Wormzzz! takes the classroom down to a grass roots level to look at nature from a more wriggly perspective! Containing seven brilliant new songs and dances by Douglas Wootton this lively musical teaches children about the vitalrole worms play in nature. Wormzzz! is ideal for topic work and can be used to support other areas of the curriculum. The matching CD contains a complete performance of…

Romances - Six short pieces for Viola and Piano by Poul Ruders. Programme note According to tradition a mid- or late-19th century instrumental Romance - or Romanza - is a shortish composition of predominantly melodic nature with a slight leaning toward the sentimental.In several European languages such as German French and Danish the word for navel i.e. an unfolding drama in writing is Ro…

Le texte pour chanter comme la Prairie a été écrit par John Neihardt, qui était révéré par Nebraskans leur poète lauréat. Parce que son amour de la nature est évidente dans chaque expression, la musique intègre les sons enchanteurs de la nature et de la prairie. / Choeur D'Enfants (Ou De Femmes) (SS/SA) Et Piano

Contemporary poet Barbara Crooker understands nature and the life we draw from it. Contemporary composer Dale Trumbore understands that nature brings harmony to our lives and beauty to our existence. This composition is a beautiful melding of two contemporary women who understand the importance of sharing their hope through word and song.

Nico Muhly's The Sweets Of Evening (2006) was written for Dianne Berkun and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. This work is for children's voices and Piano. Having worked with this group of musicians many times before Muhly was honored to finally write them a piece. Having sung in a boy choir himself Muhly is fascinated and intimate with the changing nature of young voices and looked for a text that is…

Walden for wind quintet was written in 1978 and commissioned by the Funen Wind Quintet. The title is taken from the American philosopher and poet Henry David Thoreau?s novel from 1854 about living in the woods which Thoreau did for two years.His stay there was an experiment an attempt to strip away all the artificial needs imposed by society and rediscover man?s lost unity with nature. In that p…

Kammeroper Nr. 2. Par RIHM WOLFGANG. Chamber opera does not mean “little opera.” On the same scale as chamber music is to the symphony, it is rather the other way of talking onstage. The movable apparatus permits sophisticated voice-leading. A large ensemble demands simple conception to achieve the complexity it perhaps intends; this can be formulated more sharply and nuanced in a chamber ensemble…

The music for this setting of Teasdale's poem highlights the tension in the text between the beauty of nature and the violence human beings inflict on themselves. In the closing measures of the piece, the composer restates the opening line of the text to reinforce the cyclical patterns in nature: despite humanity's penchant toward violence, the rain will come and spring will begin again. / Choeur …

Walden for wind quintet was written in 1978 and commissioned by the Funen Wind Quintet. The title is taken from the American philosopher and poet Henry David Thoreau?s novel from 1854 about living in the woods which Thoreau did for two years. His stay there was an experiment an attempt to strip away all the artificial needs imposed by society and rediscover man?s lost unity with nature. In that …