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THE NEW SPRING 2006 CATALOG
IS HERE!

By now, you should have received your new Spring Catalog. You can also download and print our catalog directly from our website. Click here for a PDF.

Our Newest Products Not Yet In Our Catalog

We are constantly adding many wonderful products to the Sylvia Woods Harp Center website and catalog. Here are some of the products that arrived after the catalog went to the printer. You can always find the latest product additions on our website’s New Products page. Don’t wait for your next catalog to arrive in the mail: check back with us regularly to see what’s NEW!

New Live Concert DVD and CD by Deborah Henson-Conant

Deborah Henson-Conant is the most dynamic harpist on today's harp scene. In her new DVD, Invention & Alchemy, Deborah leads you on a tour through her madcap imagination, telling the tallest of truthful tales. With her solid-body electric lever harp and her electric pedal harp, Deborah wails to the blues, sways to a sweet song, and jives to flamenco.

15.7 Very Best Reasons Why You Must Have Deborah Henson-Conant's New "Invention & Alchemy" DVD

• You've been searching for a DVD of a live harp performance.  Well, here it is! And it's the best 97-minute live harp performance to emerge in a long time -- if ever! With all the extras, you'll have 145 minutes of pure entertaining enjoyment!

• You can't get enough of Deborah? Now you've got her! Anytime!

• Play lever harp?  So does she! The first half features her electric lever harp. But wait . . . you play pedal? So does she! The second half highlights her electric pedal harp.

• A "One-Woman Show with a Cast of 80." Not only is Deborah featured in this entertaining DVD, but you also get the Grand Rapids Symphony, as well! This show includes talented orchestra members the way a movie includes actors. A symphony orchestra dressed in lab coats!? You have got see it!

• This is no homemade video made by a guy standing in the corner with a cam-corder on a stick.  It is a highly professional, exquisitely lighted, filmed, and edited masterpiece. Directed by Emmy Award-winner Bob Comiskey, this live concert DVD was shot in high-def video with 9 cameras.  The audio was recorded in 5.1 surround sound by Grammy Award-winning engineer Tom Bates.

• Many of Deborah's beautiful melodies are included. You can learn these pieces yourself from some of Deborah's published sheet music, like Nataliana and The Nightingale.

• There's Deborah's great birthday song that you can sing for your friends -- and even for yourself!

• Cool extras! Follow the "white rabbit" icon down numerous video portals and peek behind the scenes.

• More cool extras! Besides the live show, there's an 18-minute "behind-the-scenes" film with interviews, rehearsal takes, and musical excerpts.

• What a great way to introduce someone to the harp!  We GUARANTEE that people will say "I never knew the harp could do that!" 

• Up-Close And Personal Hair! See Deborah's bevy of braided baubles swing and sway.

• The conductor is really cute and has a dreamy English accent.

• Use parts of the DVD as a Screen Saver! Choose your favorite scene and download it as a screen saver on your computer. Change it weekly, hourly, by the minute!

• Deborah's new DVD will make you laugh. It will make you cry, you'll be singing along. It's romantic. It's moving. It's bigger than life. It's intimate. It's silly. (O.K., so technically, this is 8 reasons...). 

• Finally, This DVD is downright FUN for young, old, and everyone in-between.

The Only Reason We Can Think NOT to Have This DVD...

You don't have a DVD player, and you don't know anyone on the planet who has a DVD player, and you never plan to ever see a DVD or a DVD player, ever, ever, ever for the rest of your life.

ever...

Invention & Alchemy DVD
Code: 3223W
Price: $24.95

Invention & Alchemy CD
Code: 3223D
Price: $14.95

More About
"Invention & Alchemy"

The CD includes almost all of the DVD concert program, presented in a slightly different order.  It has the feel of an old-fashioned radio show with a full orchestra, songs, music, humor, and stories.  And the harp is the hero!  This CD is great to listen to during that long 77:02 minute drive. Just close your eyes (unless you're driving), and you'll be transported to the performance.

BOTH CD & DVD include the following titles, orchestrated by Henson-Conant and performed live by Deborah with the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra featuring conductor cellist David Lockington:

The following are ONLY on the DVD (NOT on the CD) :

• Cosita Latina
• The Minstrel & the Wild Harp

• Nataliana

Imagine having the harp parts for the major orchestral harp works just a mouse-click away. With The Orchestra Musician's CD-ROM Library you can print the same orchestral harp parts that are available from publishers from your own computer! Works are viewable and printable on either PC or Macintosh via the program Abode Acrobat Reader, which is included on the CD-ROM. Just put the CD-ROM into the CD drive of your computer, click on the title of the orchestral work, and view and print the PDF files of the harp parts. They can be printed full-size (usually 9 x 12), or use the "fit to page" command in Acrobat to print on letter-size paper. Each volume includes 1 CD-ROM in a booklet which includes the Table of Contents and instructions.

