"Miss Grant has made more information available in one book than we have ever had before. Teacher's organizations would do well to consider the use of Miss Grant's Technical Manual as an official textbook." Dance Magazine
Teacher recommended, Gail Grant's Technical Manual has long been one of the most popular and effective ballet reference guides. Completely revised and updated, this third edition is virtually a new work and should be owned by every student, dance teacher, choreographer, and ballet enthusiast even those who purchased the second edition. Extensive...

Although his name was associated with fashionable artistic movements of early twentieth-century Paris Cubism, Surrealism, Dadaism, and Neoclassicism Erik Satie followed his own light, never belonging to any group or adopting a particular doctrine. A true nonconformist, he struck out on his own path to develop a musical structure reflecting his unique personality and eccentricities, anticipating artistic tendencies that others shaped into dogma.
Satie's 1916 ballet Parade, created in collaboration with three leading artists of the period, was hailed as a "Cubist manifesto." Jean...

Her movements are uncharacteristic, her words subversive, her dances unlike anything done before--and this is the story of how it all works. A founding member of the famed Judson Dance Theater and a past performer in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Deborah Hay is well known for choreographing works using large groups of trained and untrained dancers whose surprising combinations test the limits of the art. "Lamb at the Altar" is Hay's account of a four-month seminar on...

"Golden Autumn 3" is the third installment in composer/pianist Fariborz Lachini's celebrated series of piano albums called Golden Autumn that includes his original writings for solo piano, some of which were originated from the themes he created for film scores. This is the companion songbook for Fariborz Lachini's CD of the same name.

1. Fall in Love Again
2. Silver Winter
3. A Thousand Leaves
4. Forever in My Dreams
5. Sepidar
6. Autumn Whispers
7. It's Snowing
8. Leaves of Light
9. Fragments of Autumn
10. Blue...

"Golden Autumn 2" is the second installment in composer/pianist Fariborz Lachini's celebrated series of piano albums called Golden Autumn that includes his original writings for solo piano, some of which were originated from the themes he created for film scores. This is the companion songbook for Fariborz Lachini's CD with the same name.

1. Dance of Leaves
2. Memories of Autumn
3. Whirlwind in Autumn
4. Silence of Stars
5. Loneliness
6. Desire to Stay
7. Childhood
8. I Remember
9. Staring in a Mirror
10. Stranger
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"Golden Autumn 1" is the first installment in Iranian/Canadian composer/pianist Fariborz Lachini's celebrated series of piano albums called Golden Autumn that includes his original writings for solo piano, some of which were originated from the themes he created for film scores. It was first released right after the dark years of Iran/Iraq war. Crossing all barriers, the album quickly became the most popular album in Iran and made Lachini's a household name. Since then his solo piano books have been taught by music teachers in Iran. This is the companion songbook for Fariborz...

"Piano Adagios 1" is the companion songbook for Fariborz Lachini's CD of the same name. Lachini's compositional style is sometimes categorized as neo-romantic although he prefers to call it light classical. His music has a unique powerful emotional content that speaks to the listener without the words.

1. Requiem for a Love
2. Butterfly in Snow
3. Unafraid
4. Blossom
5. New Beginnings
6. Enigmatic Heart
7. Crossing
8. Unwritten Letter
9. Sad Ballerina
10. Flying Dream
11. Dinner by Candlelight
12. Blue...