06/11/2009
Gabriela Frank Wins Latin Grammy!
Gabriela Lena Frank has been awarded this year's Latin Grammy for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for the recording of Inca Dances by Manuel Barrueco & Cuarteto Latinoamericano on Tonar Music. Reacting to the news, Frank stated:I am compl...
01/11/2009
Barber Celebration in West Chester, PA
Samuel Barber's Pennsylvania hometown, West Chester, will celebrate his centennial year with the 2010 Samuel Barber Festival in Chester County: a Barber concert every month through 2010. His 100th birthday is in March.Concerts will be at the Chester ...
01/11/2009
Augusta Read Thomas in Louisville
What will you hear this November at the University of Louisville? Music of many genres will fill the School of Music's annual New Music Festival, featuring the 2009 Festival's guest-composer, Augusta Read Thomas. Faculty and students will present a r...
01/11/2009
Antheil's 'Ballet mécanique' returns to Boston
November 18, 1999, was the world premiere of George Antheil's spectacular 1924 composition Ballet mécanique in the original form that Antheil imagined. For multiple player pianos, percussion orchestra, airplane propellers, bells, and siren, the piece...
01/11/2009
Ernst Bacon Performance Grant
The Ernst Bacon Society has announced a program of grants to underwrite portions of the rental fees for performances of orchestral works by Ernst Bacon. Celebrating the Bacon revival — including the recent release of Ford's Theatre on Naxos 8.5...
21/10/2009
Carnegie Hall 's Ancient Paths, Modern Voices
This fall, Carnegie Hall presents Ancient Paths, Modern Voices: A Festival Celebrating Chinese Culture, paying tribute to China's diverse and vibrant culture and its influence around the world. The fest...
20/10/2009
Orchestra Focus: Civil War & Emancipation Proclamation
Civil War & Emancipation ProclamationThe significance of the Civil War to America cannot be measured, ending slavery at the cost of being the deadliest war in American history. To mark the upcoming sesquicentennial anniversaries of the Civil War (20...
20/10/2009
Kapilow Documentary: Summer Sun Winter Moon
SUMMER SUN WINTER MOON, a thought-provoking documentary film that exposes viewers to the reality of the American Indian perspective of Lewis and Clark's legendary "Corps of Discovery" mission, is scheduled for broadcast on PBS during November and Dec...
20/10/2009
Opera Focus: Civil War & Emancipation Proclamation
Civil War & Emancipation ProclamationThe significance of the Civil War to America cannot be measured, ending slavery at the cost of being the deadliest war in American history. To mark the upcoming sesquicentennial anniversaries of the Civil War (20...
01/10/2009
Opera in 2009-2010
The 2009/2010 opera season is shaping up to be an exciting one, with many G. Schirmer composers premiering new works all around the world. Below is a list of dates for the premieres, as well as new productions and remounts of existing operas from th...
16/09/2009
Music Sales Choral Sampler 2009
The 2009 Music Sales Choral Sampler is now available and is essential listening for anyone seeking new choral repertoire. Covering the widest range of new repertoire, it includes sacred and secular music for upper voice, youth and chamber choirs and...
16/09/2009
Bainbridge Hilliard Ensemble premiere
Tenebrae, a new work for the Hillard Ensemble and Arditti Quartet by Simon Bainbridge, receives its world premiere at the Wigmore Hall, London, on 7 November. A setting of poetry by Paul Celan, the piece has been commissioned for the occasion by the...
16/09/2009
John Joubert Choral Music
The Choir of Gloucester Cathedral conducted by Adrian Partington has recorded a disc of the choral music of John Joubert. The disc surveys Joubert’s output, from the early O Lorde, the maker of al thing and the popular There is no rose to his Magnif...
16/09/2009
Talbot’s Ballet and Concerto
In July 2009 The Royal Ballet became the first major international ballet company to visit Cuba since the Revolution. Ballet Boyz Michael Nunn and Billy Trevitt have been granted exclu...
16/09/2009
The Three Musketeers in Tallinn
In its first production outside the UK, Estonian National Ballet will present The Three Musketeers in a series of performances at Tallinn Opera House (pictured) running from April to December 2009. The ballet, based on Dumas’ classic swashbuckling t...
08/09/2009
Danielpour's A Woman's Life ::::: Schirmer News Fall 2009
On October 16, Leonard Slatkin conducts soprano Angela Brown and the Pittsburgh Symphony in the premiere of Richard Danielpour's new orchestral song cycle, A Woman's Life, set to the poetry of Maya Angelou.Having worked together on the premiere pro...
08/09/2009
Lieberson -- Unity Temple ::::: Schirmer News Fall 2009
On September 26, the Chicago Chamber Musicians with baritone John Michael Moore premiere Peter Lieberson's new song cycle, The Coming of Light, for baritone, oboe, and string quartet. The work was commissioned in honor of the 2009 centennial of the...
08/09/2009
Dorman's Lost Souls ::::: Schirmer News Fall 2009
On November 20, Michael Stern conducts Alon Goldstein and the Kansas City Symphony in the premiere of Avner Dorman's new piano concerto Lost Souls. Referring to the work as a "séance for piano and orchestra," Dorman calls on the ghost...
08/09/2009
Alberto Iglesias New Work ::::: Schirmer News Fall 2009
September-November 2009On November 7, 2009, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra features the incomparable soprano and SPCO Artistic Partner Dawn Upshaw with conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya in a program exploring Spanish and Latin American influences.Alb...
