I have just prepared a scan of the first book of the Odell Method for the Mandolin by Herbert Forrest Odell (1872 – 1926) and added it to my homepage mandoisland.de for free download. Herbert Forrest Odell is mainly known as the publisher of the famous magazine The Crescendo which was published in Boston between […]
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The Musikforum Schweinfurt e.V. is a community of musicians, music lovers and teachers. They have selected the following motto for their activities: FREUDE MUSIK BEGEGNUNG Im Mittelpunkt steht die Musik. My translation (if you have a better translation please let me know): JOY MUSIC MEETING In the center there is the music. The Musikforum Schweinfurt
Under the Double Eagle (German: Unter dem Doppeladler) is a military march composed by Josef Franz Wagner during the last decades of the 19th century (probably around 1880). I have found a recording that was made on an Edison cylinder in 1899 on the archive.org site (see below). Some years later around 1908 the famous
I am just listening to a great concert on the Nashville Public Radio: On this week’s program, multi-instrumentalist and composer John Mock presents his own music. Then, we welcome Justin Wade Tam and Humming House, with their mix of folk, blues, and bluegrass with pop sensibilities. If you have time you should listen to this
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Siegfried Behrend was a musician who had a big influence as a guitarist, composer, teacher and conductor. Until his early death in 1990 he has especially initiated many new developements for the music of the plucked instruments and mandolin orchestras. Siegfried Behrend has founded and directed the German Mandolin Orchestra (Das Deutsche Zupforchester). Many of
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A tweet by Sarah Jarosz led me to the Homepage of the Nashville Public Radio and I am just now listening to a radio show with the Kruger Brothers. The first piece by the Kruger Brothers in this show is Deena – a very beautiful song, unfortunately I have not found a video of this
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Some years ago I have already made some research about the tunas and estudiantinas. Tunas are groups of students who play mandolin, bandurria or guitar and sing. Many universities in Spain, Portugal and in South and Middel America have tunas. But even in the Netherlands and Germany you can find some tunas. A tuna from
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Sarah Jarosh has just released her new album Follow me Down, a fantastic album with many great songs. I cannot stop listening to this great album! In the following video Sarah Jarosz talks about some of the songs and about the other great musicians that sing and played with her – Chris Thile and the
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In France there has been a very positive developement of the mandolin music during the last years. Like in Germany regional mandolin orchestras have been organized to improve the skills of the players of the local mandolin orchstras. In 2011 there was a workshop for a national mandolin orchestra with Florentino Calvo and Vincent Beer-Demander
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Some time ago I have discovered three new videos with the Zupforchester Ötzingen, the mandolin orchestra from Ötzingen in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. They have played pieces by Edvard Grieg, Fred Witt and Jose Antonio Zambrano during a festival of music in the city of Koblenz. This orchestra belongs to the best mandolin orchestras in Rhineland-Palatinate. I
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