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Yasuo Kuwahara (桑原 康雄, Kuwahara Yasuo) (December 12, 1946 in Kobe, Japan – December 6, 2003) was a Japanese mandolin player and composer for mandolin orchestra. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was chairman of various musical institutions and organizations, including the Nara National Women's College , the Kuwahara Mandolin Institute and the Japan ...
The repertoire is eclectic, [2] and a mix of instrumental and vocal pieces. It draws on traditional music of Britain, Ireland, China and the Americas, swing, original music by band leader Simon Mayor, and adaptations of pieces from the classical repertoire for the core instrumental line up of two mandolins, classical guitar and mandobass.
Although he died before recording technology, his quartet did get recorded between 1905 and 1910. He was also the founder of l'Ecole de mandoline française (The French Mandolin School). [1] Advertisement for music publisher J. Rowies (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) for mandolin sheet music.
Marshall has performed Brazilian music with the band Choro Famoso and on his second solo album, Brazil: Duets. He released his debut solo album, Gator Strut, in 1989. [1] Marshall is a virtuoso on the mandolin. He plays a 1924 Gibson F-5 mandolin signed by Lloyd Loar. [2] He helped start the Modern Mandolin Quartet.
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 international repertoire of music for mandolin is almost unlimited, and musicians use it to play various types of music. This is especially true of violin music, since the mandolin has the same tuning as the violin. Following its invention and early development in Italy the mandolin spread throughout the European continent.
Mandolin awareness in the United States blossomed in the 1880s, as the instrument became part of a fad that continued into the mid-1920s. [14] [15] According to Clarence L. Partee a publisher in the BMG movement (banjo, mandolin and guitar), the first mandolin made in the United States was made in 1883 or 1884 by Joseph Bohmann, who was an established maker of violins in Chicago. [16]
Samuel Siegel, from a 1918 tour with William Foden and Frederick J. Bacon. Samuel Siegel (born 1875, Des Moines, Iowa — died January 14, 1948, Los Angeles, California) was an American mandolin virtuoso and composer who played mandolin on 29 records for Victor Records, including 9 pieces of his own composition and two that he arranged.