Early Christmas Presents

DVD

In the Shadow of the Stars – DVD 191

CDs

Alec Wilder – Music for Piano, John Noel Roberts (Piano) – CD 9536

Gyogy Ligeti – 1 – String Quartets and Duets, Arditti String Quartet – CD 9540

Gyogy Ligeti -2 – A Capella Choral Works, London Sinfonietta Voices – CD 9541

Gyogy Ligeti – 4 – Vocal Works, Madrigals, Mysteries, Adventure Songs – CD 9537

Gyogy Ligeti – 5 – Mechanical Music Barrel Organ, Metronomes Player Piano, 2 Player Piano – CD 9538

Gyogy Ligeti – 7 – Chamber Music, Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano, Ten Pieces & Six Bagatelles for Wind Quartet, Sonata for Solo Viola – CD 9539

Other

Stephen Sondheim – Finishing the Hat – Ref. ML 54.6 .S69 S66 2010

CapitalBop releases list of best D.C. records of 2011

CapitalBop, D.C.’s premiere jazz blog, has released their year-end best-of lists for the best local jazz records of 2011. It’s divided into two sections: one list of honorable mentions, and a traditional top-5 countdown.  Be sure to click through for reviews and samples from the records.

SPOILER

The top spot goes to sax heavyweight, Brian Settles.

Reduced hours during break

Finals are winding down, so it’s time for us to take a little bit of a rest. Here’s our schedule through the end of winter break:

We are CLOSED: Saturday 12/17; Friday 12/23 through 1/1; and Monday 1/16 (MLK Day)

We are 9am-5pm, Monday-Friday otherwise. That’s 12/19 through 12/22 and 1/2 through 1/13.

Regular hours resume with classes on Tuesday, January

While you’re on break, don’t forget that you can take advantage of our streaming audio databases – Naxos, Naxos Jazz, and American Song – from wherever you may be. You’ll just have to login using your MyAladin credentials.

If you feel like picking up some new skills now that you have some free time, there’s also Lynda.com, which has a number of courses that may be of interest to musicians, from digital audio basics to ProTools, Logic, and GarageBand.

Have a great break!

DJANGO REINHARDT

The Definitive Django Reinhardt Series has come to the music library!

• Volume 1 (CD 9531)
• Volume 2 (CD 9532)
• Volume 3 (CD 9533)
• Volume 4 (CD 9534)
• Volume 5 (CD 9535)

Eric Owens is performing 12/9, and it’s a steal for students

You might remember that Eric Owens was set to perform earlier this fall, but took ill and was unable to sing. You might also remember that Vocal Arts DC had pretty phenomenal deals for students – including FREE tickets for music students.

Well Eric Owens is BACK in DC, performing this Friday, December 9th at 7:30 PM in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. And the student deals still stand for this and all other VADC recitals.

From our previous post on this subject:

In order to get the general student price ($15) or the free tickets for music students, email Robert at robertsheehan@vocalartsdc.org.

The season kicks off with bass-baritone, Eric Owens performing a program of Hugo Wolf, Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert, Claude Debussy, Henry Duparc, Maurice Ravel, and Richard Wagner. Here’s the full program.

The next VADC performance will be Lydia Teuscher on January 26th. Be sure to contact Robert if you’d like a ticket to that as well.

New CDs

The Goat Rodeo Sessions – Yo-Yo Ma, Stuar Dunca, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile (CD 9529)

The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery (CD 9527)

The Essential Jaco Pastorius (CD 9528)

Björk – Biophilia (CD 9524)

Donovan’s Greatest Hits (CD 9525)

Surrealistic Pillow (CD 9526)

Weiss Kaplan Newman Trio - Brahms Trio in B Major and Smetana Trio in g minor (CD 9518)

Love Music – Paul Chihara (CD 9519)

The Fogg Project (CD 9520)

Rocky Streams - Paul Osterfield (CD 9521)

Divine Hair – Mass in F (CD 9522)

Biber – The Mystery Sonatas (CD 9523)

Other Sheet Music

So for those of you who AREN’T trombone players…here is some new sheet music:

80 Years of Popular Music: 30′s & 40′s for Trumpet arranged by Jeff Sultanof (M86 .T45 1989)

18 Studies for String Bass by Kreutzer (MT330 .K73 1950)

String Quartet No. 9 by Samuel Adler (M452 .A24 Q9 2011)

The Flow of Memory for Mezzo-soprano, Flute, Bass clarinet, Violin and Piano by Peter Schickele (M1613.3 .S337 F55 2011)

The Mannheim Rocket for Orchestra by John Corigliano, full score (M1045 .C775 M36 2011)

Tres Vientos by Sydney Hodkinson, score (M357.2 .H63 T8 2011)

Pan Penseroso for two flutes and orchestra by Martin Bresnick (M1020 .B73 P36 2010)

Vanity for Soprano, Clarinet, Percussion, Cello, Bass and Piano by Jake Heggie (M1614 .H45 V35 2004)

Overture to Candide by Leonard Bernstein for Woodwind Quintet (M559 .B47 C36 2011)

Trombone, Trombone, Trombone…

If you are a trombonist, an aspiring trombonist, a beginning trombonist, a trombone virtuouso, or just really like the trombone….you should come by the music library, because we have a bunch of:

NEW TROMBONE SCORES!!!

The Remington Warm-Up Studies prepared and edited by Donald Husberger (MT465 .R445 R4 1980)

Studies in Legato from the works of Concone, Marchesi and Panofka compiled and Edited by Reginald H. Fink (MT465 .RF5 S8 1969)

Concerto by Rimsky-Korsakov (M1206 .R56 C6 1958)

Fantaisie by Sigismond Stojowski (M263 .S873 op.27 1967)

Sonata by Halsey Stevens (M263 .S74 S66 1969)

Sonatina by Kzaimierz Serocki (M263 .S47 S6 2009)

Cavatine, opus 144 by Camille Saint-Saëns (M263 .S3 C3 1915)

Piece Concertante by Samuel Rousseau (M263 .R68 P5 2000)

Piece in B-flat minor by J. Guy Ropartz (M263 .R65 1990)

Sonata by George McKay (M263 .M35 S6 2005)

Sonata in G minor by Benedetto Marcello (M263 .M259 op.1 no.4 1960)

Six Sonatas by John Ernest Galliard Volume 1 (M263 .G37 S6 1963 v.1) and Volume 2 (M263 .G37 S6 1963 v.2)

Ballade by E. Bozza (M263 .B69 op.62 1944)

Andante et Allegro by J. Ed. Barat (M263 .B37 A5 1990)

Fantasy for Trombone by Malcolm Arnold (M92 .A75 op.101 2000)

Haste, Ye Shepherds from the Christmas Oratorio by J.S. Bach (M263 .B118 BWV248F 1961)

Contemporary World Music

There’s a new database in town!

Welcome:

Contemporary World Music

Traditional and mondern music representing every genre from every region in the world are contained in nearly 200,000 tracks.

Check it out on our Databases/Index subject guide.