News & Views Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Ludovico Einaudi‘s  “In a Time Lapse” was recorded in a remote monastery in Verona.   The music “explores the concept  of capturing emotions and experiences in a single moment in time.”  (From the back cover of the solo collection.) The music is flowing and relaxing to listen to.   This book of piano sheet music matches the album and includes five bonus tracks;  “Bever”, The Dark Bank of Clouds”, “Sarabande”, “Ronald’s Dream” and “Corale Solo”.  “Time Lapse” is one of the prettiest solos on the album.   Ludovico Einaudi is one of the top-selling and most-requested recording artists with at least 23 recorded albums to his credit.   One of the terms used to describe his music is “minimalist“.  This is a lovely collection to play from for your own enjoyment or to play for others.  For more information about this collection or collections of other modern composers, call us at 1-800-42-MUSIC, email us at keyboard@stantons.com, or visit our website at http://www.stantons.com.  Shop Stanton’s for all your sheet music needs!

While most band directors enjoy the creativity of planning marching band shows with specific themes, music styles, or by specific artists, and our marching band webpage and Listening Library are designed to help with this, publishers usually release 1-2 complete shows each year.  Aside from taking some of the thought out of mixing and matching tunes, and deciding what should be an opener, production number, closer, etc., these shows usually consist of program material that isn’t available any other way, are arranged with a program order in mind, and often include introductions, transitions, and reprises that just aren’t done in “stand-alone” arrangements, giving the show a musical beginning, middle, and ending.  There are three unique complete shows available this year, and each one is worth a listen!  Visit our marching band webpage and Listening Library for more show planning ideas, and shop Stanton’s for all your marching band sheet music needs.

How to Train Your Dragon
From Hal Leonard we have a complete show featuring John Powell’s popular score from DreamWorks Animation studio’s How to Train Your Dragon.  The concert band arrangements from this film have been particularly popular, and the film-score quality translates well to the marching band field for directors looking to balance a popular theme with a more “symphonic” sounding show.

How to Train Your Dragon, Part 1 (This is Berk)

How to Train Your Dragon, Part 2 (Dragon Battle/This is Berk)

How to Train Your Dragon, Part 3 (Test Drive/Coming Back Around)

redHOTradioCITY
Arrangers’ Publishing is offering a creative take on some alternative rock tunes from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Radiohead, and Owl City, hence the show title.  By taking one of the best tunes from each of these bands, creating show-style arrangements of them, and putting them in Arrangers’ Reduced Instrumentation series (fewer parts and range demands than typical Arrangers’ arrangements), Tom Wallace has produced one of the most creative complete shows in recent memory that is sure to hit home with your 30-something parents!

Higher Ground

Creep

Umbrella Beach

Sir Elton John
The other Arrangers’ Publishing complete show features 4 of the most well-known songs by Elton John focusing on his classic Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album.  The show opens with sound effects and the orchestral quality of Funeral for a Friend and Love Lies Bleeding, moves to the driving rock in a hard-hitting arrangement of Saturday Night’s Alright (for Fighting), and closes with the touching Your Song, which is a perfect Homecoming selection, as well.

Funeral for a Friend

Love Lies Bleeding

Saturday Night’s Alright (for Fighting)

Your Song

“What’s It All About” is the first of Pat Metheny‘s albums that contains none of his own compositions.  The recording of his arrangements  was released in June 2011, and received a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album in February of 2012.  Metheny’s arrangements of these tunes uses  solo baritone guitar with some restringing and retuning.   The editor of this collection, Masa Takahashi, has transcribed the pieces so they can be played on a standard six string guitar.  Each piece has directions for retuning for that piece, standard notation and tablature.  If you have wanted to play some of these songs, this will help you to achieve that goal! For more information about this collection or other collections of guitar sheet music, call 1-800-42-MUSIC, email us at keyboard@stantons.com, or check our website,  http://www.stantons.com.  Shop Stanton’s for all your sheet music needs!

