July 27, 2025Jul 27 For your consideration, a little chamber concerto I wrote in 1998, and almost forgot I had written until I found it in a closet in 2016! Concerto In E Minor For Guitar And String Orchestra-1 Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight Concerto In E Minor For Guitar And String Orchestra-2 Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight Concerto In E Minor For Guitar And String Orchestra-3 Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight
July 27, 2025Jul 27 Author Thinking if performed, should be 3 1st, 3 2nd, 2 Vla, 2 vc, 1 db, so guitar could be heard better, but I would be open to full string orchestra, and guitar amplified!
July 27, 2025Jul 27 Author Really, I COULD turn this into a piano concerto, with single winds, two horns and trumpet without too much strain, but not now!
July 27, 2025Jul 27 Author Only said it offhand, but I am always torturing myself and inadvertently coming up with a pretty major project! Within ten minutes, I am THERE with my piano concerto idea! Concerto in E Minor for Piano and Chamber Orchestra! Lot of work, but the music is there already. Arrange guitar part for piano, wind doubling, and I can already think of what to do with the two horns and trumpet. Add tympani...
July 27, 2025Jul 27 Author Yeah; I'm doin' it, and probably would have a greater effect as a piano concerto. As a guitar concerto, would either have to be a very small string orchestra, or guitar amplified!
July 27, 2025Jul 27 Author ...and our local orchestra, Northern Neck Orchestra, and a local pianist could probably handle it, so there's that...
August 9, 2025Aug 9 Author Guess I am basically a Neoclassical composer, with some Romanticism no stronger than Brahms, Mendelssohn, or Rachmaninoff. Strange how the Baroque slips in; can't explain it myself!
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