The Bickford Concerto seems to have been conceived as a gtr/pno duo
from the start, principally as a vehicle for the composer and his wife,
Vahdah Olcott-Bickford. She made much of the piece in her columns in
Cadenza, Crescendo and The Serenader, touting it as the first and only
American guitar concerto up to that point. My work on the period (up to
about 1935) has uncovered only one performance of the piece by someone
other than Vahdah Olcott-Bickford and never with anything but piano.
Given that American guitarists and composers took a back seat to
Segovia and his "stable" of composers, I think it unlikely that the
piece had many other performances or that it was ever orchestrated.
jeff
--- On Wed, 10/1/08, steve gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: steve gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Best Guitar Concerto (WAS) Re: Respighi
To: "lute list" <[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 4:44 PM
Interesting question. I was just looking at the IGRA website to see
what came up and I came across this:
[1]http://digital-library.csun.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/IGRAS
cores&CISOPTR=6908&CISOBOX=1&REC=11
1920, by Zarh Bickford but only with piano reduction. i wonder if it
was ever fully orchestrated.
here's the search for "concerto" among the scores collection
[2]http://digital-library.csun.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=all&CISOBOX
1=concerto&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOOP2=exact&CISOBOX2=&CISOFIELD2=
CISOSEARCHALL&CISOOP3=any&CISOBOX3=&CISOFIELD3=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOOP4=no
ne&CISOBOX4=&CISOFIELD4=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=/IGRAScores&t=a
here's the biblio record at IGRA for that Shand concerto too
[3]http://digital-library.csun.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/IGRAS
cores&CISOPTR=3517&CISOBOX=1&REC=19
sorry for the double message arkadia
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Arkadia Trio
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Knowing when the absolute first guitar concerto of the
20th century is only of marginal value, but it is
useful to know when interest in the genre re-emerged. Perhaps more
useful - does anyone know when the LATEST
guitar concerto was written in the 19th century? It
would be interesting to see how big the gap is.
Maybe Ernest Shand's Concerto op. 48, published in 1896.
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References
1.
http://digital-library.csun.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/IGRAScores&CISOPT
R=6908&CISOBOX=1&REC=11
2.
http://digital-library.csun.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=all&CISOBOX1=concerto&C
ISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOOP2=exact&CISOBOX2=&CISOFIELD2=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOOP3
=any&CISOBOX3=&CISOFIELD3=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOOP4=none&CISOBOX4=&CISOFIELD4=CISOSE
ARCHALL&CISOROOT=/IGRAScores&t=a
3.
http://digital-library.csun.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/IGRAScores&CISOPT
R=3517&CISOBOX=1&REC=19
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