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Trombone Concerto (Grøndahl)
A trombone concerto is a concerto for solo trombone and instrumental ensemble, customarily the orchestra. The vast majority of trombone concertos, especially those which are staples of trombone repertoire, also have Reduction (music), piano reductions available. Selected examples * Leopold Mozart ** ''Alto Trombone Concerto'' (1756) * Bert Appermont ** ''Colors for Trombone'' (1998) * Ferdinand David (musician), Ferdinand David ** Trombone Concertino (David), Trombone Concertino (1837) * Launy Grøndahl ** Trombone Concerto (Grøndahl), Trombone Concerto (1924) * James MacMillan ** Trombone Concerto (MacMillan), Trombone Concerto (2016) * Johan de Meij ** ''T-Bone Concerto'' (1996) * Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ** Trombone Concerto (Rimsky-Korsakov), Trombone Concerto (1877) * Nino Rota ** Trombone Concerto in C (Rota), Trombone Concerto in C (1966) * Christopher Rouse (composer), Christopher Rouse ** Trombone Concerto (Rouse), Trombone Concerto (1991) * Jan Sandström (composer), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concerto
A concerto (; plural ''concertos'', or ''concerti'' from the Italian plural) is, from the late Baroque era, mostly understood as an instrumental composition, written for one or more soloists accompanied by an orchestra or other ensemble. The typical three- movement structure, a slow movement (e.g., lento or adagio) preceded and followed by fast movements (e.g., presto or allegro), became a standard from the early 18th century. The concerto originated as a genre of vocal music in the late 16th century: the instrumental variant appeared around a century later, when Italians such as Giuseppe Torelli and Arcangelo Corelli started to publish their concertos. A few decades later, Venetian composers, such as Antonio Vivaldi, had written hundreds of violin concertos, while also producing solo concertos for other instruments such as a cello or a woodwind instrument, and concerti grossi for a group of soloists. The first keyboard concertos, such as George Frideric Handel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trombone Concerto (Rimsky-Korsakov)
The Concerto for Trombone and Military Band by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was written in 1877. The concerto consists of three movements: an ''Allegro Vivace'' first movement, an ''Andante Cantabile'' second movement, and an ''Allegro-Allegretto'' third movement in the style of a march. The second and third movements conclude with cadenzas. A full performance of the piece lasts roughly ten minutes. This concerto was composed for a fellow marine officer Leonov and premiered at a garrison concert at Kronstadt on 16 March 1878. The American premiere took place in June, 1952 at The Mall in Central Park, New York City with Davis Shuman, trombone and the Goldman Band. In his recording Christian Lindberg famously alters the cadenzas to include technical stunts such as multiphonics. Many performers have taken this recording as a cue to create their own interpretations of the cadenzas. This concerto has been recorded by many trombone soloists such as Joseph Alessi, Brett Baker, Michel Becq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chick Corea
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021) was an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain (instrumental), Spain", "500 Miles High", "La Fiesta", "Armando's Rhumba" and "Windows (composition), Windows" are widely considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis's band in the late 1960s, he participated in the birth of jazz fusion. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever. Along with McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett, Corea is considered to have been one of the foremost pianists of the post-John Coltrane era. Corea continued to collaborate frequently while exploring different musical styles throughout the 1980s and 1990s. As of January 2025, he won 28 Grammy Awards and was nominated 72 times for the award. Early life and education Armando Corea was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on June 12, 1941, to parents Anna (née Zaccone) and Armando J. Corea. He was of Southern Italy, southern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Troorkh
''Troorkh'' is a composition for trombone and orchestra by Greek composer Iannis Xenakis. It was commissioned by Swedish Radio for Swedish trombonist Christian Lindberg, to whom it is dedicated, and was completed in 1991. It was premiered on March 26, 1993 at Berwald Hall in Stockholm by the Swedish Radio Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen, with Lindberg as the soloist. Composition In November 1985, Christian Lindberg traveled from Stockholm to Paris to meet with Xenakis. Unfortunately, his train was delayed by seven hours, and Xenakis was only able to spend a few minutes with him. During that brief meeting, Lindberg asked Xenakis if he would consider composing a trombone concerto. Xenakis declined, and Lindberg left, disappointed. However, two years later, to Lindberg's surprise, Xenakis sent him the music for ''Keren'', a solo trombone piece written for Benny Sluchin. Despite the presence of some extremely difficult passages, Lindberg proceeded to learn the piece and sent Xenaki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iannis Xenakis
Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; , ; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer. After 1947, he fled Greece, becoming a naturalised citizen of France eighteen years later. Xenakis pioneered the use of mathematical models in music such as applications of set theory, stochastic processes and game theory and was also an important influence on the development of electronic and computer music. He integrated music with architecture, designing music for pre-existing spaces, and designing spaces to be integrated with specific music compositions and performances. Among his most important works are '' Metastaseis'' (1953–54) for orchestra, which introduced independent parts for every musician of the orchestra; percussion works such as '' Psappha'' (1975) and '' Pléïades'' (1979); compositions that introduced spatializ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trombone Concerto (Wagner)
The Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra is a trombone concerto by the American composer Melinda Wagner. The work was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for their principal trombonist Joseph Alessi. It was given its premiere at Avery Fisher Hall on February 22, 2007, by Alessi and the New York Philharmonic under the conductor Lorin Maazel. The piece is dedicated to Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic. A recording of Wagner's ''Trombone Concerto'' was released by Bridge Records in 2011, featuring trombonist Joseph Alessi with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Lorin Maazel (''Music of Melinda Wagner'' - Bridge 9345). Composition The ''Trombone Concerto'' has a duration of roughly 24 minutes and is composed in three movements: #Satyr #Elemental Things; Litany #Catch Reception Reviewing the world premiere, Anne Midgette of ''The New York Times'' wrote of the concerto, "It is thickly sown with interesting sounds — not sound effects, but a range of timbres and te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melinda Wagner
