Gordon Carr – Friends of Sally (Piano) – Digital Download

Gordon Carr - Friends of Sally (Piano) - Digital Download

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Written for Sally Mays and broadcast by her on ABC, each movement is a musical sketch of one of Sally's friends, mostly distinguished musicians.

Gordon Carr - Friends of Sally (Piano) - Digital Download
Gordon Carr – Friends of Sally (Piano) – Digital Download

£7.95

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Written for Sally Mays and broadcast by her on ABC, each movement is a musical sketch of one of Sally's friends, mostly distinguished musicians.

Review: "Sally has six friends, each of whom is pictured by a musical piece. We are given the friend's names but the knowledge of them must come from the music. Technical problems include five-tone clusters in alternating hands, meter changes, syncopation, octave runs, a fair amount of dissonance and other unexpected melodic turns. This modern music is of high quality for those who appreciate the idiom. A late intermediate student should enjoy the challenges. Recommended." – Bilmos in Piano Guild Notes, March/April 1997

Review: "A suite of personality sketches by a respected English piano teacher and clinician. Dan Coates fans will want to try this one" – American Music Teacher, August/September 1996

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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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