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Elegie II
Title: Elegie II Composer: Greg Smith Instrumentation: Cello and piano Product medium: PDF score and part SAMPLE:
On thinking
“If you make people think they’re thinking they’ll love you: but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.” …
Abstraction IV
Title: Abstraction IV Composer: Greg Smith Instrumentation: Cello and piano Product medium: PDF score and part SAMPLE:
Dividing the concert takings
In 1866 Brahms and the violinist Joachim gave a concert tour through Switzerland. One of their concerts was in Aarau. …
Glinka’s compositional priorities
“My earnest desire is to compose music which would make all my beloved fellow countrymen feel quite at home, and …
The greatest applause
“The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause.” — Ralph Waldo …
Emerging from suffering
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Kahlil Gibran, Broken …
At the core of Beethoven’s “Diabelli” Variations, an esoteric and astonishing piano piece lasting some 50 minutes, is one of …
Relationship with the muse
I need time to be idle in order to experience and romance my muse, Music, my lifelong partner. In some …
White Christmas
Accounts vary on where Irving Berlin wrote “White Christmas”. Berlin himself even recall differing circumstances on when it was penned. …
Just as we checked the tuning …
In 1853, Brahms went on a tour of German cities with the Hungarian violinist Eduard Reményi. In the town of …
Golden rules for an orchestra
‘”There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn’t give a damn what …
An artist’s job is not for small talk
Nora Guthrie, Woody's daughter, once told me a story about a reception she was at where Bob Dylan was in …
Paper and matches for maintenance
When Spanish cellist Pablo Casals was in his seventies, he retired from the concert stage and lived in Prades, Southern …
The pros and cons of imagination
“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from …