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Hora Romagna
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A Tebe Nema
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Cardas
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A native of southwestern Pennsylvania, Jerry
Grcevich is widely regarded as the world’s finest
player of the tamburitza prim, a mandolin-sized
instrument used in the Croatian style of string music
known as tamburitza. A master of all five instruments
traditionally used in tamburitza ensembles—the prim,
brac, tamburitza cello, bagarija and tamburitza
bass—Grcevich can, through multi-track recording,
flawlessly recreate the music of the large ensembles that
flourished throughout the Slavic world in the 19th century,
as on his critically acclaimed 1992 album, New Traditions.
The youngest musician ever inducted into the Tamburitza
Hall of Fame, Grcevich is also a renowned composer whose
works have entered the repertoires of many modern tamburitza
ensembles in the music’s homeland of Croatia and
other parts of the former Yugoslavia. The leader of his
own orchestra since 1993, Grcevich has recorded more than
20 albums. He received a National Heritage Fellowship
award in 2005.
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