Category Archives: Saxophone

A Mixed Bag of New Scores!

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Martin Bresnick  -  Going Home (Vysoke, My Jerusalem) for Oboe, Violin, Viola and Violoncello  -  M462.B74 G65 2012

Martin Bresnick  -  Prayers Remain Forever for cello and piano  -  M233.B74 P73 2012

The Spirituals of Harry T. Burleigh for high voice  -  M1670.B87 S65 2000

Michael Daugherty  -  Deus ex Machina for piano and orchestra (2007)  -  M1010.D38 D48 2012

Michael Daugherty  -  I Loved Lucy (Yo Amaba Lucy) for flute and classical guitar  -  M297.D38 Y6 2012

Michael Daugherty  -  Route 66 for orchestra (1999)  -  M1045.D38 R68 2011

Philip Glass  -  Sonata for Violin and Piano in 3 Movements  -  M219.G53 S66 2008

Osvaldo Golijov  -  How Slow the Wind for Soprano and String Quartet  -  M1613.3 .G65 H69 2011

Jake Heggie  -  Orcas Island Ferry: Suite for Violin/Viola and Piano  -  M220.H44 O73 2012

Jacques Hetu  -  Quatuor A Cordes (String Quartet) no. 1, opus 19  -  M452.H58 op. 19 2012

Katherine Hoove  -  Ayres based on songs by John Dowland for soprano saxophone and piano  -  M269.H66 A97 2011

James MacMillan  -  Sun-Dogs for mixed choir a cappella  -  M1582.M33 S86 2011

Telemann  -  Sonata in F Major for flute and piano  -  M242.T44 S66 1974

Telemann/Wummer  -  Suite in A Minor transcribed for flute and piano  -  M244.T45 O94 1979

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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.

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“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

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NEW ADDITIONS TO THE MUSIC LIBRARY!

The Music Library has new DVDs, scores, and CDs!!!

There’s No Business Like Show Business ~ DVD 281

The Unsinkable Molly Brown ~ DVD 282

Stephen Sondheim ~ Look, I Made a Hat ~ ML 54.6 .S69 S62 2011

Rahsaan Rahsaan ~ Rahsaan Roland Kirk & The Vibration Society ~ CD 9908

Volunteered Slavery ~ Rahsaan Roland Kirk ~ CD 9909

The Inflate Tear ~ Rahsaan Roland Kirk ~ CD 9910

Kirkatron ~ Rahsaan Roland Kirk ~ CD 9911

Of Thee I Sing • Let ‘Em Eat Cake ~ George & Ira Gershwin ~ CD 9912

The Other Side of Time ~ Brian Fennelly ~ CD 9913

Sergei Taneyev ~ Pekka Kuusisto & Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra ~ CD 9914

Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker ~ CD 9915

Wildflowers ~ Tom Petty ~ CD 9916

Aporias ~ John Zorn ~ CD 9917

Jazz Orbit ~ Bill Holman ~ CD 9918

Seems like Old Times ~ Lennie Niehaus ~ CD 9919

Astrud Gilberto ~ CD 9920

The Rogers & Hart Songbook ~ Various Artists ~ CD 9921

This Here is Bobby Timmons ~ Bobby Timmons ~ CD 9922

Julie London ~ Julie London ~ CD 9923

Easy Living ~ Paul Desmond ~ CD 9924

Stop by and check out the new additions to our collection!

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[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.

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Exciting Events in the Department!!!!

Tuesday, April 17th @ 7 P.M.

AU Saxophone Recital

Katzen Rm. 151 FREE

Friday/Saturday, April 20/21st @ 8 P.M.

AU Chamber Singers “Bach & Handel”

Katzen Recital Hall

Sunday, April 22nd @ 6 P.M.

AU Little Big Band “What a Novel Idea!”

Katzen Recital Hall

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New Scores and DVDs for the weekend!

