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This collection is a winner for recital and audition repertoire. •Intermediate Unfinished Portrait of George Washington: A Patriotic Medley Music by Seymour Bernstein Poems by Owen Lewis Cat.#10101 $8.00 This is the final piece in Bernstein's multi-media work entitled American Pictures at an Exhibition, a second work of its kind in which Bernstein once again collaborated with the poet, Owen Lewis. It begins with Hail to the Chief and then familiar patriotic tunes weave through cascading virtuostic passages in this exciting work. • Advanced • 11 pages New Pictures at an Exhibition Music by Seymour Bernstein Poems by Owen Lewis Cat.#10158 $15.00 Musicians and critics have referred to New Pictures at An Exhibition as a modern day masterpiece. Beginning with a preface about the connections between the paintings, poems and music, and continuing with reproductions of paintings that inspired the music and poetry, Seymour Bernstein considers New Pictures at An Exhibition to be his most important composition to date. The Reclining Woman is a brooding , 12 tone piece expressing the grief of the woman in the painting. At the Moulin Rouge has alternating meter, is waltz-like with can-can quotes. The Dream has improvisatory, dream-like qualities. Mezzetin, in the painting is playing a Baroque guitar, and the piece is a siciliana with ornamentation. Chez Chagall is based on Klee's Twittering Machine with whimsical and exhuberant music. The Madonna, arioso captures the serenity of the painting. Redemption is a slow, melancholy piece with shifting tonality which reflects the emotions of Erna Freelander when she was escaping Nazi Germany and passing through a quaint French village. Guernica's music and poetry depict the Basque town in Spain which was earmarked for saturation bombing destruction by the Germans and contains lamentations reflecting the tragedy and grief of war. The Epilogue is a peaceful and serene ending. • Advanced Fantasy on a Theme by Francisco Seymour Bernstein Cat.#10164 $6.00 The Fantasy was commissioned by the Music Teachers Association of California. The opening eight note theme in the left hand belongs to "Balloons," a choral work by Francisco J. Nunez. The piece opens with descending accented octaves which exuberantly ring out like bells. The middle section wanders darkly and mysteriously through chromatic passages. The next sections are marked contemplative and fanciful, finally ending with frenzied sffz octaves and chords. This is an excellent contemporary etude with similar techniques to some of the Chopin etudes. This piece is "a must" for contemporary festivals. • Advanced • great choice for contemporary music festivals Lullaby for Carrieanne Seymour Bernstein Cat.#10163 $5.00 A favorite among performing pianists of all ages, this piece was written to celebrate the birth of a daughter Carrieann to one of Seymour Bernstein's pupils. With it's Spanish flavor, the piece weaves around fragments of the well-known nursery rhyme, "Ring Around the Rosy." Seymour Bernstein writes "freely, a reverie" at the beginning of this four page piece. He takes the short quote of the familiar children's refrain and weaves it into lovely meandering melodic phrases of varying lengths. Each hand has wonderful parts to play-arpeggios, double-thirds, and meandering triplets. The piece is based on a Gb tonal center but goes through temporary shifts to other key areas. This would be an excellent choice for contemporary music festivals with its unique melodic manipulation. • Late intermediate • great choice for contemporary music festivals Trees - Five Hymns and Poems to the Miracles of Nature Seymour Bernstein Cat.#10170 $6.00 Seymour Bernstein has almost a religious feeling about trees. These pieces express his reverence for nature's miracles. Each of the delightful poems sets the scene, and the pencil sketches further enhance the performer's awareness of what the hymn is about. The beautiful music is mostly tonal with some extended tonalities. The melodies and styles reflect each tree's characteristics. The hymns are titled: The Young Maple, The Willow, The Magnolia, The Dying Birch, The Sequoias. The Sequoias poem reads: Majestic pillars, born in ancient times, for all your strength, the blush of modesty; To think you witnessed all of Sappho's rhymes, and lived when Homer spun his Odyssey. This is an excellent choice for theme recitals and a good collection of art, music and literature for students. • Early intermediate • a good collection of art, music and literature for students Continued on Bernstein Piano 3  <-- Back to previous page