It took a good long while and more wheeling and dealing (and spousal apologizing) than I've ever done, but I've managed to put together a full Lyon & Healy Quartet.
All are player grade - the...
It took a good long while and more wheeling and dealing (and spousal apologizing) than I've ever done, but I've managed to put together a full Lyon & Healy Quartet.
All are player grade - the...
I posted this in the Mandolin Mondays thread, but it really belongs here.
Check out Luke Williams Wright and his wonderful compositions for the mandocello.
Luke is one of the players and...
OK so we all knew he could play mandolin, but rarely seen, this clip of Whippersnapper from 1984 has Swarb tearing it up on mandolin, some great m'cello action later on too...
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The CMSA Convention at Kansas City will have a pre-convention mandocello workshop and an open mic mandocello ensemble. The workshop will be with section leader Masataka Hori--check out his website:...
Hey All,
Just got a new old mandolin, wondering if any of you knowledgeable folks could help me correctly identify exactly what I have. From what tiny bit of research I've done, seems like an...
Every year the German government chooses a musical instrument and declares it to be the "Year of the [instrument]". 2023 is the "Year of the Mandolin". The German mandolinist Michael Reichenbach...
Owen Hartford's wonderful piece "Family Squabble" has been core repertoire of the Providence Mandolin Orchestra for many years. Here is our latest performance featuring two excellent recorder...
In the United States, the "mandola" almost always refers to the instrument tuned CGDA, like the viola. In the early twentieth century it was common for American mandolinists to play original solo...
This is a performance by the Hampton Trio of "Trio" by the Swedish composer Olof Näslund, made for the CMSA's online "Convention in the Clouds" this past November. The performance was first...
Just received from the British BMG Federation Committee:
"Saturday 10th October marks the 10th anniversary of the late, great British mandolin maestra Alison Stephens and you are invited to join...
Nice to see all of you from 11 years ago. For convenience here it is embedded. Nice playing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99Qtp8600Hw
The weekend, I've taken some time to cite a few more favorites. I've been deliberate in trying to not double things I've seen already listed on this thread.
Unaccompanied
De Grebber, Sebastiaan....
The composer of "Magnificent Mountain", Robert Lunn, posted the audio to the premier performance by the Classical Mandolin Society of America last week. Hearing it on this link is amazing--sitting in...
For anyone attending or thinking about attending, I've attached the draft workshop schedule for the upcoming CMSA convention in Bloomington-Normal IL, October 9 -13. "Draft" because there are...
Phil,
I’ve attended 4 CMSAs, I enjoy my time there. Prepare your music the best you can ahead of time & attend the rehearsals & sectionals. Be ready to make lots of notes.
As far as Mandolin orch...
I'm pleased to say that our friendly Cafe host has added a short track from my just released, digital-only, recording to the Cafe MP3 collection. Postcards From the Crater is a collection of 10...
Note #3: the Japanese website mentioned in my previous posting does not list works by living Japanese composers but instead redirects users to a separate website.
Note #4: I've attached a copy of...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUyPP_VTClM
The Entertainer by Scott Joplin
Notation & Tab
One year review:
Because little blues and blues-related music was being posted or discussed under the category "Jazz, Swing, Blues, Bossa, Choro, Klezmer, Ragtime," I began posting Blues, Stomps,...
Joel Hobbs & Jonathan Rudie have a brilliant new classical mandolin and guitar album just released entitled Vesper. Hobbs is the Founder and Director of the Austin Mandolin Orchestra. Available from...
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Dear Mandolin Friends,
Here is my fifth folio of free mandolin trio arrangements for winter. I included 6 carols this year, all of them beautiful and most not well-known. All but two are new...
Let me add to Doc and David's comments by saying that I agree it was another first rate convention. I can't praise the local host orchestras and the CMSA Board members enough for all of the hard work...
The Hampton Trio (Beverly Davis, classical guitar; Mark Davis, mandolin; myself, mandola in G) recently appeared at the ‘46 Festival internacional de Musica de Plectro de la Rioja’ in Spain where we...
As far as overall shape, no, you are not missing something. I may have confused the trade names for the pick materials.
The picks I refer to are these:
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