Early Autumn
I'm happy that Mischalina and Alan shared their memories and thoughts and feelings about September. If you are one of our Contributors, I hope you will follow their lead.
One of my favorite songs was written about this time of year by Ralph Burns, the gifted composer, arranger, and pianist who began his career with Woody Herman in the mid-1940s. He and other Herman band members spent Labor Day on the beach in Long Island in 1946. Ralph loved the break so much that he wrote a composition about it called Summer Sequence. The fourth part of this composition contains a beautiful melody, Early Autumn, that Ralph later arranged for the band's new tenor player, Stan Getz.
You may hear these beautiful compositions right now using either Windows Media Player or Crescendo.
1 Comments:
The Woody Herman album (Summer Sequence) is simply amazing. I have been discovering much of this material in my 6th decade on Earth in just the last one. It simply must be promoted more, I think.
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