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Showing posts with label Tango. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tango. Show all posts

Friday, 18 May 2012

Wiesbaden Highlander K. James Peace, tango composer: new DVD

K. James Peace in Wiesbaden

An interview with the
Scottish tango composer,
who performs some of his
own piano tangos (DVD)


K. James Peace has donated a copy of this DVD interview to the Whittaker Library at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.  Library patrons curious how a Highlander ended up writing piano tangos in Wiesbaden, will need to borrow it!  Find it here.

If you're not a patron of the Library, but are fluent in German, you can visit the Wiesbadener Tagblatt (newspaper) to read a news item about the tango-ing Highlander.  More recently, Mr Peace has also been interviewed for a Spanish website, Música ClásicaClick here (Spanish text).

Thursday, 17 May 2012

Musical Limericks no.5

Tango for Tuba?


An old senorita on tuba
Commissioned a piece from Franz Gruber,
She got him quite merry 
On plenty of sherry
Then whisked Gruber and tuba to Cuba.

 "The number you're calling, knows ..."


A lady who played the trombone

Was prone not to answer the phone

"Well, I just cannot reach

When I'm trying to teach",

She explained, in a piqued, injured tone.
Musical Limericks no.1 (flute, oboe, clarinet)
Musical Limericks no.2 (bassoon)
Musical Limericks no.3 (trumpet, horn)
Musical Limericks no.4 (Piper, by James Beaton)
Musical Limericks no.5 (tuba, trombone)
Musical Limericks no.6 (saxophone)
Musical Limericks no.7 (violin, viola)
Musical Limericks no.8 (cello, double bass, timpani)