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The Oneness of Everything - Score & Parts
My friend, Jim Scott, is a superb composer, guitarist, and singer. I love Jim's music, and am especially fond of his song, "The Oneness of Everything". I often play it on the cello with my wife accompanying me on piano at the Unitarian Universalist church where we attend in Kelseyville, CA. For years I have wanted to orchestrate it... finally got around to doing so for solo cello and orchestra. Please go to Jim's website at http://jimscottmusic.com to learn more about this amazing musician. Listen to Scott singing "The Oneness of Everything" on his album "Sailing With the Moon". Please purchase his music!
Jazz Sketches for Orchestra - Score & Parts
The Jazz Sketches for Symphonic Orchestra were first composed as individual pieces in the early 1990s as MIDI studies. In 1997 Lawrence Kohl, conductor of the Classical Philharmonic Orchestra in the San Francisco bay, area asked me if I had any light orchestral music his group could play for a concert. I put the four pieces: "Saturday Is Here", "You Strike a Chord", "Dance 1", and "Tenagne" together at that time and labeled them "Jazz Sketches for Symphonic Orchestra".
"Saturday Is Here", You Strike a Chord", and "Tenagne" are all poems on the phrases or word of the title. For example, the phrase "Saturday is Here" is rhythmically played on for the entire movement. You hear it stated by all the instruments in the orchestra in some form or another. The sarne is true for "You Strike a Chord (within me)" and "Tenagne". "You Strike a Chord" and "Tenagne" were inspired by my Ethiopian girlfriend at the time, Tenagne Mekbeb, MD. "Dance 1" is a purely abstract piece that has nothing to do with words.