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unusual facts about Orchestration


Paul Cristo

Once Cristo arrived in Los Angeles, he worked as an orchestrator as well as providing technical computer support to augment his income.


Anjelika Akbar

Soon after Akbar entered Tashkent State Conservatory where she studied composition, orchestration and piano for additional 5 years to complete her education.

Anthems and nationalistic songs of Canada

Lightfoot re-recorded the track on his 1975 compilation album, Gord's Gold, with full orchestration (arranged by Lee Holdridge).

Atle Bakken

At the same time, Atle attended the prestigious Dick Grove School of music in Los Angeles, studying harmony and orchestration with Dr. Dick Grove and movie composer Thom Sharp.

Bondho Janala

In the album they had to explore many more acoustic instruments like Esraj, Silver Flute, Trumpet etc. as the album was enriched with vivid orchestration.

Bourrée fantasque

1994 by Robin Holloway (completion of Chabrier's unfinished orchestration), first performance 8 February 1994, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, English Northern Philharmonia, Paul Daniel.

Christmas in Vienna II

# Hear My Song – Plácido Domingo (Orchestration by Juan J. Colomer)

Curtom Records

Along with the Impressions' releases and Mayfield's own solo material, artists on or affiliated with Curtom included the Five Stairsteps, Donny Hathaway (principally as a songwriter/orchestration arranger), Linda Clifford, Baby Huey and the Babysitters, Leroy Hutson, The Natural Four, Bobby Whiteside, Holly Maxwell, the Staple Singers, and Mavis Staples' solo efforts.

Dagfinn Koch

He studied at the State Academy of music (Norges musikkhøgskole) (Lasse Thoresen, composition; Olav Anton Thommessen, orchestration; Bjørn Kruse, arranging; Mads Claesson, Arild Erikstad og Tore Simonsen, music technology; Otto Berg, viola), and at Hochschule (now Universität) der Künste Berlin (Witold Szalonek, composition).

Danzón

Their make-up and orchestration (by Juan Formell) has been so greatly altered that it is difficult to identify traces of danzón; indeed, their present styles owe more to son than to danzón.

David Copperfield's flying illusion

The performance is accompanied by an orchestration called "East of Eden Suite" by film composer Lee Holdridge, originally written as the theme music for a 1981 miniseries based on the novel East of Eden.

Deryck Cooke

Revised editions followed, with the composers David Matthews and Colin Matthews assisting Cooke and Goldschmidt in the attempt to produce an authentically Mahlerian orchestration.

Des Champ

Later in his career, Des worked as musical director for Shirley Bassey, 5000 Volts, and Tony Monopoly, before finally taking a regular day job with the Orchestration Department at BBC Radio Two.

Empires of Eden

The album is notable for 30-piece orchestral arrangements and an uncompromising approach to production, reminiscent of concept recordings such as Operation: Mindcrime by Queensrÿche and symphonic metal acts such as Therion and Within Temptation that include a strong component of classical orchestration.

Fabien Lévy

A former pedagogical advisor at IRCAM in Paris and professor of orchestration at the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory in Berlin, he is currently assistant professor in composition at Columbia University in New York and senior professor for composition at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold in Germany.

Fernando Lopes-Graça

1937: goes to Paris, where he studies with composition and orchestration with Charles Koechlin.

Gordon Jacob

His one original ballet, Uncle Remus, was written for them, but most of his contributions were arrangements of established works, such as Les Sylphides, for which his version remains in use, though the rival orchestration by Roy Douglas has been more often recorded for disc.

Guillaume Connesson

Connesson teaches orchestration at the Conservatoire National d'Aubervilliers-la Courneuve.

Harold Boatrite

After early studies with Stanley Hollingsworth, Harold Boatrite was awarded a fellowship to the Tanglewood Music Center where he studied composition with Lukas Foss and took part in the orchestration seminars of Aaron Copland.

Howard Drossin

His recent work includes: co-scoring with longtime collaborator RZA, The Man with the Iron Fists for Universal Pictures, starring Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu; several award-winning video game titles including Afro Samurai, Splatterhouse, and Baldur's Gate; a Super Bowl commercial; and orchestration on the Grammy-winning jazz record, A Tale of God’s Will.

Images pour orchestre

Robert Orledge and Williametta Spencer are two writers, for example, who have accepted Caplet as assisting with the orchestration.

James Gayfer

Among his notable teachers were Jennie Goodman Bouck and Reginald Godden (piano), Maitland Farmer (organ), and Ettore Mazzoleni (orchestration), Arthur H. Middleton, and S. Drummond Wolff.

Janet Maguire

They co-authored the book Thinking for Orchestra (published by G. Schirmer), and a book about the orchestration of Jacques Offenbach selections, Nuits Parisiennes (RCA, Bote & Bock) as well as Carl Maria von Weber’s opera Die Drei Pintos.

Jean Françaix

Jean René Désiré Françaix (23 May 1912 in Le Mans – 25 September 1997 in Paris) was a French neoclassical composer, pianist, and orchestrator, known for his prolific output and vibrant style.

