Some New CDs and DVDs

CDs

Christian Atunde Adjuah ~ CD 9960

John Luther Adams ~ Four Thousand Holes ~ CD 9961

Chic ~ Risque ~  CD 9962

Mumford and Sons ~ Babel ~ CD 9963

Mohammed Fairouz ~ Sumeida’s Song ~ CD 9964

A Christmas Story: The Musical ~ CD 9965

Nice Work If You Can Get It ~ Original Broadway Cast ~ CD 9966

Vision Quartet ~ Conicality ~ CD 9967

Sherban Lupu ~ Inner Visions ~ CD 9968

Berio ~ Recital 1 for Cathy ~ CD 9969

Orlando Jacinto Garcia ~ Celestial Voices ~ CD 9970

Pierre Boulez ~ Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite ~ CD 9972

DVDs

Jumbo ~ DVD 332

Love Me or Leave Me ~ DVD 334

Lullaby of Broadway ~ DVD 335

Young Man with a Horn ~ DVD 337

Calamity Jane ~ DVD 338

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.

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 performances – Washington DC 1/14/2004 (DVD 195)

New Scores

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

Ganjin Way – for 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 solo – by 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)

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)

So Many New Scores! And a CD!

CD

On a Sensual Note – Spare Change (CD 9449)

Scores

Fisher Tull – Eight Profiles : For solo Trumpet (M87 .T84 P7 1980)

Tschaikowsky – Variations on a Rococo Theme, Violincello and piano (M1017 .T33 op.33 2010)

G.F. Handel – Aria con Variazioni, transcribed for cornet and piano by R. Bernard Fitzgerald (M261 .H27 HWV430 2001)

Christopher Rouse – Rapture (M1045 R.857 R37 2011)

Kennan – Sonata for Trumpet and Piano (M261 .K45 S6 1997)

Janacek – Capriccio for piano and brass ensemble (M1010 .J3 C3 1990)

John Cage – Music for Piano #1 (M25 .C34 M8 no.1) Music for Piano #2 (M25 .C34 M8 no.2) Music for Piano #4-19 (M25 .C34 M8 no.4-19)

Richard Danielpour – The Enchanted Garden (Preludes, Book 2) for piano (M25 .D29 E52 2008)

Melodious Etudes for Trombone – Joannes Rochut, Volume 1 (MT465 .B6 1928 v.1) Volume 2  (MT 465 .B6 1928 v.2)

Chen Yi – Angel Island Passages ; For Children’s Choir and String Quartet (M1546.5 .C45 A55 2011)

Wolff – Schonen met Veters : For the Workshop (M762 .W64 S3 2011)

A History of the Trombone – David M. Guion (ML965 G83 2010)

Solos for the Trumpet Player – selected and edited by Walter Beeler (M260 .B5 S6 1963)

Alexander Goedicke – Concert Etude; For Bb Trumpet (Cornet) and Piano (M1031 .G43 op.49 1980)

Haydn – Trumpet Concerto in Eb Major (M1031 .H41 H.vII31 1991)

Guiseppe Concone -  Lyrical Studies for Trumpet (MT 445 .C665 L9 2007)

Robert Baksa – Twelve Shakespeare Songs ; for voice and guitar (M1624 .B357 S53 2010)

Andre Previn – Four Outings for Brass (M557.4 .P75 F7 1975)

Stravinsky – Tango for string quartet (M454 .S95 T2 2010)

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)

That void you’ve been feeling lately?…Fill it with the library’s new scores!

Bozza, Eugene– Sonatine pour 2 Trompettes Ut, 1 Cor, 1 Trombonne et 1 Tuba, (M 557.4 .B7 S6 1951)

Bloch, Ernest– Music for Violin and Piano, (M218. B66 V5 2001)

Schuller, Gunther– Music for Brass Quintet, (M557.4 .S38 M9 1962)

Cage, John–Sonatas and Interludes, Prepared Piano (M23 .C118 S6 1960)

Williams, John–Duo Concertante, for Violin and Viola (M 287 .W55 D86 2007)

Faber, Johann Christoph–Suite for 2 violins and violoncello (viola) or 3 violins, G major (M 353 .F3 P3 2009)

Schubert, Franz–Trio Es-Dur (Notturno) für Violine, Violoncello und Klavier, op. post. 148, D 897 (M 312 .S38 D.897 1999)

Gershwin, George–Rhapsody in blue: for Trumpet and Piano (M 261 .G47 R4 1993)

Bach, J.S.–The art of the fugue: Transcribed For Brass Quintet (M 559 .B1186 K8 1989)

Davy, Richard–St. Matthew Passion, for SATB chorus (M 2 .C64362 v.17)

Nothin’ like some new scores to put a spring in your step!

For all you brass players out there, here are some quintet scores for you:

A Suite of Dances by Tylman Susato (early 16th century) for brass quintet, (M 557.4 .S97 M934 1991)

Bach, Johann Sebastion– Fugue in G Minor– transcribed for brass quintet, (M 559.B1186 BWV. 578 1973)

And if strings are more your style, here’s a quintet:

Schubert, Franz– Quintet in A major, (M 512.S38 D.667 1983)