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分享17-Feb-2023
by Dr. Robert Young McMahan Chair of AAA Composers Commissioning Committee
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  The AAA website has newly published an Expanded Article featuring the Robert Russell Bennett composition: Quintet for Accordion and String Quartet.Robert Russell Bennett was most famous for his brilliant orchestrations of Broadway musicals and operas but was also a wonderfully prolific composer in his own right. Elsie Bennett (picture left - not related), was the first Chair of the AAA Composers Commissioning Committee and she persuaded him to write two works for the AAA. The first was a highly romantic though at times jazzy solo titled Four Nocturnes (1959), and later a delightfully intricate, highly crafted, and stylistically varied quintet for accordion and string quartet (1961), the subject of this article. Subtitling the quintet "Psychiatry", Bennett took playful musical jabs at a science for which he apparently held some scepticism. New in this updated revision of the original 2004 article are 11 print music excerpts (example right) that are accompanied by electronic sound samples. Come visit, listen and enjoy a fresh look at this exciting AAA Commission work: http://www.ameraccord.com/aaacommissions10.php which is part of an expanding AAA website featuring many aspects of AAA Commissions, AAA history, news and upcoming events. http://www.ameraccord.com/aaacommissions.php |