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Meng: New album featuring recordings of Avner's Theme and Rounds


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That's nice, but one would think -- given the prize is presumably named after the guitarist Christopher Parkening -- that the guy would play something from Williams' STEPMOM, on which Parkening actually played.

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Yes, the Parkening International Guitar Competition is indeed named after guitarist Christopher Parkening, who is now spending his life as a teacher and educator.

 

Actually the piece "Rounds" that JW wrote for Pablo Villegas was indeed premiered by the Spanish guitarist at the Parkening competition in 2012.

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Rounds isn't deducated to Villegas. The score comes with the following dedication "with great admiration for Christopher Parkening and the Parkening International Guitar Competition". As a former competition winner (2006), Villegas returned to premiere Rounds at the 2012 edition.

At the premiere, Parkening explained something like that he had been asking Williams for a solo piece for ages, but Williams was always busy and somewhat insecure about writting for solo guitar. Eventually, one day Parkening recieved, to his surprise, the score in the mail.

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18 hours ago, Thor said:

the guy

 

Wrong.

 

I think it's kind of cool for "Avner's Theme" to get some love.  I think that's a great piece.  As for "Rounds," I haven't quite been able to fall in love with it; but a lot of Williams' non-film work tends to improve for me every time I listen to it, so maybe that will happen with "Rounds" as well.

 

Not sure I'll buy this disc, but I'm glad to know about it.

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