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Previously only available on rental, this new publication of BarberÕs First Essay (ca. 1930) is a welcome addition to the literature.Set in the original orchestral key, Joseph LeveyÕs arrangement has been performed by several of the most prestigious concert bands.This deserves a serious look for mature groups. ... Read more

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Previously only available on rental, this new publication of Barber's First Essay (ca. 1930) is a welcome addition to the literature.Set in the original orchestral key, Joseph Levey's arrangement has been performed by several of the most prestigious concert bands.This deserves a serious look for mature groups. ... Read more

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Second Essay for Orchestra ... Read more

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Samuel Barber: A Thematic Catalogue of the Complete Works is the first publication to list the entire musical output of one of the most beloved and frequently performed American composers. In this exhaustive study, renowned Barber biographer Barbara Heyman chronologically lists and details more than 100 published and nearly twice as many unpublished works - some until now unknown.

Each entry includes information about first performances, commissions, and the circumstances and inspiration of the composition; the texts of songs; a musical extract containing the opening measures of each work, movement, or major aria; duration, revisions, editions, arrangements, and a select discography of historical and contemporary performances. The descriptions of manuscript sources provide details about the hundreds of holograph manuscripts, sketches, drafts, and significant publisher's proofs with Barber's corrections. Entries are enhanced by Heyman's extensive commentary, which draws from Barber's correspondence, interviews, and diaries. Useful appendices to the catalogue comprise a register of works by genre; an alphabetical directory of works; an index of first lines of vocal works; a listing by nationality of authors and translators of texts set by Barber; and a comprehensive discography.

This thematic catalogue is an invaluable guide for musicians, scholars, and students, providing an essential foundation for any serious study of Barber and his music. ... Read more

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Piano part, 27 pp; Cello part, 7 pp. ... Read more

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Chapters: Vanessa, Antony and Cleopatra, a Hand of Bridge. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Vanessa (1958)A Hand of Bridge (1959)Antony and Cleopatra (1966) Vanessa is an opera in three (originally four) acts by Samuel Barber with an original English libretto by Gian-Carlo Menotti. It was composed in 19561957 and was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 15, 1958, in a production designed by Cecil Beaton and directed by Menotti. Barber revised the opera in 1964, reducing the four acts to the three-act version most commonly performed today. For the Met premiere, Sena Jurinac was contracted to sing the title role. However, she cancelled six weeks before the opening night and Eleanor Steber replaced her, making it her own for a long time. In the role of Erika, Vanessa's niece, was Rosalind Elias, then a young mezzo-soprano. Nicolai Gedda sang the lover Anatol, mezzo Regina Resnik sang the Baroness, Vanessa's mother, while bass, Giorgio Tozzi, sang the old doctor. The premiere "was an unqualified success with the audience and with many of the critics as well although they were somewhat qualified in their judgment. Of the final quintet, however, New York Times critic Howard Taubman said it is 'a full-blown set-piece that packs an emotional charge and that would be a credit to any composer anywhere today.' ". Other reports substantiate this and it won Barber the Pulitzer Prize. In Europe, however, it met with a chillier reception. The Met's Cecil Beaton sets were destroyed by fire in 1973 and, after a long period of few revivals, one being in 1988 by the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, the Washington National Opera (in a co-production with the Dallas Opera) revived the work in 1995 using the 1964 revised and more compact ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=753177 ... Read more

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Chapters: John Adams, Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Ornette Coleman, Virgil Thomson, George Crumb, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Wynton Marsalis, Ned Rorem, Elliott Carter, Ernst Toch, Karel Husa, Dominick Argento, Mario Davidovsky, Howard Hanson, Walter Piston, Charles Wuorinen, Gian Carlo Menotti, Norman Dello Joio, William Schuman, Steven Stucky, Morton Gould, Henry Brant, Joseph Schwantner, William Bolcom, Roger Sessions, Bernard Rands, Paul Moravec, Douglas Moore, Robert Ward, John Harbison, Quincy Porter, John Corigliano, Gunther Schuller, Leo Sowerby, David Lang, Michael Colgrass, Christopher Rouse, Donald Martino, Mel Powell, Jacob Druckman, George Perle, Yehudi Wyner, David Del Tredici, Stephen Albert, Aaron Jay Kernis, Roger Reynolds, Gail Kubik, Shulamit Ran, John La Montaine, George Walker, Melinda Wagner, Wayne Peterson, Leslie Bassett, Lewis Spratlan, Richard Wernick, Synchronisms No. 6 for Piano and Electronic Sound. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 342. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 December 2, 1990) was an American nationalist composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers". Copland's music achieved a balance between modern music and American folk styles. The open, slowly changing harmonies of many of his works are said to evoke the very vast American landscape. He also incorporated percussive orchestration, changing meter, polyrhythms, polychords, and tone rows in a broad range of works for concert hall, theater, ballet, and films. Aside from composing, Copland was a teacher, lecturer, critic, writer, and conductor (generally, but not always, of his own works). Aaron Copland Sch...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=51298 ... Read more

