Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Where no Mandolin has gone Before

When I left rehearsal last monday a Violin Concerto was playing on the Minnesota Public Radio Calssical Station. The Violin player was being virtuosic and the Orchestral accompaniment when I turned it on was swelling Horn (French Horn) Chords, The Horn part sounded very much like the Star Trek Theme in our arrangement "Where No Mandolin has Gone Before". As I listened to the Concerto the Star Trek like theme came up again and again and even the soloists part used the the main theme plainly from time to time. I listened to the end to find out who wrote the Conerto. I was listening to the Korngold Violin Concerto (Wolfgang K though failed to have any Mandolin parts in the concerto)

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