PLEASE NOTE: These are NOT CDs that you listen to: there is no audible music on these CD-ROMs.

This series is available for a variety of instruments. The volumes we offer include the harp and keyboard parts only. There are expected to be 10 volumes in total. Below is currently what is available.

As you are aware, not all orchestral works have harp parts. Therefore, some of the composers listed in the titles of some of the volumes may not actually be included. For example, Volume 1, entitled Beethoven, Schubert and more does not contain any harp parts by those 2 composers, since they did not include harp in their orchestrations. However, this volume does include works by other composers. See each volume on our website for the actual complete contents.

Vol. I: Beethoven, Schubert and more CD-ROM
Includes music by Vincenzo Bellini, Hector Berlioz, and Carl Maria von Weber
Code: 7851B
Price: $19.95

Vol. 2: Debussy, Mahler and more CD-ROM
Includes music by Georges Bizet, Max Bruch, Anton Bruckner, Claude Debussy, Garbiel Faure, Edvard Grieg, Gustav Mahler, Max Reger, and Camille Saint-Saens
Code: 7852B
Price: $19.95

Vol. 3: Brahms, Schumann and more CD-ROM
Includes music by Johannes Brahms, Emmanuel Chabrier, Ernest Chausson, Cesar Franck, Edouard Lalo, Franz Liszt, Jacques Offenbach, and Pablo de Sarasate
Code: 7853B
Price: $19.95

Vol. 4: Tchaikovsky and more CD-ROM
Includes music by Modest Mussorgsky and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Code: 7854B
Price: $19.95

Vol. 5: Dvorak, Rimsky-Korsakov and more CD-ROM
Includes music by Alexander Borodin, Antonin Dvorak, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Scriabin, and Bedrich Smetana
Code: 7855B
Price: $19.95

Vol. 7: Ravel, Elgar and more CD-ROM
Includes music by Maurice Ravel, Edward Elgar, Charles W Chadwick, Frederick Delius and Paul Dukas
Code: 7857B
Price: $19.95

Note: The Volume #6 CD-ROM in this series, which includes music by Mozart and Haydn, is not available for harp, as there are no harp parts for this music.

NEW "Easy Decade" Fake Books

This popular series of easy fake books have large notation with simplified harmonies and melodies. As with all fake books, the melody, chord symbols and lyrics are provided, and you make your own arrangements. All of the songs are in the key of C. There will be accidentals in many of the pieces, making lever and pedal changes necessary, causing some pieces to be more difficult, especially for lever harp players. These books are a great way to learn how to use fake books.

Each of these new books includes 100 well-known songs of the decade.

The Easy 40's Fake Book

Code: 7834B
Price: $19.95

168 pages

Includes:

A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

The Anniversary Waltz

Bésame Mucho (Kiss Me Much)

Bewitched

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

Deep In The Heart Of Texas

Don't Get Around Much Anymore

(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons

How Are Things In Glocca Morra

I'll Remember April

If I Loved You

Java Jive

Mairzy Doats

Moonlight In Vermont

Old Devil Moon

Sentimental Journey

That Old Black Magic

You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To

Younger Than Springtime

...and 80 more!  

The Easy 60's Fake Book

Code: 7836B
Price: $19.95

208 pages

Includes:

Abraham, Martin And John

Brown Eyed Girl

California Girls

Dedicated To The One I Love

Do You Know The Way To San Jose

For Once In My Life

Good Vibrations

Happy Together

I Wish You Love

If I Had A Hammer (The Hammer Song)

Monday, Monday

Moon River

My Boyfriend's Back

San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)

Save The Last Dance For Me

Stormy

Strangers In The Night

Tijuana Taxi

White Rabbit

Yesterday

...and 80 more!

The Easy 50's Fake Book

Code: 7835B
Price: $19.95

208 pages

Includes:

A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation)

All I Have To Do Is Dream

Autumn Leaves

Blueberry Hill

Chantilly Lace

Dream Lover

Earth Angel

I Believe

(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear

Love And Marriage

Love Me Tender

Mister Sandman

Mona Lisa

No, Not Much!

Peggy Sue

Rock Around The Clock

Sixteen Candles

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Three Coins In The Fountain

Wonderful! Wonderful!

...and 80 more!

The Easy 70's Fake Book

Code: 7837B
Price: $19.95

264 pages

Includes:

American Pie

Blue Bayou

Can't Smile Without You

Cherish

Fame

Free Bird

Happy Days

How Deep Is Your Love

Rainy Days And Mondays

Silly Love Songs

Song Sung Blue

Speak Softly, Love (Love Theme from The Godfather)

Take Me Home, Country Roads

Three Times A Lady

Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree

We Are Family

We've Only Just Begun

Y.M.C.A.

You And Me Against The World

You've Got A Friend

...and 80 more!

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