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Welcome to our web site!

We would like to introduce you to the Contemporary Record Society and highlight the opportunites to become culturally enriched by the musical sources available through the Society.

There are thousands of organizations, each with a specific purpose or goal. There are so many reasons why one should consider becoming part of an organization he or she believes in.

The Contemporary Record Scoiety, through its Society News Publication, offers opportunities to CRS constituents, progress notes on its associates, various awards and performance possibilities. Concert listings of participants, non-members, and employment opportunities through our publications and through the Worldwide INTERNET, by press announcements by its constituents.

Noteworthy concerts, lectures and cultural activities are also included in CULTURE ABOUT TOWN!

The Society also offers Society News publications which offers CDs,LPs, opportunities for Compact Disc recordings with chamber ensembles and Orchestra, participation in lectures, concerts, work shops and other musical endeavors.
 
MUSIC PUBLICATIONS:
 

CRS offers music publications by our composers and purchase either through

ARTISTS MUSIC PUBLICATIONS, and/or related publishers. Advance orders are required, by check/money order, and we will pay for shipping/handling costs:

ARTISTS MUSIC PUBLICATIONS, 724 Winchester Road, Broomall, PA. 19008, C/O TELEPHONE (610) 544-5920 FAX (915) 808-4232 Web-site: http://www.crsnews.org

PUBLICATIONS:

Tre Regali La Musica cello solo, (for Yo Yo Ma) John Russo $10.00 (AMP)                                                                                                    Jazz Raga for solo clarinet, John Schlenck, $6.95 (AMP)              Gray Dawn clarinet solo unaccompanied, Robert Dusek, $6.95 (AMP)                                                                                                American Triptych for solo clarinet, John Russo, $6,95 (All 3 clarinet works for $15.00) Artists Music Publications (AMP), *Clarinet Sonata No. 1. $25.00, John Russo                                *Sonata for Flute & Piano; $19.00, John Russo                         *Four Pieces for Solo Clarinet; $9.00, John Russo                            Il Direttore (clar./viola & pf.)* $8.00, John Russo Viola & Piano; $11.00, MMB, PUB. John Russo                                                             * Fort Washington Overture, John Russo (full orchestra, by rental only); M MB Music, St. Louis                                                       *Three Preludes for Clarinet & Piano, John Russo Southern Music Co. San Antonio, TX. $7.00                                                                      *Clarinet Sonata No. 3, John Russo;                                                    * Clarinet Sonata No. 4, John Russo Tenuto Publications; $8.00                                                                                                   Pastorale & Tarantella for Bassoon, John Russo Theodore Presser; $4.00                                                                                       Twenty Modern Studies for Clarinet, Book II (in part*), John Russo; $8.00                                                                                            The Little Messenger (violin & Piano), John Russo; $7.00 *Toccata No. 1 for Piano; $7.00, John Russo                              Songs without Words (cl./fl./ob. & pf), *Mendelssohn/Russo; $7.00                                                                                                  Three Gymnopodie (cl./fl./ob. & pf.), John Russo; $7.00           TWENTY CONTEMPORARY STUDIES, * John Russo (book 1, book 2 for oboe/saxophone); (each volume $8.00)                               *Variations-Rossini (Orch. Reduction by Russo for cl. & pf); $8.00 *Lament for Violin/Cello & Piano, John Russo Henri Elkan Music Pub. $6.00                                                                                      *Variations on a Kyrie (cl. & pf.), John Russo; $7.00               *First Essay for Symphonic Band (score, parts), John Russo Lake State Publications; Grand Rapids, MI. $30.00                             Jaded Garden (fl./piccolo Alto Saxophone/bass cl. & pf.*), John Russo; $14.00                                                                                       *Three Ostinati (clarinet/alto Saxophone & Piano), John Russo$17.50 Dorn Publications;                                                       Clarinet Concerto No. 1*, John Russo, piano reduction with solo clarinet; $19.95                                                                                Clarinet Concerto No. 1; (score/parts available)                  Twenty Modern Studies for Clarinet, 2ND edition $15.00, John Russo                                                                                             *Sonata for Cello & Piano, Ludwig Pub. Co. $25.00, John Russo(*indicates commercial recording available)

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

Lukas Foss, Emma Lou Diemer, Wizards, William Anderson, Susanna Raymond

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LUKAS FOSS,
Composer/Conductor/Lecturer

Lukas Foss, born in Berlin on August 15, 1922, and died on February 1, 2009. He is considered one of America's formost musicians as composer, conductor and pianist of German parents. His study began with Julius Goldstein, who introduced Foss to the music of the masters studying piano and theory in Berlin. Foss studied piano in Paris from 1933 to 1937 with Lazare Levy, composition with Noel Gallon, orchestration with Felix Wolfes and the flute with Marcel Moyse. He moved to the USA in 1937 and continued his studies at the Curtis Institute of Music with Isabelle Vengerova, piano, Rosario Scalero and Virgil Thompson, composition, and conducting with Fritz Reiner. In addition, he studied with Koussevitzky during summer months at the Berkshire Music Center from 1939-43. He studied composition at Yale University with Paul Hindemith as a special student from 1939-40.



Contemporary Record Society * 724 Winchester Road * Broomall, PA 19008 * US * 610.544.5920 * Fax 915.808.4232