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| Summer in rural Ohio is a robust time for the plants; gardens grow like crazy, the leaves on the trees are a bright Kelly green. It’s an energetic season for humans, too: picnicking, hiking, boating and fishing, baseball, summer camps, Fourth of July fireworks, county fairs, long, bright days. I ought to know because I lived in rural, north central Ohio for forty-four years before moving to Cincinnati in 1994. In my twenties and early thirties I aimed to express my immediate environs in my music, to wit, Bellville, Ohio, the village where we lived. How I loved Bellville in those days! It was where I met my future wife, where she had grown up, where we fell in love, courted, married and lived for twelve years. It was the village to which we brought home from the Mansfield hospital our two newborns. Music written in and about an Ohio village ought to sound different, I thought, from music written in and about villages in, say, Oregon, Nebraska or Vermont. I sought to imbue my music with the lush verdure of rural Ohio and the sense of abundance that arises from the fertility of topsoil that's eight feet deep! I wanted my music to convey vigorous good health and the feelings that arose from the rolling land around us, a quilt of thick forests and fields of corn, the green leaves and yellow tassels glistening in the sun between frequent and delicious rains. I thought I’d live a long life there, then die and be buried in the Bellville cemetery. But in time we came to feel that we’d exhausted the resources of the place. Twenty-one years ago we moved to Cincinnati so that our children could attend the School for the Creative and Performing Arts. We’ll never exhaust the resources of the Queen City, a richly blessed and generously endowed cultural center which has been very good to me, to us. My Piano Trio #1 is touchstone, a reminder of who we were and where we were in the summer of 1977. To hear the exuberant Mirecourt Trio (violinist Ken Goldsmith, cellist Terry King and pianist John Jensen) superbly playing the “Summer” movement from my Piano Trio #1 “Four Seasons in Bellville,” click here: http://www.sowash.com/ To see a PDF of the score, click here: http://www.sowash.com/ I'd love to know what you think about this music; reply if you're inclined. But please don't feel that you are expected to reply. I'm just glad to share my work in this way. As always, feel free to forward this message to friends who might enjoy it. Perhaps someone who loves canoeing and/or the North Country and/or Scouting? Anyone can be on my little list of recipients for these mpFrees (as I call these musical emails). To sign up, people can email me at rick@sowash.com, |
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