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As the title suggests ‘Jazz Sonata’ combines features of both classical and jazz music. The first movement is ‘Swing’, the second movement bluesy and the third movement Latin – but all are set in more conventional classical forms, respectively Sonata form, Ternary and Rondo.
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As the title suggests ‘Jazz Sonata’ combines features of both classical and jazz music. The first movement is ‘Swing’, the second movement bluesy and the third movement Latin – but all are set in more conventional classical forms, respectively Sonata form, Ternary and Rondo.
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Biography
Biography
Kershaw, Richard
Richard Kershaw was born in Leeds in 1946 and educated at the City of Norwich School and Balliol College Oxford where he read Music. He graduated in 1968 and went on to take a D. Phil with his thesis on The Solo Keyboard Works of J. N. Hummel. After a short spell of teaching at Aberdeen University he joined the music staff of Sherbourne School in Dorset, where he has remained ever since. In 1999 he changed to part-time teaching which enabled him to concentrate on composing. He plays cello and piano. Night Ride was written for his daughter-in-law Jacqueline, currently a brass teacher in Cornwall. See www.kershawmusic.net/richard
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