![]() ![]() No one is telling piano teachers they should acquire this skill, at least no one in a professional sense. Eleven years on and that percentage has almost flipped: I estimate at least 75% of piano teachers these days tell me they are perfectly comfortable reading a chord chart, and up to 99% say they understand what the chord symbols mean (even if they wouldn’t be comfortable performing from a chart). In 2000 I started presenting professional development seminars for piano teachers and when I would ask “who can read a chord chart?” maybe 10% of the teachers at the seminar might put up their hands. Needless to say I found the fuss rather ridiculous and just wanted to get on with making music. ![]() To be fluent reading a ‘chart’ while also being able to play the Pathetique seemed to be about as musically transgressive as it was possible to be. degree and I could still read a chord chart. It shook the foundations of many a musician’s world that I had a B.Mus. His latest music has developed from this into what he now terms a new "Multi-Dimensional" music.A cliché I used to find myself confronting as a young musician in the mid-late 80s and the 90s was the idea that the world of pianists divides into the classically trained and those who can read chord charts. This music is now widely performed and appreciated, and ranges from small popular pieces to 'Rock Sonatas' (his creation), instrumentals, concertos, symphonic and electronic compositions. His avant garde work Metamusic for flute and piano, was chosen as the outstanding flute publication of 1976 by the American Flute Association.īut at the same time he was also involved with his roots in jazz, rock and popular music, and in fact he composed a whole new genre of music for classical (and in particular for young) musicians during this period - "Mister D" Music, which combined and extended a multitude of sources such as classical, jazz, rock, latin american, baroque, romantic and popular music. He was chairman of the New Macnaghten Concerts (London), and has been a British Council "Visiting Specialist" (Composer) to Hungary. The ensemble gave many premiers and commissioned new works, with concerts at leading London venues, and in the provinces, and BBC broadcasts on Radio 3's "Music in our Time". In 1969 he formed, as conductor and musical director, APOLLO CONTEMPORARY MUSIC, an ensemble of virtuoso players dedicated to the performance of new music. Enjoy It!Īll That Jazz! is a piece of music by David Hellewell.ĭavid Hellewell, born in Morley, Yorkshire, first made his name internationally as a composer, conductor and performer of avant-garde classical music in the 1970's. So if you like it, just download it here.
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