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"Ashokan Farewell" / ə ˈ ʃ oʊ ˌ k æ n / is a musical piece composed by the American folk musician Jay Ungar in 1982. For many years, it served as a goodnight or farewell waltz at the annual Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Camps, run by Ungar and his wife Molly Mason, who named the tune after the Ashokan Field Campus (now the Ashokan Center) of SUNY New Paltz in Upstate New York.
[2] Ah May the Red Rose Live Alway. The song begins with a piano introduction. The first vocal line of "Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway!" begins on a high note that is held with a fermata. Music historians have postulated that this may give the setting an image of stalling the passage of time. Foster has placed additional fermatas throughout ...
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The Innumerable Dance: The Life and Work of William Alwyn Archived 9 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine by Adrian Wright, the first full biography published by the Boydell Press in 2008. Composing in words: William Alwyn on his art Archived 17 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine edited by Andrew Palmer, includes many of Alwyn's autobiographical ...
Maurice Ravel's Violin and Piano Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano was composed from 1923 to 1927; it was inspired by forms of American music such as jazz and blues. [ 1 ] This work was the only violin and piano sonata published during Ravel's lifetime; the existence of the Violin Sonata No. 1 (Ravel) only came to be known long after Ravel's death.
It was probably a replacement movement for the original slow movement of his Violin Concerto No. 5 in A. It is believed that Mozart wrote it specifically for the violinist Antonio Brunetti, who complained that the original slow movement was "too artificial". [1] The work is scored for solo violin, two flutes, two horns in E and strings.
Mark D. Ross, the rapper best known as Brother Marquis of the Miami hip-hop group 2 Live Crew, has died, the group announced. The performer was 58.
Nippon Music Foundation [22] This violin, and the Paganini-Conte Cozio di Salabue violin of 1727, the Paganini-Mendelssohn viola 1731 and the Paganini-Ladenburg cello of 1736, comprise the Paganini Quartet; the foundation owns more than a dozen Stradivari instruments. On loan to Florian Schötz from Goldmund Quartet.