Among Scheuer?s musical mentors, are Glenn Nelson, his band director at Mishicot; Herb Hardt, advisor and percussion teacher at Lawrence; and Fred Schroeder and Robert Levy, also at Lawrence Conservatory of Music, Appleton, Wisconsin.

A percussion specialist, Scheuer also claims ?usable? keyboard and vocal skills. He has worked as a vocalist, keyboard player, arranger and MIDI programmer in rock and variety dance bands since age 16, and vaguely recalls regular public performances dating back to as early as age 6. In his spare time, he works with a variety dance band and operates a small MIDI and digital music recording studio.

Having passed the age of 40 some time ago, Scheuer has officially abandoned his childhood dream of being either the next John Lennon or the next Vince Lombardi.

Educational Music Publications by Jim Scheuer from Alliance Publications are:

" I WANT TO BE READY - Brass Choir AP-3037

" SHADOW PLAY - Concert Band AP-676

" TWO NATIVE AMERICAN SONGS - Concert Band AP-632

" West African Drum Ensemble AP-711

Dr. Seitz has taught string orchestra students in the Katonah-Lewisboro (NY), Briarcliff Manor (NY) and Oregon (WI) School Districts. More recently, he has been a lecturer in music theory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison an instructor and visiting professor in music theory and composition at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He continues to enjoy contact with younger string players through composer residencies with school orchestra programs, and as a clinician working with string teachers on strategies for employing original student composition activities as a powerful way to promote musical literacy, fluency and creativity. For more information, visit www.paulseitz.net.

Music published by Alliance Publications, Inc:

" Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child for Tenor Soloist or Cellist and String Orchestra AP-4035

While his first compositions were inspired by 20th century masterpieces, in the 1970s he sought a non-compromising style of expressive chords and clearly defined themes. In his approach, he rejected the randomness of improvisation, preferring concise forms and prorportional balance, and became convinced of the ample opportunity for creativity within strict formal boundaries. Many of his works have a philosophical and/or spiritual dimension. Only music which has emotional background is viable for Sestak. Be it a large or small composition, Sestak’smusical expression is deeply felt and arouses an impression of importance, urgency and genuineness of his message.

Ms Sindberg earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has been appointed to the Wisconsin Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance (CMP) steering committee and the Arts Propel Leadership Academy of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

In 1994, Ms Sindberg initiated the Central Bands Commissioning Project. The Project provides new works for young band students and also provides an opportunity for students to better understand the process of composition through meeting and getting to know a composer. Each spring, a new work for young bands is premiered by Central students. Commissioned composers include Pierre LaPlante, Rick Kirby, Hugo Hartig, Jack Stamp and Timothy Broege. The Commissioning Project has been supported by grants from various organizations as well as parents and selected businesses in the Waukesha community.

In addition to working around Wisconsin and the Midwest as an adjudicator, clinician and presenter, Ms Sindberg has served on the Wisconsin Music Educators Association Council as Public Relations Chair. Professional memberships include Music Educators National Conference, Wisconsin Music Educators Association, American School Band Directors Association, and the Waukesha Area Symphonic Band. Recently, Ms Sindberg was invited to join the advisory board of New Band Horizons of the American Composers Forum in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has written for the Music Educators Journal, Teaching Music and the Wisconsin School Musician. She is currently working on a book about the Wisconsin Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance (CMP) model for planning instruction.

Ninni, Baba is an arrangement for the young concert band of a song which came from an old series of song books, World Around Songs, published in 1956. It is my desire to share this beautiful, gentle melody with young students. Ninni, Baba is dedicated to Erin, Kari and young musicians everywhere. Perhaps as young people learn the piece, it will recall memories of their childhood and remind them of being sung to at bedtime.

Performance Notes Ninni, Baba needs to be performed in a very gentle, legato style throughout. This will be a good challenge for young players, and is a skill that will transfer to othercompositions. The meter changes serve to provide interest and to teach students about mixed meter. Balance between melody and ostinato is important. The use of percussion is mainly for color as opposed to pulse. Flute players will have an opportunity to develop their low register and should not be shy about this! The tempo of the piece is 84-88. It should be played with a sense of forward motion, but not be rushed. At the same time, if the tempo is too slow, the piece will become stagnant. Enjoy!

