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52-562: Worrell is a mainly English surname. Notable people with this surname include: Bernie Worrell (1944–2016), American keyboardist and composer Christopher Worrell (disambiguation) , multiple people Cameron Worrell (born 1979), American football player David Worrell (born 1978), Irish football player Eric Worrell (1924–1987), Australian herpetologist Ernest P. Worrell , fictional character by Jim Varney Frank Worrell (1924–1967), West Indies cricketer and Jamaican senator after whom

104-415: A Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra , and Exsultate, jubilate , a de facto concerto for soprano voice. They all exploit and explore the characteristics of the solo instrument(s). Haydn wrote an important trumpet concerto and a Sinfonia Concertante for violin, cello, oboe and bassoon as well as two horn concertos. Haydn also wrote a concerto for double bass but has since been lost to history in

156-579: A cello or a woodwind instrument , and concerti grossi for a group of soloists. The first keyboard concertos , such as George Frideric Handel 's organ concertos and Johann Sebastian Bach 's harpsichord concertos , were written around the same time. In the second half of the 18th century, the piano became the most used keyboard instrument , and composers of the Classical Era such as Joseph Haydn , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven each wrote several piano concertos , and, to

208-581: A cello concerto , a piano concerto and a double concerto for violin and cello ), Karol Szymanowski (two violin concertos and a "Symphonie Concertante" for piano), and Richard Strauss (two horn concertos, a violin concerto, Don Quixote —a tone poem that features the cello as a soloist—and among later works, an oboe concerto ). However, in the first decades of the 20th century, several composers such as Debussy , Schoenberg , Berg , Hindemith , Stravinsky , Prokofiev and Bartók started experimenting with ideas that were to have far-reaching consequences for

260-422: A child, made arrangements for keyboard and orchestra of four sonatas by now little-known composers. Then he arranged three sonata movements by Johann Christian Bach . By the time he was twenty, Mozart was able to write concerto ritornelli that gave the orchestra admirable opportunity for asserting its character in an exposition with some five or six sharply contrasted themes, before the soloist enters to elaborate on

312-447: A concerto for a rock band . Concertos from previous ages have remained a conspicuous part of the repertoire for concert performances and recordings. Less common has been the previously common practice of the composition of concertos by a performer to be performed personally, though the practice has continued via certain composer-performers such as Daniil Trifonov . The Italian word concerto , meaning accord or gathering, derives from

364-484: A concerto for wordless coloratura soprano by Reinhold Glière . As a result, almost all classical instruments now have a concertante repertoire. Among the works of the prolific composer Alan Hovhaness may be noted Prayer of St. Gregory for trumpet and strings, though it is not a concerto in the usual sense of the term. In the later 20th century the concerto tradition was continued by composers such as Maxwell Davies , whose series of Strathclyde Concertos exploit some of

416-509: A full concerto, though the distinction has never been formalised and many Concertinos are still longer than the original Baroque concertos. During the Romantic era the cello became increasingly used as a concerto instrument; though the violin and piano remained the most frequently used. Beethoven contributed to the repertoire of concertos for more than one soloist with a Triple Concerto for piano, violin, cello and orchestra while later in

468-482: A lesser extent, violin concertos, and concertos for other instruments. In the Romantic Era , many composers, including Niccolò Paganini , Felix Mendelssohn , Frédéric Chopin , Robert Schumann , Johannes Brahms , Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff , continued to write solo concertos, and, more exceptionally, concertos for more than one instrument; 19th century concertos for instruments other than

520-668: A neoclassical rejection of specific features which typically characterized the concerto form during the Baroque or Romantic periods. Several of them achieved this objective by incorporating various musical elements from the realm of jazz within the structure of the concerto. Included in this group were: Aaron Copland ( Concerto for Piano , 1926), Maurice Ravel ( Concerto for the Left Hand , 1929), Igor Stravinsky ( Ebony Concerto for clarinet and jazz band, 1945) and George Gershwin ( Concerto in F , 1925). Still others called upon

572-663: Is a documentary film about Worrell's life, music and impact. At AllMovie , critic Mark Deming wrote that the film "profiles his life and career while also examining how even a genius has to find a way to make a living". Concerto The concerto originated as a genre of vocal music in the late 16th century: the instrumental variant appeared around a century later, when Italians such as Giuseppe Torelli and Arcangelo Corelli started to publish their concertos. A few decades later, Venetian composers, such as Antonio Vivaldi , had written hundreds of violin concertos , while also producing solo concertos for other instruments such as

