Robert’s Stäff Picks!!!

Don’t forget, the Music Library is having an LP Bag Sale this Friday, April 26 from 10AM-2PM in front of Bender Library!!!

This set of Staff Picks is dedicated to currently performing string quartets and new music ensembles/composers.

CD 5290 — Six Quartets, Op. 20 — Haydn

The quartets are pretty standard Haydn works but the cool part about this CD is that this recording is played by the Daedalus Quartet.  The Daedalus Quartet is considered a leader among the newest generation of string ensembles.  The members of this string quartet hold degrees from the Julliard School, Curtis Institute, Cleveland Institute, and Harvard University.  Min-Young Kim and Matilda Kaul play violin, Jessica Thompson plays the viola, and Thomas Kraines plays the ‘cello.  This CD was released in 2009.

CD 10048 — Meanwhile — eighth blackbird

eighth blackbird “combines the finesse of a string quartet, the energy of a rock band and the audacity of a storefront theater company.” The members of the ensemble  “hail from America’s Great Lakes, Keystone, Golden and Bay States, and Australia’s Sunshine State.  There are four foodies, three beer snobs and one exercise junkie.”  It seems like it would be fun to hang with these folks. Tim Munro plays the flutes, Michael J. Maccaferri the clarinets, Yvonne Lam the violin & viola, Nicholas Photinos the ‘cello, Matthew Dunvall percussion, and Lisa Kaplan the piano.  This CD was released in 2012.

John Adams

I often reference works by John Adams in my Staff Picks, and I honestly don’t think I could ever forget to mention him.  Adams is a North American based new music composer.  Once again, the symphonic version of my favorite opera, CD 9695 — Doctor Atomic / Guide to Strange Places.  This CD was released in 2009.

CD 10053 - Adam’s Lament — Arvo Pärt

Do you like Arvo Pärt as much as Ethan Hicks? I doubt it, but you should still take a listen to this fantastic Pärt CD that explores many of his works including, but not limited to: Adam’s Lament, Beaatus Petronius, Salve Regina, and Estonian lullaby.  This CD was released in 2012.

 

Wowza – New CDs!

The East meets the West in our newest batch of CDs. And who knew that the clarinet would be the binding force?

Come check ‘em out.

Rainbow: Music of Central Asia vol. 8/Kronos Quartet with Alim & Fargana Qasimov and Homayun Sakhi * CD 10058

This wonderful collaboration is part of a ten part series produced by Smithsonian Folkways Records titled “Music of Central Asia”. The Grammy-nominated series is another in a long line of remarkable projects from Folkways. Come check it out and then go online and download the free program notes!

East Meets West: Clarinet Music by Chinese Composers * CD 10059

Surrealistic Soundscapes/Man Ching and Donald Yu * CD 10062

Revelry/Lowell Liebermann * CD 10061

A Musical Celebration: New Works for Clarinet Viola and Piano * CD 10060

Cold Fact/Sixto Rodriguez * CD 9974

Coming from Realitiy/Sixto Rodriguez * CD 9971

We just got Eighth Blackbird’s GRAMMY NOMINATED “Meanwhile” (and other scores, CDs, DVD)

Get excited about our newest acquisition, Eighth Blackbird’s recent release “Meanwhile”: CD 10048.

“Is there an ensemble anywhere that conveys the sheer exuberance and joy of contemporary music like Eighth Blackbird? To listen to this brilliant young American sextet is to be constantly reminded of just how exciting, funny and ingratiating new work can be – especially when it’s delivered with these players’ characteristic blend of breakneck virtuosity and charm.”

- Joshua Kosman for the San Fransisco Chronicle

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The Kashmere Stage Band: Texas Thunder Soul, 1968-1974 - CD 10047

Paul Winter Sextet: Jazz Meets the Bossa Nova/Folk Song – CD 10046

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DVD

Chops – Music Library DVD 55

Follows a group of high school students from Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, a public school in Jacksonville, FL, as they try to win a competition where the prize is being able to play at the prestigious Essentially Ellington Festival at New York’s Lincoln Center and an opportunity to work with famed jazz musician Wynton Marsalis.

