You can read the music for this piece and several others I will be posting here.
"It seems to me that to organize on the basis of feeding people or righting social injustice and all that is very valuable. But to rally people around the idea of modernism, modernity, or something is simply silly. I mean, I don't know what kind of a cause that is, to be up to date. I think it ultimately leads to fashion and snobbery and I'm against it." Jack Levine: January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010 LEVEL BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Arthur Bird : Auf Dem Lande
Arthur Bird (1856-1920) is a composer I'd know from a single hearing of a piece for wind ensemble about thirty years ago. It made enough of an impression on me that I'd periodically looked for sheet music of his work and had looked up the scant information available on his life. Thanks to YouTube you can now hear more of his work. Bird was an expert contrapuntal composer of high romantic music with a distinctive voice. One of the reasons he's available on YouTube is that he was one of a small number of composers who wrote serious art music for the harmonium. Here is a piece played by Artis Wodehouse on the exact model of Mason and Hamlin he wrote it for.
You can read the music for this piece and several others I will be posting here.
You can read the music for this piece and several others I will be posting here.
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