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Oscar Macchioni

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Review: Anthology Of Eighteenth-Century Spanish Keyboard Music, Edited By Susanne Skyrm, With Calvert Johnson And John Koster, Oscar E. Macchioni Mar 2011

Review: Anthology Of Eighteenth-Century Spanish Keyboard Music, Edited By Susanne Skyrm, With Calvert Johnson And John Koster, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

Review appeared in the March/April issue of American Music Teacher, a publication of MTNA, 2011.

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Ernst Widmer’S Kosmos Latinoamericano: A Progressive Piano Method, Oscar E. Macchioni Dec 2010

Ernst Widmer’S Kosmos Latinoamericano: A Progressive Piano Method, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

Article. Published February/March Issue, 2011.

Latin American piano repertoire for the elementary to intermediate level is not an easy subject since most of the available scores of famous Latin American composers are for the late intermediate or advanced level. Ernst Widmer (1927-1990), a Swiss composer who moved to Bahia, Brazil in 1956, composed Kosmos Latinoamericano between 1978 and 1982. It is an eclectic collection of 146 pieces organized in four volumes ranging from the beginner to the intermediate/advance levels. It includes an array of musical elements such as: original compositions and improvisations; readings and exercises; popular melodies and rhythms from …

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Mostly Tangos. Piano Music From The Americas. Solo Cd, Oscar E. Macchioni Oct 2009

Mostly Tangos. Piano Music From The Americas. Solo Cd, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

Solo CD recorded through a University Research Institute Grant in 2006 at the Minnesota Public Radio Studio M. To be Released by Eroica Records (JDT3442). Release December 2009.
Works Recorded:
Samuel Barber "Hesitation Tango"
William Bolcom "The Dead Moth Tango"
Heitor Villa-Lobos "Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4 for solo piano
Juan José Castro "Tangos"
Manuel M Ponce "Intermezzo" and "Preludio Mexicano"
Astor Piazzolla "Adios Nonino" arr. Laercio de Freitas
Alberto Ginastera "Malambo" first edtion

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