Informationen zu "Armand Russell Bodega Set Double Bass Duet"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM1103
EAN: 9990093814770
Beschreibung
The California Suites brings together three different suites for solo double
bass, each comprising four movements, and all connected in some way to the
state of California, where Armand Russell now lives. The music is inventive
and rhythmic, offering musical and technical challenges in equal measure, and
music which offers much to performers and audiences alike. Written in a
modern but lyrical and accessible idiom, each suite is carefully crafted to
create short mood pictures or musical landscapes of this beautiful part of
America. The Bodega Set is one of the series of three pieces that I composed
in what I think of as a California series. The name Bodega is the name of a
bay on the edge of the Pacific Ocean near where I reside. There are some
historical connections to the early Spanish explorers who stopped there long
ago but now there are new villages and homes on the coast of this bay. So too
this piece has a mix of traditional genres in the middle movements and less
common ones for the first and last movements of this composition. This piece
has three versions: for solo double bass, double bass duo, and double bass
with piano. Armand Russell was born in Seattle, Washington in 1932. He
received the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from the University
of Washington, with a major in music composition, and a Doctorate in music
composition from the Eastman School of Music. He studied double bass with
Leslie Martin, who played in the Seattle Symphony and Boston Symphony
Orchestras, and at the Eastman School of Music with Oscar Zimmerman. His
composition studies were with John Verrall and George McKay at the University
of Washington, and with Bernard Rogers and Howard Hanson at the Eastman
School. Professionally, Armand Russell played double bass in many orchestras
including the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops Tour Orchestra,
Rochester Philharmonic and Civic Orchestras, and Honolulu Symphony. For five
years he taught as a visiting Professor at the Eastman School of Music. From
1961 to 1994 he taught at the University of Hawaii Music Department and
retired as Professor emeritus in 1994. While at the University of Hawaii he
taught music theory, composition and double bass and also served as Chair of
the Music Department for seven years. Armand Russell has composed many works
for double bass and also percussion, including solos, chamber music and
concertos. Some of his most frequently performed works include Chaconne
(Db/Pno), Buffo Set (Db/Pno), Harlequin Concerto (Db/Orch), Pas de Deux
(Cl/Perc), Percussion Suite, Theme & Fantasia (Concert Band) and Suite
Concertante (Tuba/Wind Quintet). He has also composed several works for
choirs in recent years and has continued to write for the double bass
alongside a growing body of chamber music and transcriptions. Armand
Russell's compositional style is confident and direct with a clarity of line
and texture always to the fore. A modern, yet lyrical and accessible style,
has created works which communicate equally to performers and audiences alike
and he has made, and continues to make, a unique and valuable contribution to
the double bass litereature throughout a long and successful career.
