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| Wayne Alpern, Gotham (August 30th) WAYNE ALPERN is a New York City composer, arranger, and scholar who integrates popular and jazz idioms with classical techniques and repertoire to create a sophisticated contemporary style of cross-genre, or even post-genre music. After years of composing complex new music, he embraced his personal history and indigenous musical culture and fused them with his classical background and training. His work includes numerous jazz arrangements, string quartets, woodwind and brass quintets, mixed ensembles, pieces for string orchestra, and several piano works. Alpern's innovative compositions, recompositions, and rearrangements have been performed and recorded by distinguished artists from diverse musical traditions. A native of Detroit immersed in the Motown sound, he studied at Oberlin College, University of Michigan, Yale University, and City University of New York, with additional work at Harvard, Juilliard, Wesleyan, and University of Pennsylvania. His musical scholarship and theoretical expertise focus on Schenkerian analysis and 20th-century music. He holds a law degree from Yale Law School and practiced civil litigation for nearly twenty years. He taught at Mannes College of Music, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, and Cardozo Law School, worked at General Music Publishing, United Artists Music Publishing, and was Steve Reich's editor. He is President and owner of Henri Elkan Music Publishing, Inc. and a lifetime member of the Society for Music Theory and American Musicological Society. He has lectured extensively in North America, Europe, and Russia. In his capacity as Founder and Director of the internationally acclaimed Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory, Alpern received the highly coveted Society for Music Theory Honorary Lifetime Membership Award recognizing his "substantial and longstanding accomplishments distinguishing the recipient and our discipline through his many good works on behalf of his fellow scholars and students of music theory for our collective benefit." TRACKS, TIMES, COMPOSER: 1. Batman 4:27 Pyotr Tchaikovsky, arr. Wayne Alpern 2. Blue Room 4:24 Richard Rodgers, arr. Wayne Alpern 3. Desafinado 4:44 Antonio Carlos Jobim, arr. Wayne Alpern 4. Norwegian Wood 6:31 John Lennon and Paul McCartney, arr. Wayne Alpern 5. Anyone Can Whistle 6:16 Stephen Sondheim, arr. Wayne Alpern 6. Spartacus Love Theme 5:46 Alex North, arr. Wayne Alpern 7. Lady Madonna 3:05 John Lennon and Paul McCartney, arr. Wayne Alpern 8. Two Sleepy People 3:20 Hoagy Carmichael, arr. Wayne Alpern 9. Song for My Father 5:46 Horace Silver, arr. Wayne Alpern 10. Have You Met Miss Jones 3:15 Richard Rodgers, arr. Wayne Alpern 11. Little Darlin' 4:23 Maurice Williams, arr. Wayne Alpern 12. I'll Be There 4:29 Lamont Dozier, Brian and Eddie Holland, arr. Wayne Alpern 13. When I'm Sixty-Four 6:00 John Lennon and Paul McCartney, arr. Wayne Alpern Total Running Time: 62:31 PLAYERS, INSTRUMENT: Wayne Alpern, Arranger and Producer David Mann, Reeds & Winds Tatum Greenblatt, Trumpet Trevor Neumann, Trumpet Michael Davis, Trombone Sara Jacovino, Trombone John Patitucci, Bass Clint de Ganon, Drums Andrew Ezrin, Keyboards Kevin Ramessar, Guitar Antoine Silverman, Violin CREDITS: David Darlington, Audio Engineer Bass Hit NYC, Audio Recording David Mann, Audio Producer Kreative Tranzfusion, Administration write your comments about the article :: © 2024 Jazz News :: home page |