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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Charles Lindbergh, Carl Sagan, Toni Morrison, Margaret Mitchell, Samuel Barber, Pearl S. Buck, Norman Mailer, Ernest Hemingway, Ornette Coleman, Charles Krauthammer, Oscar Hammerstein, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Barbara Tuchman, Jane Smiley, Louis Bromfield, Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, John Updike, Bob Dylan, Ned Rorem, Sylvia Plath, John F. Kennedy, John Steinbeck, Michael Chabon, Philip Roth, Seymour Hersh, Alice Walker, Cormac McCarthy, Tennessee Williams, Gary Webb, Dave Barry, Wallace Stevens, Thomas L. Friedman, Upton Sinclair, Eugene O'Neill, Judith Miller, Rita Dove, Arthur Miller, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Frost, Hank Williams, Henry Adams, David Mamet, Thornton Wilder, Edward Osborne Wilson, Jack Anderson, Doug Wright, Gunther Schuller, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Ernst Toch, Harvey Cushing, Jared Diamond, Edward Albee, John J. Pershing, John E. Mack, Walter Piston, Horton Foote, Wallace Stegner, Richard Rodgers, Neil Simon, John Hope Franklin, Maxwell Anderson, W. H. Auden, Abraham Michael Rosenthal, Edith Wharton, Stephen Sondheim, Sam Shepard, William Carlos Williams, James M. McPherson, Art Spiegelman, Elliott Carter, Walter Lippmann, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Gian Carlo Menotti, Raymond Depardon, Saul Friedländer, Willa Cather, William Schuman, Karel Husa, Carl Sandburg, Ron Suskind, William Allen White, Bert Hölldobler, Studs Terkel, William Safire, Saul Bellow, Art Buchwald, Erik H. Erikson, Kevin Carter, Herman Wouk, Vernon Louis Parrington, Appalachian Spring, Marvin Hamlisch, Morton Gould, Van Wyck Brooks, Stephen Albert, Moss Hart, Wynton Marsalis, Bob Woodward, Stephen Vincent Benét, Katherine Anne Porter, Yusef Komunyakaa, Archibald MacLeish, Howard Hanson, Jahangir Razmi, H...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=75548 ... Read more

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Chapters: Claude Debussy, Georges Bizet, Hector Berlioz, Samuel Barber, Charles Gounod, Paul Paray, Marcel Dupré, Henri Dutilleux, Rolande Falcinelli, Jules Massenet, Fromental Halévy, Nadia Boulanger, André Caplet, Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray, Ferdinand Hérold, Théodore Dubois, Jacques Castérède, Ernest Guiraud, Ambroise Thomas, Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, Jacques Ibert, Lili Boulanger, Gabriel Pierné, Florent Schmitt, André Gedalge, Jean-Michel Damase, Georges Hüe, Gustave Charpentier, Henri Rabaud, Arthur Levering, Jean Roger-Ducasse, Émile Paladilhe, Emile Pessard, Alfred Desenclos, Michel Decoust, Philippe Gaubert, Paul-Henri-Joseph Lebrun, Aimé Maillart, Paul Vidal, François Bazin, François Benoist, Eugène Bozza, Marcel Tournier, Charles Dancla, Marcel Samuel-Rousseau, Auguste Mathieu Panseron, Mark Kilstofte, Charles-Édouard Lefebvre, Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard, Xavier Leroux, Gabriel Dupont, Paul Pierné, Pierre Max Dubois, Pierre Gabaye, Victor Massé, Édouard Batiste, Maurice le Boucher, Marcel Bitsch, Aymé Kunc, Léon Gastinel. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 259. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 March 8, 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts (Requiem). Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a conductor, he performed several concerts with more than 1,000 musicians. He also composed around 50 songs. Hector Berlioz was born in France at La Côte-Saint-André in the département of Isère, near Lyon. His father, a respected provincial physician and scholar, was responsible for much of the young Berlioz's education. His father was an ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=53424 ... Read more

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Title: Samuel Barber and Benjamin Britten - A Listener's Guide: Their Lives and Their Music (Parallel Lives) (w/CD).(Book Review)
Author: Ernest Kramer
Publication: American Music Teacher (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 55Issue: 2Page: 79(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Chapters: Curtis Institute of Music Alumni, Curtis Institute of Music Faculty, Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber, Nino Rota, Mark Lawrence, Ned Rorem, Betty Allen, Vincent Persichetti, Juan Diego Flórez, Hilary Hahn, Lang Lang, Jean Kraft, Daron Hagen, Rose Bampton, Gianna Rolandi, Yuja Wang, Gian Carlo Menotti, Frank Guarrera, Margaret Harshaw, Yoonjung Han, Alan Gilbert, Jacques Singer, Anna Moffo, Jorge Bolet, Sean Kennard, Shura Cherkassky, Lee Hoiby, David Horne, Jennifer Higdon, Shuler Hensley, Joseph Alessi, Jesse Ceci, Arnold Jacobs, Tim Fain, Natalie Bodanya, Katherine Ciesinski, Lukas Foss, Anton Torello, Michael Stern, Tim Cobb, Susan Starr, Andre-Michel Schub, Chin Kim, Peter Serkin, Stanley Hollingsworth, Jonathan Biss, Benita Valente, Cecile Licad, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Leila Josefowicz, Carter Brey, Jennifer Stumm, Rinat Shaham, Paul Jacobs, Ilkka Talvi, David Brooks, Juan Carlos Lomonaco, Ellen Faull, Vinson Cole, Tõnu Kalam, Warren Benfield, Anshel Brusilow, Alexander Mccurdy, Leslie Spotz, Leonard Rose, Leonard Kastle, Jennifer Koh, Sylvan Levin, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Eugene Istomin, Janet Perry, James Adler, Lorne Munroe, Richard Goode, Florence Kirk, Virginia Macwatters, Janee Munroe, Anthony Mcgill, Frank Miller, David Shifrin, Eleanor Sokoloff, Leonard Treash, Nicolas Chumachenco, Sean Osborn, Richard Elliott, Arnold Steinhardt, William Cochran, George Chandler Chase, Ken Cowan, Marion Zarzeczna, Kit Armstrong, David Barnett, Judy Kang, Leon Mccawley, Burt Hara, David Ludwig, Alan Morrison, David N. Johnson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 408. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Leonard Bernstein (pronounced , dict: ; August 25, 1918 October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and edu...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=43282 ... Read more