The Real Vocal Book has many of the selections from volumes 1 and 2 of the instrumental Real Books, but now with the lyrics added to the pre-existing melody line.This songbook contains nearly 300 essential songs compiled especially for singers, including: Alfie, All of Me, Autumn Leaves, Bewitched, Bluesette, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Fever, Georgia on My Mind, Misty, Moon River, My Funny Val…

Historical information about Händel's Water Music Suites is limited, but certainly these works were intended for two, possibly three, parties given by King George I on the Thames River, London, between 1715 and 1736. Händel and his orchestra played on a barge. Since then the some twenty-two separate original pieces have been organized into three Suites and nicknamed 'Water Music?, each having a se…

Par VERDI GIUSEPPE. Othello (or Otello) is an opera in four acts composed by Giuseppe Verdi, premiered in February 1887. As was customary at the time, a short ballet sequence was composed for the opera, to be inserted into Act III, just prior to the entrace of Lodovico, ambassador to the Venetian Republic. When Verdi sent the original manuscript to his publisher Ricordi, he included this detailed …

Par BENSHOOF KEN. From the composer: 'These pieces [24 Preludes for Piano] were composed without interruption over several months. As a consequent they exhibit a fairly narrow range in style and expressive intent, rather like a collection of short stories that take place in restricted time and location. I chose to call the set 'Preludes' partly because of the joy I still derive from sets with the …

The composer Rudolf Kelterborn about his work: 'I call the ten compositions for baritone and piano 'DUOS' because the voice and instrument parts are treated musically with absolute equality and indeed often go their own independent ways. Two duos ('Alles Gold' and 'Gegenlicht in den Bergen') come from the 'Ensemble-Book I' for baritone and 14 instruments with texts by Erika Burkart (1990). The 10 …

Par BUKIN DANIEL. Concerto for Clarinet 'Corona', reduction for Clarinet and Piano, by Daniel Bukin. Recognized as the Honorable Mention composition by the New Music Committee of the International Clarinet Association as part of the 2022 Composition Competition .From the composer: '2020 was a year of colossal uncertainty and instability in nearly every facet of our day-to-day lives. But that uncer…

La comédie musicale, Anne of Green Gables est basée sur le livre par auteur canadien Lucy Maud Montgomery. Bien que la fiction écrite pour les lecteurs de tous âges, qu'elle a, au cours des dernières décennies, devenir considéré comme un livre pour enfants. Montgomery trouve son inspiration dans un décrivant les article journal un couple qui ont été par erreur envoyé une jeune orpheline au lieu d'…