theMandolinTuner Journal

Hi reader

I hope you're having a great weekend!

Did you miss it? It's been a month since the previous newsletter, but theMandolinTuner latest newsletter is finally here! I guess you have already noticed the change in the newsletter email title, but if you haven't here it is:

I have renamed this newsletter to "theMandolinTuner Journal". The idea occurred to me after receiving an e-mail from one of theMandolinTuner community members, Geoff Iliff. Geoff is not a mandolin player, but a finger-picking acoustic guitarist that learned about theMandolinTuner from Richard Morgan, the innovative Australian mandolin maker that is writing guest articles for theMandolinTuner, (you can read Richard's articles "A Luthier's Journey" here).

So, I received from Geoff a nice e-mail thanking me for including him in the circulation of theMandolinTuner magazine. Wait a minute! Magazine? It was then I realised the similarity of this series of e-mails to an on-line magazine.

Why not give it a try? I quickly decided to rename this newsletter from "Weekly Roundup" to "Journal", and also to number the e-mails just like magazine issues are numbered, in order to help readers keep track of them. I hope you like this change, but in any case you shouldn't worry, as the content of the newsletter is not going to change; it is only going to become even better!

So, here it is, and I hope you enjoy it!

Hal Leonard Publishing released "The Beatles for Solo Mandolin"

The 64-page book has scores and tabs for 20 favorite Beatles tunes in chord melody arrangements by Bill LaFleur for mandolin, including: All You Need Is Love * Blackbird * Can't Buy Me Love * Eight Days a Week * Here Comes the Sun * Hey Jude * In My Life * Let It Be * Michelle * Strawberry Fields …

Music Light Poetry - Performance with Sara Ercoli, Duo Trekel-Tröster and "Zeitgebilde"

Music alone is some times not enough. Combine all arts together and you get something bigger, better, fuller... Even if you do not speak German, this video and music is really beautiful. I am truly impressed. About Sara Ercoli: After the classical studies and working experiences as assistant to the director (a.o."Panama", by Federico Cagnoni), she studied Mime in Rome (Jacques …

D. Scarlatti, Sonate G-Dur K91 3.+4. Satz Duo Trekel-Tröster, Sonata G major 3.+4. movement

The beauty of the mandolin sound is obvious in this video, in which Steffen Trekel together with Michael Tröster (Guitar), play classical music. This is truly nice. Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757) was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified primarily …

Carlo Munier: Capriccio Spagnuolo op. 276, Duo Trekel-Tröster, Mandolin + Guitar

This is a nice performance, with brio and good timing from Steffen Trekel. Carlo Munier (July 15, 1859 – February 10, 1911) was an Italian mandolinist who advocated for the mandolin's acknowledgement among as an instrument of classical music. Maestro Silvio Ranieri in 1925 described Munier as one of the principal pioneers in the revival of the mandolin repertoire - …

Trekel Steffen

Steffen Trekel counts among the leading mandolinists and mandolin pedagogues of our time. He studied mandolin private with Detlef Tewes as well as with Professor Marga Wilden-Huesgen at the Academy of Music at Cologne, and is the prize winner in many national and international competitions. As a soloist, with diverse casts of chamber music, as well as …

Shel at Arvada Center For The Arts & Humanities (24 Jul 15) with Time for Three

theMandolinTuner Events calendar automatically fetches interesting mandolin concerts and workshops and is a nice and quick way to select a mandolin event to attend.

Here is a nice one!

theMandolinTuner is now available on Flipboard

Almost all articles of theMandolinTuner can now be found in Flipboard, the popular social-network aggregation, magazine-format mobile app localized in more than 20 languages.

Flipboard collects content from social media and other sources, presents it in magazine format, and allows users to "flip" through their social-networking feeds and feeds from websites.

Flipboard is a fun way to read articles and view videos, so give it a try!

Missed a previous Issue?

Now all previous issues of theMandolinTuner Journal are available online!

A dedicated page in theMandolinTuner.com collects automatically all Journal issues and presents them in a nice list.

Cool, isn't? I sure like these automations!

I hope you've enjoyed this latest issue of theMandolinTuner Journal. There are definitely more to come soon...

Cheers!

- Chris with http://www.themandolintuner.com