06/16/2008
Douglas J. Cuomo's Only Breath in World Premiere by Maya Beiser
On Tuesday, June 24 cellist Maya Beiser performs the world premiere of Douglas J. Cuomo's Only Breath at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, Connecticut as part of her program entitled Provenance . Scored for solo cello and electronics, Only Breath reflects the composer's ...
06/16/2008
Enjott Schneider Performances in New York and Los Angeles
This month Enjott Schneider's Toccata "Schlafes Bruder " for organ is performed by Christoph Bull at the University of California at Los Angeles and the US Premiere of his Requiem pour Erik Satie is performed by the Glass Farm Ensemble at New York's Baryshnikov Arts Center. UCLA organist ...
06/16/2008
Morton Subotnick Featured as Composer-in-Residence at June In Buffalo Festival
This month Morton Subotnick's multimedia works The Other Piano and Until Spring Revisited see performances at the June In Buffalo festival on Monday, June 2. The Other Piano , scored for piano and live electronics, will be performed by Steven Gosling while Until Spring Revisited , for laptop ...
06/16/2008
Surprise Interlude with Joe Duddell
Recently, audiences of the London Symphony Orchestra are getting a little more than their money's worth. In a unique and innovative series sponsored by UBS, the LSO has commissioned a select group of young composers to write five minute orchestral works, each of which is to be premiered completely ...
06/13/2008
Romantic Piano Anthology These anthologies contain original compositions by nineteenth-century composers. Several of the pieces are available for the first time as part of a graded collection. The repertoire includes works by major composers, such as Chopin and Schumann, as well as lesser-known ...
06/11/2008
New Works by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Over the next two weekends, two new works by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies will receive their world premieres. On Sunday 15th June The Choir of Wells Cathedral conducted by Matthew Owens will perform his Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis “The Wells Service” for SATB choir and organ in Wells Cathedral, Somerset. ...
06/10/2008
BBC Radio 3 Composer of the Week: Paul Hindemith
Paul Hindemith’s life and works will be featured from June 9th – 13th on BBC Radio 3’s ‘Composer of the Week’. The five programmes will explore Hindemith’s career from the First World War to his final years, including a performance of his best-known work, Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by C. M. ...
06/09/2008
12 Memorable Themes from the Greatest Movies
Movie Themes Sheet music + Play Along CD Play along with themes from classic films including 'Casablanca', 'Shine', 'Dr Zhivago' and 'Eyes Wide Shut'. Easy to intermediate arrangements of 12 movie themes, complete with CD containing full orchestral backing tracks and live instrumental ...
05/29/2008
Maurice Ravel: Trois Chansons Sheet Music - Mixed Choir The famous choral songs by the composer of 'Bolero' are now available as a revised edition. This cycle, too, is designed for a great climax. 'Nicolette' describes a simple, almost naïve fairy-tale character. The solos of the ...
05/28/2008
Werk der Woche - Toshio Hosokawa: Cloud and Light
Toshio Hosokawa will be the featured composer at the "Mouvement. Musik im 21. Jahrhundert" Festival 2008, which is organised by Saarländischer Rundfunk, the public broadcasting service in Saarbrücken, Germany. This year the festival aims to explore the connection between music and ...
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