![]() ![]() ![]() Programs, Four Scenes after Picasso - Concerto No. The Creatures in Room 642 for the Dayton Symphony Orchestra's Young People's University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music, Yesterday's News - a Satire for Jazz Band and Actors for the Jazz Band at the ![]() ![]() To work in a wide variety of styles and sizes including the Violin ConcertoĬan This Be Man? - a Music Drama for Violin and Orchestraįor Alexander Kerr, Concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam,ģ Divertimenti for Solo Violin for the young virtuoso Eric Bates, Since leaving the Cincinnati Symphony in 1997 Proto has continued Ruggerio Ricci, Doc Severinsen, Richard Stoltzman and Lucero Tena. Sherill Milnes, Gerry Mulligan, Roberta Peters, François Rabbath, He has written music for such artists as Daveīrubeck, Eddie Daniels, Duke Ellington, Cleo Laine, Benjamin Luxon, The result is as exhilarating as it is natural. Working in such an all-encompassing musicalĪtmosphere, both as a player and a composer, has resulted in Proto beingĪble to become as comfortable with the large orchestra as he is with a His Fantasy on the Saints, An American Overture and Variations on Dixie have become standards in the Orchestral Pops repertoire. commissioned and recorded by Doc Severinsen recently Twice, while his Carmen Fantasy for Trumpet and Orchestra Percussion and Orchestra, Hamabe No Arashi and the Musicīat has been performed over 500 times and has been recorded Orchestra), Jesus Lopes-Cobos (The New Seasons for Tuba, Orchestra), Michael Gielen (Dialogue for Synclavier and Schippers (Concerto in One Movement for Violin, Double Bass and Orchestra itself on its subscription concerts, including Max Rudolf Him to compose works to feature various principal players, visiting guest soloists or the Over 20 large works and countless smaller pieces andĪrrangements composed for Young Peoples concerts, Popsįrank was appointed Composer-in-Residence by Thomas Schippers in 1972 and during his tenure with the orchestra every music director commissioned Orchestra resulted in a 30 year stay in which the orchestra premiered Opportunities given him by the CSO to compose and arrange for the Where, with the help and encouragement of CSO Music Directors Max RudolfĪnd Thomas Schippers, he began to bloom as a composer. In 1966 he joined the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra He also played with various Broadway and Off-Broadway showīands and in many of the jazz clubs that were a mainstay of New York Worldwide by scores of bassists, and has entered the standard doubleĭuring the early 1960s Frank earned his living as aįree-lance bassist in New York City, performing with such organizationsĪs the Symphony of the Air, American Symphony, the Robert Shaw Chorale,Īnd as one of the original members the Princeton Chamber It has subsequently been performed hundreds of times, Sonata 1963 for Double Bass and Piano was his firstĬomposition. He programmed a baroque work, a romantic piece, andĪn avant-garde composition using electronic tape, but he wanted aĬontemporary composition in a more American style. Typical bass players problem - there was very little literatureįor the instrument. For his graduation recital in 1963, Proto confronted the As a student of David Walter Frank performed the first soloĭouble bass recital in the history of the school. Manhattan School of Music where he earned his bachelor's and master'sĭegrees. He began piano studies at the age of 7 and theĭouble bass at the age of 16 while a student at the High School of Frank Proto was born in Brooklyn, New York. ![]()
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