I was responding recently to a composer whose beef was that the Establishment (do we still use that term?!) continues to favour musical styles which are dissonant, complex and impenetrable and continues to disregard musical styles which are consonant, discernible and accessible.
It’s a beautiful autumn Norfolk morning with the mist rolling off the fields. I’m in the mood to talk about music. You might think that sounds strings and harps but today it means trombones! Fields – hunting – horns – trombones – I got there somehow, so please read on. tutti has nearly 300 pieces of sheet music for trombone or bass trombone.
In one of my early tutti talks, I mentioned the BBC Radio 3 blockbuster series Baroque Spring, which was presented throughout the month of March. This was such a dynamic and comprehensive overview of a period of music which has underpinned and nurtured so much which followed that I felt it was deserving of an entire tutti talk to itself.
When I say Baroque music has fed into the repertoire that followed it, there are great examples in 20th and 21st century music of how inspiring the baroque composers have been.
To take just a few random examples –
in jazz, the Jacques Loussier Trio and the Swingle Singers; in popular music, Procul Harum’s Whiter Shade of Pale and more recently, a marvellous arrangement of Let it Be, written for Lesley Garrett and recorded on her CD The Singer.
tutti talk is our latest email strand and this is the first edition.
We know music is your passion – it’s our passion, too which is why we want to share with you the thoughts, ideas, events and opportunities that we hope will interest you.
The first thing to let you know is that tutti has just launched a facebook page. It’s really easy to find but here’s a link for your first visit – www.facebook.com/tutti.co.uk.
Just in this first week, we have gained nearly 500 followers and are connected through our friends to nearly 15,000 people. We’d love you to visit the tutti facebook page and like us.
Looking back to 2012, we saw the loss of three immensely fine composer – Elliott Carter at 103, Jonathan Harvey, 73 and Richard Rodney Bennett at 76. They all made unique contributions to 20th and 21st century music and I’m pleased to say we have examples of their work at tutti.
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