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Avi Avital playing mandolin in St. Florian Monastery. Avi Avital (Hebrew: אבי אביטל, born 19 October 1978) is an Israeli mandolinist.He is best known for his renditions of well-known Baroque and folk music, much of which was originally written for other instruments.
The New York Mandolin Orchestra continued to perform during World War II. [12] Interest in the mandolin was renewed as a part of the resurgent interest in folk music in the late 1950s and 1960s. As this music began to be re-discovered, orchestras began to form anew in large cities in the US.
Besides the music for movies, he was known to play Indian classical music (Hindustani), as well as Arab and Sufi music. [27] Adoption of the mandolin in Carnatic music is recent and involves an electric instrument. U. Srinivas (1969-2014) has, over the last couple of decades, made his version of the mandolin very popular in India and abroad. He ...
As part of their Artist Signature Series, Gibson issued the Wayne Benson Signature mandolin in 2003, based on the F-5 scroll body design. Only 50 were made available. In 2004, Benson released Wayne Benson - A Mandolin Anthology, a music instruction DVD. In 2006, Benson performed with the Wreckers, a duo featuring Michelle Branch and Jessica ...
The tradition of so-called "classical music" for the mandolin has been somewhat spotty, due to its being widely perceived as a "folk" instrument. Significant composers did write music specifically for the mandolin, but few large works were composed for it by the most widely regarded composers. The total number of these works is rather small in ...
Silvio Ranieri (1882 – 1956) was an Italian Mandolin virtuoso. Born in Rome, he gave his first concert in 1897, aged fifteen, and he went on to tour Europe to great acclaim. [ 1 ] It was his desire to elevate the Mandolin to a status similar to the violin in classical music, and he did much to contribute to the immense popularity of the ...
Watchhouse (formerly Mandolin Orange) is an Americana/folk duo based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.The group was formed in 2009 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and consists of songwriter Andrew Marlin (vocals, mandolin, guitar, banjo) and Emily Frantz (vocals, violin, guitar), who are married to each other.
Bill Griffin is widely known as a musician in both bluegrass and Hawaiian music genres. A luthier and veteran mandolinist, he is also the inventor of the "mandolele", which is a nylon-stringed mandolin that he first crafted in 1986. Born in Glendale, California, Griffin's first exposure to music came through his father, a pianist in a Dixieland ...