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Johnstone Creations – Popular Piece based on “Strangers in the Night”– this music has been specially produced for Three Cellos. Also with the possibility of being rehearsed/performed by Cello Orchestra or larger cello ensemble.

Download Contents or Instructions:

PDF 1 – All individual cello parts (7 pages in all)

PDF 2 – General Score (7 pages in all)

The tempo indication is – Moderately slow, but flowing

General difficulty of the music – other brief Information:

MEDIUM to DIFFICULT (if played by 3 soloists, ensemble playing more comfortable)

There are many doubts as to the origin of this song. “Strangers in the Night” is a song generally credited to Bert Kaempfert with English lyrics by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder. Kaempfert originally used it under the title “Beddy Bye” as part of the instrumental score for the movie ‘A Man Could Get Killed’. The song was made famous in 1966 by Frank Sinatra. In an interview, Avo Uvezian gave a different account of the story behind Strangers in the Night, stating that he originally composed the song for Frank Sinatra while in New York at the request of a mutual friend who wanted to introduce the two. It is sometimes claimed that Croatian singer Ivo Robić was the original composer of “Strangers in the Night,” and that he sold the rights to Kaempfert after entering it without success in a song contest in Yugoslavia. In 1967 French composer Michel Philippe-Gérard (more commonly known as Philippe-Gérard) established a claim that the melody of “Strangers” was based on his composition “Magic Tango,” which was published in 1953 through Chappells in New York. Royalties from the song were thus frozen until a court in Paris ruled in 1971 against plagiarism, stating that many songs were based on similar constant factors.

Johnstone’s treatment is original in that it treats the three cellists as ensemble musicians within a pop sphere; all parts are vital in this chamber music setting. However, the work should not present many problems for the intermediate and advanced cellists, although many double-stoppings are common throughout. If played by a larger cello ensemble or cello orchestra then take the liberty of playing divisi any or all of the double-stops!

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Welcome to Johnstone-Music! A big Anglo-Spanish web for MUSICIANS and especially CELLISTS – original music scores for orchestral instruments and keyboard. Plus articles, audios, videos, resources, catalogues, news etc. Official web of the professional cellist David Johnstone, principal cello Navarre Symphony Orchestra (Spain), chamber musician and soloist in many premieres. Hundreds of cello arrangements in the web for a symbolic charge per download or for free.

The following have taken his work onboard, sometimes with special collaborations as composer-arranger-performer: the Philadelphia Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi, Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela, Orchestre Nouvelle Generation de Montreal, the Gulbenkian Orchestra (Lisbon), Orchestra da Camera del Locarnese (Suiza), The Zagreb Soloists, the Saint Petersburg Musical Theatre “Zazerkalye” Chamber Orchestra, the Wroclaw Chamber Orchestra Leopoldinum (Poland), Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra (New Zealand), Camerata Cambrensis (Basque country), Ensemble Metamorphosis of Belgrade (Serbia), with Ara Malikian (Non Profit Music Chamber Orchestra – Madrid), and a long etc.. Currently, many courses, conservatoires and music schools, university String departments etc. use his repertoire; there are dozens of his arrangements on ‘You Tube’ …

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