Theodora Dutton: On a Southern Balcony
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Channel: PSearPianist · 2018 · Music
Phillip Sear plays the last piece from a 1925 set of 'Southland Sketches' by the American pianist and composer Blanche Ray Alden (1870-1934), writing under the pseudonym 'Theodora Dutton'. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't know much about Alden's career, except that she lived in Springfield, Massachusetts. She seems to have received attention from musical feminists as the author of 'Christmas Day Secrets', the only piece by a woman in the Suzuki piano repertoire books. She was a fan of Grieg, and wrote to him in the 1890s with a query about one of his songs. However this piece is closer to Tchaikovsky in style. My thumbnail includes a detail from a Tripadvisor photo of a balcony in the French quarter of New Orleans ( https://goo.gl/EkxyoZ ). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk (Email: [email protected] WhatsApp: http://wa.me/441444483794 ) TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pianogems
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