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Featured Work:
Rondo in Stride – cello & piano – Forsyth
Rondo in Stride for cello and piano by Malcolm Forsyth, Dur. 6′ just released.
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Program Notes by the Composer: The legendary jazz pianist Fats Waller developed a unique style, which became known as “Stride Piano”, in which the left hand made striding leaps of a tenth, as it moved through the harmonic sequence. This, and other cute clichés of classic jazz, such as the string pizzicato with double stops and slides, are parodied in this tongue-in-cheek morsel.
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Listen on YoutubeVoices – solo organ – Eric Robertson
There are not many people who would care to sleep in a church. I don’t mean at sermon-time in warm weather (when the thing has actually been done, once or twice), but in the night, and alone. Who will meet me singly in an old churchyard, before an old church door; and will previously empower me to lock him in, if needful to his satisfaction, until morning? ….(Charles Dickens The Chimes 1845)
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This is a fantasy on what that scenario may be like to experience…
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Left to right, top to bottom: Jeff McCune, Glenn Buhr, Sid Robinovitch, Malcolm Forsyth, Bramwell Tovey, Gary Kulesha, Victor Davies, Kelly-Marie Murphy, Eric Robertson, Johnny Cowell