Very cool Musical DVDs:

Medea – a film by Pier Paolo Pasolini with  Maria Callas (DVD 194)

Burn to Shine - various performancesWashington DC 1/14/2004 (DVD 195)

New Scores

Sonata St. Marcfor Trumpet and Keyboard – by Tomaso Albioni (M261 .A43 T73 op.6 no.11 2011)

Ganjin Wayfor Trombone and Marimba – by Noriko Nakamura (M298 .N35 G36 2009)

Kurt Weill - Sechs Songs Aus Der Dreigroschenoper (M468 .W45 D74 2009)

Divertimento – for Marimba and Alto Saxophone – by Akira Yuyama (M298 .Y89 D5 1976)

Six Cello Suites – for Viola soloby J.S. Bach (M48 .B15 S8 1982)

The Rite of Spring – for Piano Four hands – by Igor Stravinsky (M1523 .S92 V47 2005)

Stratosphere – Altissimo Etudes for Saxophone – by Noah Getz (MT505 .G38 S77 2011)

Concerto for Trombone & Orchestra – by Melinda Wagner (M1032 .W346 2007b)

Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios – for High Voice and Piano – by Joaquin Rodrigo (M1614 .R74 M3 1990)

Duo Sonata No. 2 - for Violin and Viola – by Robert Baksa (M287 .B296 D86 2011)

Musica ricercata – for Piano – by György Ligeti (M25 .L54 M87 1995)

The Beatitudes – Arvo Pärt (M2079 .E168 P32 2005)

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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)

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New arrivals: Welcome Week edition

CDs

Iggy & the Stooges – Raw Power (CD 9410)A young Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (CD 9414)

Bob Dylan -  The Times They Are A-Changin’ (CD 9415)

Bob Dylan – Another Side of Bob Dylan (CD 9416)

Gene Vincent – The Capitol Collector’s Series (CD 9413)

Various Artists – The Birth of Surf (CD 9412)

Various Artists – The Stax Story (4CD box set) (CD 9417)

Various Artists – Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 (CD 9418)

Lee Hoiby – Summer and Smoke (CD 9411)

Scores

Jean-Marie Londeix – Hello! Mr. Sax (method book) (MT500.L65 H4 1989)

DVD

Beethoven – Symphonies 2 & 5, Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado, cond. (ML DVD 185)

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New Scores

Schubert - Quintet in A Major - for Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello and Bass M512 .S38 D.667 1963

Georges Bizet – Carmen Suite No. 1 - for brass ensemble M559 .B625 C3 1988

Sergei Rachmaninoff – Trio in d minor – for Violin, Cello and Piano M312 .R117 no.2 1990

Holliger – My apprentice-ship with two kettles M146 .H65 M9 2009

Baroque Music for Saxophone – arranged by J. Michael Leonard M265 .M43 2000

Arensky – Trio in d minor – for Piano, Violin and Cello M312 .A73 op.32 1970

Finale from Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 – arranged by Noah Getz – for saxophone ensemble M1254 .D86 op.95 2009

Samuel Scheidt - Battle Suite – for Brass Quintet M559 .S33 P3 1991

Claude Debussy – Rapsodie – for saxophone and orchestra (piano reduction) M1035 .D4 R5 2008

Hindemith – Sonate - for trumpet and piano M261 .H56 S6 1968

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New Scores

Bach - Complete Flute SonatasM241 .B2 M69 2010

J.S. Bach - BWV 1062 and 1032 – this is an exciting on for music history majors, his  original writing  – M2 .D619 ser.2, V.10

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BACH!!!!

(#326, pretty good for an old guy)

 

André JolivetConcertinofor trumpet and piano reduction - M1131 .J75 1990

Sergei Rachmaninov - Sonata in g minor - for cello and piano - M231 . R12 op. 19 2008

Joan TowerWings - for solo alto saxophoneM109 .T69 W5 1991

Andrew LippaJohn and JenMusical TheaterM1508 .L547 J6 2003

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