Orchestral music / Potpourri

Marches Madness: Off With His Head! : Deceptive Cadence : NPR

by Lori Archer Sutherland · Published March 7, 2013 · Updated March 26, 2019

I hadn’t planned on posting again so soon, but NPR gave me a reason:

Marches Madness: Off With His Head! : Deceptive Cadence : NPR.

I love how they annotated the actual video. They talk about some of the same things I do: theme, which instruments are highlighted, etc.

So enjoy a different sort of “bonus feature” than what I usually post. I love Symphonie Fantastique – there are some wicked clarinet parts in the last movement 🙂 I know somewhere I have a funny quote copied down about this piece, but darned if I know where it is (and Google hasn’t helped). If I find it, I’ll make sure to update this post.

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Lori Archer Sutherland

Lori Archer Sutherland earned a Bachelor of Music in Theory and Composition degree from the Ohio State University and a Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She composes, performs, and teaches clarinet. She plays bass clarinet with the Crystal Lake Community Band and the Woodstock City Band, clarinet with Winds Off the Lake Woodwind Quintet, and is the founder and organizer of the Knock on Wood Clarinet Choir, where she plays an even bigger clarinet. Check out her site and podcast at tonaldiversions.com