As a Kodaly specialist, Barbara teaches a Kodaly certification course at Mississippi College and is in demand as a clinician in the midwest. As a children’s choir specialist, she serves as the program director and conductor of the children’s choir at the International Music Camp. She is active as a guest conductor for numerous choral camps, festivals, and all-state honor choirs throughout the midwest as well.

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The Plans I Have For You should be performed with great spirit and freshness. Keep the piece joyous by emphasizing the syncopation and not allowing the meter changes to slow down. The dolce section at measure 38 provides a striking contrast to the rest of the song when performed with flowing legato phrases. Any combination of Orff instruments will be acceptable; however, metalaphones add a nice timbre. Experiment with the melody being played by glockenspiel to help keep the descending patterns in tune.

Anita's fondest memories are around the family piano, with Mom playing and she and her two sisters singing along as a trio. She was an avid piano student during grade school and high school, giving a Certificate Piano Recital at Bethlehem Academy in Faribault in 1959. Further study was done under Mary Davida Wood, CSJ, Mary Edward Blackwell, OP, and Milous Ferlik. She studied organ with Rosilla Gross, OP, Miriam Murphy and Robert Luther. Her vocal coaches have Mary Margaret Leahy, Oksana Bryn and Axel Theimer.

A member of the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters since 1960, Anita continues to minister through music, fostering an awareness among others of Czechoslovak music and composers, as has become evident through her direction of 6 uniquely special Nova Praha Vanocni Koncerts. She served St. Wenceslaus Church in New Prague as Music Director-Organist from 1983-1991, in which time she was able to restore to the parish its own ethnic religious song. The hymnal, Give Glory, is a historical anthology of 77 best-known Czech hymns, now in good English texts for contemporary use by the wider public, as a resource and supplement to any music program. All of these programs and research are an outgrowth of her initial music research conducted at the University of Minnesota for her MA under musicologist, Dr. Johannes Reidel.

Anita has actively worked with the local people to learn and record their ancestral heritage in song through recordings: Koledy—Czech Christmas Carols, Ryba-Czech Christmas Mass, and Give Glory, Earth and Heaven (Songs of Advent/Christmas, Lent/ Easter and national devotional favorites.) She has researched and performed Czech music in the USA and Czech Republic for over twenty years.

In 1989, she co-founded Alliance Publications, Inc. with composer Joel Blahnik to publish music for school, church and community ensembles and to promote the works of contemporary composers with a special interest in Czechoslovak music.

Since September 1992, she is a staff member of the Sinsinawa Mound Center (Sinsinawa, WI, 53824) where she coordinates Sinsinawa Studios and teaches private music lessons and administrates Alliance Publications, Inc. and engraves scores of new compositions for publication with computer notation.

A GIFT OF MUSIC FROM SINSINAWA, Live concert of Sinsinawa Dominican musicians AP-025 CS $10.

ADORAMUS TE, CHRISTE, Stanislav Sebek/ed. A Smisek AP-209 Alto Recorder Duet $ 3. AP-127 2-part Vocal a cappella .85

CZECH CHRISTMAS CAROLS: 19 KOLEDY, Choir and Instrumentalists directed by Anita Smisek (Sung in the Czech language) Organist, Rob Strusinski AP-001CS Cassette $10.

CZECH CHRISTMAS MASS, J.J. Ryba (Shepherd’s Cantata sung in English) SATB choir and soloists directed by Anita Smisek; Theo Wee, Organist AP-002 CS Cassette $7. (40 min)

CZECHOSLOVAK FOLKSONGS AP-157 $ 2. Melody line with Czech and Eng words

EJ, LASKO, LASKO - 38 Folksongs from Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia sung in native dialects by Anita Smisek, accompanied by Steven Zdenek Eckels with classical guitar. AP-005 CS Cassette $10. 60 min. AP-006 CD Compact Disk $15. AP-1018 Songbook $ 3. Melody line with Czech and Eng words or translation

FOUR-HAND FUN! Hummel (March, Polka, Waltz and Mazurka) AP-510 Piano Duets - beginners $5.

GIVE GLORY: NEW ENGLISH HYMNS FROM CZECH TUNES AP-118 Accompaniment Edition $19.95 AP-119 Vocal Edition $6.95

GIVE GLORY, EARTH AND HEAVEN - Czech Hymnody for Liturgical Year recorded with voice, organ and instrumental ensembles representating the Czech religious folk culture brought to the USA plus new organ preludes by Vaclav Nelhybel based on these hymn tunes. (94') AP-004 CS Cassette $15.

