What's new in CDs, videos, and books. (Music Resources).CDs The Silk Road: A Musical Caravan Two CDs, SFW SFW Science Fiction Weekly SFW Safe for Work (website links) SFW Solaris Freeware (open source software delivered in Solaris and supported by Sun) SFW Sensor Fuzed Weapon SFW Suitable for Work CD 40438. Available from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is the record label of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Folkways has focused on documenting, preserving, and disseminating folk and world music. Mail Order, 750 Ninth Street NW, Suite 4100, Washington, D.C. 20560-0953; 800/410-9815, fax 800/ 853-9511, email folkways folkways, term coined by William Graham Sumner in his treatise Folkways (1906) to denote those group habits that are common to a society or culture and are usually called customs. @aol.com. Web site: www.folkways.si.edu Yo-Yo Ma has teamed up with choreographer Mark Morris as part of the cellist's Silk Road Project Silk Road Project, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization, initiated by acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 1998, promoting collaboration among artists and institutions, promoting multicultural artistic exchange, and studying the ebb and flow of ideas among different cultures along the , an exploration of the music of the regions bordering the ancient Europe-to-Asia trade route. If you thrill to the sound of a duduk, dutar, ghijak, or komuz--or even if you've never heard these traditional Central Asian instruments--Smithsonian Folkways offers two CDs of appetite-whetting music. Most of the forty-seven selections feature solo performers; unfortunately, no translations of the songs are provided. Ballet Elite Roger Hewett. One CD, PDI PDI Protein Disulfide Isomerase PDI Personal Docente e Investigador (Spanish: Personal Educational and Investigating) PDI Pre Delivery Inspection PDI Professional Development Institute 021. Distributed by Double Image Productions, C.P. 23583, C.P. l'Heureux, Beloeil, QU, J3G 6P5, Canada. Web site: www3.sympatico.ca/ roger.hewett The Best of Ballet for Ballet Class, Volume 5 Dmitri Roudnev and Elena Balyakhova. One CD, no catalog number. Available from Dmitri Roudnev Ballet School of Chicago/Ballet Intensive from Moscow office; 312/440-3389. Web site: www.BalletRussianTeachers.com Tribute to Madam Two CDs, CD WLS WLS Weblogic Server (BEA Systems) WLS Weight Loss Surgery WLS Weighted Least Squares WLS Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary (Mequon, Wisconsin) WLS Windows Live Search WLS Wisconsin Longitudinal Study 255. Available from ASV Direct, ASV Ltd, 1, Lochaline Street, London W6 9SJ, England, UK; 020 8741 9955, fax 020 8748 2488. Web site: www.asv.co.uk In honor of the late Dame Ninette de Valois Dame Ninette de Valois, OM, CH, DBE (June 6, 1898 – March 8, 2001) was the founder of London's renowned Royal Ballet. Born Edris Stannus in Baltiboys, County Wicklow, Ireland, Stannus began dancing in 1908 at age ten, and became noticed throughout England because of , founder of the Sadler's Wells Ballet (later The Royal Ballet), these two CDs offer the scores of four ballets that she choreographed: The Haunted Ballroom (1934), The Rake's Progress (1935), Checkmate (1937), and The Prospect Before Us (1940). The scores by Geoffrey Toye, Gavin Gordon, Sir Arthur Bliss, and William Boyce are performed by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia The Royal Ballet Sinfonia is the Orchestra of Birmingham Royal Ballet. The Sinfonia appears with Birmingham Royal Ballet in its home town, in London and around the UK, and frequently appears with The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House and on tour. , conducted by Barry Wordsworth. New Ballet Music 7 "From the Heart" Scott Killian. One CD, BDCDNBM7. Available from Ballet Dynamics, Inc., 163 Amsterdam Avenue #234, New York, NY 10023-5001; 800/357-3525, Web site: www. finisjhung.com The latest in a series of master teacher Finis Jhung's ballet CDs features twenty-four digitally orchestrated selections for barre and center exercises. Chakra chakra: see yoga. chakra In Hinduism and Tantra, any of 88,000 focal points in the human body where psychic forces and bodily functions can merge and interact. Suite: Music for Sound Healing & Meditation Steve Halpern. One CD, IPM 8000. Available from Steve Halpern's Inner Peace Music, P.O. Box 2644, San Anselmo, CA 94979-2644; 800/909-0707. Web site: www. innerpeacemusic.com Esmeralda: Music From the Ballet by Cesare Pugni One CD, no catalog number. Available from Adro Labs, Inc., 3200-2 Hillside Ave., Birmingham, AL 35205; fax 205/969-3595. Web site: www.adro.com La Esmeralda, a three-act ballet retelling of the story of The Hunchback hunchback, abnormal outward curvature of the spine in the thoracic region. It is also