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Work: High Art - Concerto for jazz trumpet

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ComposerKoehne, Graeme (b. 1956)
PeriodContemporary
Year2003
Work typeOrchestral
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Jazz trumpet meets the orchestra with the Sydney Symphony

For a composer who embraces the “popular” in music, using the subtitle High Art for his trumpet concerto is clearly a provocative but bold statement. Australian composer Graham Koehne has quoted Noël Coward’s play Private Lives, commenting: “Extraordinary how potent cheap music is”.
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