In Recital, Throughout the Year, Volume Two, Book 1 by Helen Marlais (2005) Sheet music (The FJH Pianist's Curriculum, Vol 2 Bk 1) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1569394679 ISBN 13: 9781569394670

Publisher: Alfred Music, 2023

Synopsis

Book 1 of In Recital Vol. Two offers tips on recital preparation, a friendly practice guide and schedule, a checklist for playing before an audience, and Steps for a Winning Performance, as part of an ongoing discussion on the art of performance. It features engaging pieces by FJH composers for the early elementary student. Highlights include arrangements of classical themes: Liszt (arr. Strickland), Liebestraum, Nocturne No. 3, Tchaikovsky (arr. Brown), Piano Concerto No.1, 2nd Movement; and a patriotic solo: Sousa (arr. McLean) The Stars and Stripes Forever, plus lyrical solos, duets, and holiday selections. A companion CD of performances is provided. Contents include: Whispering Wind (Melody Bober); The Rainstorm (Elizabeth Greenleaf); A Cat Came a Fiddling (Timothy Brown); Theme from Liebestraum (Liszt, arr. Judith R. Strickland); Riding My Pony (Mary Leaf); Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky, arr. Timothy Brown); The Squeaky Stairs (Christopher Goldston); Jolly Old Saint Nicholas (

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About the Author

Helen Marlais’ active performance schedule includes solo and collaborative concerts throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Her travels abroad have also included performing and teaching at some of the world’s leading conservatories and festivals in Italy, France, Hungary, Turkey, Lithuania, and China. She has performed with members of the Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Grand Rapids, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and Beijing National Symphony Orchestras. Dr. Marlais is recorded on Gasparo and Centaur record labels, and has had numerous collaborative performances broadcast regionally, nationally and internationally, on radio, television, and the Internet with her husband, clarinetist, Arthur Campbell.

She is the Director of Keyboard Publications for The FJH Music Company, and has performed and given workshops at local, state, and national music teachers’ conventions. She serves on two national committees, the National Piano Performance and Pedagogy Committee and the Piano Pedagogy Curriculum National Task Force, and her articles can be read in Keyboard Companion, The American Music Teacher, and Clavier magazines. Dr. Marlais is an Associate Professor of Piano at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, MI, where she directs a comprehensive piano pedagogy program and coordinates all of the group piano programs. She also hosts an annual piano pedagogy conference, featuring nationally and internationally recognized clinicians and performers.

She received her DM in piano performance and pedagogy from Northwestern University and her MM in piano performance from Carnegie Mellon University. She has also held full-time faculty piano positions at the Crane School of Music, S.U.N.Y. at Potsdam, Iowa State University, and Gustavus Adolphus College.

Edition details

• Publisher: Alfred Music
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1569394679
• ISBN 13: 9781569394670
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 999
• Editor: Marlais Helen