Cmaj7 | William Grant Still - Wood Notes (1948) @Cmaj7 | Uploaded August 2022 | Updated October 2024, 26 minutes ago.
Composer: William Grant Still, Jr. (May 11, 1895 – December 3, 1978)
Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Jeter
Score available from Peermusic: issuu.com/peermusicclassical/docs/wood_notes_sc
Still's music is the music that has most often been able to make me teary-eyed, and with the luscious first and third movements, this is definitely one such piece of music (not to leave out the mysterious second and fantastically fun fourth movements).
Inspired by a set of poems by Joseph Mitchell Pilcher, Wood Notes is evocative of nature in the American South. Still commented:
"Wood Notes has a social significance because it is a collaboration between a Southern white man and a Southern-born Negro composer, in which both of the participants were enthused over the project. I liked Mr. Pilcher’s poems as he sent them to me, and wanted to make use of them in music."
00:00 I - Singing River - Moderately Slow
06:42 II - Autumn Night - Lightly
09:27 III - Moon Dusk - Slowly and Expressive
13:49 IV - Whippoorwill's Shoes - Humorously
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Composer: William Grant Still, Jr. (May 11, 1895 – December 3, 1978)
Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Jeter
Score available from Peermusic: issuu.com/peermusicclassical/docs/wood_notes_sc
Still's music is the music that has most often been able to make me teary-eyed, and with the luscious first and third movements, this is definitely one such piece of music (not to leave out the mysterious second and fantastically fun fourth movements).
Inspired by a set of poems by Joseph Mitchell Pilcher, Wood Notes is evocative of nature in the American South. Still commented:
"Wood Notes has a social significance because it is a collaboration between a Southern white man and a Southern-born Negro composer, in which both of the participants were enthused over the project. I liked Mr. Pilcher’s poems as he sent them to me, and wanted to make use of them in music."
00:00 I - Singing River - Moderately Slow
06:42 II - Autumn Night - Lightly
09:27 III - Moon Dusk - Slowly and Expressive
13:49 IV - Whippoorwill's Shoes - Humorously
How I make my videos: github.com/CMajSeven/WorkflowTemplate
Program I develop for this channel: github.com/edwardx999/ScoreProcessor
