Informationen zu "David Heyes A Place in New England Double Bass Sextet, Double Bass Ensemble"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM1022
EAN: 9990093814084
Beschreibung
David Heyes writes: 'A Place in New England is played all in harmonics, apart
from a few pizzicato open strings and was composed for my younger students at
Wells Cathedral School. It was premiered at the school on Sunday 4 November
2018 as part of 'A Turetzky Tribute' to celebrate the 85th birthday of my
great friend Bertram Turetzky. Bert was born in Norwich, Connecticut, and
Norwich is known as 'the rose of New England'. The title of the piece was
chosen before I started work on the music. A particular photo of a white
wooden church, surrounded by the amazingly coloured trees in Autumn was the
inspiration for the piece and the music describes a day in any village or
small townin New England. My quartet arrangements in harmonics of 'Kum-ba-ya'
and 'Au Clair de la Lune' have been very successful and this is a step or two
beyond these. Each bassist has a limited number of harmonics to play - a
chart is included with the score and parts - with basses 1-3 also playing in
the higher thumb position. Basses 4-6 are the easier parts, playing the
octave harmonics and in 4th position, and the overall effect is evocative and
atmopsheric, introducing harmonics at an early stage of study. Its 65 bars
and different moods and soundworlds hopefully create music which is evocative
and atmopsheric. It can be played by sextet or larger forces and introduces
harmonics to younger players and adds an extra dimension to their technical
skills' Available to buy as a pdf file - please contact
doublebass@tiscali.co.uk David Heyes studied double bass with Laurence Gray
and Bronwen Naish and later at the Royal College of Music in London. He
completed his post-graduate studies in Prague with Frantisek Posta (Principal
Double Bass, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra). He has given recitals and
masterclasses in 13 countries over the past few years and has been a juror at
a number of international competitions, twice as chairman. David has been
Specialist Double Bass Tutor at Wells Cathedral School for 19 years and
received a prestigious award from the David Walter Charitable Trust of New
York for his pioneering activities as a soloist, teacher, publisher and
commissioner of new music for double bass. He works with composers throughout
the world and is particularly interested to expand the double bass
repertoire, by commissioning new works and by rediscovering forgotten ones.
Over the past 30 years he has commissioned more than 500 works, from beginner
to virtuoso, and from one to twenty basses. David has transcribed more than
200 works for double bass, many published by Recital Music, and in recent
years has also composed a number of original works for double bass which have
been performed in 18 countries to date (UK, USA, Germany, Czech Republic,
Mexico, Turkey, Venezuela, Australia, Ireland, Israel, Malta, Brazil,
Denmark, Ecuador, Japan, France, Slovakia and Spain). David is self-taught as
a composer and his music has been described as lyrical and accessible, but
certainly of the 21st-century. 'Many, many, thanks for the simply excellent
recital at St Anne's on Friday. The audience loved it and the younger members
were very inspired.' [Dr. John Traill, Director of Music, St Anne's College,
Oxford 'It was fascinating to have the composer, David Heyes, show us how
his music should be played and help us to play a variety of extended
techniques. I now have new repertoire to work on and a clear idea of what it
is supposed to sound like!' [LONDON BASSES workshop participant] 'We will
never be able to thank you for what you are doing for the bass world, you are
Passion in person David!!' [Simon Garcia] 'Awesome, its wonderful music
David' [Elsen Price] 'David is a great player and composer' [Diego
Zecharies] 'Your music was masterfully played by Elsen Price last night!
Bravo to you David. You must be good friends with God to have written such
inspiring and graphic descriptions of 'the spirit ' in music. Please give
him/her my best! With kudos and blessings to you and Sarah and Tony.' [Barry
Green] 'The bass solos were brilliant. I enjoyed David's composition which
he and and Thea played so beautifully. The Bottesini was just amazing!...It
was quite a concert! You and Thea were real stars. Feedback from the audience
has been excellent. They especially liked the variety of music!..You are
quite an inspiration!' [Tim Robb, violinist, conductor] 'You are having a
remarkable life and career and contributing SO much to the edification of
bassists everywhere...an inspiration!' [Wilmer Fawcett] 'People are crazy
about' Hold on...' I think that everybody loves it. 'Leaving St Kilda' was
one of the most acclaimed. I think I'm going to upload the video of
'Postcards from Prague' to my Youtube Channel. Thanks for writing this
amazing music!' [Daniel Chiv Sanz / Spain] 'Congratulations on the
commissions, both of them. You've worked very hard, and sometimes I wonder if
you've ever just stood back and considered the tremendous amount of work that
you've been putting in to everything. And it is not just a matter of hard
work, but also the meeting of people and the making of connections, enabling
others to collaborate, so all your own efforts become even more effective.
