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A Life in the Day of a TromboneTreble Clef
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Adam Gorb

A Life in the Day of a Trombone
Treble Clef

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Instrument: trombone/euphonium treble clef and piano
Grade: medium
Catalogue No: 2127TC
ISMN No: 9790570270590

08:00 "It was such a lovely day, I thought it was a pity to get up" • 10:45 "I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me" • 14:00 "Seeing is deceiving, it's eating that's believing" • 16:50 "Well, we can't stand around here doing nothing, people will think we're workmen" • 19:30 "Without music, life would be a mistake" • 23:59 "No civilised person goes to bed the same day he gets up"

"... Head of composition at the RNCM, Adam Gorb writes in a familiar contemporary language, but his ideas sound fresh and his student works hold a lot of appeal. This set of six pieces describes specific times in a day, with witty titles such as "No civilised person goes to bed the same day he gets up". Teenagers of Grades 7 -8 will find the music in touch with urban teenage life, and will especially enjoy performing the lazy swing-feel piece. Although as with most modern writing there is not a lot of scope for expression beyond what's notated, there are plenty of technical hurdles to overcome."
Reviewed 'Music Teacher'
Adam Gorb
Adam Gorb was born in 1958 and started composing at the age of ten. At fifteen he wrote a set of piano pieces - A Pianist's Alphabet -of which a selection were performed on BBC Radio 3. In 1977 he went to Cambridge University to study music, where his teachers included Hugh Wood and Robin Holloway. After graduating in 1980 he divided his time between composition and working as a musician in the theatre. In 1987 he started studying privately with Paul Patterson, and then, from 1991 at the Royal, Academy of Music where he gained a MMus degree and graduated with the highest honours, including the Principal's Prize in 1993.

Works include Metropolis for wind band, which has won several prizes including the Walter Beeler Memorial Prize in the USA in 1994 and is available on CD; Prelude, Interlude and Postlude for piano, which won the Purcell Composition Prize in 1995; Kol Simcha, a ballet given over fifty performances by the Rambert Dance Company; Awayday for Wind Band which has had several hundred performances since its premiere in 1996 and has been commercially recorded three times; a Violin Sonata premiered at the Spitalfields Festival in 1996; Reconciliation for Clarinet and Piano, commissioned for the Park Lane Young Artists New Year series in 1998 and Elements, a Percussion Concerto for Evelyn Glennie and the Royal Northern College of Music Wind Ensemble which was released on CD in 2001. Since 1999 premieres have included a Clarinet Concerto for Nicholas Cox and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Weimar for chamber ensemble, also in 2000 and Downtown Diversions, a trombone concerto, at the CBDNA conference in Texas in February 2001. Recent works include a string quartet for the Maggini Quartet that was premiered at Bromsgrove music club in February 2002; Straitjacket for tuba and piano for James Gourlay; Towards Nirvana, which received its first performance by the Tokyo Kosei Wind Ensemble in October 2002, and Diaspora for eleven strings which was given its premiere by the Goldberg Ensemble at their contemporary festival at the RNCM in February 2003.
Adam Gorb is Head of School of Composition and Contemporary Music at the Royal Northern College of Music. For more information see his website at: http://www.adamgorb.co.uk

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