New American School of String Playing

History of the American tunes selected for the O'Connor String Playing Method. Official website of the O'Connor Method at www.oconnormethod.com

Monday, February 20, 2017

Libertango

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Piazzolla Octet with two violins, Buenos Aires, 1957 The tango music genre was developed in the 1890s near the border of Argentina and...

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

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Judy Garland Over the Rainbow (commonly referred to as “ Somewhere Over the Rainbow ”) was named the greatest movie song of all time o...

Bach Sonata No. 1 in G Minor (Presto)

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Johann Sebastian Bach, one of the greatest composers and musicians in history, was born in Eisenach, Germany in 1685. He was the eighth and...

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

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Fisk Jubilee Singers 1870s The history of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is fascinating. In Mississippi during the first half of the 19th ce...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Anniversary Blues

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Vassar Clements w Mark O'Connor, Woodinville,WA, 1973 I was only 11 years old when I came to understood the power of t...
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The Cricket Dance

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I wrote The Cricket Dance in 1994 after experiencing a deep connection with the natur...
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Mark O’Connor is a multi Grammy Award winning composer/violinist/fiddler. His orchestral compositions have received over 600 performances with symphony orchestras.The recently released O'Connor Method has been widely praised.Strad Magazine says "The succession of melodies is attractive and carefully planned. If O’Connor is the new Suzuki, then Boil ‘em Cabbage Down is the new Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.”Viola, Cello and Orchestra Books are also featured in the series. O'Connor regularly conducts residencies at Juilliard School, Harvard University, Cleveland Institute of Music, Rice University, University of Maryland,Curtis Institute, Eastman School of Music, Tanglewood, and Aspen Summer Festival among others.He currently serves as Artist-in-Residence for the 2nd year in a row at the University of Miami. O'Connor is the founder of the internationally recognized Mark O'Connor String Camp currently held at the Berklee College of Music. View 70 hand selected videos spanning O’Connor’s career at http://www.youtube.com/user/MarkOConnor For more information, visit www.markoconnor.com. For more information on the O'Connor Method, visit www.oconnormethod.com.
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