You should never lose sight of the fact that you’re there to entertain. A proud entertainer with an almost religious faith in the accessibility of popular music, Joel once reflected on his job as such, to Rolling Stone: “We go into the studio, the song gets mixed and it’s eventually heard through tiny car-radio speakers. Like his friend Bruce Springsteen, Joel has an air of the everyman about him, the megastar somehow intimately in touch with the aspirations and disappointments of ordinary people. In 1983, Billy Joel released his album An Innocent Man, an album that traces Joels musical history through his teenage years in the late 50s and early 60s.
(Having returned to Long Island in the mid-'70s, Joel commuted by helicopter.)
Play Video: HD VERSION REGULAR MP4 VERSION (Note: The default playback of the. In the 1990s, Joel shifted his energy to touring, remaining a perennial blockbuster well into the 2010s, performing more than 100 shows at Madison Square Garden, many of them sold out. Billy Joel - Uptown Girl (Official Video) from funk girl com Watch Video. He went on to become one of the most successful artists in pop, bridging reflective singer-songwriter material (1982’s The Nylon Curtain) with sock-hop nostalgia like “The Longest Time” and “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me” for a theatrical, particularly American sound whose resonances can be heard not only in piano balladeers, but in pop omnivores like Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga. Raised in the planned suburb of Levittown, Long Island (a model for the postwar building boom), Joel spent his early career in Los Angeles, working briefly as the singer in a bar on Wilshire Boulevard-an experience commemorated in his signature song, “Piano Man”. The very latest chart stats about uptown girl - peak chart position, weeks on chart, week-by-week chart run, catalogue number. Trombone, Timpani and Percussion 2.Broad, earnest and unreservedly sentimental, Billy Joel remains the quintessential showman of pop music. Tuba Baritone sax, Bass clarinet, Bassoon, 3. The instrumentation is not flexible even though it can work very well with smaller groups.ġ. There are seven lead parts with “Challenges”, but even these have a “understudy”, or the solos are cued in other instruments. It’s been over thirty years since Billy Joel’s smash doo wop throwback hit Uptown Girl first hit the airwaves. With this series, we hope to suit the bands with a large range in age and experience among the members, with lead parts suited for the skilled musician, and easier parts for the beginner/less skilled musician. There are also a lot of doublings, and some parts are optional (only suggested in the Score). The other parts are easier to play both technically and also with smaller range. Listen on Spotify: /sxkmc2a Listen on iTunes: /s6nrd6n Join the community: /scarypockets Ok, heres the deal: we buy a lot. The more difficult ones are: flute 1, clarinet 1, Alto Sax 1, Trumpet 1, and Euphonium. The "Lead" parts (which can be a “Challenge” to many musicians) are often graded 1 to 2 grades higher than the other parts.
This series has a Full Concert Band instrumentation (2 fl, ob., 3 cls', 4 sx's, 3 trp's, 2 hn's, 3 trb's, euph, tuba, 3 perc), but can be played with smaller ensembles by leaving out the lower parts in each section. The “Challenge” series is for these bands. Very often bands are put together of people with very different musical experience, age and skill. Sound Sample recorded by The Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces conducted by Reid Gilje.įull recording available on "Norwegian Dance - New Music for Concert Band 2013-2014"ĭownload complete album or single track on iTunes or AmazonĬan be streamed on Wimp, Spotify and Music Unlimited All of Idar’s published works are available from Norsk Noteservice as. Idar is also active as conductor for bands all over Norway, and as a lecturer and teacher on courses arranged by the Norwegian Band Federation. His production spans from music for beginning band via chamber-music pieces to symphonies for band and solo-concertos. Idar attended the Universities of Trondheim and Oslo, where he studied composition on Master-degree level. He grew up in a family where everyone played in the local wind-band. Idar was born in a small village called Torskangerpoll in the western part of Norway. The lyrics describe a working-class “downtown man” attempting to woo a wealthy “Uptown Girl”. It was released in 1983 as a part of his record album “An Innocent Man”. Uptown Girl is a song written and performed by the American pianist and vocalist Billy Joel.