People tend to take notice of all these types of things, and so it is natural
they would turn to you. So congratulations, and it comes as no surprise - you
certainly have earned it! [Michael Montgomery, USA] 'David's music is
invaluable because it supremely fills a niche we didn't even know was there
!!! :: The pieces are short so they fit on a program easily -- and what is
even more special in the extreme is that most of his pieces for the advanced
player are borderline sightreadble for the most part -- but in NO way are
they facile, inane, or shallow. For this amazing talent he has to do this I
am always in a freindly way extraordinarily envious !! My publisher has even
noted this at times especially from comments at 2015 ISB where while I was
happy we sold a great deal of music and for 2 months catalogue sales
tripled-- I still had a TON of people come up to me saying ' I am so sorry, I
really wanted to buy some of your books of pieces but they are all just too
damn HARD' LOL -- prompting indeed my publisher to remark ' Have you ever
thought of trying to write a set of pieces that are only of X advanced
technique?' --- and the envy here comes from, well.. I HAVE-- I have tried
mightily and everything I try to write in such a vein comes out sounding
ridiculous. David's talent to continue to crank out these wonderful small
pieces that indeed say SO much with out any terribly super-intense taxing of
the player is a unique ability I don't think present in anyone else writing
bass music today. Said talent is indeed miraculous ( especially for someone
who started composing so relatively recently !!) and all his little,
wonderful pieces are just that -- miracles.' [P Kellach Waddle] 'I really am
enjoying Sarah's CD. It's very strong. Your pieces are very solid, and among
the most enjoyable on the recording. There's a naturalness about your
writing, almost as if the song has always been among us. Fine work. ' [Eric
Funk, composer] 'Finally Thursday came and we had the privilege to have had
a awesome Masterclass with David at Big Noise Raploch. The kids were really
excited for David's unique approach to the Double Bass. It was all about fun
with such a noble instrument. Thank you very much.' [Ricardo Tapadinhas]
'Today's double bassists are indebted to composers who wrote for this
forefather of the double bass. Double bassists of today are indebted to David
Heyes for his extensive publishing work, his compositions, and his
commissioning of works for the double bass.' [David B. Teague] '...the
pieces were a MASSIVE success.' [P Kellach Waddle] 'Double bassist and
composer, David Heyes(UK) is keeping the tradition alive, teaching a new
generation and composing works that build upon a diverse repertoire for our
beloved instrument......' [Stafford James, American bassist, composer,
educator] 'Many thanks for having sent me the many unaccompanied pieces for
double bass. I was particularly impressed by your compositions that are so
idiomatically suited to our instrument. It's always wonderful when a bassist
of your high caliber conceives a piece that is well thought out and so
playable. I've been reading through all the music you sent and enjoying every
minute of it.' [Gary Karr, International Soloist] 'David, your articles are
always interesting and packed with valuable information. I'm an old coot now,
retired and no longer playing, but still with a passion for learning the
history of our instrument and its players. The material you assemble and
publish here is always fascinating- background details about a particular
piece, how it came to be written and published, commissioned, first
performed, really add to my own understanding and appreciation of the music
we share. So having a journal like this one you share on Facebook is a real
blessing to bass enthusiasts. It must be very discouraging at times (with
instances such as you describe above), and I guess you don't hear back very
often from other players in appreciation of your journalistic revelations and
skills, so let me challenge other bassists to indicate their appreciation of
these articles by at the least hitting the 'like' button! Again, my personal
thanks, and I only wish I'd started collecting and saving these treasures!
[Wilmer Fawcett/USA] 'For anyone unfamiliar with David's work, he's an
internationally regarded Soloist, Educator, Publisher, Festival Organiser,
Prolific Composer, Innovator and strong supporter for double bass in every
way, shape and form. A very inspirational person indeed.' [Elsen
Price/Australia] 'Your work on the history and the culture of the double
bass is precious and very important, I would say unique, for all of us
double-bassists. For me, an irreplaceable point of reference. Thanks so
much!' [Luigi Giannoni] See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7ituqPaQNo
