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    -=> Electric Guitarist Performs Virtuoso Violin Music on WWW <=-
 
    (Portland, OR) Local musician Kevin Ferguson has just released a
debut CD of Paganini, Sarasate, Vivaldi, Bach and other violin music
performed on an electric guitar.  The CD, entitled "STRAD TO STRAT" was
recorded after very positive audience responses at recent performances
in Portland.
    Though so far the release only includes local Portland retail
stores, the CD was immediately sold across the country through mail
order because of the exposure through the internet. Dan Sause of Local's
Only said that though many other musicians have set up World Wide Web
Pages, none have resulted in immediate telephone orders like this one
has.
    The STRAD TO STRAT Web Page
(http://www.teleport.com/~kevinf/strdstrt.html) includes album graphics
and 30 second audio samples of select tracks.
    Ferguson had to invent new ways of playing the electric guitar in
order to play the 5 octave range of Paganini and Sarasate music at full
tempo on guitar.  Though classical guitarists have transcribed
Paganini's Caprice No. 5 and Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen, recordings up to
this point have the highest octaves transcribed to a lower octave.
    The CD's 65 minutes of music include Paganini's Concerto No. 1,
Perpetual Motion, Caprice No. 5, Bach's Concerto No. 1, Prelude to the
6th Violin Sonata, Vivaldi's Presto Movement of Summer, Sarasate's
Zigeunerweisen, Wieniawski's Caprice In A Minor, and Rimsky-Korsakov's
Flight Of The Bumble-Bee.
    For more information, call Local's Only @ (503)-227-5000, email
kevinf@tv.tv.tek.com or kevinf@teleport.com, or write: DeBone Music,
P.O. Box 1646, Beaverton, OR 97005
 
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