Bøger af Bernard R. Crane

a collection of representative songs from Helen Crane's late period - all are English: three groupings - "Love Poems of Marie von Vorst", "Old English Songs" featuring pre-nineteenth century poets; texts by Shakespeare, Campion, Dekker, Robert Herrick; then, "Newer English Songs" encompassing poets nineteenth century to time of composition: about 1923. poetic texts by W.B. Yeats, Francis Thompson, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth Austin Dobson, William Watson & Katherine Hinkson. The pieces are written with the medium voice in mind, with a range between middle C and F an octave and a fourth above. Early pieces have a Wolf - ian lyricism and the latter are more adventuresome harmonically but remain tonal and very accessible.

a collection of representative songs from Helen Crane's early and middle periods; seven are settings of German poetic texts with literal translations to aid in interpretation; one of the songs is in English. Poets represented are Felicia Dorothea Hermans, Wilhelm Langewiesche, Marie van Vorst, Friedrich von Sallet, and Joanna Ambrosius Voigt. The pieces are written with the medium voice in mind, with a range between middle C and F an octave and a fourth above. Early pieces have a Wolf - ian lyricism and the latter are more adventurous harmonically but remain tonal and very accessible. Excellent concert / recital material.

A taste of recently re-discovered American composer Helen Crane's music for cello with piano accompaniment. Experience the many moods and unique characteristics of her music. . Ms. Crane (1868 - 1930) was a New York native who studied composition under Philip Scharwenka at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin in the 1890's. With the completion of her studies she was accepted for publication by numerous publishing houses: Breitkopf & Hertel, Gustav Vetter, Ries & Erler. In this release of her music such notable pieces as her "Morgenstandchen" op.16, a carefree morning serenade with a lovely arpeggiated B section; also included are all of her "Six Idylls for Cello" op.51. PLEASE NOTE: This is Cello part only; Full Score is available for separate purchase.

Recently re-discovered composer Helen C. Crane (1868-1930) makes her 21st century debut with this collection of her piano works. A talented student of music, Ms. Crane was chosen to study composition in the 1890s with Philipp Scharwenka, pianist, composer and then director of the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin, Germany. Here she studied alongside later notables like Otto Klemperer who was one of her contemporaries. With the completion of studies her budding career was met with numerous accolades and acceptance into the various German & Austrian publishing houses: among these Breitkopf & Hertel, Gustav Vetter, and Ries & Erler. On one of her trips home to the States (April of 1900) she premiered several of her pieces at Mendellsohn Hall in NYC and herself conducted an American premier of her orchestral tone-poem "The Last Tournament", based upon the same named chapter of Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Idylls Of The King" Her career was marked with well-met premiers in Germany and Austria and she was honored to have her music performed by the Berlin Philharmonic at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904. Her career appeared quite vibrant until the First World War brought it all to a close. She returned to the United States in 1917 where in spite of the horrific turn of events she once again was the recipient of an award: this time American. Federated Music Clubs awarded her first prize for her composition "Elegy for Cello". In the last decade of her life (1923) indicative of her success and her abiding appreciation to German-Austrian audiences, she was gifted an "all-Helen Crane" concert at the Mozarteum in Salzberg, with Dr. Bernhard Paumgartner conducting. She passed in November of 1930 at her home in Scarsdale, NY. She accomplished a great deal in her four-decade career, her music encompassing 71 numbered works: music for piano, violin, cello, string quartets, tone-poems for orchestra, art songs, works for choir as well as for orchestra and chorus and two symphonies. Her piano music gives a unique insight into her marvelous talent and reveals a heretofore unheard American strain: the unique marriage of Helen Crane's American taste and sensibilities and her German conservatory training. It is apparent upon playing and/or listening to her music that here was fertile ground for the blossoming of all manner of future American music styles, from music for the cinema to jazz and unique styles of George Gershwin and perhaps Irving Berlin.