Favourite Contemporary Whistle(able) Tune

trisha · Post by **trisha** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 3:37 pm

If copyright laws were no object and you could choose only one, what contemporary/recent piece of whistle(able) music would you include in a compilation songbook?

trisha · Post by **trisha** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 3:39 pm

My choice would be "Ashokan Farewell" (written in 1982 by an American in the style of a Scots Lament). Adapted up an octave in places.

Trisha

LeeMarsh · Post by **LeeMarsh** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 3:43 pm

An Feochan (Gentle Breeze) by Tommy Peoples.
Would be the one tune in a compilation.

slowair · Post by **slowair** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 3:43 pm

I can do a pretty mean Over the Rainbow.

Sounds great on whistle.

Mike

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 3:47 pm

trisha wrote:My choice would be "Ashokan Farewell" (written in 1982 by an American in the style of a Scots Lament). Adapted up an octave in places.

Trisha

Now I don't want to be ungracious, or say bad things about Jay Ungar, but I've pretty much had it with Ashokan Farewell. It's one of those tunes (like the Butterfly, Si Beag Si Mor) that get played too often and too often badly. Also, it's one of those fiddle things. Playing A.F. transports fiddlers of a certain ilk to a plane far beyond my grasp and comprehension. It's gotten to the point where I feel that I don't really appreciate the tune for it's on sake. Ah, sorry, nobody wanted to hear that, probably.

I like a recent tune by the great Montreal flute player Brad Hurley, Finbar Crossey (if I get the title right). I heard Randal Bays & Daithi Sproule play it. Great stuff.

TelegramSam · Post by **TelegramSam** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 4:12 pm

"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" of course.

trisha · Post by **trisha** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 4:55 pm

Ah yes, but this is the UK, so it's a rarer species...

Blackbeer · Post by **Blackbeer** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 6:47 pm

IN THE MOOD for sure. Thanks again Tigress. Been playing it all afternoon. What great fun.

Tom

LKtz · Post by **LKtz** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 7:21 pm

I have just fallen madly in love with the jig The Rolling Wave. Oh my gosh, I could play that forever!