English composer Frank Bridge is remembered today mostly as the teacher of Benjamin Britten, who honored the older composer with his “Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge” for strings. Bridge wrote three sets of miniatures for piano trio, from which Hayghe has chosen four pieces for this p...
One fascinating aspect of the program that Bell and Haywood are playing in Boulder is the way it illustrates the changing character of music for violin and piano over about a century, including a shift in the relationship between the two players. When Mozart wrote his Sonata in B-flat major ...
Sharp and flat notes can indicate a unique sense of expression for the music itself, creating suspense or releasing the tension in a piece. Pianos are not the only instrument that can play both sharps and flats Many other instruments can play these notes as well, such as the guitar...
Over the course of years I've come to the conclusion that the first instrument a person learns sets the cognitive pattern for how he think about the layout of scales. I learned on a piano and so I visualize in a linear fashion using the keys in my mind's eye. Especially true when fi...
credit Cathryn Falwell Gorham students in grades three through five, under the direction of music teacher Janelle Mosey (conducting), perform the world premier of "The Festival of Birds," a new collection of original songs on avian themes, written by Gorham songwriter Mike Nobel (at piano). Pr...
The Colorado Music Festival orchestra presented an intriguing program last night (July 25), combining a new piece for piano and strings, played by a striking individual soloist, and a dramatic reading of Rimsky-Korsakov’s colorful tone poem,Scheherazade. ...
Jessie Montgomery:Roundsfor piano and string orchestra (2022) Rimsky-Korsakov:Scheherazade 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 25 6:30 p.m. Friday, July 26 Festival Chamber Orchestra Concert Chamber Orchestra, Gemma New, conductor With Christina and Michelle Naughton, piano duo ...
English composer Frank Bridge is remembered today mostly as the teacher of Benjamin Britten, who honored the older composer with his “Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge” for strings. Bridge wrote three sets of miniatures for piano trio, from which Hayghe has chosen four pieces for this ...