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John T. Walton. John Thomas Walton (October 8, 1946 [1] – June 27, 2005) was an American war veteran and a son of Walmart founder Sam Walton. He was also the chairman of True North Venture Partners, a venture capital firm. Walton cofounded the Children's Scholarship Fund, providing tuition scholarships for disadvantaged youth.
A flute concerto is a concerto for solo flute and instrumental ensemble, customarily the orchestra. Such works have been written from the Baroque period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up through the present day. Some major composers have contributed to the flute concerto repertoire, with the best known works including those ...
Walter Piston. Walter Hamor Piston, Jr. (January 20, 1894 – November 12, 1976), was an American composer of classical music, music theorist, and professor of music at Harvard University .
Starting near the harps and ending in the traditional position nearby the conductor, [11] the viola soloist takes seven positions on the stage [d] and becomes a partner or opponent to bongos, bass flute, two harps, double basses, tuba and percussion. [4] [6] At one point of the concerto, after an extremely difficult run, the soloist screams. [13]
Antonio Vivaldi wrote a set of flute concertos, Op. 10, [a] that were published c. 1728 by Amsterdam publisher Michel-Charles Le Cène. [1] Flute Concerto No. 1 "La Tempesta di Mare" in F major, RV 433. Flute Concerto No. 2 "La Notte" in G minor, RV 439 (see also RV 104, composed in the 1710s with chamber accompaniment) Flute Concerto No. 3 "Il ...
The Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116, BB 123, is a five-movement orchestral work composed by Béla Bartók in 1943. It is one of his best-known, most popular, and most accessible works. [1] The score is inscribed "15 August – 8 October 1943". It was premiered on December 1, 1944, in Symphony Hall, Boston, by the Boston Symphony Orchestra ...
La tempesta di mare ("The Storm at Sea"), a flute concerto in F major ( RV 433; P. 261), is the first of Six Flute Concertos, Op. 10 by Antonio Vivaldi, published in the late 1720s. La tempesta di mare may also refer to two earlier versions of the same concerto, RV 98, a concerto da camera (chamber concerto) featuring the flute, from which ...
Flute Concerto (Carter) Flute Concertino (Chaminade) Concerto da camera (Honegger) Concerto for Flute, Strings, and Percussion. Concierto pastoral.