Stohr / Koch / Conway - Chamber Music 1 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This recording celebrates Sousa's important early associations with dance and the music theatre. Picture a young John Philip Sousa, a tiny young man aged eleven, confidently standing in front of a group of much older musicians, playing his violin in the style of the famous Strauss and leading his own popular dance orchestra as Washington's society swirls and dances in front of him. It is impossible to overestimate the effect this interaction of the young man, his orchestra and the dancers was to have on the later Sousa -the composer to be. He was once quoted as saying, InchI want my marches to make a man with a wooden leg stand up and dance.Inch The dance never left him. Dancing rhythms for ever permeated his compositions, marches and dances alike. A young Dance Prince begat the March King. Soon also, his musical activities brought him to the theatre, where he began to experience the close and often raucous give and take of audience and performer that constituted the popular side of nineteenth century American theatre and early vaudeville. By the age of 21 he was the leader, arranger and concert master of the orchestra at Ford's Theatre in Washington. Later he led the Chestnut Street Theatre Orchestra in Philadelphia. Once again the magical chemistry of music and rhythm, as it reaches for audiences, became central to the composer's thinking. While many of the dances found here stem from this early period of Sousa's life, these initial encounters with the infectiousness of music and how it infuses dancers and listeners never left him. Throughout his long and sparkling career he continued to write music for each new craze waltzes, gallops, two-steps, gavottes, tangos, cakewalks, rags, polkas, marches of course, and sometimes even a foxtrot or two.

Jamie has recorded a handful of albums with several groups which have charted nationally and garnered awards. He has written songs with Holly Knight (Aerosmith, Tina Turner, Kiss, Heart) and Liz Constantine (Ministry, Rob Dickinson, Dizzy X) as well. He has recorded, and produced, many albums with other artists and has worked with producers Mike Chapman (Sweet, Blondie, The Knack) and Mike Deming (The Lillies, Beachwood Sparks, Pernice Brothers) over the years. His self titled debut InchSongs from the LabInch is a journey through diverse musical styles including hard rock, pop and alternative. The album is a carefully mixed compound of chemicals to make you jump, sing and even think. The lab can take you to a new invention and explosive places when you crank it up.

Kahn / Bushkovan / Kharitonov - Chamber Music 1 [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/13/2015