Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. Picture a day like this is the fourth collaboration between George Benjamin and Martin Crimp, whose acclaimed partnership produced Written on Skin, Lessons in Love and Violence, and Into the Little Hill. The opera – “a kind of Alice in Wonderland, but for adults”, says Crimp – lasts just over an hour and is cast in seven scenes. It is scored for five voices (S-S-MS-CT-Bar) and…

Par ADES THOMAS. The Libretto of Powder Her Face , an opera by Thomas Ades. The work was commissioned by Almeida Opera and premiered in the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham in July 1995, as part of the Cheltenham Festival. The libretto is by Phillip Hensher./ Livre / Livret

Par MINTZER BOB. Ecrit pour une grande variété de musiciens, 15 facile Jazz, Blues and Funk Etudes va faire appel de ces deux spiring le joueur et de musiciens plus expérimentés. Le plus jeune joueur, un soin particulier est donné à la plage, figures rythmiques et playability.ore ensemble accompli musican apprécieront le niveau élevé de musicalité, les compositions lyriques et les possibilités d'i…

Par KEYSER PAUL DE. Everyone wants to play carols at Christmas. Here are 12 best loved carols, in easy, imaginative arrangements for violinists of elementary standard. Simple piano accompaniments are designed for the parent or teacher of modest keyboard ability, while four of the carols have additional duet accompaniments for a second violin. This is an essential book for class or family music-mak…

Arrangeur: Cho-Liang Lin. Over the wonderfully enjoyably years of conducting, there have been so many fine encounters with the Mozart Violin Concertos - mostly with very gifted players like Menuhin, Oistrakh, Stern and, more recently, Cho-Liang (Jimmy) Lin. There have, however, been instances (only a few, I'm pleased to say) when I've come, in the performances, to dread the onslaught of those cade…