Do you need to put a little “spark” in your choral program? Is there just too much new music out there for you to review? Join us for a fun, enriching day of music education with Andy Beck, Greg Gilpin, and Stanton’s own Jen Sper featuring music from Alfred Publications, Shawnee Press and many other choral publishers.

Stanton’s Super Session
Saturday 8/3/2013, 9:00 am-4:00 pm
at Stanton’s Sheet Music, 330 S. Fourth St, 43215
REGISTRATION: $55.00 (includes lunch)

Nowhere else will you find such a variety of new choral selections and teaching resources to inspire and motivate you and your students as you begin the school year.

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There are twenty famous tunes from Ireland in this collection for fiddle.  There is a section discussing the bowing styles most commonly used among Irish fiddlers including an admonition to bow correctly, “for if the bowing is wrong, no one can really dance to the music.” (From the preface, second page.)   One of the finest compliments to a fiddler is to have the people around you start dancing to your playing, then have them ask for more.  This collection includes a CD, which has 2 tracks for each tune.  The first has a fiddle playing the melody and the second has a guitar playing the melody. You can play along to the CD on either track.   If you are already familiar with Irish tunes, you will recognize Brian Boru’s March,  Spancil Hill,   Sally Gardens and more .  If you would like to get acquainted with Irish fiddle music, this is an easy collection to get started with. For more information about this collection of fiddle tunes or others, please call us at 1-800-42-MUSIC, email us at keyboard@stantons.com, or check out our web site at http://www.stantons.com.  Shop Stanton’s for all your sheet music needs!

2013 is a great year for pop marching band arrangements.  Thanks to the resurgence of strong choruses and the addition of infectious dance grooves to today’s pop hits, there are plenty of charts that will be a blast for your band, and be a hit with the stadium crowd.  From current pop song master Bruno Mars to hits by Adele, fun., and many more you can’t go wrong!  Shop Stanton’s for all your sheet music needs!

Beauty and a Beat – Justin Bieber & Nicki Minaj, arr. Tom Wallace

Call Me Maybe – Carly Rae Jepsen, arr. Michael Brown

Die Young – Ke$ha, arr. Jay Bocook or Nick Barratta

Everybody Talks – The Neon Trees, arr. Mike Story

Feel This Moment – Pitbull & Christina Aguilera, arr. Tom Wallace

Good Time – Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen, arr. Doug Adams

Home – Phillip Phillips, arr. Michael Brown

I Knew You Were Trouble – Taylor Swift, arr. Tim Waters

Locked Out of Heaven – Bruno Mars, arr. Paul Murtha/Will Rapp or Victor Lopez

Runaway Baby – Bruno Mars, arr. Paul Murtha

Scream & Shout – Will I. Am, arr. Tom Wallace

Skyfall – Adele, arr. Jay Bocook/Omar Carmenates

Some Nights – fun., arr. Michael Brown or Brian Scott

Starships – Nicki Minaj, arr. Tom Wallace

The Middle – Jimmy Eat World, arr. Doug Adams

We Are Young – fun., arr. Tom Wallace or Jerry Burns

Stanton’s Sheet Music is pleased to invite you to our 2013 “John Jacobson Workshop” on August 1st and “Joy of Singing” on August 2nd – two full days of the best new music from Hal Leonard!

John Jacobson Workshop
Thursday 8/1/2013, 9:00 am-4:00 pm
Columbia Heights UMC
REGISTRATION: $60.00 teacher/$40.00 student, Both fees include lunch

Joy of Singing
Friday 8/2/2013, 9:00 am-4:00 pm
Columbia Heights UMC
REGISTRATION: $50.00 (includes lunch)

Register now online, or contact us at 1-800-426-8742 or choral@stantons.com for more information.

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Robert Lawson Shaw was born in Red Bluff, California on April 30, 1916 – another century, another America.  By the time he died, 82 years later, Shaw had become one of America’s classical music icons – a key figure who helped create a culture of classical music in the United States.

