Feldman / Crumb / Steven Osborne - Palais De Mari/A Little Suite For Christmas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

African and Afro-American Drums is an examination of African drumming and it's influence on the music of the Americas. Representing eight countries in the American continents, Harold Courlander has compiled an anthology of drum music from three continents and explores it's various uses as well as chronicles the evolution of drum music. Extensive liner notes accompany this album and include a transcription of Haitian Juba Dance drums by George Herzog. Album Tracks 1. Ceremonial Drums 2. Ceremonial Drums 3. Dance Drums 4. Stamping Tubes 5. Harvest Festival 6. Salute to a Chief 7. Drums for the Deity Orishania 8. Dance Drums 9. Slit-Log Talking Drum 10. Ndlamu Dance Drums 11. Festival Drumming 12. Djuka Dance Drums 13. Jumping Dance Drums 14. Djuka Dance Drums 15. Lucumi 16. Quitta Seche Dance Drums 17. Juba Dance Drumming 18. Cuminia Drums 19. Drum Rhythms for the Deity Eshu 20. Drum Rhythms for the Deity Ogoun 21. Bamboula Dance Drums 22. Djuka Drums 23. Jazz Drumming 24. Street Band Drumming

Christmas Favorite Classics For almost two thousand years people around the world have been gathering to celebrate the Christmas season. These celebrations are as varied as their countries of origin but share at least two common threads, the birth of Jesus and the desire to celebrate this event in music. Carols such as Silent Night, O Holy Night or Ave Maria are sung throughout the world and need little introduction. Many of the tracks on this disc are less known but great Christmas carols. Album Tracks 1. King Jesus Hath a Garden By Elora Festival Singers 2 29 2. Hodie Christus Natus Est, SWV 456 By Washington Choral Arts Society 6 08 3. Herz Und Mund Und Tat Und Leben, BWV 147 Chorale Jesus Bleibet Meine Freude (Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring) (Arr. M. Hess for Piano) By Eteri Andjaparidze 3 16 4. Nesciens Mater Virgo Virum By Elora Festival Singers 3 50 5. Noëls Sur Les Instruments, H. 534 Vous Qui Désirez Sans Fin By Aradia Ensemble 2 25 6. Czech Christmas Mass, InchHail, Master!Inch Agnus Dei By Dagmar Vankátová 3 24 7. Angels from the Realms of Glory (Arr. P. Ledger for Choir) Angels, from the Realms of Glory (Arr. P. Ledger for Choir) By Trinity Church Choir, New York 3 00 8. Sussex Carol On Christmas Night (Arr. P. Ledger for Choir and Organ) By Trinity Church Choir, New York 1 56 9. Noëls Sur Les Instruments, H. 534 Laissez Paistre Vos Bêtes By Aradia Ensemble 2 36 10. Der Lindenbaum (The Linden Tree Carol) (Sung in English) By Elora Festival Singers 1 41 11. Christus, Op. 97, MWV A26 Chorus There Shall a Star Come Out of Jacob (Sung in English) By Washington Choral Arts Society 5 20 12. Ave Maria (Arr. D. Sosin for Flute and Harp) By Nora Shulman 3 05 13. Czech Christmas Mass, InchHail, Master!Inch Záver (Final Chorus) By Czech Madrigalists Choir 2 37 14. Es Ist Ein Ros' Entsprungen (The World's Fair Rose) By German Boy

Album Tracks 1. Patapan 2. Three Kings of Orient 3. What Child Is This 4. Nowell We Sing 5. Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming 6. The Holly and the Ivy 7. Adeste, Fideles-O Come, All Ye Faithful 8. Joy to the World 9. Lullaby My Liking 10. Good King Wenceslas 11. Silent Night, Holy Night 12. Go Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen 13. Medley Welcome Here/Merry Christmas/Dame Get Up and Bake Your Pies/Christmas Is Coming 14. Angels We Have Heard on High 15. We Wish You a Merry Christmas 16. Adeste, Fideles-O Come, All Ye Faithful 17. The First Nowell 18. Christmas Chimes 19. Medley Hark! the Herald Angels Sing/Angels We Have Heard on High 20. Medley Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly/Jingle Bells 21. Away in a Manger 22. Three Kings of Orient 23. O Little Town of Bethlehem 24. O Holy Night 25. Medley It Came Upon the Midnight Clear/Away in a Manger 26. O Tannenbaum 27. We Wish You a Merry Christmas (Reprise)