Transcribed by Bruce Gbur.
Vivaldi is usually associated in the minds of concert-goers with instrumental music-the hundreds of concertos and chamber music pieces he composed have cemented that
This is a straightforward yet beautiful arrangement of the famous tune. It will require sensitive musicianship and good technique, but is such a fine piece, it practically plays itself.
The Two Irish Songs were arranged in 1983 at my suggestion. My cousin, Ed Searl, was studying voice with Novie Greene at the time, and it was through him that I made her acquaintance. The three of