Arrangeur: O. Goodborn. Par KANDER JOHN / EBB F.. If you can't be famous, be infamous Thirteen songs from the 2002 big-screen version of the classic Broadway musical. The movie adaptation of Chicago , released in 2002, won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The film, starring Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Richard Gere, is about celebrity and money in Jazz age 1920s Chicago. Th…

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896). Par BRUCKNER ANTON / DOSS THOMAS (Arr.). Anton Bruckner (b. 4.9.1824, Ansfelden, d. 11.10.1896, Vienna) didn?t have it easy. Throughout his life, the Austrian composer was plagued by self-doubt. Anton Bruckner came from a simple, rural background. After the death of his father, he was accepted as a choirboy at the monastery of Sankt Florian in 1837. After several years …

Par SHERMAN. Mary Poppins ' mixture of live action and animation, together with the exceptional songs from Robert and Richard Sherman, provides a thoroughly entertaining movie spectacle. Julie Andrews's Oscar-winning performance as the title character is exceptional and Dick Van Dyke's Bert, the chimney sweep, is equally stunning (despite that comical cockney accent). Andrew Duncan has put togethe…

Poema Sinfonico per Orchestra. Par RESPIGHI OTTORINO. D’abord élève du Liceo Musicale de Bologne, le compositeur et violoniste italien Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) suit l’enseignement de Rimski-Korsakov à Saint-Pétersbourg, où il fut quelque temps alto solo de l'Orchestre de l'Opéra. En 1908, alors qu’il séjourne à Berlin, il reçoit les conseils de Max Bruch. De retour en Italie, il entreprend un…

Par PART ARVO. The Berlin Mass is intended to be sung liturgically during Pentecost, and includes the Veni Sancte Spiritus specific to that service. The gently unfolding repetition deliberately avoids dramatic and pictorial elements, exuding quiet dignity and a profound sense of joy. The vocal scores have almost no interpretive markings. Dynamics and tempi are left to the performers; it is their t…

Brahms had already announced his ?retirement' from composition when in the spring of 1894 he played chamber music with the cellist Robert Hausmann and the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld. This encounter apparently renewed his enthusiasm for Mühlfeld's much admired playing and inspired him to write two clarinet sonatas in the summer of the same year. It remains unclear when exactly Brahms drafted vio…

A Century Of Piano Music contains pieces graded accordingly to difficulty, originally written variously for concert hall, class, festival or home: miniatures and more extended pieces that show off each composer at their best. Every major artistic movement can be discerned in this collection of easy and accessible piano works by some of the biggest names in British music of the twentieth century. A…

The Rocky Horror Show 40th Anniversary Songbook celebrates 40 years since the making of Richard O'Brien's schlock-horror musical masterpiece The Rocky Horror Show, which made its debut in London before conquering the world.Here are all the songs from his glorious musical tribute to sci-fi and B-movie horror, arranged for Piano, Voice and Guitar, complete with lyrics and Guitar chord symbols.This e…

Arr. Richard L. Saucedo. / Répertoire / Concert Band

L'exposition " Le Troisième Reich et la musique " donne la mesure de l'importance qu'a revêtue la question musicale au sein des conflits idéologiques et esthétiques alimentés par la dictature nazie. Des années folles de l'expérimentation à celles de l'enfermement concentrationnaire, de l'expressionnisme d'Emil Nolde, d'Arnold Schönberg et de Paul Hindemith aux productions restauratrices de Richard…