What Are You Practising / Composing Now?

[cloughie]

Currently practicing the piano transcription of John Cage's 4'33"

Is it the air guitar transcription?

[Bryn]

Currently practicing the piano transcription of John Cage's 4'33"

Transcription? Tudor's premier performance of the work used a piano.

[Beef Oven!]

Transcription? Tudor's premier performance of the work used a piano.

That's the performing edition - I used the original transcribed for harp and transcribed that myself to piano.

[Beef Oven!]

This is me playing what I haven't practised enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHYdcg_G9C0

Good stuff Tidy your room!

[EdgeleyRob]

Kabalevsky - Clowns

Wish I could play it at this speed,Grade 3 ? Should be Grade 6 at least surely ?

[BBMmk2]

I have, a few weeks ago begun another project, this time for a band in Eire. They e asked for Wagner. Die Meistersinger Overture and Ride of the Valkyries.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I have, a few weeks ago begun another project, this time for a band in Eire. They e asked for Wagner. Die Meistersinger Overture and Ride of the Valkyries.

Do they pay you well, Bbm - or is it Eire on a Shoestring?

[Richard Barrett]

Eire on a Shoestring?

I believe the correct response to that is LMAO.

I've finished two pieces so far this year: an electronic composition entitled Vermilion Sands (after JG Ballard) which was presented in New York and The Hague a couple of weeks ago; and a duo for horn and percussion catastrophe (the fifth to be completed of sixteen pieces based on a cycle of poems by Simon Howard, which I've mentioned before), which will be premiered in May in Cologne by soloists of Musikfabrik (in a collaborative concert between Musikfabrik and Elision, which share a few players anyway). Now it's time to put composition aside for a week or two with the Ensemble Studio6 tour rehearsals beginning today, and a chapter for an upcoming book on the music of Michael Finnissy to write.

[Jonathan]

Still working on my piano transcription of Franck's Le Chasseur Maudit - so far I've been working on it for 20 years... My own piano sonata (which oddly sounds more like Schubert than anything else) is still stuck half way through the Scherzo, the first movement is half finished and the finale has 1 page. I compose really slowly, by the way!

As for playing, I've been thoroughly enjoying playing through Liszt's transcription of Beethoven's 5th Symphony with my teacher.

[BBMmk2]

Do they pay you well, Bbm - or is it Eire on a Shoestring?

I charge £50 sterling for every 3 minutes of music.

[BBMmk2]

Still working on my piano transcription of Franck's Le Chasseur Maudit - so far I've been working on it for 20 years... My own piano sonata (which oddly sounds more like Schubert than anything else) is still stuck half way through the Scherzo, the first movement is half finished and the finale has 1 page. I compose really slowly, by the way!

As for playing, I've been thoroughly enjoying playing through Liszt's transcription of Beethoven's 5th Symphony with my teacher.

That's one work by Franck that really would sound great in a concert band version. Who publishes his music?

[Richard Barrett]

That's one work by Franck that really would sound great in a concert band version. Who publishes his music?

It's out of copyright, you can get it at IMSLP. (Ever heard of Google?)

[Beef Oven!]

That's one work by Franck that really would sound great in a concert band version. Who publishes his music?

I'll attempt to be more helpful - try finding it here, BBM.

[cloughie]

That's one work by Franck that really would sound great in a concert band version. Who publishes his music?

Have you heard the Billy May arrangement of a movement from the Symphony played by the Glen Gray Orchestra.

[cloughie]

I have, a few weeks ago begun another project, this time for a band in Eire. They e asked for Wagner. Die Meistersinger Overture and Ride of the Valkyries.

Kenton Mk2?