As if to remind us that Ireland and Scotland are not the only places with rolling, green hills and breathtaking views, Gwyneth Walker’s The Light...
Tag: Celtic
Suilean a’Chloinne (Children's Eyes) (2010)
In 2006, a familiar figure to the Fort Collins Symphony, conductor and violinist Leslie Stewart, approached Scottish-born composer Jennifer Margaret Barker (b. 1965) with a...
Ashokan Farewell (1982/1990)
The sun is sinking low in the sky above Ashokan,The pines and the willows know soon we will part.There’s a whisper in the wind of...
Suite for Strings (1951)
Composers have three choices when creating folk-inspired music: to quote tunes as literally as possible, to adapt them to established forms, or to compose newly...