How to Listen to Gourhand’s Energetic “Discussion”
I don’t know how it is where you live, but here in the Chicago suburbs the weather has been glorious for February! We’ve been able to take walks outside, open the windows a bit,...
Chamber music / Music appreciation
by Lori Archer Sutherland · Published February 27, 2017 · Last modified September 30, 2021
I don’t know how it is where you live, but here in the Chicago suburbs the weather has been glorious for February! We’ve been able to take walks outside, open the windows a bit,...
Chamber music / Music appreciation
by Lori Archer Sutherland · Published July 9, 2015 · Last modified September 30, 2021
As I was deciding what to write about next, my husband suggested I write about one of my own pieces. Namely the piece Proclamation, as it came about thanks to O Filii et Filiae,...
Chamber music / Choral music / Music appreciation
by Lori Archer Sutherland · Published June 21, 2015 · Last modified September 30, 2021
We’re traveling to the Renaissance choral world for a bit for “O Filii et Filiae” by Volckmar Leisring. I’ve spent a fair amount of time with this piece, so it seems fitting to talk...
Chamber music / Music appreciation
by Lori Archer Sutherland · Published January 24, 2015 · Last modified September 30, 2021
In mid-January, my thoughts inevitably turn to spring. I don’t mind winter to some extent (and this year has been so much better than last year’s Big Bucket of Suck), but spring is my...
Chamber music / Orchestral music / Wind band music
by Lori Archer Sutherland · Published September 9, 2013 · Last modified September 30, 2021
Time for more Hindemith! I’d mentioned in my previous post that Hindemith based much of Symphonic Metamorphosis on piano duets by Carl Maria von Weber. The march for Hindemith’s fourth movement comes from 8...