Melinda Jane Wagner (born 1957 in Philadelphia) is a US composer, and winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in music. Her undergraduate degree is from Hamilton College. She received her graduates degrees from University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania. She also served as Composer-in-Residence at the University of Texas (Austin) and at the 'Bravo!' Vail Valley Music Festival. Some of her teachers included Richard Wernick, George Crumb, Shulamit Ran, and Jay Reise. Career A resident of Ridgewood, New Jersey, Wagner won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for her '' Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion''. The Chicago Symphony has commissioned three major works, Falling Angels (1992); a piano concerto, Extremity of Sky (2002) for Emanuel Ax; the most recent of these, Proceed, Moon (2016), was premiered by the orchestra under the baton of Susanna Mälkki in 2017. Extremity of Sky has also been performed by Emanuel Ax with the National Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, the Kansas City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trombone Concerto (Shilkret)
''Concerto for Trombone'' is a 1942 instrumental crossover work in three movements, which trombonist Tommy Dorsey, one of the best known musical entertainment stars of his time, commissioned from Nathaniel Shilkret, a noted conductor and composer of music for recording, radio and film.Shilkret, Nathaniel, ed. Shell, Niel and Barbara Shilkret, ''Nathaniel Shilkret: Sixty Years in the Music Business'', Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland, 2005. Shilkret, Nathaniel, Barbara Shilkret, and Niel Shell, ''Feast or Famine: Sixty Years in the Music Business'', archival edition of Shilkret autobiography, 2001 (copies deposited in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, The City College of New York Archival Library, The New York Philharmonic Archives, The Victor Archives (SONY)). Shilkret describes the first movement as "in classic form, but in the middle I introduced a fugue, partly in jazz form, and near the end I wrote the main theme in fox-trot rhythm." The second movement has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathaniel Shilkret
Nathaniel Shilkret (December 25, 1889 – February 18, 1982) was an American musician, composer, conductor and musical director. Early career Shilkret (originally named Natan Schüldkraut) was born in New York City, United States, to parents who emigrated from Lemberg (now Lviv in Ukraine).Shilkret, Nathaniel, ed. Shell, Niel and Barbara Shilkret, ''Nathaniel Shilkret: Sixty Years in the Music Business'', Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland, 2005. Shilkret, Nathaniel, Barbara Shilkret, and Niel Shell, ''Feast or Famine: Sixty Years in the Music Business'', archival edition of Shilkret autobiography, 2001 (copies deposited in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, The City College of New York Archival Library, The New York Philharmonic Archives, The Victor Archives (SONY)). His father played a number of instruments, and made certain that Nat and his three brothers were all accomplished musicians at an early age. Older brother Lew Shilkret was a fine pianist who also w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motorbike Odyssey
''Motorbike Odyssey'' is the Trombone Concerto No. 1 by Swedish composer Jan Sandström. The concerto for solo tenor trombone and large orchestra, written in 1989, is sometimes called ''Motorbike Concerto''. It was dedicated to the trombone virtuoso Christian Lindberg. The piece is meant to be a musical telling of a modern Odysseus, traveling the world with his trombone. Orchestration The orchestration is complex, calling for a large orchestra with additional piano, harp, full percussion section and virtuoso bell plate striker. The solo part, at almost 24 minutes in length, is highly complex, spanning the bass, tenor, and treble clefs and calling for considerable extended technique. The performance Lindberg's world premiere serves as the guideline for how the piece should be performed. The audience sits facing the stage and the orchestra tuning. Suddenly, there is a loud engine sound, and a white motorcycle rolls onto the stage, driven by Lindberg. He is dressed in full, l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Sandström (composer)
Jan Sandström (born 25 January 1954) is a Swedish classical music composer. His compositions include the so-called '' Motorbike Concerto'' for trombone and orchestra and his choral setting of '' Es ist ein Ros entsprungen''. Career Born in Vilhelmina, Västerbotten County, Sandström grew up in Stockholm. He studied at the Luleå University of Technology's Piteå School of Music (1974–1976) and completed his music training at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, studying music theory (1978–1982) and composition with Gunnar Bucht, Brian Ferneyhough and Pär Lindgren (1980–1984). He joined the faculty of the Piteå School of Music in the 1980s and was appointed professor of composition in 1989. In 1988 to 1989 he composed his first concerto for trombone and large orchestra, which became famous as the '' Motorbike Concerto'', revised in 2002 to a ''Motorbike Odyssey''. In 1990 he composed '' Es ist ein Ros entsprungen'' (''Det är en ros utsprungen''), placing the famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trombone Concerto (Rouse)
The Trombone Concerto is a concerto for trombone and orchestra by the American composer Christopher Rouse. The work was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for its principal trombonist Joseph Alessi. It was completed on April 5, 1991, and was first performed by Alessi and the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Slatkin on December 30, 1992, in Avery Fisher Hall, New York City. Rouse, ChristopherTrombone Concerto: Program Note by the Composer 1993. Retrieved March 4, 2015. The concerto is dedicated to the composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, who died suddenly October 14, 1990. In 1993, the work was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Composition The concerto, lasting approximately half an hour in performance, is written in three movements played without pause: #Adagio #Scherzo #Adagio The third movement, which Rouse especially intended as a tribute to Bernstein, quotes a theme from Bernstein's Symphony No. 3, ''Kaddish''. On dedicating the concerto to Ber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
