The Kisarazu High School Mandolin Club has given the 43rd regular concert in April 2012 in Kimitsu. I have found several youtube videos of this concert. One of my favorites is the following – Dance Suite Nr. 2 Another interesting videos shows each instrumental goup of the orchestra with a piece by this instrumental group […]
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I have discovered a video with a small mandolin orchestra from Brazil. The very special about this orchestra is that the members of this group are five old ladies aged between 78 and 85 years. I was really surprised when I found this video! This is the youtube video with the orchestra Bandolineiras de Oeiras:
Recently I have found the sheet music for mandolin of a famous march composed by Abe Holzmann: Blaze-Away. This march has been composed in the year 1901 and has remained popular until today. From Wikipedia: Abe Holzmann (19 August 1874 – 16 January 1939) was a German/American composer, who is most famous today for his
The mandolin orchestra “Mandolinata Karlsruhe” has been filmed during a concert given in Logroño last year. The complete concert is available at youtube. The concert took place during the XIV Festival Internacional de Instrumentos Populares de La Rioja 2011. This orchestra is conducted by Christopher Grafschmidt who is a guitar player, musicologist and composer. He
I have recently added a scan of the Emperor Waltz (Kaiserwalzer) by Johann Strauss jr. arranged for mandolin orchestra to my score catalogue at musicaneo. This arrangemet of the famous waltz for mandolin orchestra was made by Ferdinand Kollmaneck. The waltzes by Johann Strauss have always been very popular and have often been played by mandolin
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One of the interesting pieces for mandolin and guitar in the Biblioteca della chitarra e del mandolino is the Serenade by Giuseppe Silvestri. I have found recordings of this tune at youtube and also a historical recording in the National Jukebox of the Library of Congress. The first recording is from the Mandolin Festival in
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The sheet music by Ferdinand Kollmaneck (11.2.1871 Wien – 13.7.1941 Leipzig) is in the Public Domain since the beginning of this year. Kollmaneck was a zither player and composer who has composed pieces for mandolin orchestra and has published arrangements for mandolin orchestras in his publishing company Hella in Leipzig. I own several pieces composed
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Simone Salvetti (1870 – 1932) was an Italian composer, conductor and musician. He has composed more than 100 pieces for mandolin and guitar, two mandolins and guitar, mandolin quartet or mandolin orchestra. In 2010 Ugo Orlando and Claudio Mandonico have organized the recording of a double-CD with works by Simone Salvetti. The booklet of this
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Some days ago I have made a scan of a nice piece for mandolin orchestra and have uploaded it to my website mandoisland and to the IMSLP site. It’s a composition by Alphons Czibulka with the great title: Songe D’Amour Apres le Bal / Liebestraum nach dem Balle / Love’s Dream after the Ball This
I have just bought an old edition of Estudiantina Waltz by P. Lacome – Jean Pietrapertosa has published this version for mandolin and piano. I have also made a scan of this edition which is available now as free download on my website. I have tried to find some information about this compositiona and recordings of