08/09/2009
Kernis' Brandenburg ::::: Schirmer News Fall 2009
The conductor-less and perennially adventurous Orpheus Chamber Orchestra opens its 2009-10 season on October 8 with the world premiere of Aaron Jay Kernis’ Concerto with Echoes at Carnegie Hall. The New Brandenburgs, Orpheus’ groundbreaking commiss...
08/09/2009
Mr. Tambourine Man Down Under ::::: Schirmer News Fall 2009
John Corigliano takes his Grammy-award winning composition, Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan to Australia for the premiere on September 11 of a version for chamber ensemble, commissioned by the Sydney Conservatorium of Music as part of ...
08/09/2009
Leonard Stein Anagrams ::::: Schirmer News Fall 2009
On October 13, at Zipper Hall at the Colburn School of Music in Los Angeles, as part of the Piano Spheres Concert Series Gloria Cheng premieres John Harbison's new piano solo, Leonard Stein Anagrams, commissioned by Piano Spheres and donors to the ...
08/09/2009
ART @ BBC ::::: Schirmer News Fall 2009
The 2008-09 season was a particularly fruitful one for Augusta Read Thomas who had eight world premieres in that season alone, including her Violin Concerto No 3, Juggler in Paradise in Paris. This September, the BBC Proms will present the young A...
08/09/2009
Chester Music signs Nigel Kennedy ::::: Schirmer News Fall 2009
Chester Music has entered into a long term publishing relationship with violinist and composer Nigel Kennedy.The new relationship will embrace his existing catalogue, including the albums East Meets East and A Very Nice Album, and his future work i...
08/09/2009
Reviews ::::: Schirmer News Fall 2009
Read a selection of reviews from this summer's premieres and performances! John Corigliano The Ghosts of Versailles "...one is mesmerized by the seamlessness of the movement along the surface of the strip. And why is that? Because composer Jo...
08/09/2009
Scores ::::: Schirmer News Fall 2009
See the newest publications from G. Schirmer, including Barber's Commando March for band, James Galway editions for flute and piano, John Harbison's Concerto for double bass, Shostakovich's Folk Dances arranged for band, and Tchaikovsky's Nutcracke...
08/09/2009
Recordings ::::: Schirmer News Fall 2009
Check out the latest recordings featuring works from the catalogues of G. Schirmer and the Music Sales Group. Nashville Symphony Abraham Lincoln PortraitsErnst BaconFord’s Theatre: A Few Glimpses of Easter Week, 1865NAXOS 8.559373-74Lukas...
08/09/2009
Other Media ::::: Schirmer News Fall 2009
Watch the video previews of the new DVDs from Opus Arte of both Tan Dun's Paper and Water Concertos. Press play button to view video Tan Dun Paper Concerto DVD: Opus ArteRELEASED: 01/08/2009Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestr...
08/09/2009
SchirmerOnDemand: What's New ::::: Schirmer News Fall 2009
SchirmerOnDemand is our award-winning online library of digital scores. Over 600 scores are available for viewing with registered copies of the free Safeguard PDF viewer. VIEWING: All digital scores may be viewed up to ten times. PRINTING: Rental ...
08/09/2009
Tower: Ivory and Ebony ::::: Schirmer News Fall 2009
Between October 11-17 participants at the 2009 The San Antonio International Piano Competition will perform Joan Tower's Ivory and Ebony, the SAIPC's Andrew Gurwitz Memorial Composition. The competition takes places every three years.Joan Tower &c...
08/09/2009
Tan Dun Premieres ::::: Schirmer News Fall 2009
This Fall Tan Dun presents 2 major world premieres. On September 6 at the Grafenegg Music Festival in Austria, Tan Dun conducts soloists David Cossin, Haruka Fuji, Wang Bei Bei, and Zhang Meng in his Earth Concerto for ceramic instruments and orche...
23/07/2009
Chorus Audio Sampler
G. Schirmer Audio Sampler for Chorus Explore G. Schirmer's interactive choral sampler, which contains audio clips of works in our catalog for chorus and orchestra, chorus and ensemble, and a variety of other combinations....
23/07/2009
Opera Audio Sampler
G. Schirmer Audio Sampler for Opera Explore G. Schirmer's interactive opera sampler, which contains audio clips of operatic works in our catalog for a variety of different performing forces, including full evening-length works, chamber operas, and m...
23/07/2009
Orchestra Audio Sampler
G. Schirmer Audio Sampler for Orchestra Explore G. Schirmer's interactive orchestra sampler, which contains audio clips of works in our catalog for full orchestra, soloist(s) and orchestra, chamber orchestra, and more....
23/07/2009
Symphonic Pops Audio Sampler
G. Schirmer Audio Sampler for Symphonic-Pops Explore G. Schirmer's interactive symphonic pops sampler, which contains audio clips of orchestral pops classics in a variety of different categories, including Film Soundtracks, Fanfares, and Holidays...
23/07/2009
Dance Audio Sampler
G. Schirmer Audio Sampler for Dance Explore G. Schirmer's interactive dance music sampler, which contains audio clips of works in our catalog suitable for choregraphy and dance productions.Photo credit: Diavalo Dance rehearsing Esa-Pekka Salonen's F...
08/07/2009
Operas with Reduced Orchestrations
Do you need to program for smaller forces in the pit? Download a four-page guide that will help you get the most out of your instrumental resources. Operas with Reduced Orchestrations downloadable catalogue Acrobat format 150 KB ...
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