Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Frank "Sugar Chile" Robinson
What a phenomenon Sugar Chile (pronounced like Child with out the "d") Robinson was.
Just to prove that Frank was no midget.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Friday, July 20, 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012
James Morrison - Brass Man Extraordinaire
Lalo Schifrin wrote this piece and here he is in old age still preforming.
James starts the piece off, playing the theme on the pedal tones of the trombone - I've never seen anyone else be able to do it. He is play the theme an octave below the "range" the trombone. Most trombonist can play a couple of pedal tones, not that entire scale - AMAZING!
The baby trombone player with the hair, really James Morrison.
The baby trombone player in the conservatory days - Wow! The sound tracks are a little off on purpose - don't worry about it just enjoy.
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Symphony Hall Compositions, by Marion Robinson
The Symphony Hall Compositions
Music Composed by Marion Robinson. (a.k.a. Piano Butch, a.k.a. Bond Robin).
Starting in 1979 for five days every summer for fifteen years I would have Symphony Hall Atlanta to myself as I tweeked the 9' Steinway Concert Grands readying them for the Fall Concert Season. Every year I would compose a piece of music as I voiced and fine regulated the pianos. So as you listen to these pieces picture a young piano tuner with no musical training playing his soul to an empty hall, listening carefully to each tone and more carefully to exactly how each note felt under his fingers. Each piece was a prayer, asking God to bless my work, the piano and the artists who would play them. I hope you enjoy them.
Elise Fantasia
Starting in 1979 for five days every summer for fifteen years I would have Symphony Hall Atlanta to myself as I tweeked the 9' Steinway Concert Grands readying them for the Fall Concert Season. Every year I would compose a piece of music as I voiced and fine regulated the pianos. So as you listen to these pieces picture a young piano tuner with no musical training playing his soul to an empty hall, listening carefully to each tone and more carefully to exactly how each note felt under his fingers. Each piece was a prayer, asking God to bless my work, the piano and the artists who would play them. I hope you enjoy them.
Elise Fantasia
Cloudland Canyon
Cannon Theme
Kiev Waltz
Seascape
Innocent
Bierstadt
Dogwood Blossoms
Classical Romance
Far Away Eyes
I was in a 120mph headon collision in 1991. For some years I rarely played because it was painful and I didn't have the strength. When I started playing again this is the first piece I wrote. While I was recovering my wife moved us to this beautiful location on Lake Olympia in Western Georgia. I wish my music paid proper homage to the beauty of this peaceful place.
Lake Olympia
I wrote using the famous piece as it's base.
Elise Fantasia (Locomotion)
Written on September the 11th 2001.
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