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624-514: Is deciding what treatment he wants. I will delete any more messages that do not respect his decision(s). Judie Worrell issued a statement on Facebook on June 16 to friends and family that "I was just told that Bernie is now headed 'Home'." She encouraged people close to Worrell to "visit him to say your goodbyes" and added that he is too ill to speak on the phone or text. Bernie Worrell died at his home in Everson, Washington , on June 24, 2016, at

676-632: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Bernie Worrell George Bernard Worrell, Jr. (April 19, 1944 – June 24, 2016) was an American keyboardist and record producer best known as a founding member of the Parliament-Funkadelic collective. In later years, he also worked with acts such as Talking Heads , Bill Laswell , and Jack Bruce . He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. Worrell

728-509: Is linked by the twelve-tone serial method. In the 20th century, particularly after the Second World War, the cello enjoyed an unprecedented popularity. As a result, its concertante repertoire caught up with those of the piano and the violin both in terms of quantity and quality. The 20th century also witnessed a growth of the concertante repertoire of instruments, some of which had seldom or never been used in this capacity, and even

780-768: The Late Show with David Letterman launched in August 1993, playing lead synthesizer. Worrell departed in November when the orchestra added a horn section. In 1994, Worrell appeared on the Red Hot Organization 's compilation album, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool . The album, meant to raise awareness and funds in support of the AIDS epidemic in the African-American community, was heralded as "Album of

832-624: The ARP Pro Soloist as well. Worrell played synthesizer and digital keyboard on P funk songs throughout the 1970s, most notably " Mothership Connection (Star Child) " and " Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker) " from Mothership Connection (1975) and " Aqua Boogie " from Motor Booty Affair (1978). When Parliament-Funkadelic took a hiatus from touring in the early 1980s, Worrell

884-689: The Black Rock Coalition and featuring musicians with whom Worrell has worked over his career, occurred on April 4 and 5, 2016. On May 9, Worrell's wife Judie posted an update on his condition on his Facebook page: As of Friday, Bernie can barely speak. Tumor has grown and Recurrent laryngeal nerve is pressing on vocal cord, paralyzing it. Treatment starts Tuesday to (hopefully) shrink tumor before it gets to other vocal cord and/or shuts down breathing. VERY difficult time for him. I am updating y'all because many asked BUT do not consider this an invitation to bombard us with treatment ideas. Bernie

936-674: The Juilliard School and received a degree from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1967. As a college student, Worrell played with a group called Chubby & The Turnpikes; this ensemble eventually evolved into Tavares . After meeting George Clinton , leader of a Plainfield-based doo wop group called The Parliaments , Worrell moved with Clinton, The Parliaments and their backing band, The Funkadelics, to Detroit, Michigan ; thereafter, both groups became collectively known as Parliament-Funkadelic . During

988-514: The Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola, and orchestra. Beethoven wrote only one violin concerto that remained obscure until revealed as a masterpiece in a performance by violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim on 27 May 1844. C.P.E. Bach's keyboard concertos contain some virtuosic solo writing. Some of them have movements that run into one another without a break, and there are frequent cross-movement thematic references. Mozart, as

1040-411: The double bass (by composers like Eduard Tubin or Peter Maxwell Davies ) and cor anglais (like those by MacMillan and Aaron Jay Kernis ), but also folk instruments (such as Tubin's concerto for Balalaika , Serry 's Concerto in C Major for Bassetti Accordion , or the concertos for Harmonica by Villa-Lobos and Malcolm Arnold ), and even Deep Purple 's Concerto for Group and Orchestra ,

1092-833: The ripieno , functioning as a continuo keyboard accompaniment. Later, the concerto approached its modern form, in which the concertino usually reduces to a single solo instrument playing with (or against) an orchestra. The main composers of concertos of the baroque were Tommaso Albinoni , Antonio Vivaldi (e.g., published in L'estro armonico , La stravaganza , Six Violin Concertos, Op. 6 , Twelve Concertos, Op. 7 , Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione , Six Flute Concertos, Op. 10 , Six Concertos, Op. 11 and Six Violin Concertos, Op. 12 ), Georg Philipp Telemann , Johann Sebastian Bach , George Frideric Handel , Pietro Locatelli , Jean-Marie Leclair , Giuseppe Tartini , Francesco Geminiani and Johann Joachim Quantz . The concerto

