (Live) - 1:12 17. These Are the Cries, Variant (Live) - 1:24 18. Money Money Money (Live) - 3:46 19. Cry of Cries (Live) - 4:08 Disc 2 Christopher Fulkerson 1. Moys Icos for orchestra - 9:10 2. Remember the Stars (Live) Cantata #3 for STAB soli, trebles, & quartet - 8:17 3. Night Litany (Live) Recital Aria #1 Marcia Gronewold, soloist for mezzo soprano & trio - 5:18 4. Celestial Sixties II (Fragment) - 1:43 5. Capriccio (Live) for viola & piano - 5:18 6. One Winter Sparrow (Live) Elizabeth Appling & the SF Girls Chorus - 1:39 Ruth Crawford Seeger 7. Chant (Live) for treble solo & chorus Alyssa Kingsbury, soprano - 2:34 Robert Basart 8. Stillness and the Night Become (Live) for eight voices. A Christopher Fulkerson Commission - 9:19 Laszlo Kalmar 9. Hora Eius In Eight Movements for three female voices - 15:51 Gerald Humel 10. Et in Terra Pax (Live) for eight voices, a Christopher Fulkerson Commission - 21:21.

SKU: SU.91409192

Modernism Forever Volume One - Fulkerson, Carter, Davies Disc 1 1. The Childermass (Live) Christopher Fulkerson & The Composers Chamber Players - 14:16 2. E Io Etterno Duro (And Eternal I Endure) [Live] (Dante) for solo male sextet Christopher Fulkerson & Chanticleer - 6:48 3. Double Blizzard First Michelangelo Fantasy for violin and bass Christopher Fulkerson - 7:27 4. Clothes Another's Hand (Live) 2nd Michelangelo Fantasy for string trio Christopher Fulkerson & Friends of CF - 9:04 5. With Its Billowing Hair (Live) 4th Michelangelo Fantasy for violin and string John Casten, Christopher Fulkerson & Friends - 13:03 6. Scritti Di Leonardo (Live) for tenor, SATB soli, & five players Christopher Fulkerson, Patrick Neve, Ariel & The SFCMP - 18:23 7. Concerto for Harpsichord (Live) and seven instruments Christopher Fulkerson, Jonathan Shiff, Eric Hansen & the Intercampus Cultural Exchange - 9:04 Disc 2 1. Astraea in the Field of Stars for guitar and string quartet Christopher Fulkerson - 9:01 2. Echoes of Hart Crane (Live) for vocal ensemble SSAATTBB Christopher Fulkerson & Ariel - 3:03 3. The Sweep of Their Lyre Echoes of Our Bards I for instrument sextet Christopher Fulkerson - 7:25 4. The Rush of Their Verse Echoes of Our Bards II for eleven instruments Christopher Fulkerson 5. Mere Magic Music (Live) Part One of the Magic Cycle for eight antiphonal voices Christopher Fulkerson & The Virtuose - 6:42 6. Pour Jean-Louis for solo harp Christopher Fulkerson - 0:31 7. Tomb of Taillevant for alto flute and guitar Christopher Fulkerson - 1:41 8. Syringa (Live) by Elliott Carter for mezzo, baritone, guitar & ensemble Christopher Fulkerson & The Composers Chamber Players - 19:36 9. Westerlings (Live) by Peter Maxwell Davies Christopher Fulkerson & Ariel.