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Homer Grunn: At Sunrise, Op.7 No.1

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music

Phillip Sear plays an evocation of a desert sunrise by the American composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist Homer Grunn (1880–1944).
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#1 from 'Desert Suite—5 tone pictures for piano' (1913)
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Homer Grunn studied in Chicago and Berlin. After teaching at music schools in Chicago and Phoenix, Arizona in the early 1900s, he moved to Los Angeles, and visited indigenous communities in New Mexico from there. Grunn collected their melodies and used them in his own compositions (with late-romantic and impressionist harmonies applied to them). For more information on Grunn, see http://tinyurl.com/p7kdfej . Each piece in this suite is prefaced by a poem from the New Jersey poet and sometime newspaper editor, William Hooper Howells (1844-1918). Here is the poem that precedes this piece:

"Not as in other climes the sun arises,
Over these arid plains.
But with a cloudless face the world surprises,
And instant glory reigns
When sudden tram the as horizon blazes
His flashing rim,
Saluted by the meadow lark which raises,
A matin hymn."

The published score has an illustration by W.E. Rolling showing a Native American crouching down and looking towards the sunrise. I have reflected this in my own thumbnail image, created with Wombo Dream ( t.ly/zhJa ).
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Homer Grunn: At Sunrise, Op.7 No.1

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