Product Description
Olympic Reel (score - violin and rhythm section) MO139A
Violin and Folk Instr. (lead sheet) (violin part available)
Music by Mark OConnor
4 pages - 2:00 minutes in length
Olympic Reel (for violin) composed by Mark O'Connor was written in early 1996 for the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, GA. It was premiered at the closing ceremonies before 100,000 people in the Olympic Stadium, with 10,000 world-class athletes from around the world in attendance, as well as 3.5 billion people from the television viewing audience.
Mr. O'Connor wanted to write a fiddle tune that brought celtic sounds from Europe mixed in with the American folk music to give an international flavor to the style. One of Mr. O'Connor's friends and colleagues, Natalie MacMaster, was the artist to first record this music on CD, and she subsequently asked the composer to join her in a version that accommodated both of them on fiddles. The result was fiddle fireworks, Olympic style!
Original music printed from the composers manuscripts.
Music editing, copying and engraving by Mark OConnor
using "Finale" on Apple Macintosh 1996
Composed by Mark OConnor
Can be heard on "In My Hand" Warner Bros. (Natalie McMaster, Mark OConnor; and on Mark OConnors "Crossing Bridges" OMAC Records
Catalogue Number MO139A
Copyright © 1996 by Mark OConnor Music International
For more information on violinist and composer Mark O'Connor, OConnor String Camps, Touring Ensembles, Discography, Bio, Repertoire and more, please visit
www.markoconnor.com
For information on the "OConnor Method" instructional book series for violin, viola, cello and school string orchestra programs:
www.oconnormethod.com
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