If you could only play music written by a single composer for the rest of your life, who would it be?
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Orchestra - Mahler - Intricate, expansive, emotional, great trombone parts, who could ask for anything more.
Band- Percy Grainger - Amazing arrangements of folk tunes to evoke the english countryside
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Seeing as I am a pianist, I would have to say Bach. I studied piano as a teenager with a teacher who had a passion for Bach. I also loved listening to Glenn Gould’s recordings (he was still alive and very famous in Canada at the time) which inspired my own love of all things Bach.
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Go see Amadeus. Now.
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Being that I am a classically trained pianist, I would have to say Chopin, although Debussy is a close second.
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@gordon as a pianist, Beethoven's music appeals to me - sonatas and concertos/concerti (?); thorough his compositional years, he made the transition from Classical to Romantic. Beethoven is considered a composer who set the precedent to what would become the development into the Romantic style in music history.
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Frank Ticheli. The first piece I conducted for the BCB was Simple Gifts, arranged by Ticheli
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For piano, I'm classically trained, so Chopin or Beethoven.
For band, I think I enjoy too many varieties of music to choose one composer for life! Big Band Jazz, movie scores, marches....I don't think anyone covers all these bases! -
If you could combine Andrew Lloyd Weber and John Williams, you could keep me going for years. Some pieces I could never master.
Tchaikovsky would be good for more classical days. -
I agree with Lisa in that there are just too many great varieties from a number of composers to stick with just one but 3 near the top of my list would be Andrew Lloyd Webber, Leroy Anderson, and (for Gordon & I) John Phillip Sousa.
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Okay...
Could I suggest an Arranger? I love playing Jay Bacook pieces (i.e. the Bolero piece we played) and we have also played Robert Buckley arrangements. They both write their own compositions as well! So it us a win-win situation for us...
BTW....Jay Bacook is the resident composer/arranger for Hal Leonard. He has written for DCI. Robert Buckley lives in Vancouver and has written for many artist like Michael Bublé and the Canadian Brass. -
That's not what I heard at a recent concert, @julian. Are you sure you're right about that?
