This showstopper for alto sax and piano features the best of Gershwin and is ideal for pop concerts and recitals. Titles: * Strike Up the Band! * Summertime * Oh, Lady Be Good! * Fascinating Rhythm * It Ain't Necessarily So * Rhapsody in Blue * I Got Rhythm

This classically illustrated picture book shows a sun-drenched slice of life for a family in the Southern countryside, inspired by the folk opera Porgy and Bess. A black family soaks up the sun, splashing in the pond, baking apple pie, and raising their voices in song at church.

An overview of the most popular contest and recital pieces written for alto saxophone. The material has been carefully selected to match the technical capabilities of the younger advancing player. Levels 1 & 2 are available for each instrument (flute, oboe, clarinet, alto saxophone, F horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, drum), both with supplementary piano accompaniment volumes. Correlated to the First Division Band Course.

Three Academy Awards were bestowed upon the original motion picture and the music from the soundtrack has become some of the most memorable of this generation. Now, for concert band, James Barnes creates magic with "Over the Rainbow," "Ding! Dong! The Which is Dead," "We're Off to See the Wizard," "The Merry Old Land of Oz" and "If I Only Had a Brain." This is a musical must-have! (6: 24)

To provide greater availability for a work of such importance, the original publishers secured from Gershwin a solo piano version wherein the orchestral parts are fused together with the solo piano part (PS0047). Due to concerns that the composer's arrangement presented too many technical demands to pianists not possessing the requisite technique, a modified arrangement was delicately solicited from pianists of the time. (Gershwin's untimely death precluded any modification from the composer himself.) Many attempts at technical modifications were rejected on ethical grounds until Herman Wasserman--who taught Gershwin to play the piano--submitted a manuscript which became this edition. Several prominent pianists who reviewed the score all attested to the amazing reduction in technical demands while retaining the clarity, sonority, and brilliance of the original. This edition is designed for Early Advanced pianists, although some sections, including the well-known Moderato middle section, are accessible to those performing at less-advanced levels.