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Archive for December, 2006

Piano Sheet Music is a pretty hot selling item on the web!  However, finding what you want can be very frustrating.  I browsed and shopped for some free piano sheet music and found that it was tough finding what I wanted, and when I did, I found some pretty ratty charts. 

At the suggestion of my wife, I uploaded my charts three weeks ago.  I can’t believe the response to the piano sheet music and piano scores.  So, I’ve been going through my charts from my 20 year career and will be uploading all of my music, charts, scores etc throughout the year.  I’ve also have been getting request for my solo piano transciptions.  I’ll do it, but it’ll take some time for sure!

I’ll do two things:

1) I’ll put up all my piano music and jazz catalogue up.  This stuff will be for intermediate to advanced students.  This will include sheet music, music downloads and solo piano transciptions.

2) My son has been playing violin since the age of 4.  He’s completed Suzuki Violin Book One, but I found alot of problems with the recording.  The first is, it’s too fast for beginners to play along with.  Two, the transition between tunes doesn’t give a young student enough time to prepare.  I’m going to be offering a slower version of the public domain songs in the book.  I’ll play prettier piano accompaniment as well, which will make it more rewarding for the student.

So stay tuned for all the piano sheet music coming up in 2007. 

Oh yes, I need to mention I also got the best compliment this week! It was so cool, I thought I’d share it with you.  A fan wrote in and said:

You are awesome!
If you ever gets this way so down south, we do have people here that love good music, heck I would take a loan out and buy the place out to see you live!!
Best wishes,
Christine Peters
Memphis, TN

Christine, I promise when I get down south, you’ll get a complimentary ticket to my concert!

Thanks for the good energy,

Paul

Do you enjoy all the Christmas Classics? Would you and your church enjoy to sing-a-long to all your Season’s Favorites! Enjoy our Sing-A-Long Christmas Sheet Music, Lyrics and Accompaniment on CD! Visit  http://www.paultobey.com/christmas-sheet-music.html.

You will enjoy singing along to award winning concert pianist as he performs all Christian Instrumental Music and Christmas Classics on the Christmas Carol Sing-A-Long! You can download the entire set. Order by phone, or online!

The CD contains 14 beautiful instrumental piano songs in a key that everyone can sing in!

PLUS 4 Bonus Tracks of Paul’s Best SElling album “Christmas at the Piano”.

 

Pilgrim Productions Inc. is producing a series of training sessions for the Spring including Internet Marketing, Train the Trainer 1, Train the Trainer 2, and Team Building Seminars.  Pilgrim Productions CEO Paul Tobey is also a shareholder of www.trainingbusinesspros.com.  Pilgrim Producitons is a Member of the Brantford Chamber of Commerce.  Our next seminar on public speaking is:

The Brantford Club recieves my business recommendation of the Month! As a private social club The Brantford Club boasts over 100 years of history and cultural heritage.  Currently serving a thriving membership, the club hosts a variety of social events, weddings, gatherings, corporate functions, seminars, brunches, lunches and superb dinners. 

Our chef Eric, is in my humble opinion, the best in Brantford.  The decor of the Brantford Club has been updated by one of Brantford’s renowned decorator’s David Baily.  It is a wheelchair accessible facility, with ample parking, dining area, full service bar and break-out rooms including boardrooms , snooker room and card game room. 

The Brantford Club (not to be mistaken with the Brantford GOLF & Country Club) offers its members a variety of social events during the year.  The membership consists of an array of entrepreneurs, lawyers, judges, real-estate professionals, artists, freight forwarders, decorators, photographers, horse breeders, Brantford Car Dealers, web-designers, money managers, investors, and corporations that do business locally, nationally and internationally to name but a few.

As Vice President of the 2006  Brantford Club Board, I will be happy to host you and offer you and your guest a tour of the facilities.  If you are a business located in Brantford-Brant, or planning to re-locate to Brantford and area, please don’t hesitate to contact me info (at) paultobey.com or call 519-756-5381

Also visit www.paultobey.com

Brantford Club http://www.brantfordclub.com/

and The City of Brantford www.brantford.ca

 

Sanderson Centre Brantford Tickets are Great Gift Ideas for Birthdays, Christmas and Valentine’s! Buy Your Tickets Now At the Sanderson Centre Brantford for Paul Tobey’s Journey Through Spain 

Sunday Feb. 18th

presented by The Brantford Symphony Orchestra! This fabulous show presents beautiful piano music by internationally acclaimed concert pianist Paul Tobey.  Want a GREAT SEAT? Reserve Stage Left (so you can see the piano keys and hands playing) call the Sanderson Centre Brantford Box Office to Reserve Your Seat Today at

• (519) 752-9910 or pick up your tickets at  the Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts located at 88 Dalhousie Street, Brantford, ON, Canada !!!
• Visit www.paultobey.com !!

Brantford Music by Paul Tobey.  Find your Sheet Music, Free Downloadable Music, Music Scores, Christmas Music, Jazz Music, DVD’s and Film and Paul Tobey online deals at www.paultobey.com

 

Music Score is what you are after?  Download Carol of the Bells http://www.paultobey.com/store/home.php?cat=260

Multi-Award winning concert pianist and entertainer Paul Tobey is now putting his famous catalogue of piano scores for sale at the Paul Tobey Online Store.  Intermediate and Advanced players can find arrangements for solo piano, small jazz ensembles, large ensembles and symphony for sale online.  New scores will become available weekly as PDF downloads and/or books for mail order. 

