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Chopsticks Variations - Variation 1 Round
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1 Variation 1 - Round  
2 Variation 2 - Andante  
3 Variation 3 - Allegretto  
4 Variation 4 - Rhymes  
5 Variation 5 - Andantino  
6 Variation 6 - Ragtime  
7 Variation 7 - Boogie Woogie  
8 Variation 8 - Inventionette  
9 Variation 9 - Adagio  
10 Variation 10 - Allegro  
11 Variation 11 - Barcarole  
12 Variation 12 - Walking  
13 Variation 13 - Melody  
14 Variation 14 - Finale  
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The Chopsticks Variations has long been a favorite in print worldwide among teachers and students, who find it both unique and fun to play. Margo Guryan's unique version should be experienced by all listeners.

"I never thought that anyone could do anything with 'Chopsticks,' but Margo Guryan has done it remarkably in a charming set of variations on the famous tune: clever, witty, at times tender and elegant, at other times punning and ribald. Every variation has some delightfully surprising touch. A little American Mikrokosmos and much more fun!" - Gunther Schuller

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  • New Margo Guryan tribute album features Clairo, Empress Of, TOPS, Frankie Cosmos, & more / STEREOGUM
    Posted At: July 24, 2024 12:00 AM
    Born in a New York suburb, songwriter extraordinaire Margo Guryan ironically enough grew up to create one of the most exquisite and appealing, if little heard, one-shot "California" (although actually recorded on the East Coast) soft-pop gems of the kaleidoscopic late '60s (copies have fetched upwards of 200 dollars on the collector's circuit), before gradually disappearing from the scene.Despite the brief ...
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  • Margo Guryan - Words And Music. Lost treasures from a reluctant performer / UNCUT
    Posted At: June 28, 2024 12:00 AM
    UNCUT's Alastair McKay writes…..During the last 10 or so years of her life, while Margo Guryan was working as a piano teacher, she was given several opportunities to reflect on a career in which her brilliance went unnoticed. There was no bitterness in Guryan’s responses; if anything, she evinced a sense of mild amusement that her demo recordings were being excavated decades after the release of her 1968 al...
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  • Nora O'Connor is comforted by Margo Guryan / TALKHOUSE
    Posted At: October 6, 2022 12:00 AM
    Nora O’Connor is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist based in Chicago. Her latest record, My Heart, is out October 7, 2022.For TALKHOUSE - Role Models:  A tribute to sunshine pop and the late artist.Nora O’Connor writes…I’m not a scholar on Margo Guryan — or any artist, or “anything,” really. I know a little bit about a lot of stuff; that’s what you get with me.Carl Newman of The New Pornographers int...
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  • Bedouine Shares cover of Margo Guryan's 'The Hum' / Under the Radar Mag
    Posted At: April 17, 2020 12:00 AM

    A Song Revived From Watergate to Self-Isolation, via Spacebomb While Margo Guryan's 1972 "The Hum" was written about President Nixon's tape machine during the Watergate scandal, Bedouine (aka Azniv Korkejian) has recycled the song and applied it to today's COVID-19 quarantine. This new release is a direct homage to the original but highlights elements of the Trump administration, an unpredictable eco...
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  • Margo Guryan didn't fade away. She escaped / HUFFPOST Priscilla Frank
    Posted At: May 8, 2018 12:00 AM

    She was a rising pop star in the 1960s. Today the 80-year-old looks back on a music industry she never wanted to join. And an anti-Bush anthem everyone ignored. On Valentine's Day, I was in my apartment perusing Spotify for some hot and heavy mood music when the algorithm ― perhaps knowing me better than myself ― recommended a 2007 song called "16 Words" by Margo Guryan. I was hankering f...
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  • Margo Guryan: The Chopsticks Variations. 14 variations on the piano favorite among teachers and students
    Posted At: September 29, 2009 12:00 AM

    Margo Guryan's The Chopsticks Variations has long been a favorite in print worldwide among teachers and students, who find it both unique and fun to play. The classic piano piece Chopsticks appeared simultaneously in London, Hamburg and St. Petersburg in 1877. Popular theory attributes the authorship to Euphemia Allen, written under the pseudonym of Arthur de Lulli, who was only 16 when she comp...
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