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Many of Charles Roland Berry's CDs, music scores and books are now available on Amazon.com
The new song cycles, "Carla Songs" and "Birds and Roses" were composed for the vibrant, young mezzo-soprano, Carla Hilderbrand. Ms. Hilderbrand has the mature voice, range, personality and acting skills to deliver winning performances in the major mezzo roles of Verdi, Wagner, Strauss, Bellini, and Puccini.
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Print: $42.25 Download: $10.00 Charles Roland Berry: "Daily Life" is a collection of poetry and prose, written over a period of twenty years. The subjects are as varied as life itself, from love poems to political tirades, thoughts on religion and horses, and even an ode to his cat. There are several pieces about composing music and artistic creation in general. Surrounding the writings are manuscript images from ancient cultures, including Christian, Islam, Hindu, and Buddhist art, and scroll paintings from China and Japan. The last portion of the book contains Charles Berry's original music score for piano and string quartet, "Absinthe Preludes."
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Print: $10.99 Download: $10.50 Charles Roland Berry: Absinthe Preludes for piano, oboe and string quartet. Study score (small format). Eighteen individual pieces for solo, duo, trio, quartet, and the entire ensemble. Music inspired by the Green Fairy, and the music of Belle Epoque.
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Print: $15.25 Charles Roland Berry: Five Upanishads for Orchestra. Complete orchestral score. The Upanishads are known as Vedanta, meaning the end of the Vedas. In ancient India, knowledge of the Upanishads was imparted only to students of the highest merit, as they sat near their teachers. These Hindu scriptures were composed over 2000 years ago, and are among India's greatest contribution to religious and philosophic thought.
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Print: $15.25 Download: $10.00 Charles Roland Berry: Cello Concerto, 2nd edition, complete orchestral score. The Cello Concerto score is issued as a companion to the New Release CD on Centaur Records, catalog #CRC 2898
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Print: $6.99 Download: $6.50 Charles Roland Berry: Xochiquetzal, the Aztec Goddess. Full orchestral score. Exotic overture for symphony orchestra.
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Print: $6.25 Download: $3.75 Charles Roland Berry: Choral music. Children's choir, SSA, with piano accompaniment.
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Download: FREE Hardcover Print: $25.99 This hardcover includes Book One and Book Two of The Hokvene Chronicles. Book One contains a story of intergalactic intrigue, with Ghata, Prime Keeper of the Hives on Galq-ro, and his consort, Shokia. Ghata discovers the widely used recreational drug, Zorkol, sold everywhere throughout Human, Reptilian and Insectoid star systems, causes mutations in the DNA of users. Because many economies rely on Zorkol, stopping production throws many planets into war.
Book Two tells of Shokia's experiences with the Passion-seekers, a race of non-corporeal lifeforms.
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Print: $13.99 Download: $6.25 Historical fiction, a romantic history of composer Hector Berlioz, which includes some of his actual letters, and fictional correspondence with Walt Whitman. Berlioz has fictional conversations with Tzar Alexander II, Dostoevsky, the young Tchaikovsky. One chapter is devoted to a conversation with Franz Liszt, as he and Berlioz discuss their mutual friend, Chopin.
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Disc: $6.75 Relax, pour a glass of your favorite adult beverage, and enjoy yourself! This series includes "Fifteen Fantasies" for guitar, piano, string quartet and full symphony orchestra, classical music by American composer, Charles Roland Berry. All works copyright ©2007 Bartok Consulting. Registered with BMI. Commercial licensing only upon approval of Bartok Consulting. Contact: berrycomposer@yahoo.com FREE mp3 SAMPLES: http://music.download.com/charlesrolandberrysymphonicmusic/3600-8281_32-100906661.html_____________TRACKS:
OOO1 4th_symphony_movt.3. OOO2 guitar_concerto_movt_III. OOO3 Our_Blond_is_Grateful. OOO4 guitar_concerto_movt_I. OOO5 Absinthe_no.2.OOO6 Book_of_Light._Joy.OOO7 masonic_symbols. OOO8 Absinthe_no.5. OOO9 Aubade_Absinthe_no.17. OO10 Our_Fetching_Blond_with_Child. OO11 four_poets Movt.2. OO12 overture_xochiquetzal. OO13 1st_symphony_movt.3. OO14 four_poets3. OO15 Nude_Blond_Smiles.
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Print: $11.49 Printed music. Vocal score. Duets for soprano and mezzo-soprano with piano accompaniment. Music by Charles Roland Berry, text by Theodore Roethke.