GOD, BLESS THIS UNION - Wedding Song - Bedrich Smetana/ed.AS-JB AP-138 Vocal-unis or duet / Piano $3.50

GOD, KEEP A CLEAN WIND BLOWING, Anita Smisek/arr. Cecil Steffen AP-1065 Med Voice/Piano $3.

GOODNIGHT / DOBROU NOC (Pastorella, 18th c.) ed. A Smisek AP-148 SATB/ Violin/Piano (Czech & Eng text ) $6.

HIS NAME IS SAMUEL CHARLES MAZZUCHELLI AP-1064 Voc/Gtr/Pno $1.25 AP-024 Cassette $3.95 CS, Music and Reprint Permission Pkg - $10.

INTO THE MYSTERY: Songs of the Spirit by Sinsinawa Dominicans AP-1067 V Vocal edition - $3. AP-1067 A Accompaniment edition - $5. AP-020 CS Cassette (45) $10.

INTO THE MYSTERY - vol. 2 AP-1047 Melody ed of spiritual songs $3.

LIFT UP YOUR HEADS, O YE GATES - F .Lynes 2-pt Vocal/Piano AP-1006 $1.25

LOVELY APPEAR, Charles Gounod/ed. Anita Smisek AP-113 2-pt Vocal/Pno $1.25

LULLABY, Antonin Dvorak AP-107H High Voice Solo/Piano (sopr-tenor) $3. AP-107L Low Voice Solo/Piano (alto-barit) $3. AP-421 Bb Trumpet, Trombone or Tuba solo/Piano $3.95 AP-193 SSA/Piano $3. AP-419 Violin, Viola or Cello Solo/Piano $3.95

MY SHEPHERD LORD WILL LEAD ME, Mozart - 3-pt canon AP-112 $.85

NIGHTINGALE (Slavicek, Pastorella, 18th c.), J J Ryba/ed.Blahnik AP-126 Sopr, Flute, Violin/Piano (Cz & Eng wds by A Smisek) $6.

OUR CZECH SONGS / Pisnicka Ceska AP-110 Vocal/Pno $3.50

PIONEER PRIEST -Musical Vignettes from the Life of Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, OP (60 min.) with historical narratives between 16 songs by Cecil Steffen/ed. Anita Smisek Unison, 2-3 part Chorus, Soloist, Piano AP-121 V Chorus Book - $10. AP-121 A Accompaniment $34.95 AP-029 CS Cassette Rcdg "Live in Concert"$10.

QUIET THE NIGHT - Noc Tichounka, Hynek, arr. Blahnik AP-104 Voc duet /Fl &Pno (Cz & Eng wds by A Smisek) $6.

REGINA COELI, LAETARE - Amanda Courtaux Alto Recorder Duet/Organ or Piano AP-210 $3.50

SING TO THE LORD/VENI CREATOR, Mason /arr. Anita Smisek 2-pt Vocal/Piano AP-133 .95

WEEPING MOTHER, Vocal solo or Duet/Org, arr. A Smisek/Blahnik AP-179 $4.

Graduating with a BA in music from UC-Berkeley in 1941, she immediately began teaching piano and school music in grade schools. With her wit and humor, twinkling eye and quick laugh, Cecil often delighted the students with her improvisations. This gift is reflected in a number of compositions she created for the piano, particularly, Heard Across the Hall and With a Hook and a Whirl.

Cecil followed a call to religious community life and became a Sinsinawa Dominican Sister in 1944. After her profession of vows in 1946, she continued to minister through her musical gifts in each grade and high school to which she was sent, teaching piano and music appreciation, beginning in Oklahoma City. There she composed her well-known Quam Dilecta Tabernacula Tua for three-part women's voices in 1947.

Graduate study was undertaken at Peabody Conser-vatory in Baltimore, MD where she received both a BM and MM in theory and composition in 1958 & 1959. She was awarded the Howard Thatcher prize for composition. Her classical vocal, piano, and orchestral writing took place at Peabody. In 1960, she joined the Music Faculty of Rosary College in River Forest, Illinois for three years. Cecil returned to high school music teaching in 1963.

Back to Rosary College in 1976, Cecil continued to teach piano and music theory up to the present time. She is also chapel musician for the Rosary Convent Sisters .

