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Composer | Koehne, Graeme (b. 1956) |
Period | Contemporary |
Year | 2003 |
Work type | Orchestral |
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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”.