One special request, with the rest being mostly original, and with several arrangements of works from composers of an unplugged and less-controlled era. Several tracks are reasonably good slow dances.

8 MP3 Songs in this album (31:54) !
Related styles: World: Western European, Avant Garde: Classical Avant-Garde, Type: Instrumental

People who are interested in Carlos Ponce Edvard Grieg Marc Anthony should consider this download.


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ABOUT THIS ALBUM

This is the tenth album. Like most previous albums, it will contain some Classical music from pre-1900s unplugged generations. Some may think this album is too serious, not serious enough, ho-hum, or not "hip". But, from download sales and purchases of previous albums, others should like it, or at least parts of it.

There was one special request, and it was not easy holding back a tear when reviewing it, when arranging it into three parts, and when recording it. I have heard this hymn several times before, and I believe it was also played during JFK's funeral. It was written by John B. Dykes in 1861 and is still used today.

The remaining tracks are mostly original with several arrangements of composers living in an unplugged, less-controlled civilized era. Several tracks are reasonably-good, slow dances such as, "Brass Spring" and the last track, "Piano Concerto in A Minor" by Edvard Grieg.

ABOUT STUDIO ELECTRA AND THE SYNTHONIC ORCHESTRA, BAND & CHOIR

After purchasing a weighted-action, 88-key synthesizer piano in 1999, the studio began taking serious form by 2002. Since then, there have been many improvements and updates. The goal was to have an entire orchestra, choir and/or band to play music with. This meant studying all available instruments and vocal ranges, their inherent musical language and their limitations, and sometimes stretching these limits under a humbled poetic license.

Before finishing the first album, it occurred that people who listen to it may get the impression that the music was imitating or impersonating these instruments as real, and that they were being played by live musicians. They might thus conclude that they were being cheated or fooled. This is the reason that the name of the "band" was eventually called, The SYNTHonic (not SYMPHonic) Orchestra Band & Choir. The developing studio would later be called, Studio Electra (not Acoustica, or some other misleading name). Hopefully, the listener would understand where these albums stood on this issue up front. The purpose is to emulate...not imitate or impersonate live music.