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1144-444: The surname Worrell . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Worrell&oldid=1196158405 " Categories : Surnames English-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

1196-602: The "Parliafunkadelicment Thang" production company, and many of his most notable performances were recorded with Bootsy's Rubber Band , Parlet , The Brides of Funkenstein and The Horny Horns . Worrell recorded a 1978 solo album, All the Woo in the World , with the musical backing of P-Funk's members. While funk musicians traditionally utilized electric keyboards, such as the Hammond organ and Fender Rhodes electric piano , Worrell

1248-411: The 1970s the same group of musicians separately recorded under the names Parliament and Funkadelic , (among several others), but toured as P-Funk. Worrell played grand piano , Wurlitzer electric piano , Hohner Clavinet , Hammond B3 organ , ARP String Ensemble and Moog synthesizer , co-wrote, and wrote horn and rhythm arrangements on hit recordings for both groups and other associated bands under

1300-452: The 19th century such as the clarinet , viola and French horn . In the second half of the 20th century and onwards into the 21st a great many composers have continued to write concertos, including Alfred Schnittke , György Ligeti , Dimitri Shostakovich , Philip Glass and James MacMillan among many others. An interesting feature of this period is the proliferation of concerti for less usual instruments, including orchestral ones such as

1352-460: The Baroque period, before the invention of the piano, keyboard concertos were comparatively rare, with the exception of the organ and some harpsichord concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach . The concertos of the sons of Johann Sebastian Bach , such as C. P. E. Bach , are perhaps the best links between those of the Baroque period and those of the Classical era. It is conventional to state that

1404-692: The Frank Worrell Trophy is named Lola Carrier Worrell (1870-1929) composer and doll designer Mark Worrell (born 1983), American baseball player Peter Worrell (born 1977), Canadian ice hockey player Tim Worrell (born 1967), American baseball player Todd Worrell (born 1959), American baseball player Trix Worrell (born 1960), English writer and director Worrell Sterling (born 1965), English football player See also [ edit ] Worrall (surname) Worrell (disambiguation) Worrall (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

1456-512: The Latin verb concertare , which indicates a competition or battle. Compositions were for the first time indicated as concertos in the title of a music print when the Concerti by Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli  [ scores ] were published in 1587. In the 17th century, sacred works for voices and orchestra were typically called concertos, as reflected by J. S. Bach 's usage of

1508-678: The Seattle-based Khu.éex' project fusing traditional Tlingit music with funk, jazz, and experimental music. The project includes Preston Singletary , Skerik , Stanton Moore , Captain Raab and Randall Dunn among others. In 2015, Worrell appeared in the movie Ricki and the Flash as the keyboard player in Meryl Streep 's band. The movie reunited Worrell with director Jonathan Demme, who had directed Stop Making Sense . Worrell

1560-506: The US Album Rock Tracks chart hit " Rev It Up ", which reached number seven and appeared in the movie Something Wild . He worked with Jerry Harrison on his other releases also. From the late 1980s through the 2010s, Worrell recorded extensively with Bill Laswell , including Sly and Robbie 's Laswell-produced Rhythm Killers and the 1985 Fela Kuti album Army Arrangement . Worrell performed with Gov't Mule . Through

1612-642: The Year" by Time magazine. Worrell joined the rock group Black Jack Johnson , with Mos Def , Will Calhoun , Doug Wimbish and Dr. Know . He appears with the band on Mos Def's 2004 release The New Danger . Worrell joined forces with bass legend Les Claypool , guitarist Buckethead and drummer Bryan Mantia to form the group Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains . In 2009, he joined longtime Parliament-Funkadelic guitarist DeWayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight , bassist Melvin Gibbs and drummer J.T. Lewis to form

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1664-487: The age of 72. His wife issued a statement that "Bernie transitioned Home to The Great Spirit. Rest in peace, my love—you definitely made the world a better place. Till we meet again, vaya con Dios." Following his death, guitarist Buckethead created a 21.5 minute long tribute song: 'Space Viking'. Buckethead published it on his 'Pike' series, as part of Pike 245. The song was captioned: "To Bernie Worrell, The Greatest Music Maker Of All". Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth

