I have been so pleased with the feedback I have had from The Lone Ar-ranger! in its original versions. We’re never too old to take on board any constructive criticisms of our work, so this updated arrangement is now based on the newer solo piano version, which gave me the opportunity to tweak the ending slightly, hence the ’2’, and include a few new tunes. The very final tune, just before Rossini’s coda, does have a special relevance to this website - it does seem to provide an appropriately Karelian ’Finnish’!
There is certainly no intention of using the same material twice! It is simply that the piano duo version, which started it all, was available only in its original form. This update now completes the picture, and received its first performance at a WarChild Gala Charity Concert at Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery on Saturday, May 18th, 2002, with Clive Jenkins and myself playing.
Following a number of requests worldwide, I have now uploaded a special non-playing score, which lists, and identifies all the tune fragments used in The Lone Ar-ranger!
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STOP PRESS: Top UK piano-duo, Anne Applin and Geoffrey Pratley, will be using The Lone Ar-ranger! as one of their set pieces in this October’s duet course at Benslow. I have therefore tidied up a few places, as well as dedicating this slightly-tweaked version to the duo. I do hope the other course-members will enjoy playing it, too!