Classical Vocal Reprints

19/07/2024

H/T William Berger

And today is July 20th... Chris DeBlasio died 31 years ago today, and on this anniversary I have the pleasure to announce that Brian Bonin has managed the publication of these magnificent songs! Buy them, perform them, be transformed by them, because... yeah... they're that good. Massive GRATITUDE to Brian, Virginia Lowery, and everyone else who has worked on this and other CDB projects.

First publication:
Title: Long Island Sound: A Cycle of Nine Songs
and Two Duets
Composer: Chris DeBlasio
Poet: Howard Moss
Voice and Piano: Range of Collection: (G2 - Bb4)
Classical Vocal Reprints 2024, CVR5429

Thanks to Brian Bonin for editing these songs of Chris DeBlasio and Howard Moss. You can read Brian's Foreword on my website here:
https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/products/Long-Island-Sound-Cycle-of-9-Songs-Two-Duets-Poems-by-Howard-Moss-Music-by-Chris-DeBlasio-417558.html

16/07/2024

I am thrilled to be able to offer another work by Florence Price, Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight for SATB Soloists, Chorus, and Piano, Words by Vachel Lindsay, edited by John Michael Cooper. For more information and to order go to my website: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/products/Abraham-Lincoln-Walks-at-Midnight-for-SATB-Soloists-Chorus-and-Piano-Edited-by-John-Michael-Cooper-417539.html?

11/07/2024

Happy Birthday to me! 73 years old today, Thursday July 11, 2024. No, I can't believe it, either!!!

31/05/2024

Journey by Lori Laitman is now available in new editions for E-flat Alto Saxophone, Violin, Flute and Bassoon. Click the link below to order printed copies. 9 x 12 format.
https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=laitman+journey

31/05/2024

Notes from the editor, John Michael Cooper:

I AM DELIGHTED to share that Florence Price's valedictory opus, the DANCES IN THE CANEBRAKES, is now back in print -- this in my new source-critical edition published by ClarNan Editions! Ms. Price actually did not live to see the original volume's release, as it was copyrighted on 3 November 1953 (five months to the day after her death) and likely published soon thereafter. Morever, that edition soon went out of print, and consequently the Dances in the Canebrakes have long circulated mostly in the orchestral version prepared by William Grant Still. Price's own version for piano solo has become hard to get (but no more).
Two features of the volume that I'm very happy with are the reinstatement of the "Cotton Dance" to its original position between "Nimble Feet" and "Tropical Noon" and -- most fascinating -- its inclusion of the only version of the last movement that survives in Price's hand. The latter is titled "Chicken Feathers" rather than "Silk Hat and Walking Cane," and is in E-flat major (with plenty of fingerings provided by Price) rather than the F major of the final published opus. It also contains other, fascinating changes.
Composer: Florence B. Price
Title: Dances in the Canebrakes for Piano Solo
First Edition of the Version in Four Movements
1. Nimble Feet
2. Cotton Dance
3. Tropical Noon
4. Silk Hat and Walking Cane
with an Appendix: Chicken Feathers
Publisher: ClarNan Editions
Catalog No. C135
Copyright (c) 2024 John Michael Cooper
Order here: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=c135

29/05/2024

I am so honored to have received this Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS). I hope to see many of you in Knoxville
June 28 thru July 2.

25/04/2024

Today I learned from Steven Kimbrough of the passing of Carlton R. (Sam) Young who died on May 21, 2023. If you are a musician in the Methodist Church you certainly know of this wonderful man and his many contributions to hymnody and church music.

Carlton R. (Sam) Young (1926-2023) shaped congregational song for The United Methodist Church in the United States — and well beyond the United States — for the last seventy years.

23/03/2024

A new edition of The Blood Jet, my 2008 Sylvia Plath cycle, is now available for PDF download on my site at MusicaNeo.com (also accessible through my artsongs.com homepage). Classical Vocal Reprints will sell the hard copies. You can hear the premiere recording on Naxos' Living in the Body CD where I accompany the magnificent Sari Gruber, Soprano.

27/02/2024

“Libraries are for everyone. That means offerings that thoroughly cover the wide range of human experiences in our societies, not just the ones a small vocal minority deem as worthy.” NYPL President Tony Marx joins Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Public Library to testify about the importance of the at today’s oversight hearing on banned books.

22/09/2023

26/07/2023

PDF downloads of "Lines Written at the Falls" are now available on my site at MusicaNeo (also available through my artsongs.com homepage). Classical Vocal Reprints will sell the hard copies.

26/06/2023

Order here: https://www.classicalvocalrep.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=laitman+money Solo versions are for soprano, mezzo, tenor or baritone with piano. Duet versions are for soprano/baritone or soprano/mezzo with piano.
Both Randall Scarlata and Stephen Powell have recorded terrific renditions — you can hear them on Spotify.