The New Grown-Ups: “Franklin Roosevelt Is Back Again”
FDR FTW!
The New Grown-Ups: “Cheese Closet”/“Billy in the Lowground”
More music.
The New Grown-Ups: “Taxman Salamander”
With AI-generated lyrics.
The New Grown-Ups: “When I Stop Dreaming”
One more.
The New Grown-Ups: “Early”
One more.
The New Grown-Ups: “What Will Become of Me”
One more.
The New Grown-Ups: “I’d Jump the Mississippi”
Another tune.
The New Grown-Ups: “Treehopper”
A tune by our son.
The New Grown-ups: “The Hills of Isle Au Haut”
One more.
The New Grown-Ups: “William Blake’s Dead”
Bluegrass.
The New Grown-Ups: “The Devil’s Nine Questions”
Bluegrass.
The New Grown-Ups: “My Heart’s Own Love”
Bluegrass.
The New Grown-Ups: “Cumberland Gap”
The New Grown-Ups just took first in a new-band showcase at the Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival in Brunswick, Maine. Here’s a sample.
“Adoration” (Price, arr. Fine)
A video of a beautiful performance.
A streaming “Adoration”
Elaine Fine’s arrangement of Florence Price’s “Adoration,” streaming tonight from Juilliard.
Rockin’ past, present, and future
Brenda Lee’s song, and ours.
“Adoration” again
The digital radio station Classic FM has a list: fifteen pieces for anyone beginning to listen to classical music. Coming in at a number ten, Florence Price’s “Adoration”: “Originally composed for church organ, it was arranged for violin and piano by Elaine Fine.”
The New Grown-Ups at Bandcamp
“The New Grown-Ups blend traditional folk, country, blues, Celtic, old time, originals, and bluegrass into a snafu of contemporary acoustic music.” They sound great.
Elaine Fine, “Adoration” arranger
A music magazine calls her the pioneer of arrangements of Florence Price’s “Adoration.”
I am also fond of the composer
Elaine wrote a piece for viola, “I am also fond of lonely islands,” after reading Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book. And now there’s a recording.
“Adoration” again
Here’s “Adoration” again, played by Randall Goosby, violin, and Zhu Wang, piano, but this time with audio and video. And Elaine Fine is now credited as the arranger.
A Fine Price
Elaine just learned that her arrangement of Florence Price’s “Adoration” for violin and piano will appear on violinist Randall Goosby’s first album, Roots (Decca), to be released on June 25. HIs performance, with pianist Zhu Wang, has been released on YouTube as a calling card for the album.
Astraios, music and film
A concert from Astraios Chamber Music, available through May 3: Music & Silent Film. A total delight, and probably the most artful COVID-era online production I’ve seen, right through to the closing credits.
A Tunes, for beginner violinists
Elaine Fine has a book of violin pieces out from Mel Bay, A Tunes: Capricious Pieces for Beginner Violinists.
Florence Price’s “Adoration”
Augustin Hadelich at the piano, with thirty-seven other musicians, performing Florence Price’s “Adoration,” arranged for violin and piano by Elaine Fine.
Fine’s Price
The violinist Augustin Hadelich has invited violinists everywhere to record themselves playing the violin part from Elaine Fine’s arrangement of Florence Price’s “Adoration,” a piece for organ that Elaine arranged for violin and piano.
Another “Molambo”
Homemade music.
Our own private “Molambo”
A good one.
Homemade music
It’s the Faces song “Ooh La La.”
A Ravel Kaddish
My wife Elaine Fine’s arrangement, performed at the European Parliament.