The Festival Classics series is a progressively graded collection of solos with piano accompaniment. The books contain a mix of transcriptions of familiar classics along with solos written
"In Seaspray, Barefoot" imagines a young person running down from sand dunes into the ocean and being chased by the waves back up into the dunes, in a playful dance. This arrangement includes a guitar
Diverging from the classical-romantic tradition, Brahms used the key of E-flat major here not to express the heroic or monumental, but to obtain lyrical, chiefly restrained characterizations. The