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2 unusual facts about String section


Blue Wonder Power Milk

Blue Wonder Power Milk is mainly composed by dance club beats and strings.

String section

Nicolas Slonimsky described the cellos-on-the-right arrangement as part of a 20th century "sea change" (Lectionary of Music, p. 342 (McGraw-Hill 1989).


Fredrika Stahl

Her second album, Tributaries, features Hiro Morozumi on piano, Oyvind Nypan & Andreas Öberg on guitar, Pierre Boussaguet & Acelio de Paula on bass and Simoné Prattico on drums as well as a large array of Parisian horn and string musicians.

Helen Merrill with Strings

Helen Merrill with Strings is the second album by Helen Merrill, featuring Merrill fronting a quartet augmented by a string section arranged by Richard Hayman, recorded in 1955 and released on the EmArcy label.

Keyboardist

Keyboardists are often highly sought after in cover bands, to replicate the original keyboard parts and other instrumental parts such as strings or horns where it would be logistically difficult to hire people to play the actual instruments.

Surfer Girl

"Catch a Wave" featured Mike Love's sister, Maureen, on harp, while "The Surfer Moon" was the first Beach Boys song to have a string arrangement.

The Metropolitan Hotel

Strings on "Back of the Bottom Drawer" and "The River" performed by the Nashville String Machine, conducted and arranged by Steve W. Maldin.


see also

Bernstein/Beethoven

The miniseries contains performances of all of Beethoven's symphonies as well as several overtures, a string quartet that Bernstein re-orchestrated for the entire string section of the Vienna Philharmonic, and the Missa Solemnis, all conducted by Bernstein.

Cal Tjader Plays Harold Arlen

He swipes string-section sounds (icy and twangy by turns) from the moderns, steals chords from Bartók's string quartets, throws in some Hollywood soundtrack stuff, conks on the bare piano strings, and fools around with counter-rhythms.

RCVR

The score features a number of unusual instruments including ondes Martenot, Cristal Baschet and Glass Harmonica played by French virtuoso musician Thomas Bloch plus a twelve piece choir, live string section, piano, guitars and basses often heavily treated and manipulated with electronic effects.