Dans varsomt / Dance Warily - Brass Band Grade 5 Ray Farr

DANS VARSOMT | DANCE WARILY

Composed October 2014 by Ray Farr, based on a religious folk-song, or psalm, from Valdres in Norway.

The words to the hymn, which was written by Olof Kolmodin in 1742, warn us to tread warily, my soul.
Ray has adapted the music into a lively Norwegian-style dance with an equally strong warning for people not to tread on anyones toes.
The piece was first performed at the Brass in Concet competition Siddis Brass by Jaren Hornmusikkforening in November 2014.

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RAY FARR (b. 1948)

Ray Farr was educated at the Birmingham School of Music and at the Royal Academy of Music. After 10 years as a professional musician with the BBC Radio Orchestra he started his career as a conductor.
Ray has appeared in hundreds of concerts around the world and in some of the finest concert halls including the Royal Albert Hall and the Sydney Opera House and has gained a reputation as a stylish conductor and a planner of interesting concert programmes ranging from light music to "avant-garde". He is equally adept in Classical and modern music and has conducted opera, ballet and oratorio. In 1988 Ray won a special Arts Council Award to study contemporary music with Edward Gregson and Jorma Panula, Professor of Orchestral Conducting at Helsinkis Sibelius Academy.
He has conducted at Leeds Music Festival, Harrogate Contemporary Music Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Adelaide Festival and the Bergen Festival and has made several L.P.'s, C.D.s and T.V. appearances. Ray has appeared with BBC Radio Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra (on five occasions), the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra (on a World Wide TV program), Sandnes Symphony Orchestra (as Principal Conductor) and Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra in an exciting concert of French music.



Sound Recording by Jaren Hornmusikkforening conducted by Ray Farr. Live recording from "Siddis Brass" 2014.