Container of (expression): Fugue, organ, C major (Sechs kleine Fugen. No. 1); arranged. Londonderry air.
Notes:
Compact discs. Biographical information about the conductor ([8] pages : portrait) inserted in container. Michigan State University Symphony Orchestra ; Leon Gregorian, conductor.
Contents:
Disc 1. Grade 1. Three tunes from Shakespeare's England / Nicholas Hare. Canyon sunset / John Caponegro -- Cripple Creek / Edmund Siennicki -- Dorchester street songs / Gregg A. Porter -- Little symphony / Carold Nuñez -- Lock Lomond / Noah Klauss -- March of the metro gnome / Fred M. Hubbell -- Three tunes from Shakespeare's England / Nicholas Hare. Disc 2. Grade 2. When Johnny comes home marching / Richard Stephan. Merle Isaac -- "Can can" from Orpheus in the underworld / Jacques Offenbach ; Richard Meyer -- "Dance of the tumblers" from Snow maiden / Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ; Sandra Dackow -- Danny boy / Harry Alshin -- "Entrance of the Queen of Sheba" from Solomon / G.F. Handel -- Fanfare and frippery / Richard Stephan -- Kingsbridge march / William Dyson -- Little bit of--space--time, A / Samuel Adler -- Little fugue / George Frideric Handel ; Edmund Siennicki -- Petite tango / Casimer B. Kriechbaum, Jr. -- Rejoussance, La / George Frideric Handel ; Richard Meyer -- Rondeau (theme from "Masterpiece theater") / Jean-Joseph Mouret ; Vernon Leidig -- "See, the conquering hero comes" from Judas Maccabaeus / G.F. Handel ; Edward Jurey & Franck Erickson -- Simple gifts / Marcha Chusmir Shapiro -- Sinfonia from Trio in A minor / G.P. Telemann ; Robert Bennett Brown -- Variations on a ground / Marsha Chusmir Shapiro -- Westminster prelude and fugue / David Shaffer -- When Johnny comes home marching / Richard Stephan. Disc 3. Grade 3. "Grand march" from Aida / Merle Isaac. A "bark" gigue / Ralph Hultgren -- Brendenburg concerto no. 3 in G major / J.S. Bach ; Merle Isaac -- Contredanse / Antonio Salieri -- Danza / Vaclav Nelhybel --Fantasia on an original theme / Joseph Phillips -- Farandole from l'arlésienne suite no. 2 / Georges Bizet -- Folk tune & Fiddle dance / Percy Fletcher -- Four royal dances / Eric Ewazen -- Good daughter overture / Niccolò Piccini -- "Grand march" from Aida / Giuseppe Verde [i.e. Verdi] ; Merle Isaac. Disc 4. Grade 3. Vier kleine Stücke / Karel Husa. Lullaby / William Holfeldt -- M to the third power / Carold Nuñez -- "March to the scaffold" from Symphonie fantastique / Hector Berlioz ; Anthony Carter -- Modus à 4 / Shirl Joe Atwell -- "Russian sailors' dance" from the Red Poppy / Reinhold Glière -- Serenade for strings ; St. Lawrence overture / Robert Washburn -- Stringtown stroll / Doris Gazda -- Ten pieces for children / Béla Bartók ; Leo Weiner -- Vier kleine Stücke / Karel Husa.
Summary:
"This four-CD set contains premier recordings of 46 of the most significant works for Orchestra and String Orchestra ever composed, Grades 1 through 3, as selected by Michael Allen ... For more information about each piece, as well as conducting insights, refer to the book, Teaching Music through Performance in Orchestra, Volume 1"--Container.
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