Special Orders, Rush Orders, and tailor made orders of any sheet music and/or music scores are also available.  It’s possible we have what you need in our music catalogue but have not had time to upload them yet.  We have tons of music for small and large ensembles, and for solo piano.  We are trying to keep up, but Paul has over 20 years of music, sheet music, videos, interview, media and so on for us to gather into an online catalogue. 

Simply contact info (at) paultobey.com for a quote or shop in the Paul Tobey Online Store for special offers and seasonal DEALS!  View our music score catalogue and/or our sheet music weekly for the latest updates.  

Visit us now to buy your Music Score and Sheet Music at : http://www.paultobey.com/store/home.php?cat=260

 

 

Multi-Award winning concert pianist and entertainer Paul Tobey is now putting his catalogue of piano scores for sale online.  Intermediate and Advanced players can find arrangements for solo piano, small jazz ensembles, large ensembles and symphony for sale online.  Seasonal arrangements i.e: Christmas Music will also be featured.

Each week, new scores will become available as PDF downloads and/or books for mail order. 

Download Carol of the Bells Score, Sheet Music and Recording here

http://www.paultobey.com/store/home.php?cat=260

 

Downloadable PDF Piano Sheet Music, or Home Delivery of Paul Tobey’s New Piano Music Book & Accompanying CD. Order one song, or Christmas Sheet Music Book which contains 14 popular christmas classics including

Carol of the Bells

Silent Night

Little Drummer Boy

Joy To The World

O Christmas Tree

Deck the Halls

Island Christmas

Hark the Herald Angels Sing

It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

Jingle Bells

The First Noel

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

 

Order Online at http://www.paultobey.com/christmas-sheet-music.html or by telephone at 519-756-5381 Ontario Canada

Paul Tobey’s Online store is a division of Pilgrim Productions Inc. 25 Arthur St. Brantford, Ontario, Canada N3S 3H4

Tobey Christmas CD will benefit kids

charity

By Elizabeth Yates, expositor staff
Local News – Friday, December 01, 2006 Updated @ 12:21:54 AM

The Expositor’s annual Christmas songbook will come alive this year, thanks to an accompanying CD that will raise money for local kids suffering life-threatening illness.

Pianist Paul Tobey has lent his talents to record instrumental versions of 14 seasonal melodies on a Dream Tree Christmas Memories CD.

The carols match up with entries in the songbook, allowing listeners to sing along with Tobey’s recorded performance.

The recording is the brainchild of Tobey’s wife, Nancy Houle, who proposed the pairing to Expositor advertising manager Len Offless. He, in turn, brought in the Sunshine Dreams for Kids, a charity supported by The Expositor and several other local sponsors.

Each CD costs $5, with $4 going to Sunshine Dreams and its annual Dream Tree campaign.

Sales of 2,500 copies of the CD are expected to raise $10,000 for the charity, which fulfils dreams for children facing severe disabilities or life-threatening illness.

The disc will be launched today during an invitation-only event at the Brantford Club. Starting Tuesday, it will be available at The Expositor and Executive Realty.

The songbook will be issued in Tuesday’s paper.

Tobey, a Juno-nominated musician, donated his time to produce the CD. The experience was a pleasure, he says.

“The whole thing is just amazing. I’m just a small part of it, but it feels good to be that small part.”

The 45-minute disc features piano renditions of the most popular Christmas tunes from past songbooks, including Silent Night, Jingle Bells and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.

The musical arrangements should be easily followed by any singer, says Tobey, a respected composer.

Also included are four bonus tracks, recorded with Tobey and his six-piece ensemble: a Christmas medley, an original composition called Island Christmas, O Christmas Tree, and Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring — a favourite of the musician’s late mother.

The Christmas Memories CD is part of the annual Dream Tree campaign, named after a tall evergreen outside the Executive Realty office on Park Road North.

The landmark gets progressively brighter each Christmas season as donors contribute to the campaign, illuminating 1,000 lights on its branches.

Last year, the tree grew to $27,000; the 2006 goal is $30,000.

That means more sick kids will see their wishes come true, says Brian Hall, co-chairman of the Dream Tree campaign.

The CD adds an appealing new element to the campaign — and restores an old-fashioned warmth to the season, says Hall, a realtor at Executive.

“It goes back to the idea of traditional family gatherings,” he says, noting loved ones can gather to sing along with instrumental carols on the album.

If successful, the CD project could go national, Hall said, with involvement from Osprey Media, which owns The Expositor and 20 other daily newspapers as well as 36 non-daily newspapers, shopping guides, magazines and other publications.

The disc is already attracting attention from local businesses, which want to purchase large numbers to give to clients as Christmas mementoes — while also supporting a local charity.

Since 1987, Sunshine Dreams for Kids has fulfilled more than 6,200 dreams for Canadian kids.

Recently, the local unit sent five-year-old Brennan Seth to Walt Disney World in Florida.

The Hagersville youngster has undergone three open-heart surgeries since birth and is expected to next a heart transplant as a teenager or young adult.

Most dreams cost about $5,000, says Hall, noting that a trip to Disney is the No. 1 destination.

Other local children have also been able to meet heroes such as Chuck Norris and Tie Domi through the Sunshine Foundation.

To Pick Up Your Songbooks and Sing-A-Long Christmas CD Contact  

The Expositor
53 Dalhousie St.
Brantford, Ont.
P.O. Box 965
N3T 5S8

General phone number Phone: (519) 756-2020
Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.