Star Composers Featured in New Solo Vocal Collection

Excelcia Music Publishing’s new solo vocal collection, Accessible Solo Repertoire Series, 10 Folk Songs and Spirituals, contains fresh arrangements from renowned composers/arrangers in the vocal and choral communities. Covering all voicings — with one book for Medium Low Voice (Alto and Baritone) and another for Medium High Voice (Soprano and Tenor) — the books are perfect […]

Following the Star: Solo Christmas Carol Arrangements for Unaccompanied Cello

Experience the magic and beauty of the Christmas season with these arrangements of solo, unaccompanied Christmas carols for cello in Following the Star Solo Christmas Carol Arrangements for Unaccompanied Cello by Myanna Harvey. Weaving melodies with lyrical supporting notes that embellish and imply harmony, these arrangements enhance and expand on the well-known carol tunes to make […]

The Cello Suites: J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece

One fateful evening, journalist and pop-music critic Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suites—an experience that set him on an epic quest to uncover the mysterious history of the entrancing compositions and their miraculous reemergence nearly 200 years later. In pursuit of his musicological obsession, Siblin would unravel three centuries of […]