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Lily Strickland : In the Pines

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2016 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays the fifth piece from the 1929 'Blue Ridge Idylls' suite by the American composer Lily Strickland (1884-1958)
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Lily Strickland (1884-1958) was something of a polymath.  She was born in South Carolina, and studied at the forerunner of the Juilliard School in New York.  Having married in 1912 she travelled extensively in India (where she lived for ten years), Africa and Asia, and painted and wrote articles for magazines about her travels.  She somehow found the time to compose nearly 400 works, and is best known for songs.  She actually illustrated the covers for some of her own sheet music (I can't think of any other composer who did that) - but not this one.  The title of the suite from which this piece comes refers to the Blue Ridge Mountains, part of the Appalachian range - and you can read about it, and see pictures of the pines here: http://bit.ly/1S5s3tb .   My thumbnail includes a detail from 'Pinus pungens foliage, Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia', a photo taken by Tim Menzies from Morgantown, West Virginia (more details and licence link here: https://tinyurl.com/ybab4nke ).
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