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JOHN CAGE

Bird Cage  -  M1473.C34.B57 1972

Chess Pieces for Piano  -  M25.C34 C54 2005

 Nocturne for Violin and Piano  -  M221.C34 N63 1972

Radio Music  -  M1473.C34 R33 1961

Sonata for Clarinet  -  M72.C34 S66 1963

Sonata for Two Voices  -  M298.5.C34 S66 1979

String Quartet in four parts  -  M452.C32 S77 1960

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MORE NEW SCORES!

David Amram  -  Cancion de Verano: A Piano Quartet for Young Musicians  -  M412 A47.C36 2012

J.S. Bach  -  Sechs Partiten for Klavier, 1-3  -  M24.B115 S8 1958 v. 1

Ludwig van Beethoven  -  Three Equali for four Trombones WoO 30  – M457.4.B44 D74 2012

Luigi Carvelli  -  Serenata Napolitana for Violoncello and Piano  -  M233.C37 S47 2012

Richard Danielpour  -  Spirits in the Well for Soprano and Piano  -  M1621.4.D36 S65 2012

Michael Daugherty  -  Elvis Everywhere for String Quartet and Tape  -  M585.D38 E48 2010

Jacob Druckman  -  Dance with Shadows for Brass Quintet  – M557.4.D78 D36 2012

Beat Furrer (yes that is a name)  -  Phasma for Piano  -  M25.F87 P53 2005

David Friedman  -  Mirror from Another: A collection of solo pieces for vibraphone  -  M175.X6 F75 1987

Osvaldo Golijob  -  Tenebrae (Version III) for String Quartet  -  M454.G65 T46 2011

Aram Khachaturian  -  Double Fugue for string quartet  -  M452.K53 D68 2011

Lowell Lieberman  -  Six Songs on Poems of Nelly Sachs, Op. 14 for Soprano and Piano  -  M1621.L54 op.14 2012

Steve Mackey  -  Fusion Tone for Electric Guitar and Violoncello  -  M295.M33 F87 2012

Steve Reich  -  Know what is above you for Three Soprano Singers, One Alto Singer, and 2 Small Tuned Drums – M2019.5.R45 K66 2012

Igor Stravinsky  -  Circus Polka composed for a Young Elephant, for saxophone quartet  -  M459.S77 C57 2011

New Arrivals!

Hey everyone, happy Monday and happy Fall! We’ve got some awesome new scores for you to check out!

Arvo Pärt, Magnificat. (M 2099.L6 P273 1989)

Count Basie, Count Basie’s Piano Styles (M 35 .B37 C67 1943)

Robert Baksa, Sonata for Flute and Harp (M 297 .B35 S76 2012)

Marshall Bialosky, Suite; for Flute, Oboe, and Clarinet (M 357.2 .B53 S9 1969)

John Williams, Concerto for Oboe (M 1023 .W55 C66 2011)

Rolf Schweizer, Canticum (M 298 .S34 C36 1996)

Sol Schoenbach; editor, Solos for the Bassoon (M 253 .S36 S6 1964)

New DVDs and CDs!

Follow the Fleet – Irving Berlin – DVD 287

On the Avenue – Irving Berlin – DVD 292

Call Me Madam – Irving Berlin – DVD 293

Alexander’s Ragtime Band – Irving Berlin – DVD 295

Flying Down to Rio - Vincent Youmans – DVD 285

Roberta - Jerome Kern – DVD 286

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle – DVD 288

Take Me Out to the Ball Game – DVD 294

Ray – Academy Award Winner 2004 (Best Actor, Jamie Foxx) – DVD 296

Autobahn – Kraftwerk – CD 9927

Trans-Europe Express – Kraftwerk – CD9930

Gold – Sarah Vaughn – CD 9928

Mozart: The Complete Piano Trios, Clarinet Trio “Kegelstatt” – Beaux Arts Trio – CD 9929

C.P.E. Bach: The Complete Keyboard Concertos, Vol. 1 – Miklos Spanyi, harpsichord – CD 9926

 

JUST IN! New Music Scores! Cage, Bach, and More!

Hello and Happy Monday everyone!

Here are music scores that have just  arrived at the Music Library – come visit and check them out!

