A MERRY DANCE Adam Carse In an easy arrangement for Cello Soloist and String Orchestra Orchestrated by DAVID JOHNSTONE CELLO SOLOISTWhen we play a cello solo with orchestra almost everyone thinks we have to play something difficult, loud, and in high registers; the word ‘virtuoso’ comes to mind. But why does it have to be like this? Well, it doesn't at all! The idea of the pieces in this series is to present a cello soloist who does not have to play in thumb position (or very rarely) and who can concentrate on making nice music and enjoy themselves rather than have a priority of showing off. These pieces in the series might be played by full professionals (as ‘encores’) or modest students. However, this is the most comfortably easy of the series so far. They might be performed by any age group; indeed they might make a nice prize for worthy music school students as they make their first venture with an orchestra backing them. Well, not only the johnstone-musie series, this Merry Dance of Adam Carse is probably just about the easiest piece for cello accompanied by string orchestra in existence anywhere, yet it sounds convincing and authentic! Although the cello soloist plays entirely within the first position, it does never-the-less sound like the sound of a soloist given the way in which the accompaniment is fully supportive! To help the cause, in this version the string orchestral parts are all also comfortable for orchestras, no matter how young the players are! Do enjoy it!A MERRY DANCE CELLO Adam Carse L 7 Qs. | 10 43 Allegro vivo ° on oe. 7 ote 1b ib Pa tempo Cas fra, 7 pechi: ot BN po a2 Disk . ik bg og orese. Tt vall. ‘pa tempoPlease dose other original works for many different instruments and groupings, and also special transcriptions for cellists on the johustone-mmusic web page: wwwjohnstone~music.com (English) or www j-musices (Espaiol) ALL ARE FREE DOWNLOADS!