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Boosey & Hawkes is pleased to present a three-volume collection of John Adams's choruses from his world-renowned operas, edited by conductor Grant Gershon, featuring choral selections from six iconic stage works with newly arranged piano accompaniment by Chitose Okashiro.Adams's stage works are repertory staples at opera houses across the world, celebrated for their exceptional craft, emotional resonance, and urgently relevant subject matter. The LA Times described the role of Adams's choruses in his operas as a powerful narrative and emotional driver: They are the weather. They are memories. They are dreams. They are fears. They are history. They are the governors of emotion.Volume 3 features all seven choruses from Adams's second opera The Death of Klinghoffer, a fictionalized account of the infamous Achille Lauro incident of 1985, in which Palestinian terrorists boarded an Italian cruise ship, held its passengers and crew hostage, and killed an elderly Jewish, wheelchair-bound Ameri

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Boosey & Hawkes is pleased to present a three-volume collection of John Adams's choruses from his world-renowned operas, edited by conductor Grant Gershon, featuring choral selections from six iconic stage works with newly arranged piano accompaniment by Chitose Okashiro.Adams's stage works are repertory staples at opera houses across the world, celebrated for their exceptional craft, emotional resonance, and urgently relevant subject matter. The LA Times described the role of Adams's choruses in his operas as a powerful narrative and emotional driver: They are the weather. They are memories. They are dreams. They are fears. They are history. They are the governors of emotion.Volume 1 features choral selections from Adams's two oratorios, based on Biblical texts: El Niño, which tells the story of the Nativity, and The Gospel According to the Other Mary, the story of the Passion, which the New York Times called an extraordinary work, containing some of Mr. Adams's richest, most daring m

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Boosey & Hawkes is pleased to present a three-volume collection of John Adams's choruses from his world-renowned operas, edited by conductor Grant Gershon, featuring choral selections from six iconic stage works with newly arranged piano accompaniment by Chitose Okashiro.Adams's stage works are repertory staples at opera houses across the world, celebrated for their exceptional craft, emotional resonance, and urgently relevant subject matter. The LA Times described the role of Adams's choruses in his operas as a powerful narrative and emotional driver: They are the weather. They are memories. They are dreams. They are fears. They are history. They are the governors of emotion.Volume 2 features choral selections from three of Adams's most celebrated operas: Nixon in China, a dramatic imagining of President Nixon's epochal 1972 trip to China, Doctor Atomic, which visits physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in the days before the testing of the atomic bomb, and A Flowering Tree, an adaptation

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This flexible collection offers a wealth of excellent material for singing in rounds. All of the standard rounds are represented, including many by master composers as well as anonymous ones. The book is divided into three main sections: rounds with texts, rounds without texts and selected rounds in score format. In addition to a complete alphabetical index, there are separate listings of rounds with sacred texts, rounds with secular texts, rounds about animals, rounds about bells, Christmas rounds, rounds in foreign languages, lullabies, rounds about music, rounds about nature, rounds about singing and street cries. There's even an additional listing of rounds in two parts, three parts, four, five and six parts. This is one collection no music library should be without! From the Kodaly Choral Concept. Includes index based on song content and teaching concepts. Instrumentation:mixed choir

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For use with all B-flat, E-flat, C and BC instruments, the JAZZ PLAY ALONG SERIES is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with:, Melody cue with proper style and inflection, Professional rhythm tracks, Choruses for soloing, Removable bass part, Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has:, An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody), Additional choruses for soloing. Songs: Basstronaut, Chucho, Guataca City, Mariel, Monk-Tuno, Song to My Son, Waltz for Moe, Wapango. Instrumentation:C/B/Eb-instruments and C bass

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40 tangos by the revolutionary tango musician and composer Astor Piazzolla, arranged for solo piano. These crowd-pleasing tangos borrow from classical, jazz, and Latin traditions. The collection includes Piazzolla''s most famous tangos, Libertango and Oblivion.40 PIAZZOLLA TANGOS - press reviewsAnyone interested in exploring this musical media by Piazzolla should look no further... Here is the most complete volume ever printed. - EPTA PIANO JOURNALThe selection of works encompasses a wide range of moods and styles to suit anyone interested in exploring this composer''s tango music. In short, this is the best single volume of Piazzolla''s piano music available. - PIANIST MAGAZINEInstrumentation:piano

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25 Piazzolla TangosFor violin and piano- 25 original tangos- Arranged for violin by Hywel Davies- Suitable for intermediate standard players25 tangos by the revolutionary tango musician and composer Astor Piazzolla, arranged for violin and piano. These crowd-pleasing tangos borrow from classical, jazz, and Latin traditions. The collection includes Piazzolla's most famous tangos, Libertango and Oblivion. Besetzung:violin and piano

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25 tangos by the revolutionary tango musician and composer Astor Piazzolla, arranged for clarinet and piano. These crowd-pleasing tangos borrow from classical, jazz, and Latin traditions. The collection includes Piazzolla's most famous tangos, Libertango and Oblivion. Instrumentation:clarinet and piano

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For years, the tangos of the Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla have delighted musicians and audiences throughout the world. And yet, previously, his sometimes rather demanding music often could only be played by advanced musicians and professionals. Thanks to this edition with easy arrangements for piano, even beginners on this instrument will now be able to discover the world of tango effortlessly. This collection includes the hits Ausencias and Libertango which have already become classics. Besetzung:piano

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