Product Description
Spring in Buck's County is a 3 Movement composition for piano, flute, alto flute and piccolo.
Notes from the Composer:
Spring in Bucks County by Godfrey Schroth, is a challenge to both
the pianist and flutist, who must play three instruments. The Suite was
premiered at the Philadelphia Art Museum in 1974. The opening section
has three contrasting dance episodes titled Equinoctial Dances, with a reprise of the first and a coda. River Willows employs the alto flute and evokes youthful nocturnal rambles along the Delaware River. The last movement, the Fields of May,
begins at dawn and has many changing moods, with a central, fantastic,
syncopated march, which uses the piccolo. There are allusions to earlier
themes, a restless surging theme leading to a climactic piccolo passage
and subsiding to a nostalgic Epilogue, and a reluctant farewell to
spring. - G. Schroth
Hear "Spring in Buck's County" on YouTube:
Movement 1: Equinoctial Dances https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDdf6obMHAc
Movement 2: River Willows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj3c6Ouvp9E
Movement 3: Fields of May https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8a8mvEqWlA
About the Composer:
Godfrey Schroth (1927-2017) was a pupil of the noted American composer, Paul Creston. Mr. Schroth first came to attention in 1959, when his Piano Quintet won the LADO Foundation Prize for chamber music, premiered in New York by the Phoenix Quartet. Many published choral and organ pieces followed and A Solemn English Mass was the first vernacular setting sung at St. Patrick's Cathedral. In 1973, on a grant from the NJ Arts Council, he wrote Rocky Mountain Serenade for Strings, Percussion and Guitar for the Pueblo (Colorado) Arts Festival. In 1979 he completed Green Graves and Violets, a vocal chamber cycle, which celebrated the writings of a forgotten Civil War poetess, the tragic Ellen Howarth. The Mystic Trumpeter, a work for chorus and wind instruments on a Walt Whitman text, was commissioned by the Pro Arte Chorale and received its premiere performance in March 1999.
Mr. Schroths compositions span a period of more than 40 years, and show the influence that travel and poetry had on his writings. Godfreys lifelong dedication to music and piano education led to his inclusion in the International Dictionary of Musicians and recognition in Whos Who in American Music.
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