When Shaw was a boy, there scarcely was such a culture outside of New York, Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Yale University, and a few other places.  And a classical choral tradition?  It existed, but its existence was neither broad nor deep.

More than any other single person, Shaw was responsible for this change.  He was the principle re-inventor of the choral art in America.  Shaw did not transform choral music from a hobby or an academic pursuit all alone.  But Shaw made choral music important, artistic, and popular.

Shaw is part of an American mythic tradition that encompasses Jay Gatsby, Leonard Bernstein, “American Idol,” and Barack Obama.  Shaw was his own mold, an American prototype – like Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mohammad Ali, Ernest Hemingway, or Clint Eastwood.

Deep River: The Life and Music of Robert Shaw is a rich and in-depth biography of this complex man and his relentless drive to transform American choral singing.

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Although Memorial Day has come and gone, Independence Day is right around the corner, and that means 4^th of July parades!  If you’re tired of the same old patriotic arrangements in your library, Stanton’s band staff is happy to present a number of unique, new arrangements that are perfect if you’re looking for something different for this 4^th.  Shop Stanton’s for all your patriotic sheet music needs!

America: The Beautiful Stars & Stripes
arranged by Tim Waters
In this stunning treatment of two of America’s most beloved patriotic songs, the theme from Stars and Stripes ripples through the woodwinds as the brass plays the majestic theme of America en route to a dynamic finish.

Fanfare on Battle Hymn of the Republic
arranged by Tim Waters
Tim Waters’ eloquent and powerful treatment of the Battle Hymn of the Republic is a perfect selection for any halftime show or patriotic parade.

A Patriotic Salute
arranged by Ralph Ford
A Patriotic Salute combines five well-known American melodies into a stirring arrangement that is perfect for your next parade, community event, or patriotic halftime show.  Includes The Battle Cry of Freedom; Columbia, Gem of the Ocean; America, the Beautiful; The Stars and Stripes Forever; and Battle Hymn of the Republic.

A Sousa Spectacular
arranged by Dallas Burke
This parade medley by Dallas Burke features some of John Philip Sousa’s most beloved themes including El Capitan, The Fairest of the Fair, The Thunderer, and The Stars and Stripes Forever.  His playable arrangement is perfect for introducing Sousa’s music to younger groups.

Stars and Stripes 1812 Overture
arranged by Shane Porter & Jeff Grant
Two of the ultimate patriotic finales are combined in this high-energy chart by Shane Porter and Jeff Grant.  Features, of course, The Stars and Stripes Forever and Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.

Three Patriotic Parades for Developing Bands
arranged by Allen Gray
Allen Gray’s set of patriotic tunes is designed especially for young band students marching in their first parade with the low brass in unison and limited range (trumpets never go above a D).  Choose your favorite, or roll off and alternate all three.  Includes Battle Hymn of the Republic; America, the Beautiful; and America (My Country ‘Tis of Thee).

Our band staff also recommends adding these practical, perennial patriotic favorites to your library:

God Bless America, Irving Berlin/arr. Jay Bocook
Patriotic Parade Sequence, arr. Paul Lavender & Will Rapp
Patriotic Spectacular, arr. Steve Barnett
A Star-Spangled March, arr. Mike Story
Stars and Stripes Forever, John Philip Sousa/arr. Mike Story

This collection, just off the press, includes many of this year’s top hits.  The suite for  “Downton Abbey“  is in this collection of sheet music.  “When I Was Your Man” by Bruno Mars is included, also “Girl On Fire” by Alicia Keys.  Two pieces from “The Hobbit“  have made it into this book:  “Misty Mountains” and “A Very Respectable Hobbit”.  Stay up-to-date, and check it out!  For more information about this book of sheet music or other popular collections, call us at 1-800-42-MUSIC, email us at keyboard@stantons.com, or visit our website at http://www.stantons.com.   Shop Stanton’s for all your sheet music needs!

