Respighi: Pines Of Rome, Etc / Eiji Oue, Minnesota Orchestra CD

all providing the teacher with material for swings, jumps, combinations across the floor, and choreographic studies. Music for Modern Dance has some of the best audio you'll find anywhere on a dance CD. Recorded at Ann Arbor's Solid Sound Studios by Rob Martens, the producer behind the very successful Behind Barres series of ballet CD's and DVD's, this collection has a sound quality unlike any you've heard before. Whether you run your class music from a CD, an iPod, or your laptop, you'll find the audio quality to be without compare. This is a great collection for dance teachers, bodywork professionals, dance students (this makes a great warm-up disc), and those looking for a different sound in their studio work. Christian Matjias is one of the leading Dance / Music Specialists in the field, and an Associate Professor of Dance and Music at the University of Michigan. A native of Los Angeles, he attended the University of Southern California, earning degrees in Harpsichord and Early Music Performance, with secondary studies in Conducting. Intending to become a vocal accompanist and opera repetiteur, he instead became one of the most active dance musicians in Southern California prior his 1991 move to Michigan. As both performer and scholar, he is sought out by dancers across fields seeking to collaborate on choreography, technique classes, in addition to consulting on musical matters as relates to the staging of classical ballets. He has worked with, among others, the Balanchine Trust, Balanchine Foundation, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dance Theatre of Harlem, TUDance, Leopold Dance Group, and has played for Maria Tallchief, Edward Villella, Eliot Feld, Gail Gilbert, and numerous dancers ...