Instrumentation
String Orchestra
Recording,
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Josel Ivanovici's Donauwellen Waltz.
Staffordshire County Council music department at one glorious period had almost a hundred full-time peripatetic instrumental music teachers, who taught their instruments for four days each week, but who played in ensembles on Fridays, giving concerts each year to every school in the county, from small village schools up to the largest comprehensives.
Sometimes these were small chamber ensembles, at other times full orchestras, while at other times we went out in larger ensembles such as string orchestras and it was always a joy when some of a school’s pupils could join in for some of the items.
Josef Ivanovici’s Donauwellen Waltz was just one of a number of such works we would take into a school, with recorder and percussion parts having been sent on ahead earlier.
It truly did mean that the instrumental service reached all the county’s pupils, and every year too. The Donauwellen Waltz was especially arranged in 1991 and happily performed in schools throughout the Stafford and Cannock areas during 1991 and 1992, the catchy melodies being passed around the orchestra from one section to another.
(The recording here is of just the string orchestra.)
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