1716-414: The appearance of special guests at live performances, including Bootsy Collins, Tina Weymouth , Chris Frantz , Jimmy Destri , Mike Watt , Rah Digga and Gary Lucas . In 2012 and 2013, Worrell played a series of concerts with guitarist Steve Kimock , bassist Andy Hess , and vocalist-percussionist Camille Armstrong. Kimock's son John Morgan Kimock played drums for the group in 2013. Worrell worked on

1768-585: The band SociaLybrium. Their album For You/For Us/For All was released on Livewired Music in January 2010. Worrell appeared in the 2004 documentary film Moog with synthesizer pioneer Bob Moog and several other Moog synthesizer musicians. In 2011, he toured with Bootsy Collins , another major figure from Parliament-Funkadelic. From 2011 through 2015, Worrell performed with his group, the Bernie Worrell Orchestra . The band became known for

1820-575: The beginning of the 21st century, he became a visible member of the jam band scene, performing in many large summer music festivals , sometimes billed as Bernie Worrell and the Woo Warriors . He appeared on several Jack Bruce albums, including A Question of Time , Cities of the Heart , Monkjack and More Jack than God . Worrell was a founding member of the CBS Orchestra when

1872-464: The century, Brahms wrote a Double Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra. Many of the concertos written in the early 20th century belong more to the late Romantic school, hence modernistic movement. Masterpieces were written by Edward Elgar (a violin concerto and a cello concerto), Sergei Rachmaninoff and Nikolai Medtner (four and three piano concertos, respectively), Jean Sibelius (a violin concerto), Frederick Delius (a violin concerto,

1924-692: The concerto as a musical form. Beside more or less radical effects on musical language, they led to a redefinition of the concept of virtuosity that included new and extended instrumental techniques and a focus on previously neglected aspects of sound such as pitch , timbre and dynamics . In some cases, they also brought about a new approach to the role of soloists and their relation to the orchestra. Two great innovators of early 20th-century music, Schoenberg and Stravinsky , both wrote violin concertos. The material in Schoenberg's concerto, like that in Berg's ,

1976-536: The first movements of concertos from the Classical period onwards follow the structure of sonata form . Final movements are often in rondo form, as in J.S. Bach's E Major Violin Concerto . Mozart wrote five violin concertos, all in 1775. They show a number of influences, notably Italian and Austrian . Several passages have leanings towards folk music , as manifested in Austrian serenades . Mozart also wrote

2028-569: The great fire of Esterhaza in 1779. In the 19th century, the concerto as a vehicle for virtuosic display flourished, and concertos became increasingly complex and ambitious works. Whilst performances of typical concertos in the baroque era lasted about ten minutes, those by Beethoven could last half an hour or longer. The term concertino (composition) , or the German Konzertstuck ("Concert Piece") began to be used to designate smaller pieces not considered large enough to be considered

2080-846: The instruments less familiar as soloists. In addition, the 20th century gave rise to several composers who experimented further by showcasing a variety of nontraditional orchestral instruments within the center of the orthodox concerto form. Included within this group are: Paul Hindemith ( Concerto for Trautonium and String Orchestra in 1931), Andre Jolivet ( Concerto of Ondes Martenot in 1947), Heitor Villa-Lobos ( Concerto for Harmonica in 1956), John Serry Sr. ( Concerto in C Major for Bassetti Accordion in 1966), Astor Piazzolla ( Concerto for Bandoneon , String Orchestra and Percussion , "Aconcagua" in 1979), Peter Maxwell Davies ( Concerto for Piccolo and Orchestra, Op. 182 in 1996), and Tan Dun ( Concerto for Water Percussion and Orchestra in 1998) Other composers of this era adopted

2132-430: The material. Of his 27 piano concertos , the last 22 are highly appreciated. A dozen cataloged keyboard concertos are attributed to Haydn, of which only three or four are considered genuine. C. P. E. Bach wrote five flute concertos and two oboe concertos. Mozart wrote five horn concertos, with two for flute, oboe (later rearranged for flute and known as Flute Concerto No. 2), clarinet , and bassoon , four for horn ,

