
Happy Present Meet
Rosenblatt Bumble-Bee-Bop for Piano Solo
- Concert Piece after Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The popular `Flight of the Bumblebee` by
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is a welcome
opportunity for every musician to demonstrate
his or her technical skills. The Russian
composer-pianist Alexander Rosenblatt
composed a virtuoso piano arrangement of
the famous theme which moves masterfully
back and forth between jazz and classical
music, thus being a `cross-over` work: bebop
(a jazz style from the 1940s and 1950s) is
added to `Bumblebee` which makes this work
not only an amusing play on words
(`Bumble-Bee-Bop`) but also a virtuoso
concert piece which ought to be enjoyable for
both performers and listeners alike.
작곡가 Rosenblatt, Alexander