Sister Cecil's creative muse responds to needs at the time. In 1963, she was very effected by the students’ participation in the civil rights movement which inspired the musical setting of I Have a Dream. Occasionally, however, a poem speaks so strongly that music emerges. This was true for i thank You God for most this amazing. Spring’s energies of new life and Easter combined to call forth this musical setting.

The liturgical renewal, promulgated by Vatican Council II in 1965, urged Cecil to write music for Sunday liturgies at Queen of Peace Convent in Burbank, Il where she was then living and working. She loves to write music for singers she knows. For her, it is a privilege to do so, and besides, there was a great need for new vernacular (English) settings of the Mass Ordinary, Psalms and Canticles. At other times, graduations and community celebrations—social and liturgical—called forth other compositions from her eg. Golden Bells, Songs from the Mazzuchelli Suite, Pioneer Priest, and My Lover Belongs to Me and I to Him.

Her personal philosophy of composition is this: "I choose a text and then pray ahead of time that God will help me. I think of the words and begin working with a rhythm that fits. I look for the high point or climax of the text and develop the melody accordingly. Then I try to have the melody and harmony enhance the words. Keeping in mind the abilities and limitations of the people who will sing the songs, I determine the range of the musical line. I write out a melody and rewrite it until I am satisfied with it. Then I leave it alone and if, after returning to it, I am satisfied with it, I make copies and we sing it." And sing it, the community of Sisters to which she belongs, surely did so with pride and gratitude for the unique experience of having a resident composer in their midst.

The editors of Alliance Publications, Inc. recognized gems among her repertoire of over 150 compositions. Having personally experienced learning and using many of her compositions for liturgical use and piano and vocal study over the years, we are now proud to publish those which have stood the test of time and serve many musical purposes, not the least of which is to contribute beauty to our world.

BRING GIFTS and GIVE THANKS
AP-194 Octavo $1.10
AP-194 Sc Solo Voc/Pno $2.95

COME RING OUT and PSALM 83
AP-184 Octavo $1.10
AP-184 Sc Solo Voc/Pno $3.00

DANCE CAROL
AP-1123 H High Voc Solo/Pno $4.95
AP-1123 L Low Voc Solo/Pno $4.95

GOD, KEEP A CLEAN WIND BLOWING, Anita Smisek/arr. Cecil Steffen
AP-1065 Med Voice/Piano $3.

HEARD ACROSS THE HALL - Piano Solo
AP-522 $3.

HOW LOVELY IS YOUR DWELLING PLACE (Ps. 84)
AP-106 V3 - SSA/Pno .85

I HAVE A DREAM Vocal Solo/Piano
AP-191 Solo Vocal/Pno $3.50
AP-1133 SAB/Pno $1.25

I THANK YOU GOD FOR MOST THIS AMAZING
AP-147 Voc Solo/Piano $4.95
AP-147 Oct Treble/Pno $1.35

LET NOTHING DISTURB THEE (St. Teresa's Bookmark)
AP-1075 H High Voc Solo/Pno $3.00
AP-1075 L Low Voc Solo/Pno $3.00

MASS IN HONOR OF ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA áLatin text
AP-1033 Org Acp $5.95
AP-1033 2-pt Vocal $1.25

MY LOVER BELONGS TO ME AND I TO HIM
AP-165 Voc Solo/Pno-Org $3.75

O SING A NEW SONG (Ps. 95)
AP-183 Solo Voc/Pno $3.50
AP-183 V3 3-part Vocal/Pno $1.35

PIONEER PRIEST -Musical Vignettes from the Life of Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, OP 16 nos. with historical narratives between songs (60 min.)
Unison, 2-3 part Chorus, Soloist, Piano
AP-121 V Chorus Book - $10.
AP-121 A Accompaniment $34.95
AP-029 CS Cassette Recdg "Live in Concert" $10.

POLKA FOR TWO (a la Stravinsky)
AP-518 Piano Duet $5.

