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Posted on Saturday July 5, 2008 at 04:14 PM
It's been quite an interesting exercise (and a lot of fun too) making five new Piano videos for YouTube this evening. (All boils down to Mr B having a cold. If he'd have been on form, we would have made some humour vids instead.) I played three Jazz solos - one of my own compositions "A Little Rhythm" and two by Christopher Norton. I feel that I have something to teach in this genre and that random...
Posted on Saturday July 5, 2008 at 04:04 PM
Here's a mini-Jazz solo by one of my rival composers, Christopher Norton. Norton has written vast quantities of educational Jazz (one of the several fields I'm trying to crack currently!) I've posted five new Piano solos this evening if anyone wants to look up FeBlandMusic over at YouTube....
Posted on Thursday July 3, 2008 at 01:25 PM
Piano Track 10 There is a lot of repeating in the early part of this piece so you need to be in the mood for something hypnotic. Oddly enough, once you get used to the hypnotic stuff, I introduce a flute line which gets quite active at times. Don't listen to this at too loud a volume. One more warning, this is an 'unproduced' sketch - I am focusing on just coming up with the raw materials at the mo...
Posted on Thursday July 3, 2008 at 07:18 AM
This is by no means a complete list of the works of J.J.Quantz - flautist, teacher, composer and instrument maker. QV 1: 1 - Flute Sonata No. 360 in C major QV 1: 2 - Flute Sonata No. 284 in C major QV 1: 3 - Flute Sonata No. 346 in C major QV 1: 4 - Flute Sonata No. 241 in C major QV 1: 5a - Flute Sonata No. 91 in C major QV 1: 5b - Flute Sonata XVII in C major QV 1: 6 - Flute Sonata No. 226 in C...
Posted on Thursday July 3, 2008 at 05:41 AM
I have a new UK contact who plays the flute. This is via Bob Dent my Cello friend. The young lady in question phoned me last night and was already talking in terms of concerts and performances. She's also the principal flute with a British Orchestra and there might be a chance of performances with the Orchestra - even a possible commission was mentioned (pretty amazing on the strength of one phone...
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