Virtuoso Voices™ - Sharon Isbin (Strings and Threads)  0:24
July 2009 CD 


[Use this clip to enhance your introduction to "Strings and Threads" by Mark O'Connor, from Sharon Isbin's new CD, "Journey to the New World” (Sony 745456).]


SUGGESTED HOST INTRO

Violinist and composer Mark O'Connor wrote a set of solo violin pieces titled "Strings and Threads."  In addition to its absolutely charming and invigorating musical lines, "Strings and Threads" is an excellent musical travelogue tracing the history of American music from folk to jazz.  When guitarist Sharon Isbin heard these solo violin pieces for the first time, she knew she had to have them for herself.


CLIP TRANSCRIPT

"I swear, the moment I heard it I said this would work beautifully for guitar and violin and I encouraged Mark to arrange it.  And somehow the combination of the guitar, which so figures in all kinds of popular music styles in this country, is really a natural to join him on the blues and on the bebop and the ragtime and the swing and all of the fun things we do in the course of this chronological journey through the thirteen movements."


SUGGESTED HOST OUTRO

Mark O'Connor's arrangement of "Strings and Threads" for violin and guitar is on Sharon Isbin's new CD, "Journey to the New World."  It's one of the brighter and more entertaining music history lessons you'll ever hear -- and you'll hear it now with violinist Mark O'Connor and guitarist Sharon Isbin.




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