PRINCE OF PEACE MASS 2-pt Vocal/Pno-Org
AP-1004 Acp $2.95
AP-1004 Choir $1.25
AP-1004 Melody ed. .50

QUAM DILECTA TABERNACULA TUA
SSA a cap AP-192 .95

SINSINAWA
AP-1084 2-pt Voc/Pno .50

SONATA FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO (3 mvts)
AP-532 $14.95

ST. CATHERINE'S PRAYER
AP-190 Vocal/Pno $3.50 Extra Vocals .50

TARANTELLA (Wds-Hilaire Belloc)
AP-1074 High Voice/Piano $4.95
AP-1074 Low Voice/Piano $4.95

THE PIPER (Wds-Jeremy Finnegan, OP)
AP-1136 H High Voc Solo/Pno $3.50
AP-1136 L Low Voc Solo/Pno $3.50

SUITE FOR PIANO (5 pcs)
AP-519 $9.95

TO BE NEAR GOD
AP-199 2-part Vocal/Piano .85

YOUR HOUSE IS BEAUTIFUL
AP-182 Oct- SSA Voc/Pno - $1.25
AP-182 Solo Voc/Pno $3.85

Eugen Suchon was born on September 25, 1908, in Pezinok to an organist’s family, a musical milieu which fostered his talents. At twelve (1920), he started to study piano at the Bratislava School of Music under the accomplished pianist, composer and teacher Frico Kafenda. From 1927-1931, he continued his studies at the newly established Academy of Music in Bratislava under the same professor.   In 1931, Sonata in A flat for Violin and Piano and String Quartet completed his piano and composition studies. Suchon completed the Academy which corresponded to Conservatory first as a piano student and later as a student of conducting. The European-standard professor, Frico Kafenda, instilled in him such a thorough education in piano performance and composition that his further two years of study at the Masters School of the Prague Conservatory under Viteslav Novak only underlined the qualities he developed under his Bratislava teacher.

Suchon began teaching music theory at the Academy of Music and Drama in Bratislava, was appointed secretary, and in 1948, became professor of composition. His pre-war works became the
cornerstone of the new Slovak musical culture, especially the cycle of male choral songs, Balladic Suite, Sonatina for Violin and Piano, Overture to King Svatopluk, and especially his monumental
cantata, the Psalm of Sub-Carpathian Land. From 1948-1960, Eugen Suchon was the professor and head of the Department of Music Education at the Teacher Training College in Bratislava. The numerous works of this period are dominated by the Fantasies for Violin and Orchestra and the symphonic suite for orchestra, Metamorphoses. Between 1952-1959, Suchon had worked on his second historical opera, King Svatopluk, representing the monumental dramatic fresco from the period of the Great Moravian Empire. Its premiere took place in Bratislava, Prague and Kosice in 1960.

After completing this opera, the composer wrote predominantly chamber and orchestral works, eg. the song cycle for soprano and orchestra or piano, Ad Astra, the mixed choir cycle On Man, Poeme Macabre for violin and piano, Contemplations for narrator and piano, Six Compositions for Strings, Rhapsodic Suite for piano and orchestra, and Symphonic Fantasy on B-A-C-H for organ, string orchestra and percussion. The cycle for piano, Kaleidescope, deserves special attention since this work is performed also by piano, string orchestra and percussion.

Suchon is a pensive composer driven by a powerful creative passion. He lives by Michelangelo’s principle that it is necessary "to exert the greatest effort to work and study very hard in order to make the work, created with painstaking labour, look as if it were created quickly, without any effort, and with the greatest of ease." Suchon’s work has become a symbol of outstanding quality in Slovak music. ||His principle is to complete each composition in such a way that there would be neither a missing note nor one to spare." (Jozef Krasanek) His work ranges from a transition from late romantic chromatism to his own typical modality influenced by characteristic features of old Slovak folksongs to his later affinity to chromatism.

For more informationa and repertoire see
http:// www.suchon.org/

Suchon Choral Works available from API

Aka si mi krasna (How Beautiful You Are)
AP-1311 SATB a cappella

Bodaj by vas certi vzali
(Let the Devil Take You, Boys)
AP-1099   SATB a cappella

Three Slovak Songs for Treble Choir
1. Ked’ sa Slovak (When a Slovak)
2. Aka si mi krasna (How Beautiful You Are)
3. Este sa nevydam (I Will Not Marry Yet)
AP-1100    SSAA a cappella

Order: apimusic@dcwis.com

PODBRDSKY KVAPIK - Galop for 9 Winds and Pcn, Josef Svejkovsky
AP-310 Set $15.

KVAPIK-GALOP, Josef Svejkovsky/arr. Joel Blahnik
Tuba Trio & Drum Set , opt AP-305 $8.
2 Trbn & Tuba/Trb & Drum Set AP-322 $8.
2 Trp & Tuba/Trb & Drum Set AP-326 $8.