By Audrey Coleman Photography courtesy of Hawaii Symphony Orchestra It’s not that nobody has ever thought of writing a concerto for the ukulele. In 1999, the Wallingford (Connecticut) Symphony Orchestra commissioned uke player-composer Jim Beloff to write Uke Can’t Be Serious:…
This audio goes along with the article in the Summer 2015 issue of Ukulele magazine.
Check out the audio examples from Ukulele Fall 2015 below: This article originally appeared in the Fall 2015 issue of Ukulele magazine. Click here for more on that issue.
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By Elizabeth Robson / From the Winter 2014 issue of Ukulele Magazine For many people, the cheery ukulele might seem the antithesis of punk rock’s loud, angry attitude, but to a growing number of punkers in the United Kingdom, the…