In 1976 Stevie Wonder released his double album Song in the Key of Life. This epic LP contained 21 hits but none bigger than this jazz infused ode to Stevie's daughter. Lifted to new popularity as Stevie serenaded Michelle Obama on the Tonight Show during her final week as the First Lady this new arrangement captures the R&B feel along with the tenderness expressed between a dad and his daughter…

Work for High Voice Alto Flute Horn Harp and Viola. Text: TS Eliot.Quoting Wood: 'I had for many years wanted to set Marina and the opportunity came to start work on it in mid August 1988. About a year later havingcompleted in the meantime the Horn Trio Opus 29 and the Cantata Opus 30 I turned back to the drafts of Marina and completed it on 10 September 1989. It is dedicated to the memory…

The libretto for Giuseppe Verdi's 'Rigoletto' was adapted by Francesco Maria Piave from Victor Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse which was so controversial it had been banned in Paris after one performance. Le roi here isthe Duke a renowned womaniser who seduces ladies as their husbands are taunted by his hunchback jester Rigoletto. An elderly nobleman Monterone curses them both for seducing his daug…

Par PAREDES HILDA. When Paris abducted Helen and provoked the Trojan War, Agamemnon and Menelaus were absent from home for ten years. Agamemnon's wife Clytaemnestra had small cause to love him: he had married her by force after killing her former husband Tantalus, and then gone away to war. On his way he sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia at Aulis in order to be able to go ahead with his enterp…

Two beautiful pieces of Irish influence. Recorded by Gary Ryan on his CD 'Visions and Vistas'.The composer writes:'Out of Clonmel' - Over the past few years I have explored different tunings on the guitar. The instrument sounds fresh with a new tuning and harmonies or patterns that have become stale or are difficult to play with the traditional tuning can suddenly become reinvigorated idiomatic a…

These pieces were originally written in 1989 for the composer's daughter Lucy to play on the Piano when she was nine years old.

The story tells of the efforts of a father to compel his daughter to give up coffee-drinking. The Coffee Cantata was written by Picander and set to music by Bach in 1732. Picander was the pseudonym of Christian Friedrich Henrici a German poet and librettist for many of Johann Sebastian Bach's Leipzig cantatas.

Includes Guitar solo lessons and 3 speed guitar jam tracks to solo sections lessons by Andy James.This excellent DVD will show you how to nail five solos by this metal Guitar legend! The accompanying CD includes Guitar jam tracks for each solo section at slow medium and full tempo so you can learn each solo at your own pace and steadily build up to full speed.Solos include: Miracle Man; No More …

from Children's Corner. Par BIRTEL WOLFGANG. The famous Golliwogg’s Cakewalk is the final piece from Debussy's cycle Children’s Corner which consists of 6 miniatures for piano, written for his daughter in the years 1906-1908. The style corresponds to that of ragtime, a dance which was in vogue around the turn of the century. In the middle section, he parodies several times the beginning of the ope…

A Fairytale Opera In Two Acts-The Thirteenth Child - A Fairytale Opera In Two Acts by Poul Ruders (2014-15). Libretto by Becky Starobin and David Starobin. Scenario by Becky Starobin. Suggested by 'The Twelve Brothers' by the Brothers Grimm. SYNOPSIS Act 1 Scene 1 The neighboring Kingdoms of Frohagord and Hauven are in crisis. Following a warning by his embittered cousin Drokan Regent of Hauven …