ISM MUSIC JOURNAL NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2021 | NEWS FROM OUR MEMBERS
NEWS FROM OUR MEMBERS We welcome your brief news (max. 150 words) and high-res images. Please email mj@ism.org The next deadline for copy is 26 November 2021 for the January/February 2022 issue
New music theory app Treble Music Theory is an exciting new music theory app that offers unlimited practice quizzes and exams to help prepare you for examinations or just to consolidate your knowledge, writes Clare Lawson. We offer Grades 1-5 for a monthly subscription. As well as full mock exams, you can take short quizzes in the individual areas of music theory, enabling you to work on any problematic areas on an individual basis. You can look at your results and statistics to track your progress! As a music teacher, you can recommend us to your students, and our system tracks results to enable you as a teacher to see which areas need further teaching and saving you valuable time by not having to mark papers! Because it is an online, multiple-choice platform, it provides ideal preparation for the new-style ABRSM theory exams. treblemusictheory.com
New student chamber music anthologies from Nancy Litten After attending an EPTA conference in Vienna, Nancy Litten was inspired to produce two books of trios. They are arrangements of well-loved piano solos, plus two songs and one orchestral piece, and could be very useful in schools and colleges as well as serving as encores for professional ensembles.
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‘The piano, violin and cello parts are all Anne Brontë 200: A Fine and written at the same level of difficulty, Subtle Spirit – A Celebration making these particularly suitable for GCSE or A-level ensembles. The music is in Words and Music distributed judiciously across the three A bicentenary celebration for Anne instruments ... An excellent addition to Brontë will take place in Manchester the chamber music repertoire at this on Saturday, 13 November 2021. level.’ Pianist magazine Postponed from 2020 due to the ‘They are all beautifully constructed ... pandemic, this unique concert Litten has potentially solved one of the event features choral settings of overriding difficulties faced in chamber Anne’s words, written specially for the occasion, as well as new poetry music education when pianists are inspired by Anne’s life and example. considered, and for this we should be extremely grateful.’ Murray McLachlan, Lucy Pankhurst, BBC commissionee of The Pankhurst Anthem, has composed Piano Professional magazine the title work which sits alongside Classical Vienna (grades 6-7) Alfred other new settings by Paul Vowles Music ISBN10:1470613530 and by American composers Cristi Haydn: ‘She Never Told Her Love’, Cary Miller, Judith Herrington and Canzonetta; Finale from Piano Sonata Dale Trumbore. There is also music in D, HOB XVI 37 by John Rutter, David Fanshawe and John Joubert. The performers Mozart: Alla Turca from Piano Sonata in A K331; Rondo from Piano Sonata in are Manchester Musicians’ Choir, Withington Girls’ School Choir, soprano C, K545 Lesley-Jane Rogers, pianists Janet Beethoven: Adagio Sostenuto from ‘Moonlight’ Sonata Op 27 no 2; Tempo Simpson and Wendy Nugent and Brontë scholar Nick Holland. Poets di menuetto from Piano Sonata in G Liliana Pasterska, Philip Watts and op 49 no 2; Adagio from ‘Pathétique’ Edwin Stockdale will perform their Sonata op 13 own works. The event is supported Romantic Vienna (grades 6-8) Alfred by the Ida Carroll Trust, the Hinrichsen Music ISBN10: 1470613638 Foundation and Arts Council England. Schubert: Song ‘Who is Sylvia?’; Saturday, November 13th at 7:30pm. A Selection of Waltzes £15/£12 Bruckner: Fantasie J.Strauss the Younger: ‘On The Beautiful Cross Street Unitarian Chapel, Cross Street, Manchester M2 1NL Blue Danube’ Brahms: Ballade op 118 no 3; Intermezzo op 76 no 7
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