HELEN MARLAIS: More Real Music for Kids

Helen Marlais

More Real Music for Kids

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The second in a series of outstanding new solo piano compilation CDs that offer children an opportunity to experience classical music in their everyday activities.

tracks

1 Intrada
2 Rippling Waters (from Pictures and Beyond)
3 The New Doll (Op. 39, No. 6)
4 Sonatina in C Major (Op. 36, No. 1, First Movement)
5 Sonatina in C Major (Op. 36, No. 1, Second Movement)
6 Sonatina in C Major (Op. 36, No. 1, Third Movement)
7 Gavotte in G Major (HWV 491)
8 Trumpets (from Echoes, Pictures, Riddles and Tales for Solo Pian
9 The Shepherdess (Op. 100, No. 11)
10 Minute in G minor (K. 88d/L. 36)
11 Minuet in G minor (BWV Anhang 115)
12 Playing Soldiers (Op. 31, No. 4)
13 Minuet in F (K. 2)
14 Petit Rondo
15 Minuet
16 Rigaudon
17 Arabia
18 Etude in A minor (Op. 47, No. 3)
19 The Fifers
20 Spring Waltz
21 Angloise in D Major
22 Humming Song (Op. 68, No. 3)
23 Minuetto in C Major (K. 73b/L. 217)
24 Little Flower (from Little Flowers, Op. 205)
25 Play it Again
26 Landler in B flat Major (D. 378, No. 3)
27 Minuet in C minor (from the Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook)
28 Allegro (K. 3)
29 Allemande
30 Dance
31 Tango in C minor (from Echoes, Pictures, Riddles and Tales for P
32 Night Journey (Nachtliche Reise)
33 Bagatelle
34 Minuet in F Major (K. 5)
35 First Loss (Op. 68, No. 16)
36 Russian Folksong (Air de la petite Russie, Op. 107, No. 3)
37 Landler in G Major (D. 734, No. 4)
38 Song Without Words
39 Sonatina in G Major (Op. 36, No. 2, First Movement)
40 Two's Company (from Four Little Inventions for Piano)
41 Boys Round Dance (Op. 36, No. 3B)
42 Waltz Time
43 Country Dance No. 2 in D Major (WoO 15)
44 Minuet in A minor
45 Waltz (Op. 39, No. 9)
46 Sonatina in G Major (Op. 151, No. 1, Second Movement: Scherzo)
47 Waltz in A Major (D. 365, No. 16)
48 Rustic Dance (from Five Little Dances, Op. 24, No. 1)
49 German Dance in G Major (WoO 8)
50 Hunting Music (Op. 210, No. 5)
51 Minuet in D minor (BWV Anh. 132) (from the Anna Magdalena Bach N
52 Daydreaming
53 Sonatina in G
54 Minuet in G minor
55 Kitten Play (Op. 117, No. 9)
56 German Dance in F Major (Hob. IX/8, No. 12)
57 Snowflakes Gently Falling
58 Progress (Op. 100, No. 5)
59 Fur Elise (WoO 59)

notes

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.

Visit www.helenmarlais.com for more information.

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