Todd Harper: Rattlesnake Song #2
Things don\u2019t look good for me to create more new piano recordings in my home studio in the immediate future, so I\u2019m going to have to stall \u2014 but I figure I might at least stall with something good!
\n\nThis is a piece from the most recent Keys Please! concert. It adds a nice little bit of variation to the blog: not only is it not Cantrell, Chopin, or Brahms, but \u2026 it doesn\u2019t even have a piano in it! (Yes, I\u2019m really going out on a limb.) It\u2019s also stylistically different from what I\u2019ve published so far, hopefully in a refreshing way.
\n\nIt\u2019s from my buddy Todd. He says of it:
\n\n\n\n\n[This song] I have to share credit for, because I did not write the words. I was at my mom\u2019s at Thanksgiving, and I found some old articles my dad wrote when he was alive, for the newspaper, the Forest Lake Times \u2014 and they\u2019re about snakes. \u2026 This is about an expedition he took, and I thought, \u201cThis would set really well for cello and voice.\u201d
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Todd uses some inspired bits of semi-improvised sound painting, beautifully performed by Jacqueline, to accentuate the miniature drama in Carei\u2019s reading of this little story. I hope you\u2019ll find it as charming as I do!
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Music lovers take note: Jacqueline plays in a wonderful cello duo called Jelloslave, and they have a new CD!