My First Wife Left Me

Schirmer Performance Editions are designed for piano students and their teachers as well as for professional pianists. Pedagogical in nature, these editions offer insightful interpretive suggestions, pertinent fingering, and historical and stylistic commentary. Prepared by renowned artists/teachers, these publications provide an accurate, well-informed score resource for pianists. Robert Schumann (1810-1856) and his wife Clara Wieck Schumann established a household centered almost entirely around music and their children. Inspired by his home life, which helped provide him with a mental stability that he struggled all his life to maintain, Schumann wrote a great deal of Hausmusik: modest, everyday music to be practiced and performed in the home. His first foray into this kind of literature, the Album for the Young, Op. 68, remains his most admired, even to this day.

15 beautiful praise song piano solo arrangements by Phillip Keveren. Perfect for home or congregational use. This Collection of arrangements was written during a particulary interesting season in my family's life. I wrote the first few arrangements while enjoying the springtime of Southern California, our home for the past 22 years. During those decades I married my wife, Lisa. It was in those sunny surroundings that our children Lindsay and Sean came into the world. This summer we moved to Tennesse, and it was here in the lush green beauty of our new hometown that I completed these arrangements.

The flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon Quintet, composed in 1948 on request of the Polish Composers Union, Spisak dedicated to Martha Thibault, the mother of his wife, Andrée. This piece is considered one of the best Polish wind quintets of the 20th century. It is composed of three parts: Allegro moderato, Andante and Andante-Allegro, with the last being the most developed of the three. This cheerful composition is characterized by an equal participation of instruments, transparent texture, restless and ever-chaning tone colour and expressive articulation and motion (chiefly in the first and last part). The composer contrasts blockof accords with sections in homophonic and poliphonising texture in a multi-section structure and in a relatively small space. The from of the pieces is based on a motif. Although some elements of minor and major tonality exist, their functional dependences are blurred and the role of the facter introducing order to the melody and harmony of the piece is played by ostinate structures. The Quintet was first performed 10th October 1949 in Kraków.

Lista utworów:
Allegro moderato (Spisak Michał)
Andante (Spisak Michał)
Andante-Allegro (Spisak Michał)