known as kyphosis and humpback, and in its severe form a noticeable hump is evident on the back. of Notre Dame, premiered in London in 1844. The tale of the hunchback Quasimodo's doomed love for the Gypsy gift Esmeralda was choreographed by Jules Joseph Perrot to a score by Cesare Pugni (one of his 312 ballets). This CD presents more than an hour of Pugni's music, performed by the Odessa Symphony Orchestra of Opera and Ballet under Igor Shavruk. The Passion of St. Thomas More Garrett Fisher. One CD, BIS-CD-1158. Available on the Swedish BIS label through Qualiton Imports Ltd., 24-02 40th Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101; 718/937-8515, fax 718/729-3239, email qualiton@qualiton.com. Web site:www. qualiton.com The American composer Garrett Fisher has based his hourlong "dance opera" on the last days of More, the English statesman who defied King Henry VIII and was executed in 1535 (a tale also recounted in the play and movie A Man for All Seasons This article is about the play. For other uses, see A Man for All Seasons (disambiguation). A Man for All Seasons is a play by Robert Bolt. An early form of the play had been written for BBC Radio in 1954, but after Bolt's success with ). It is sung in English by a three-member cast, each performing multiple roles, and scored for cor anglais, guitar, percussion, and harmonium harmonium: see reed organ. harmonium or reed organ Free-reed keyboard instrument in which wind from a foot-operated bellows causes metal reeds to vibrate. Pitch is determined by the size of the reed; there are no pipes. (played by the composer, who also wrote the libretto). Its two acts are separated by a danced masque, and the character of the Dancer acts as the drama's silent narrator NARRATOR. A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete. . Between the Barres Michael Roberts. Two CDs, MRMUSIC-2. Available from Treble Clef Productions, P.O. Box 94457, Pasadena, CA 91109-4457 Class in the City: Music for Ballet Class Music by the late pianist Lynn Stanford. One CD, BOD 9955. Available from BODARC Productions, Box 191332, Dallas, TX 75219; 214/526-1062. Web site: www. flash.net/~jaydist Videos Dance Hot Salsa, Video 1 (Levels I & II) by hot new star Josie Neglia. One VHS videocassette. Available from 65 Pine Avenue, Box 200, Long Beach, CA 90802; 800/484-2620, extension 4215. Web site: www.latindance.com This forty-five-minute video is the first in a set of nine featuring Los Angeles-based instructor Josie Neglia. Volume I comes with a reminder card that, among other things, advises the male partner to "look macho." Les Affluents Compagnie Philippe Saire. Video CD. Available from Theatre Sevelin 36, Avenue de Sevelin 36, P.O. Box 110, 1000 Lausanne 20, Switzerland; +41 21 626 38 12, fax +41 21 626 38 14, email cie.saire@bluewin.ch. Web site: www.philippesaire.ch This fifteen-minute video adaptation of Philippe Saire's Les Affluents (2001) can be played on both PCs and Macintosh computers. It begins with one dancer standing stock-still while another throws shoes at him. As it continues, the eight dancers clear the shoes off the floor with long poles, play with knives, and fondle fon·dle v. fon·dled, fon·dling, fon·dles v.tr. 1. To handle, stroke, or caress lovingly. See Synonyms at caress. 2. Obsolete To treat with indulgence and solicitude; pamper. one another to the mournful strains of a solo cello. Books Stravinsky and Balanchine: A Journey of Invention by Charles M. Joseph. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 2002. 416 pages. $40. ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 0-300-08712-8. Dance and Music: A Guide to Dance Accompaniment for Musicians and Dance Teachers by Harriet Cavalli. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. 2001. 432 pages, paper. $29.95. ISBN: 0-8130-1887-0. Rhythm and Timing of Movement in Performance: Drama, Dance, and Ceremony by Janet Goodridge. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd. 1999. 304 pages, paper. $27.95. ISBN: 1-85302-548-8. Rhythmic Training for Dancers by Robert Kaplan. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics. 2002. 272 pages, paper. $49. ISBN: 0-7360-3780-2 (includes CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). ) Moving Music: Dialogues with Music in Twentieth-Century Ballet by Stephanie Jordan. Hightstown, NJ: Princeton Book Co. 2002. 392 pages, paper. $34.95. ISBN: 1-852-73063-3. The Performer's Guide to the Collaborative Process by Sheila Kerrigan. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. 2001.178 pages, paper. $18.95. ISBN: 0-325-00311-4. Music Publishing 101: Crash Course, Made Simple & Easy by Regina Smith (updated edition). Miami, FL: No Walls Production and Publishing Corp. 2001. 162 pages, paper. $16.95. ISBN: 0-9677020-1-1. |
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