Violin Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.980422 Composed by Gary Noland. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary,Standards. 8 pages. Freeland Publications #3238261. Published by Freeland Publications (A0.980422). Duration: ca. 6 minutes. The full score is available for purchase at SMP Press. Review: ...My dictionary gives three definitions of 'Intermezzo,' also the name of a world premiere for violin and piano, Reiko Nishioka on violin and the composer, Gary Noland, on piano. Included are the words 'light character.' If so, the piece has intercalary intermezzos of its own smoothly segued between sections of sophisticated sobriety-or vice-versa. I's a romantic romp, rhythmically robust yet melodically flirting with the nostalgia of cabaret, minus the sleazy diminution of spilled drinks and smelly ashtrays. Its elegance recalls Elgar, and the serious sides, a synthesis of those strange bedfellows Schubert and Ives. Composers hate it when their music reminds you of someone else's, but writing within a tradition, Noland has incorporated divergent styles that, woven together, work. Cosmopolitan without snobbery, it's intelligent, pleasurable and convincing.-Rocky Leplin, Music Critic, The Berkeley Voice