At one point or another in their career, most choral directors face the challenge of getting enough male singers into their ensembles. In the entertaining DVD Where the Boys Are: Recruiting, Engaging and Maintaining Those Tenors and Basses, experienced educator Christine Bass presents great ideas for building up the male membership in your choirs. What brings them in the door? What gets them engaged in great singing and what keeps them singing? These practical ideas (from a director who has grown her choirs from 11 young men to 100!) will help to bring those singers through your doors!

More ideas from Christine Bass can be found in her first DVD, Vocal Transformation, or visit the DVDs & Videos portion of our website.  Shop Stanton’s for your sheet music needs!

Stanton’s is pleased to welcome back Mary McDonald as our clinician for the August Church Choral Music reading session! Mary McDonald’s music and talents have blessed choirs and congregations across the country for nearly thirty years.

Mary is a well-known composer of more than 700 choral anthems, many seasonal cantatas, and keyboard collections. She previously served as a sacred music editor for a major publishing company and continues to serve in editorial consultant role for The Lorenz Corporation in Dayton, Ohio. She is published with every major publisher of church music and has had numerous top-selling anthems. Her unique blend of heart, hands, and humor, combined with a wide range of writing and performing styles, keep her in constant demand as a keyboard artist and keyboard and choral clinician.

Your registration includes a packet of over 40 new choral anthems that are hand-picked from the hundreds published each year. We look forward to seeing you on August 10th for a wonderful morning of singing with one of the nation’s most sought after church music experts.

Sacred Choral Reading Session
Saturday 8/10/2013, 9:00 am-12:30 pm
Battelle Fine Arts Center, Otterbein University
195 West Park St., Westerville OH 43081
Cost: $20.00 (There is no pre-registration; you may register the day of the clinic beginning at 8:30.)
email our choral department for more details

Sacred Piano Reading Session
- Also featuring Mary McDonald
Saturday 8/10/2013, 2:00 pm-4:30 pm
Stanton’s Sheet Music,
330 South 4th St., Columbus OH 43215
Cost: Free!
email our keyboard department for more details

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Stanton’s Sheet Music is pleased to announce our 20th annual Excellence in Choral Literature Clinic on Saturday August 24, 2013! This session was designed to help you select concert and contest literature from some of choral music’s most distinguished composers, featuring the best in new music for mixed, treble, and men’s choirs at all levels of difficulty. Registration fee includes a complimentary packet of over 30 titles.

Come join us to discover beautiful music and share ideas with colleagues and friends! For more information, please check out our video below, contact us by email, or call us at 1.800.426.8742. Register online NOW!

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Would you like funding to update your music technology resources? Do you need uniforms or instruments for the marching band? Are you searching for funding for professional development or travel to study abroad? The Educator’s Guide to Grants is designed to help schools and non-profits find funding and create proposals to access funds successfully. Novices just learning to negotiate grant writing and more experienced writers seeking million-dollar awards will find insight and assistance with this guide. A CD-ROM included with the book features a screened list of hundreds of funding sources matched to each grant area.

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Elementary General Music Clinic
Wednesday 7/31/2013, 9:00 am-12:30 pm
Columbia Heights UMC
REGISTRATION: $20.00
Stanton’s Sheet Music is excited to welcome back Cristi Cary Miller as our clinician for the 31st edition of our Elementary General Music Clinic. This is one of Stanton’s longest running and most successful clinics, showcasing the best new teacher resources, song collections, games, musicals and more! We are sure that you will find materials that will keep you and your students interested throughout the year. Get your school year started on the right foot!

You’ll Be In My Heart, the classic ballad from “Tarzan” by Phil Collins is now available in a remarkable setting for more advanced choirs! Opening as a gentle lullaby, the vocal lines build into an expansive concert work with fully voiced choral harmonies and sweeping piano arpeggios. The arrangement builds through several exciting modulations before returning to the gentle strains of the opening. This arrangement is a perfect choice for end-of-year concerts or graduation!

For more repertoire suggestions for closing out your school year, please contact us!  Shop Stanton’s for all your sheet music needs!