Jenůfa

While today it is heard in the composer's original version, Jenůfas early popularity was fostered by a revision by Karel Kovařovic of what was considered its eccentric style and orchestration.

Karim Haddad

Harmony, counterpoint, fugue, orchestration, analysis and composition with Edith Lejet (Harmony, Fugue), Bernard de Crepy (Counterpoint), Paul Mefano (Orchestration), Jacques Casterede and Alain Louvier (Analysis), Alain Bancquart and Emmanuel Nunes (Composition) where he obtained Six awards and the "Diplome Superieur" in Composition.

Kow Otani

The company has grown to feature musicians like Kohei Tanaka, Shiro Hamaguchi, Hayato Matsuo, and Shinji Miyazaki, who have become well known for cinematic scoring and orchestration through Otani.

Los Angeles Master Chorale

Shostakovich (orchestration by Gerard McBurney): Prologue to Orango, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting (Deutsche Grammophon)

Luc Grethen

There he studied composition, orchestration and conducting at the capital conservatory, as well as oboe and English horn at the Strasbourg and Mons (Belgium) conservatories.

Lucien Cailliet

His most famous orchestration is the virtuoso piece for piano and orchestra Midnight of the Cilffs by the pianist and composer Leonard Pennario, for the Andrew L. Stone's film Julie (1956).

Lucien Goethals

He later studied orchestration with Norbert Rosseau, and serial technique and electronic composition with Gottfried Michael Koenig and De Meester.

María Escribano

She continued her studies of contemporary music with composers Carmelo Bernaola, Cristobal Halffter and Tomas Marco, analysis with Rodolfo Halffter at the Festival de Granada, Mauricio Kagel and Ligeti Giorgy at Darmstadt and Cologne, Luis de Pablo in Madrid, Arturo Tamayo in Freiburg, and orchestration and composition with Leonardo Balada at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA.

Martin Yates

His orchestration for the Kenneth MacMillan Ballet Manon was made for the Royal Ballet in 2011 and is now used throughout the world and his orchestration of the Carlos Acosta Ballet Don Quixote was made for the Royal Ballet and premiered in September 2013.

Mikhail Tushmalov

The first performance of Tushmalov's orchestration was conducted by Rimsky-Korsakov in Saint Petersburg on November 30, 1891.

Peter Saul

Art critic John Yau wrote of Saul's work in The Brooklyn Rail:

His orchestration of the intertwining, overlapping, cartoony figures could only have been done by someone who absorbed the all-over compositions of the Abstract Expressionists.

Philip Greeley Clapp

As a composer, Clapp followed firmly in the line of Romantic and Impressionist works created by Wagner, Mahler, Strauss, anbd Debussy (Holcomb and Meckna 2001), as well as perhaps Liszt, and others, but adding his own distinctly American style and ideas about orchestration.

Piazzolla's Orquesta Típica

During this period he began to study classical orchestration with Alberto Ginastera, the eminent Argentine composer, and took piano lessons with the Argentine classical pianist Raúl Spivak.

Road to Rouen

In a 2008 interview, bassist Mick Quinn said the introspection and orchestration of the album was "almost entirely" a direct reaction to the death of the Coombes brothers' mother, as well as Danny Goffey's tabloid ordeal.

Salvatore Di Vittorio

Other notable restorations of historical interest include: Respighi's 1908 orchestration of Claudio Monteverdi's Lamento di Arianna (from the lost opera Arianna, 1608) edited in 2012, and Di Vittorio's completion of Respighi's orchestration of the Tre Liriche (Three Art Songs, 1913) edited for its centennial anniversary in 2013.

Sara Carvalho

Sara is an Artistic Director and founding member of the Contemporary Music Group Momentum Ensemble, and she works in the Department of Art and Communication of Aveiro University where she teaches Composition, Analysis and Orchestration.

Stand!

The band’s A&R director and photographer Stephen Paley recalled how "together" Sly Stone was while working on Stand!, down to his constant referencing of Orchestration, a how-to book on orchestral arrangement by Walter Piston.

Symphony

Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, a work famous for its innovative orchestration (Berlioz 2002, xv) is also a programme work and has both a march and a waltz and five movements instead of the customary four.

The Brethren of the Long House

Steve Loeb - keyboards, strings, backing vocals, orchestration, producer

The Knot Garden

In 1984 Tippett created a reduced orchestration for a revival with the London Sinfonietta at the Wilde Theatre.

The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jiveass Slippers

Sy Johnson is credited for the orchestration, transcription, arrangement, and conduction of the recording on Let My Children Hear Music.

Walking to New Orleans

Dave Bartholomew made an orchestration for the backup band, and Domino with Bartholomew and band recorded it in Cosimo Matassa's studio on Rampart Street.

Wish Upon a Blackstar

Tom Salta - orchestration and choir recording on "Birthright"

Your Blues

It is a notable departure from the full-band format of Destroyer's previous few albums, largely featuring MIDI-simulated orchestration as its backing music.


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