WCGS - David Letkemann

David Letkemann
letkeman@icenter.net

In 1999 Productions d'Oz, a Quebec-based publisher specializing in classical guitar music, published three of David's suites. The writing is mostly modal-tonal with some chromaticism and employing many dynamic contrasts, staccatos, accents and simple rhythmic shifts. Within each suite the pieces are unified by a similar style and tonal feel, with strong programmatic elements and titles. Winter Window Scenes, Opus 1 (eleven pages): ten musical pictures of a Manitoba winter (c. grade one, Royal Conservatory). Dinosaurs, Opus 2 (nine pages): a march-like opening movement and a funereal closing elegy frame four fast, energetic and humorous musical dinosaur pictures (c. grades one to three). Of Dances and Dreams, Opus 3 (ten pages): six pieces contrasting and merging the worlds of dance and dream (c. grades two to four). Early in 2000 Mel Bay Publishers will be publishing David's guitar transcription of G. P. Telemann's Twelve Fantasies for Unaccompanied Flute. This work comprises approximately thirty-six pages of music with six pages of introductory text. Besides being beautiful and exciting repertoire, these pieces serve as an excellent introduction to Baroque interpretation for the advanced student. The edition will provide many staccato, slur and phrasing suggestions while clearly differentiating editorial suggestions from Telemann's original markings. David is currently working on new composition and transcription projects.

		Michael Matthews \| Sid Robinovitch David Letkemann letkeman@icenter.net In 1999 Productions d'Oz, a Quebec-based publisher specializing in classical guitar music, published three of David's suites. The writing is mostly modal-tonal with some chromaticism and employing many dynamic contrasts, staccatos, accents and simple rhythmic shifts. Within each suite the pieces are unified by a similar style and tonal feel, with strong programmatic elements and titles. Winter Window Scenes, Opus 1 (eleven pages): ten musical pictures of a Manitoba winter (c. grade one, Royal Conservatory). Dinosaurs, Opus 2 (nine pages): a march-like opening movement and a funereal closing elegy frame four fast, energetic and humorous musical dinosaur pictures (c. grades one to three). Of Dances and Dreams, Opus 3 (ten pages): six pieces contrasting and merging the worlds of dance and dream (c. grades two to four). Early in 2000 Mel Bay Publishers will be publishing David's guitar transcription of G. P. Telemann's Twelve Fantasies for Unaccompanied Flute. This work comprises approximately thirty-six pages of music with six pages of introductory text. Besides being beautiful and exciting repertoire, these pieces serve as an excellent introduction to Baroque interpretation for the advanced student. The edition will provide many staccato, slur and phrasing suggestions while clearly differentiating editorial suggestions from Telemann's original markings. David is currently working on new composition and transcription projects.