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.

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)

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)