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Highest Chart Position Yet!
Well, I was going to write another “How I compose” post, but this topic topped the chart – literally. Reverbnation is an online outlet for all unsigned/ independent musicians – any style, any genre, any age, any stage of life. There are currently 2.5m (that’s 2,500,000) performers active on Reverbnation promoting their wares, and guess what… The Charts I’m #1 in the Tampa Bay Classical Music Chart! But, I’m also #3 in the US Classical Music Chart!!! AND I’m #10 in the GLOBAL Classical Music Chart!!!!!!!!!! Yes, that deserves 10 exclamation marks. Because of YOU! This is incredible news, and it’s all down to YOU. Thank you. Thank you for…
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Dreamy… to start with.
The composer Zoltan Kodaly has a special place in my heart and history. I like much of his music, which is very folk-based. He was the chap that pioneered formal classical music based on local regional folk & popular music. He actually traveled around his native Hungary with wax cylinders recording peasants, villagers and gypsies singing their made-up songs. Then he composed pieces of music based on them, and inspired his colleague Bela Bartok to base much of his music on folk tunes and hence the formal genre now known as ‘ethnomusicology‘ was born. Perhaps Kodaly’s most famous piece is a suite from his opera Hary Janos which features a…