1. Elliott Carter – 8 Etudes and a Fantasy for for Woodwind Quartet
2. Janacek – Mladi, Youth, Die Jugend
3. J.S. Bach / F. Bruggen – 11 Movements from the Sonatas and Partias
4. John Cage – Music for Amplified Toy Piano
5. Luening – Fantasia
6. Malcolm Arnold – Quintet for 2 Trumpets, Horn, Trombone, and Tuba
7. Vincent Persichetti – Parable for Solo Trombone
8. Walter Piston – Three Pieces for Flute, Clarinet, and Bassoon

Enjoy!

 

 

[In] CAGE

[In] CAGE
September 2,  2:00 pm [Studio Theater]
September 7,  4:00 pm – 9:30 pm [Recital Hall]
September 8, 9:00 am [Recital Hall]

Join the AU Music Department in a centennial celebration of John Cage’s birthday!  In partnership with the John Cage Centennial Festival of Washington, DC, American University will be hosting three Cage-ian events!

On September 2nd at 2 pm, come to the Katzen Center Studio Theater to get a taste of Cage’s repertoire with [In] CAGE.  Bonnie Whiting Smith, Dustin Donahue and AU Music Faculty Dr. William Brent, the members of red fish blue fish will be performing.

On September 7th at 4 pm, Tom Delio will give a lecture about John Cage’s percussion work “Amores” [1941].  Following Mr. Delio’s lecture, a series of concerts will cover every decade of Cage’s work from the 1930s to the 1990s.  Steven Schick and the Percussion Group Cincinnati will give rare performances of Cage’s music.  This performance will be located in the Studio Theater at 5:30 pm [free], the Katzen Museum at 6:30 pm [free], and there will  be a feature performance in the Recital Hall at 7:30 pm [$5 with a student ID]. There will be another performance of Cage’s work at 9:30 pm in the Museum [free].

On Saturday September 8th at 9:00 am [Recital Hall], Steven Schick and Percussion group Cincinnati will lead a free masterclass on interpreting Cage and other experimental music that will be performed in the September 7th concert.

For more information about the rest of the John Cage Centennial Festival Washington, DC, visit http://www.johncage2012.com/index.html.

American Composers

We recently got a ton of scores in here at the Music Library. So many that we can’t really contain it to one post. Therefore in the interest of globalism and international unity, the scores will be categorized into American and European composers.

So let’s start with the American Composers, shall we?

Among other things, we received some Elliot Carter and Steve Reich. However the majority seem to be works by John Cage. In celebration of this, I thought I would present Mr. Cage himself playing a cactus. Awesome, right?

Anyway, here you go:

Louis Andriessen: De Tijd ~ M 1543 .A53 T5 1995

Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel ~ M 1531 .F45 R65 2008

Steve Reich: City Life ~ M 947 .R45 C58 1998

Steve Reich: Tehillim ~ M 2019.5 .R45 T4 2010

Steve Reich: Different Trains ~ M 452 .R45 D54 1998

John Cage: Rozart Mix ~ M 1470  .C34 R69 1965

John Cage: Speech (1965) ~ M 1470 .C34 S64 1960

John Cage: Cheap Imitation ~ M 25 .C34 C443 1970

John Cage: Music for Wind Instruments ~ M 557 .C34 M8 1997

John Cage and Lou Harrison: Double Music ~ M485 .C34 D68 1961

John Cage: The City Wears a Slouch Hat ~ M 1527.5 .C.24 C58 2010

John Cage: A Book of Music for Two Prepared Pianos ~ M 214 .C3 B6 1960

John Cage: Hymns and Variations for 12 Amplified Voices ~ M 1529.5 .C34 H8 1979

Elliot Carter: Pocahontas ~ M 1003 .C325 P6 1969

Elliot Carter: Night Fantasies ~ M 25 .C73 N5 1995

Elliot Carter: Concerto for Orchestra ~ M 1042 .C37 C6 1990

Elliot Carter: Symphonia: Sum Fluxae Pretium Spei ~ M 1045 .C378  S9 2008

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Tomorrow we’ll have the scores from across the pond.

First New Scores of 2012!