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Print: $11.49 Printed music. Vocal score. Songs for mezzo-soprano with piano accompaniment. Music by Charles Roland Berry, text by Theodore Roethke.
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Print: $21.99 Printed vocal score with instrumental accompaniment. Six pieces for chorus, soloists, string quartet, flute and oboe. (The individual choral pieces: "Faith, Hope, Charity", "Measure My Life" and "Look to the East" are available separately.)
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Print: $14.99 Printed music. Full orchestral score. Charles Roland Berry: Three Movie Scenes
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Print: $16.25 Novel based on the Award-winning screenplay, Lao's Quiet Way. A San Francisco Chinatown shopkeeper comes into possession of revolutionary medical software, and becomes the focus of international intrigue. The shopkeeper introduces the President of the United States to the Tao Te Ching. [This title is NOT FULLY LOADED]
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Print: $11.25 Printed music. Charles Roland Berry: With Quiet Passion, from the Absinthe Preludes. Duration: 10 mins. Full score for string quartet. (Players parts available on request.)
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Print: $15.99 Printed music. Charles Roland Berry: Oboe Quartet, "Rodin's Freedom" for oboe, violin, viola and cello. Duration: 9 mins. Full score. (Players parts available on request, e-mail berrycomposer@yahoo.com)
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Print: $15.99 Printed music. Charles Roland Berry: Three solo piano pieces, taken from the Absinthe Preludes.
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Print: $15.99 Two solo pieces for Classical guitar. Includes "Fantasie" and "Aubade". This score is available in Limited Edition only (not available from the Lulu site.) Please send an e-mail to berrycomposer@yahoo.com to order. Price: $15.00
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Print: $40.00 Charles Roland Berry, String Quartet no.4, dedicated to the composer's favorite poets: Czeslaw Milosz, W.S. Merwin, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Pablo Neruda. Complete bound score. (Players parts available on request.)
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Print: $15.75 Cover art from Bartok Consulting Publications first year with lulu.com. This includes all the books, printed music and screenplays from Charles Roland Berry
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Print: $19.99 This love story was inspired by the poems of Stellie Duran (also published by lulu.com.) Stellie's love poems cut straight to the point, and require nothing more than the plain truth, as lived daily by anyone who is paying attention.
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American Record Guide
September-October 2008~~~~
BERRY: Mariners Fanfare, Cello Concerto,
Symphony no.3, Veery Thrush with Cedars,
Cello Overture.~~~~ Jiri Hanousek, vc; Janacek Philharmonic,
Moravian Philharmonic/ Theodore Kuchar, Joel Eric Suben
Centaur 2898, 77 minutes~~~~
It's always encouraging to know that under the
radar of academe there are composers everywhere writing intelligent yet attractive music
in the romantic tradition. Charles Roland
Berry's music is a case in point. Berry studied
under Paul Creston and even had his own talk-
radio show in Portland, Oregon (classical station KBOO) where he managed to wrangle
phone interviews with the likes of George
Crumb, John Cage, Benjamin Lees, Karel Husa,
Ned Rorem, George Rochberg, and William
Schuman. His own music resembles none of
them but seems to embrace the general geniality of all sorts of romantic music from both
America and Europe.~~~~
The two major works here are the Cello
Concerto and his Symphony 3. The Cello Concerto has a beautiful cadenza in I that is backed
by a flute; it will remind you of Ralph Vaughn
Williams without sounding at all like that
composer. Berry wisely allows the cello
(confidently played by Jiri Hanousek) to
engage in dancelike cadences that give the
work its energy and aplomb. The Symphony 3
(no date is given for any work here--I'm
assuming that they are of this decade) is
another melodic masterpiece and at 28 minutes could easliy find its place in the standard
repertory (decades from now, as these things
tend to happen). This work is performed by the
Janacek Philharmonic with Theodore Kuchar
as conductor and sounds (but only just) as if it
might have wandered out of the Bohemian
mountains or some Hungarian valley---yet it is
truly American. I like this work tremendously.
It's understated yet confident in its heartbreaking melodies and soft delivery.~~~~
The smaller works here are the Mariner's
Fanfare, a minute and a half brass showcase
(trombones and trumpets mostly), Veery
Thrush with Cedars, a five-minute work that
recalls Kenneth Leighton and John Ireland, and
Quileute Overture for cello and orchestra. This
last is a very edgy ten-minute romp that is
more of an eclectic mix of thematic elements
(certainly more so than the Cello Concerto).~~~~
This record came as a complete surprise,
but then Centaur has been doing this of late.
Excellent sound, keen performances. The Third
Symphony alone is worth the cost.~~~~
COOK
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