Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
[3] Harvey also composed the theme song for TBS' World Championship Wrestling, called "Dynamics". Harvey is also a prolific composer of production music and founding partner of West One Music Group along with Edwin Cox and Tony Prior. Among his compositions is "Reach for the Stars", which has been used in numerous movie trailers, commercials ...
His jazz-funk arrangement of the Beatles' "Get Back" was used as the longtime theme for the 1970s sports quiz show Sports Challenge, emceed by Dick Enberg. For clarinetist Eddie Daniels, Williams wrote A Concerto in Swing; for saxophonist Tom Scott, he penned Romances for Jazz Soloist and Orchestra.
Concerto for woodwinds, harp, and orchestra (1949) Anna Jalkéus. Concerto for jazz voice, harp and orchestra "The Rise of Estrogenia" (2017) [49] Lowell Liebermann. Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra, Op.48 (1995) Frank Martin. Petite symphonie concertante for harp, harpsichord, piano and double string orchestra, op.54 (1944) Fabio Mengozzi
The Dutch group Ekseption recorded a jazz-fusion version titled "Air" which reached No. 1 on the Dutch chart in 1969. [34] The German group Sweetbox recorded a rap song "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" backed with music from "Air on the G String" in 1997, which became a world-wide hit. [35]
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed his Orchestral Suite No. 3 in G, Op. 55 in 1884, writing it concurrently with his Concert Fantasia in G, Op. 56, for piano and orchestra. The originally intended opening movement of the suite, Contrastes, instead became the closing movement of the fantasia. Both works were also intended initially as more ...
Anderson's first work was the 1938 "Jazz Pizzicato", but at just over ninety seconds, the piece was too short for a three-minute 78 rpm single of the period. [5] Fiedler suggested writing a companion piece, and Anderson wrote '"Jazz Legato" later that same year. The combined recording went on to become one of Anderson's signature compositions. [6]
Gavotte from J.S. Bach's French Suite No. 5. A suite, in Western classical music, is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral/concert band pieces. It originated in the late 14th century as a pairing of dance tunes; and grew in scope so that by the early 17th century it comprised up to five dances, sometimes with a prelude.
Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote a concerto for piano, though it was later reworked as a concerto for two pianos and orchestra—both versions have been recorded; Benjamin Britten's concerto for piano (1938) is a prominent work from his early period.