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REALLY ? ROCK N ROLL IS DEAD?

8 Jul 2022 2 minute read 1 comment giuseppe 2022

  We have heard this phrase for years, there is even a song by Lenny Kravitz with that title... but what is the truth in all this... is the rock n roll music that shook the world since the end of the 50's dying? . or what one day was will no longer b...

Choosing Music for Youth and Amateur Ensembles

8 Jul 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy

Unsplash     Unsplash   Choosing music for Youth and Amateur ensembles is a tricky business... you have different constraints compared to picking music for a professional ensemble. In a professional ensemble, you are more constrained by budge...

Pittoresken für Streichinstrumente: III. Maskerade im Mondlicht [Philip Daniel; 2020]

7 Jul 2022 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

    Third in a set of "picturesques" for varied combinations of bowed chordophones (string instruments), here scored for a quintet consisting of members of the "new violin family" or "violin octet" invented by Dr. Carleen Hutchins. The painting in t...

Pittoresken für Streichinstrumente: II. Capricietto canonico [Philip Daniel; 2020]

6 Jul 2022 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

          Second in a set of "picturesques" for varied combinations of bowed chordophones (string instruments), composed for (necessarily seven-string) viola d'amore and (likewise seven-string) viola da gamba duo. The first section of this work in m...

Three Tune Tuesday Week 58 - Celine Dion.

5 Jul 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Olawalium

Music would take you down memory lane and ever since I've found TTT, I've been taking frequent trips down that lane and it's enjoyable. While growing up, I think everyone in Nigeria was a fan of Celine Dion...well, I am still a fan of those evergreen...

80 years a legend live music

2 Jul 2022 1 minute read 2 comments giuseppe 2022

This living legend of universal music has turned 80.Sir James paul Mc cartney his name say it al a working class boy born in liverpool in the middle of second world war who from childhood developed curiosity about music and already in adolesence and...

Pittoresken für Streichinstrumente: I. Der Kriegstanz [Philip Daniel; 2020]

30 Jun 2022 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

          First in a set of "picturesques" for varied combinations of bowed chordophones (string instruments). A tenebrous, lugubrious study in counterpoint and developmental variation scored for string trio (violin/viola/violoncello, all "con sordi...

Strings on, Strings off...

30 Jun 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy

  Okay... so, this is going to get quite annoying as time goes on. I have my period instrument violin, which is that crazily old English one, that is set up for Early Music stuff... so, gut strings, and Baroque set up for the internals and everyth...

Stimmungsbilder: IX. Ciaconna romanzesca [Philip Daniel; 2020]

29 Jun 2022 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

          Ninth in a set of "atmospheric pictures" for varied combinations of solo woodwind and keyboard. This piece concludes the set of Stimmungsbilder with a concentrated and sinuous series of variations, for oboe and piano, on a recurring harmon...

Stimmungsbilder: VIII. In der Höhle des Bronzedrachen [Philip Daniel; 2020]

28 Jun 2022 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel

          Eighth in a set of "atmospheric pictures" for varied combinations of solo woodwind and keyboard. This penultimate Stimmungsbild, entitled "In der Höhle des Bronzedrachen" ["In the Cave of the Bronze Dragon"] showcases the expressive intens...