Maeve Gilchrist - The Harpweaver Cello and piano

Maeve Gilchrist - The Harpweaver Cello and pianoThe Ballad of the Harp Weaver My first impression of this poem, from the 1923 Pulitzer award winning collection by the American poet Edna St Vincent Millay, was not of a tale of bleak circumstance but of the power of maternal love and the symbiotic relationship between instrument and player. I always loved hearing old timers in New York referring to the old and the new worlds. It seems related somehow to this project which deals in the nostalgia I

as well as composer notes have  been included in this newly revised edition of Hallowe’en Treats

who has continued to encourage my attempts at composition

Jingle Bells

like many other works

Carols That Light the Way is a beautiful collection of 13 Intermediate arrangements of traditional carols

All five pieces will light up the face of any young pianist looking for aural excitement within easily identifiable and conventional tonal systems

After all – no one is a better teacher than you

everyone around him fell into a deep slumber

three of them well-known carols and the fourth piece an original composition by Christopher Norton

There are so many valuable lessons to learn when you become your own teacher

The first phrase starts and ends with melodic gestures typical of the nihavend makam

Each piece is a one-act story