Joseph HOROWITZ. Music Hall Suite. - PER GADE's INTERNATIONAL BRASS QUINTET. JAPAN 1982
This recording was found recently. It is from a concert in Japan and was recorded on a cassette tape. No changes have been added to the recording, not notes has been replaced in digital re-mastering. It is a "here and now" performance! What you hear is what you get.
5 MOVEMENTS:
I. Soubrette Song. A soubrette is defined as: - A minor female role as a pert lady in a comedy. - A Actress who play the role of the young and saucy. - A soprano voice or role, characterized by a flirtatious or streetwise manner.
II. Trick-Cyclist. Good old bikes, in Circus with all the tricks, on the rods in bike-countries.
III. Adagio Tema. - Slow and serious. Think about things in life.
IV. Soft Shoe Shuffle.
Dating from the first decades of the 20th century and originating in vaudeville and the music hall, the soft-shoe shuffle was danced by tap dancers, wearing soft-shoes instead of their normal tap shoes. In this usually-comic dance, the shoes were rubbed on the surface of the stage (sometimes covered with a layer of sand, to amplify the sound) producing a characteristic 'swish'. As the result was much quieter than tap dancing, the accompanying music was usually soft, with many silent moments so the sound of the dancer could easily be heard. One of the finest examples of the dance in the history of the cinema happens in Laurel and Hardy's 1937 film Way Out West, when the heroes do a soft-shoe shuffle outside a saloon as the Avalon Boys sing 'At the Ball'.
V. "Les Girls" (Can Can).
Girls, girls, girls.... and with no winter coats! Les Girls, also known as Cole Porter's Les Girls, is a 1957 musical comedy film with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. - The original story by Vera Caspary was inspired by an article which appeared in The Atlantic — a reminiscence of a dancer's touring years.
Joseph Horovitz was born in Vienna in 1926 and emigrated to England in 1938. He studied music at New College, Oxford, while acting as an official lecturer in music appreciation to the Forces and giving piano recitals in army camps. After taking his BMus and MA degrees, he studied composition with Gordon Jacob at the Royal College of Music, where he won the Farrar Prize, and for a further year with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. His first post was as music director of the Bristol Old Vic at Colston Hall, where he composed, arranged and conducted the incidental music for two seasons.
This work was composed in 1964 at the request of the well known American tuba player Roger Bobo. It was soon taken into the repertoire of Per Gade's old friend: the British Philip Jones & his Brass Ensemble, who gave the first BBC broadcast. In the form of the classical repertoire, and it is - first of all - a piece of music with great sense of humor and have to be played as so (it was difficult in Japan). Close your eyes, think of "The Music Hall (The Music Hall was a uniquely British Institution which lasted from about 1850 to 1930, a hall for light entertainment in the local "function hall"), Think of "the Circus", "the light entertainment", the cry, the laugh, the jazz influence and "the everything from real life".
Professor Per Gade told us the following, when we asked him:
- "This Quintet was the very first professional Brass Quintet in Japan, established in 1981. Each of the five members were very busy with their main jobs every day, in symphony orchestras, or as professors at Music Colleges/Academies, so we really did not have time for practicing together. So before each concert we held a serious meeting with coffee (yes: coffee) and sorted things out in a hurry, but in a highly professional way. Then a couple of hours before the concert, at the sound test, we took care of running through important or difficult lines, all in a serious way. So what you have here is very much sight reading on the spot", about 80%. And the recording quality is a cassette tape recording with a poor microphone, and pointing right into the trombone bell. Well...., one can't get everything.
MEMBERS:
Allan Cox (USA), trumpet (professor).
Yukihiro Sekiyama, trumpet (NHK Symph. Orch. Japan).
Yoshi Ohno, french horn (Tokyo Philharmonic Orch. Japan).
Per Gade, (COSMOPOLITAN) Trombone (music professor).
In this concert: using a Bach 42G slide trombone with gold brass bell, light weight slide and a special custom made mps. (large 5G cup diameter, but the cup, throat and backbore is special designed by Per Gade).
Hiroyuki Yasumoto, tuba (Tokyo Metropolitan Symph. Orch.).
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Music Hall Suite (1964)by ynot0002542 views
Oh... My lines on the recording of: Marek Zvolanek , Czech Brass ,Joseph Horovitz ,Music Hall Suite. - Strange English language and reply below...., sorry: I am only friend of real music and real musicians:Musicianship must be a must! One must understand the music and what to enterpret. "The Music Hall" in British tradition, was never a "Grave Yard Hall", and fun must be expressed according to correct understanding and enterpretation of fun. Per Gade, professor of music.
nemoson007 3 months ago
Reply to Mr. Marek Zvolanek , Czech Brass. Well..., If people don't have the sense of humour, then how to play with humour? - I am a best friend with many of the best musicians in the world. I was a best friend with professor Heida (+) Chech. Phill. Orch. We met once a year when they were on tour in Japan. I lived in Japan 11 years (1978-1988). Style and interpretation must be correct in music. Lively music ought not to be played like a funeral.
From PER GADE, professor of music (retired).
nemoson007 3 months ago