Oboe and piano SKU: ST.C550 Composed by Mary Chandler. Wind & brass music...(+)
Oboe and piano
SKU:
ST.C550
Composed by
Mary Chandler. Wind &
brass music. Clifton
Edition #C550. Published
by Clifton Edition
(ST.C550).
ISBN
9790570815500.
Traveller’s
Joy — Two Walking
Tunes for Oboe and Piano
was composed in 1956.
This is the first time
the piece has been
published.
Mary
Chandler was born in Kent
in 1911. She studied
music privately, and her
teachers included Harry
Farjeon (composition),
Margaret Eliot and Leon
Goossens (oboe) and
Harold Craxton (piano).
She read English at
Oxford University and
taught in London schools
before joining the City
of Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra as principal
oboist. She appeared with
the CBSO as soloist (oboe
and piano) and composer
and gave broadcasts and
recitals in the Midlands.
Later, as a free-lance
orchestral player, she
formed the Mercian Trio
(flute, oboe and piano)
which gave concerts
around the
country.
In 1960
Mary became Area Director
of the Kent Music School,
in charge of its wind
teaching and of the
varied activities of its
Tonbridge Music Centre.
She conducted many
student groups and
composed and arranged
music for them until she
retired in 1971. She
continued to be actively
involved in music
thereafter, examining,
composing and organising
concerts. She spent her
later years in
Gloucestershire and died
in 1996.
Dr.
Kristin Leitterman is
currently the Assistant
Professor of Oboe at
Arkansas State University
in Jonesboro, Arkansas,
USA, where she teaches
oboe and bassoon, Double
Reed Techniques, and
coaches small chamber
ensembles. She is also
the Director of the
Lucarelli Oboe Master
Class, a week-long
immersive oboe master
class founded by Bert
Lucarelli in 1996. As a
guest artist she has
presented master classes
at many institutions,
including the Manhattan
School of Music, New York
University, and the Hartt
School.
As a
researcher, Kirstin has
interests in the life and
works of Mary Chandler.
She has presented her
research at The Juilliard
School, Music by Women
Festival, the
International Double Reed
Society conferences, and
the Brazilian Double Reed
Society’s conference in
João Pessoa, Paraíba,
Brazil.
Oboe and Piano SKU: BT.EMBZ8318 Composed by Bela Bartok. EMB Music of Bel...(+)
Oboe and Piano
SKU:
BT.EMBZ8318
Composed
by Bela Bartok. EMB Music
of Bela Bartok. Book
Only. Composed 1981. 6
pages. Editio Musica
Budapest #EMBZ8318.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ8318).
English-German-Hungari
an.
An Evening in
the Village was composed
in 1908 as no. 5 of the
Ten Easy Piano Pieces. It
has become one of
Bartók's favorite
works, which the composer
himself was fond of
playing at recitals. As
he explained in an
American interview, it
was ''an original
composition that is ...
with themes of my own
invention but ... the
themes are in the style
of the
Hungarian-Transylvanian
folk tunes. There are two
themes. The first one is
a parlando-rubato-rhythm
and the second one is
more in a dance-like
rhythm. The second one is
more or less the
imitation of a peasant
flute playing.''
Bartók also
orchestrated the piece in
1931 as no. 1 of
Hungarian Sketches. In
2015 we are launching
aseries entitled
Bartók Transcriptions
for Music Students to
mark the 70th anniversary
of the composer s death.
This involves reissuing
our tried publications,
and publishing some
further, new
transcriptions that
fulfill in every respect
the strict aesthetic
demands of the earlier
ones. We trust these
publications will allow
us to introduce still
more music students to
the realm of one of the
great geniuses of
20th-century music.
Das 1908 als Nr.
5 der Zehn leichten
Klavierstücke
komponierte Klavierwerk
Ein Abend am Lande ist
ein echter
Bartók-Schlager, der
auch vom Komponisten
selbst mit Vorliebe im
Rahmen seiner Konzerte
vorgetragen wurde. In
einem amerikanischen
Interview äußerte
er sich dazu, ''…
es handelt sich um eine
Originalkomposition, das
heißt, ihre Themen
stammen von mir, wobei
diese Themen jedoch den
Stil der
siebenbürgisch-ungaris
chen Volkslieder
aufgreifen. Von seinen
zwei Themen hat das erste
Parlando-Rubato-Charakter
, das zweite ist eher von
einem Tanzrhythmus
geprägt … und
ist mehr oder weniger die
Imitation eines
bäuerlichen
Blockflötenspiels.''
Im Jahr 1931
instrumentierte
Bartókdas Stück als
Nr. 1 der Bilder aus
Ungarn auch für
Orchester.