Various Artists - Canadian ParadigmsThis is a great program of contemporary works for clarinet and piano, and one work for clarinet, piano, and violin. These are all immediately accessible, appealing works. Christopher Ayer, a native of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, is Professor of Music at Stephen F. Austin State University, where he coordinates undergraduate and graduate clarinet study, and performs with the Stone Fort Wind Quintet. He has studied with Thomas Martin, Associate

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These songs evoke memories of my mother playing her Martin parlor guitar and of my father

Bach's hands-on approach to his work in progress proves just how modern he actually was and remains

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and collaborator with Keith Emerson and John Wetton

before tabling new Harding originals for 1999's 'Trad Arr Jones

including more than sixty motets

with Dmitri Alexeev

social and philosophical opera

Underneath the Mistletoe consists of 9 new arrangements of holiday classics and 11 brand new songs from Crytzer's pen that you'd never know weren't written during the FDR administration

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