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2184-511: The orchestra itself to function as the primary virtuosic force within the concerto form. This approach was adopted by Bela Bartok in his Concerto for Orchestra as well by other composers of the period including: Walter Piston (1933), Zoltan Kodaly (1939), Michael Tippet (1962) and Elliott Carter (1969). Concertos with concert band include: 20th century: Baroque era: 20th century: Baroque era: 20th century: Baroque era: Classical era: Early Romantic traits can be found in

2236-490: The piano, violin and cello remained comparatively rare however. In the first half of the 20th century, concertos were written by, among others, Maurice Ravel , Edward Elgar , Richard Strauss , Sergei Prokofiev , George Gershwin , Heitor Villa-Lobos , Joaquín Rodrigo and Béla Bartók , the latter also composing a concerto for orchestra , that is without soloist. During the 20th century concertos appeared by major composers for orchestral instruments which had been neglected in

2288-516: The title "concerto" for many of the works that we know as cantatas . The term "concerto" was initially used to denote works that involved voices and instruments in which the instruments had independent parts—as opposed to the Renaissance common practice in which instruments that accompanied voices only doubled the voice parts. Examples of this earlier form of concerto include Giovanni Gabrieli 's "In Ecclesiis" or Heinrich Schütz 's "Saul, Saul,

2340-404: The way music is written and, in some cases, performed. Some of these innovations include a more frequent use of modality , the exploration of non-western scales , the development of atonality and neotonality , the wider acceptance of dissonances , the invention of the twelve-tone technique of composition and the use of polyrhythms and complex time signatures . These changes also affected

2392-532: Was a judge for the 12th, 13th, and 14th annual Independent Music Awards. During May 2016, the New England Conservatory of Music gave Worrell, who studied at the school until 1967, an honorary Doctor of Music degree. In January 2016, Worrell was diagnosed with a "mild form" of prostate cancer, stage-four liver cancer and stage-four lung cancer . He relocated from New Jersey, his long-time home, to Bellingham, Washington . A tribute and benefit concert to raise funds for Worrell's cancer treatment, produced by

2444-563: Was described by journalist Jon Pareles as "the kind of sideman who is as influential as some bandleaders," with his use of synthesizers particularly impactful on funk and hip hop . Worrell was born in Long Branch, New Jersey , and grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey , where his family moved when he was eight. A musical prodigy , he began formal piano lessons by age three and wrote a concerto at age eight. He went on to study at

2496-492: Was intended as a composition typical of the Italian style of the time, and all the composers were studying how to compose in the Italian fashion ( all'Italiana ). The Baroque concerto was mainly for a string instrument ( violin , viola , cello , seldom viola d'amore or harp ) or a wind instrument ( flute , recorder , oboe , bassoon , horn , or trumpet ,). Bach also wrote a concerto for two violins and orchestra. During

2548-618: Was later invited to perform with Talking Heads as part of their 2002 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 1983, Worrell provided keyboard parts for Mtume 's hit song " Juicy Fruit ". Worrell co-produced Fred Schneider 's 1984 solo album Fred Schneider and the Shake Society and played keyboards and synthesizers on some of the album's tracks. In 1987 he appeared on the critically acclaimed solo release Casual Gods by Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads . The LP contained

2600-550: Was recruited, along with other musicians from differing musical genres such as guitarist Adrian Belew , to perform and record with Talking Heads . Worrell's experience and feel for different arrangements enhanced the overall sound of the band. Though he never officially joined Talking Heads, he was a de facto member of the group for most of the '80s: appearing on one of their studio albums, several solo albums, two tours and performing in their 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense . Talking Heads officially disbanded in 1991. Worrell

2652-658: Was the second recipient of the Moog synthesizer created by Bob Moog . Mainly responsible for creating Parliament's futuristic sound, Worrell's use of the Minimoog bass on the Parliament song " Flash Light ", on 1977's Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome , heavily influenced the sound of R&B music and served as a bridge between American R&B and the insurgence of new wave , new age and techno . He used

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2704-451: Was verfolgst du mich". The concerto began to take its modern shape in the late- Baroque period, beginning with the concerto grosso form developed by Arcangelo Corelli . Corelli's concertino group was two violins, a cello and basso continuo. In J. S. Bach's Fifth Brandenburg Concerto , for example, the concertino is a flute, a violin, and a harpsichord; although the harpsichord is a featured solo instrument, it also sometimes plays with

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