New music reviewed in April 2007
(S1) My First Piano Adventures, Lesson Book A for the Young Beginner, and Writing Book A, by Nancy and Randall Faber. F.J.H.
(S1) Music in Me, Level One, Five Volumes, by Carol Tornquist. Word Music/Hal Leonard
(S1) Teaching Little Fingers to Play Songs from Many Lands and Teaching Little Fingers to Play More Songs from Many Lands arranged by Carolyn Setliff. Willis
(S2) Alfred’s Premier Piano Course, Lesson 2B and Theory 2B by Dennis Alexander, Gayle Kowalchyk, E.L. Lancaster, Victoria McArthur, and Matha Mier, edited by Morton Manus. Alfred
(S2-3) Get Ready for One-Octave Scale Duets! by Wynn-Anne Rossi and Lucy Wilde Warren. F.J.H.
(S3) Sight Reading and Rhythm Every Day, Book 4A by Kevin Olson, edited by Helen Marlais. F.J.H.
(S3) Folk Songs from China by Susan Cheung. Futurific Music
(S3) Snow Dance by Timothy Brown. F.J.H.
(S3-4) The Young Richard Strauss: Early Piano Pieces, Volume Two. Schott/Hal Leonard
(S3-4) Minnesota Moments by Joyce Grill. Alfred
(S3-4) Rhapsody Royale by Carolyn Setliff and Jazz Dance by Larry Minsky. Alfred
(S3-5) Schule der Geläufigkeit (School of Velocity) Op. 299 and Vorschule der Geläufigkeit Op. 849 (Preliminary School of Velocity) by Carl Czerny. Schott/Hal Leonard
(S3-5) Peaceful Valley by Cecil Steffen. Alliance Publications
(S3-6) Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach and Inventions and Sinfonias by Johann Sebastian Bach, edited by Georg von Dadelsen. Bärenreiter
(S4) Les Petite Images by Jennifer Linn, edited by Margaret Otwell. Hal Leonard
(S4) Foot-Stampin’ Rag by Robert Kelley. Willis
(S4-5) Piano Preludes arranged by Gina Sprunger. SoundForth
(S4-5) Draw Me Nearer Medley and Wonderful Peace arranged by Jenifer Cook. SoundForth
(S4) Silhouette by Eugene Englert. Willis
(S4-5) Sonorous Sketches from the Four Winds and Two Tone Pictures by Ejnar Krantz. Alliance Publications
(S4-5) Succeeding with the Masters, Romantic Era, Volume Two, edited by Helen Marlais. F.J.H.
(S4-5) Album for the Young, Op. 39 by Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky, edited by Oxana Yablonskaya. International
(S5) Estampes by Claude Debussy, edited by Roy Howat. Durand/Hal Leonard
(S5-6) Four Pieces by William Bland. New Rochelle/Presser
(E3) Ostinato Barbaro by Robert D. Vandall. Alfred
(E4) A Carmen Celebration for One Piano, Four Hands arranged by Kevin Olson. F.J.H.
(S3) A Young Person’s Guide to the Pipe Organ (A Royal Tour) by Randolph Currie. Wayne Leupold Editions
(S6) An Introduction to the Organ Music of Louis Vierne selected, annotated, and edited on three staves by Rollin Smith. Wayne Leupold Editions