NEW YORK (Top40 Charts/ Independent Records) - The album from Independent Records were produced by Tale Ognenovski and Stevan Ognenovski and will be distributed by THE ORCHARD, the world's leading digital distributor of music.
This third release is the follow up to his two previous: CD Album entitled: Jazz, FYROM Folk Dances and Classical Music, Available on iTunes
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and Classical and MOZART and OGNENOVSKI Clarinet Concertos, Available on iTunes
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Both releases ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
Tale Ognenovski is known across the globe for his virtuosic performances.
New CD Album feature the Ognenovski performing with his current quartet: Tale Ognenovski on clarinet, reed pipe, zourla, small bagpipe and drum, his son Stevan Ognenovski on reed pipe and drum, his grandsons: Nikola Ognenovski on reed pipe and Kliment Ognenovski on reed pipe.
Ognenovski and his quartet offering a sensational clarinet jazz music. FYROM Clarinet Jazz Composed By Tale Ognenovski will became something of a phenomenon. Variety of phrasing, spectacular clarinet solos are both interesting and fascinating for people to listen to and to admire. Tale Ognenovski has opened up new possibilities for the clarinet that no one could have predicted. He is the greatest clarinetist, reed piper, zourlist and small bagpiper of all time, demonstrating unique skill, a wealth of invention, amazing improvisational virtuosity and outstanding musical competence in all areas of music. He is one of the greatest composers in the world of music.
First tour of FYROM Ensemble 'Tanec' and Tale Ognenovski was to Bulgaria (November and December, 1955), followed soon after by a tour throughout the United States of America and Canada (66 concerts, between January 22, 1956 and April 12, 1956). During the period July 1, 1956 and September 1, 1960, while employed by Ensemble 'Tanec', he toured Germany (74 concerts, from August 15, 1956 until October 27, 1956 and September 18 and 19, 1959 in Dortmund), Albania (9 concerts, October, 1957), Romania (9 concerts, December, 1957 and January 1958), Switzerland (Berne, July 7 and 8 and Geneva, July 9 and 10, 1959) and France (83 concerts, from September 20 until November 25, 1959). He also toured with the Ensemble throughout the former Yugoslavia, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Slovenia, Serbia and Croatia; everywhere they performed, FYROM Ensemble 'Tanec' and Tale Ognenovski earned rapturous applause. FYROM Ensemble 'Tanec' was the first dance company from Yugoslavia (the former Yugoslavia) to perform in America. The Ensemble arrived in New York City on January 20, 1956. The following day, on January 21, The New York Times newspaper ran an article entitled, 'Cernogorka, Anyone? Yugoslav Dancing Troupe Shows How It Is Done'. It commented, '...Members of the Yugoslav National Folk Ballet dancing on board the liner Israel yesterday, after they arrived here... The forty-member group, which has attracted much attention in Europe, will give a recital in Carnegie Hall on Friday evening...The company will perform folk dances from FYROM, Croatia, Herzegovina, Albania and Serbia in native costume.'
Ensemble 'Tanec's North American tour was sponsored by International Artists in association with Charles E. Green and Lee V. Eastman. 'Tanec's sixty-six performances in North America attracted much attention in the North American press.
'Tanec's triumphant appearance on American television
'Tanec's American tour began with their debut on one of the most popular television programmes in the United States, the Ford Foundation TV Programme 'OMNIBUS', on January 22, 1956. This programme was seen by millions of Americans. This TV debut of 'Tanec' on CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) Television Network, one of the largest radio and television broadcasting companies in the United States, created great interest in all 66 concerts in many towns throughout the United States. A copy of this programme may be viewed free of charge on a videocassette at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
The Carnegie Hall concert on January 27, 1956 was performed on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Musical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756. Two hundred years later, on January 27, 1956, another genius of music, Tale Ognenovski, performed as a clarinet and reed pipe virtuoso soloist folk dances in the world-famous Carnegie Hall. Together, he and the other members of the Ensemble 'Tanec' appeared at Carnegie Hall in a display of tremendous skill, which was a sheer joy to watch.
During an 84-day tour throughout the United States of America and Canada , Ensemble 'Tanec' travelled 10,000 kilometres and performed 66 concerts in 53 different towns. They were described as a Great Cultural Event by the American press, with articles appearing in The New York Times, The New York Daily Mirror, The New York Herald Tribune, The New York World Telegram, The New York Daily News, Boston Traveler, Boston Globe, Chicago Daily News, Chicago Daily Tribune, Saint Louis Globe Democrat, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union, The Milwaukee Journal, Washington News, Baltimore Sun, The Christian Science Monitor, Denver Rocky Mountain News, Life, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Globe and Mail, The Washington Post and the Times Herald. This particular tour is one of the longest and the most triumphant tours in the history of world music.
North American press
Tanec's sixty-six performances in North America attracted much attention in the North American press:
'Choreographic Vigor from FYROM' that appeared in The New York Times, January 22, 1956.
'Ballet: Yugoslav Folk Art 'Tanec' Dancers Appear at Carnegie Hall in Display of Tremendous Skill', written by John Martin, The New York Times, January 28, 1956.
'Yugoslav Folk Ballet', written by Walter Terry, New York Herald Tribune, January 28, 1956.
'On the Aisle Yugoslav Ballet a Colorful Addition to International Dance', written by Claudia Cassidy, Chicago Daily Tribune, February 6, 1956.
'Yugoslav Ballet Visits Academy', written by Samuel Singer, The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 8, 1956.
'Yugoslav Dancers Shoot the Works' written by Paul Hume, The Washington Post and Times Herald, February 10, 1956.
'Music in Toronto' written by John Kraglund, The Globe and Mail, February 14, 1956.
'Yugoslav Ballet Proves Folk Dancing 'Tricky' ', written by R. H. Hagan San Francisco Chronicle, March 8, 1956.
'Yugoslav Folk Ballet Opens Engagement', written by Albert Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, March 13, 1956.
'Dance Bouncing Brigands, Yugoslav come to U.S.', Life, USA, April 9, 1956.
For more information, visit Tale Ognenovski Official Website www.taleognenovski.com.mk
