Informationen zu "Eric Funk The Drums Must Never Stop! (A Salsa Encore) Double Bass Quartet"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM621
EAN: 9790570456215
ISMN: M-57045-621-5
Beschreibung
Eric Funk writes: ' As a professional jazz pianist for the last 40 years,
something I do as a hobby really, I've noticed that the audience always gets
really evoked when we kick a Montuna/Salsa/Samba groove. It occurred to me in
writing this salsa encore for my friend David Heyes that the furthest thing
from the minds of the audience at a double bass recital would be the
inclusion of a latin groove, high intensity work at the end. So I wrote this
work as a little 'surprise package'. The joke which inspired the title speaks
to the great humour I've always found with double bass players. They take
themselves and their music seriously but are always able to laugh and take
great joy in the process - not always the case with instrumentalists who play
instruments in the higher registers!' A former student of Tomas Svoboda,
Sandor Veress, and Krzysztof Penderecki in the 1970s, Eric Funk's
considerable compositional output includes nine symphonies, four operas, six
ballet scores, three large works for chorus and orchestra, seventeen
concertos, several orchestral tone poems, and numerous works for chamber
ensembles, solo instruments, and vocal works. Prominent premiers of his works
include 'From the Dreams of Montana Children' [Carnegie Hall, NY], his
one-act solo opera-ballet for contralto and ballet troupe, Akhmatova, based
on key texts from the Russian poet's life, his Concerto for the Violin Alone,
triple string quartet, and the song cycles Gongora (for baritone and chamber
orchestra, on texts by the Spanish baroque poet) and Sequentia (contralto and
9-person chamber ensemble, on texts by Paul Celan). Eric Funk was featured
on the Charles Osgood CBS Sunday Morning show in October of 1998, which
followed on the heels of a front page story in the New York Times 'Arts &
Leisure' section (April 14, 1998). Mr. Funk was featured on the nationally
syndicated NPR radio shows Performance Today [LeeAnn Hanson], Morning
Edition, Theme & Variations [Will Everett], The Composer Next Door, and Of
the West [Phil Aaberg]. From 1994-2002 he was conductor of the Helena
Symphony Orchestra in Helena, Montana and from 1994-1999 he was also the
conductor of the Gallatin Chamber Orchestra in Bozeman, Montana. Past
performance venues for his works include Dvorak Hall [Prague], Lutoslawki
Radio Hall [Warsaw], Symphony Hall [Riga], Carnegie Hall [NY], the Renda
Theater, and the Gaudeamus International Interpreters of Contemporary Music
Festival (Rotterdam). His 123 major works have earned him numerous awards and
commissions, including 13 ASCAP Standard Awards, the 2001 Governor's Award
for the Arts (Montana), and three Arts Commission Fellowships. He currently
teaches for the School of Music/Montana State University where he has won
numerous teaching awards, serves as Host and Artistic Director for 11th &
Grant with Eric Funk, a four-time Emmy Award winning show in its 9th season
broadcast on Montana PBS & featuring Montana musicians in all genres, and is
Music/Artistic Director for the Big Sky Classical Music Festival, now in its
third season.