Martin Bresnick – Pan Penseroso: for 2 flutes and piano (M1021 .B73 P36 2011)

Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto in D minor, Op. 3, No. 11, RV 656: for 2 violins and piano (M1113 .V837 E8 no. 11 1964)

Eugène Bozza – Hommage a Bach: for trombone and piano (M263 .B69 H6 1957)

Arvo Pärt – Spiegel im Spiegel: for cello and piano (M236 .P37 S6 1996)

Arvo Pärt – Tabula Rasa: double concerto for violin, viola, string orchestra and prepared piano (M1140 .P37 T33 2002)

Arvo Pärt – The Beatitudes: for choir and organ (M2079 .E168 P32 1990)

Morton Feldman – Clarinet and String Quartet (M562 .F44 C5 1995)

Norman Dello Joio – The Norman Dello Joio Vocal Collection (M1620 .D46 D46 2011)

Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Messe de Minuit (M2010 .C49 M45 2004)

James J. Pellerite – A Modern Guide to Fingerings for the Flute (MT348 .P45 1988)

William Bay – Building Right Hand Technique: Solo Pieces and Studies for Developing Right Hand Agility and Virtuosity (MT585 .B39 B85 1982)

William Leavitt – Melodic Rhythms for Guitar (MT585 .L43 M4 2000)

Broadway Songs: Easy Piano (M1507 .B8621 2005)

Start off the New School Year with some New CDs and Scores!

New CDs!

Jorge Martin – Cello Music, Yehuda Hanani, cello (CD 9442)

William Schuman – On Freedom’s Ground, includes American Festival Overture, A Free Song, Prelude for Full Chorus of Mixed Voices with Soprano, and On Freedom’s Ground: An American Cantata for Baritone, Chorus and Orchestra (CD 9443)

Still Life – works for saxophone and piano, performed by Noah Getz, saxophone and Andrew Simpson, piano.  Includes works by Simpson, Amram, Lincoln-DeCusatis, Van Brink, Pertout  (CD 9445)

Lines – works for violincello and piano, performed by Carline Stinson, cello and Molly Morkoski, piano.  Includes works by Bloch, Sessions, Harbinson Lutoslawski, Stucky, Waggoner, Weesner, Boulanger and Carter.  (CD 9441)

Eruptions – Orchestral excerpts for low brass.  Includes works from a variety of different composers such as Brahms, Mahler, Verdi, Strauss, Copland, Bruckner and Berlioz.  (CD 9444)

New Scores!

Debussy – 43 Songs for Voice and Piano (M 1620 .D3 K27 1961)

Chen Yi – Jing Marimba for solo Marimba (M 175 .X6 C5 2010)

Classical Pieces or Solo Clarinet – Includes works by Mozart, Spohr, Weber, Saint-Saens, Brahms, Stanford, Gade, Rossini and Debussy (M 72 .C5 2010)

Kronos Collection – Includes works for string quartet by Riley, El Din and Vrebalov (M 451 .K76 2006)

Peter Zambito – Athens Sonata for Trombone and Marimba (M 298 .Z35 A75 2010)

Essential Piano Repertoire from the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries – Includes works by Scarlatti, Bach, Clementi, Beethoven, Kuhlau, Schubert, Burgmuller, Schumann, Spindler, Tchaikovsky, Grieg and Duvernoy.  (MT 745 .E79 2007)

Bolcom – Fancy Tales for violin and piano (M 221 .B68 F36 2010)

John Harbison – Six Motets for chorus (SATB) a cappella (M 2082 .H33 M67 1995)

Prokofiev – Sonata Opus 94 for violin and piano (M 223 .P964 op.94 2011)

Musical Theatre for Classical Singers: Soprano and Baritone/Bass – Includes numbers from a multitude of different shows such as Show Boat, The King and I, My Fair Lady, Sweeney Todd and Wicked. Soprano: (M 1507 .M992 2011) Bass: (M 1507 .M9921 2011)

Lippa – The Addams Family (M 1508 .L547 A33 2010)

Glee – Music from the FOX television show (M 1527.8 .G54 2009)

Yazbek – Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (M 1508 .Y39 D57 2005)

Finn – Falsettos (M 1508 .F22 F32 1992)