The Accordionist: Vargas Fred (The Three Evangelists)

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In 2009 Mike was soloist with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra Brass Ensemble and more recently the Espoo Big Band Helsinki and The London Symphony Orchestra with Eddie Daniels. The Stradella bass system, also called standard bass [ citation needed], is arranged in a circle of fifths and uses single buttons for bass notes and additional rows of single buttons for preset major, minor, dominant seventh, and diminished chords. The dominant seventh and diminished chords are three-note chord voicings that omit the fifths of the chords. Chromatic button accordions and the bayan, a Russian variant, use a buttonboard where notes are arranged chromatically. Two major systems exist, referred to as the B-system and the C-system (there are also regional variants). Rarely, some chromatic button accordions have a decorative right-hand keyboard in addition to the rows of buttons, an approach used by the virtuoso accordionist Pietro Frosini.

Chenier is an American Zydeco accordionist who was born on December 12, 1987. His work in “I’m Here” has earned him a Grammy award in the year 1983. He was famous as the “King of Zydeco”, a genre rising from Creole and Cajun music, with influences of jazz, rhythm and blues. Appropriately so, he was inducted in the Blues Hall of Fame in 1989. Anthony Galla-Rini (1904–2006) – American accordionist, arranger, composer, conductor, author and teacherPiano accordions use a musical keyboard similar to a piano, at right angles to the cabinet, the tops of the keys inward toward the bellows.

The constraints of the Stradella bass system, limiting the left hand to preset chord buttons, is a barrier to some jazz chord conventions. Jazz accordionists expand the range of chord possibilities by using more than one chord button simultaneously, or by using combinations of a chord button and a bass note other than the typical root of the chord. An example of the former technique is used to play a minor seventh chord. To play an Am 7(add9) chord, the Am and Em preset buttons are pressed simultaneously, along with an A bassnote. An example of the latter technique is used to play the half-diminished chord. To play an E ø7, a Gm preset button is pressed along with an E bassnote. French composer Henri Dutilleux used an accordion in both his late song cycles Correspondances (2003) and Le Temps l'Horloge (2009). Russian-born composer Sofia Gubaidulina has composed solos, concertos, and chamber works for accordion. Astor Piazzolla's concert tangos are performed widely. Piazzolla performed on the bandoneon, but his works are performed on either bandoneon or accordion.Floren is an American musician who shares in Welk’s fame, being the principal accordion player in the latter’s show. He was a self-taught player born in Roslyn, Day County, South Dakota, starting at only six years old. Floren’s versatility allows him to play in a range of styles, from polka to a Bach Cantata. The song “Lady of Spain” has become his trademark. Pedal harmony, a type of accordion used sometimes in Polish folk music, which has a pair of pump organ-like bellows attached. The accordion was brought to Brazil by settlers and immigrants from Europe, especially from Italy and Germany, who mainly settled in the south (Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Paraná). The first instrument brought was a "Concertina" (a 120 button chromatic accordion). [61] The instrument was popular in the 1950s, and it was common to find several accordions in the same house. There are many different configurations and tunes which were adapted from the cultures that came from Europe. When you press the bellows, the air pressure passes, opening pallets, and produces vibrations coming from the free reed.