Vocal music

From the Wall Street Journal's opera critic, a wide-ranging narrative history of how and why the New York City Opera went bankrupt—and what it means for the future of the artsIn October 2013, the arts

Lyrical account of the day President Obama sang with a grieving nation following the 2015 shooting in a black church in Charleston, South CarolinaWhen nine people were killed in a historic black churc

'An open door to the joyous world of singing.'- Cerys MatthewsSinging is one thing, but singing together is something else. Powerful and uplifting, group singing creates deep human connections and ben

Prokofiev considered himself to be primarily a composer of opera, and his return to Russia in the mid-1930s was partially motivated by the goal to renew his activity in this genre. His Soviet career coincided with the height of the Stalin era, when official interest and involvement in opera increased, leading to demands for nationalism and heroism to be represented on the stage to promote the Soviet Union and the Stalinist regime. Drawing on a wealth of primary source materials and engaging with recent scholarship in Slavonic studies, this book investigates encounters between Prokofiev's late operas and the aesthetics of socialist realism, contemporary culture (including literature, film, and theatre), political ideology, and the obstacles of bureaucratic interventions and historical events. This contextual approach is interwoven with critical interpretations of the operas in their original versions, providing a new account of their stylistic and formal features and connections to oper

(Easy Piano Songbook). This songbook features easy piano arrangements from all three films in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise featuring music by John Powell. Includes: Dragon Racing * Flying wi

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 2019 marks the 25th anniversary of Disney's iconic animated classic, The Lion King, and it is now being brought to a new generation of viewers with a new live action fil