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Mike Shefrin
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Posted 9 Jul 2006 5:54 am |
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I am basically a country picker on the steel
(I like Lloyd Green, Buddy Emmons,John Hughey,Paul Franklin,Rusty Young, Doug Jernigan, etc)but I also play some jazz and classical music on the steel.Recently have been attempting to play my own transcription of a Scarlatti keyboard sonata on the steel. Anyone else out there interested in classical music on the steel?[This message was edited by Mike Shefrin on 09 July 2006 at 11:39 AM.] |
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Lee Baucum
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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 9 Jul 2006 8:00 am
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This gentleman certainly is!
Lee, from South Texas |
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Mike Shefrin
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Posted 9 Jul 2006 8:03 am
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| Wow! thanks lee |
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Mike Perlowin
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Posted 9 Jul 2006 9:53 am
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Thanks Lee. I should hire you to be my publicist.
I am not the first steel player to do this. Marshall Hall released an LP of classical music played on the steel back in the 70's. And of course Buddy Emmons did the
"taco bell" canon on his white album, and B.J. Cole's "Transparent Music" CD (available from the forum catalog) contains some classical pieces.
Also both Hal Rugg and Lloyd Green have perfromed classical pieces at the convention.
I also want to mention our fellow forumite and my personal hero, Doug "Ernest Bovine" Livingstone, who recorded Sasha Matson's concerto for steel guitar and string orchestra. Unfortunately that composition and CD really doesn't show what either Doug or the steel can do. But aside from that, Doug can play Bach and Mozart on the steel as well as he can play the way to survive.
Doug, if you're reading this. Please record a CD of this stuff. the world needs to hear what you can do and how well you can do it.
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[This message was edited by Mike Perlowin on 09 July 2006 at 12:29 PM.] |
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Mike Shefrin
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Posted 9 Jul 2006 10:04 am
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Back in the early nineties I did a transcription for the steel of the short second movement of Mendelssohn's Sonata for organ in A major,op.65 no.3(about two and a half minutes)
[This message was edited by Mike Shefrin on 13 July 2006 at 06:18 AM.] |
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Roy Thomson
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Wolfville, Nova Scotia,Canada
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Adrienne Clasky
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Florida, USA
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Posted 9 Jul 2006 12:29 pm
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Hi, Mike. I see someone linked you to Mike Perlowin's work. To me, his work is classical, yet completely original. I've never heard anything so beautiful. Firebird Suite is an exotic garden of sound. In West Side Story, he brings elements out of Bernstein that no one else has on any instrument. Wow. It's like Mike P. found this portal to another, glorious universe.
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Mike Shefrin
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Posted 9 Jul 2006 12:32 pm
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Wow! Thanks Roy and Adrienne.  |
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Bill Ferguson
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Milton, FL USA
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Mike Shefrin
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Posted 9 Jul 2006 1:16 pm
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I,ve heard Emmons' studio recording of this
but not the live version. Cool! |
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Mike Perlowin
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Los Angeles CA
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Posted 9 Jul 2006 2:20 pm
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| It's like Mike P. found this portal to another, glorious universe. |
That universe has a name. It's called "psychosis." 
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Mike Shefrin
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Posted 9 Jul 2006 2:50 pm
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L. A. Wunder
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Lombard, Illinois, USA
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Posted 9 Jul 2006 8:44 pm
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| I also attempt to play classical music on the steel when I can. I often use choral arrangements. |
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Bob Hoffnar
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Austin, Tx
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 10 Jul 2006 9:54 am
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Doug Livingstone sent me a recording he had done of the Chaconne fron Bach's Partita #2 in D minor for solo violin, one of my all time favorite pieces of music. I play it on electric six-string, but I had made some comment to the effect that it probably couldn't be played on steel. HA! My dumb. I can sort of see why he hasn't released it, there were a few rough moments, but the talent to even play it that well is ridiculous.
I would love to see him whip up an album, I too have the Sasha Matson CD and it's clear the composer greatly underestimated the steel's potential. The violins get all the good licks and the steel just sort of floats around instead of vice-versa, which seems sort of dumb for a steel guitar concerto. |
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David Wren
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Placerville, California, USA
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Posted 10 Jul 2006 10:35 am
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Seems I remember Doug Jernigan doing some classical steel CDs in the '70s?
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'96 Carter S12-E9/B6,7X7; Twin Session 500s; Hilton Pedal; Black Box
www.ameechapman.com
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