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Miniatures like snap shots in an album.
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Miniatures like snap shots in an album.
Review: “Photographs for Piano by Gordon Carr includes four sophisticated and mature-sounding pieces that will appeal to students with little background in 20th century music. The selections have varied styles and use bitonality and chromatic elements. Snapshot is one page in length and has broken major sevenths. Slow and sad, Faded Photo starts with an augmented arpeggio and continues with an arpeggiated accompaniment under a dissonant melody. When We Were Young expresses happiness with much use of octaves. Marked ‘Andante Intimo’, Empty Chair uses a slow ostinato throughout to give the feeling of heaviness and sorrow.” – Clavier December 2000
Review: “Photographs is a mini-collection of four shapshots, suitable for third or fourth year students in need of more contemporary literature. The pieces are very, neat!” – American Music Teacher, September 2000
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Biography
Biography
Carr, Gordon
Gordon Carr was born in Matlock, Derbyshire in 1943 and educated at Dulwich College and the Royal Academy of Music where he studied the horn with Barry Tuckwell. He has enjoyed a varied freelance career, which encompassed playing with all the major London orchestras. As a session musician he played on the soundtrack of numerous films including 'The Boys from Brazil', 'The Spy who Loved Me' and 'Straw Dogs' and on the backing tracks of much pop music. As a soloist he appeared at the Wigmore Hall, on the South Bank and around the UK, Italy and Belgium. In his twenties he began to write music, and wrote several large scale works for the Locke Brass Consort whilst a member of this group. In all he has written in excess of 130 works. For thirty years he taught at The Centre for Young Musicians and throughout his career has coached and conducted on holiday music courses. Conducting engagements have been with The Locke Brass Consort, London Brass Consort, London Youth Symphonic Band, London Youth Chamber Orchestra, Royal Academy of Music Brass Ensemble, London College of Music Symphonic Band and the International Summer School Orchestra at Keele.
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