Suite of Carols for Woodwind Ensemble by Leroy Anderson

Описание: Classical music for Christmas
"Suite of Carols for Woodwind Ensemble" (1950) by Leroy Anderson
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// "I had the idea of making a more intimate treatment of other Christmas carols; at the same time, however, I didn't just want to make medleys of them, that's the usual thing. In treating them instrumentally, I thought I'd try to get something that would give a little more scope and be a little different. So, after thinking it over, I decided that I would make a suite of carols.

Except that the one suite turned out to be three suites because of the fact that carols have a great deal of variety and it seemed that one particular carol would sound best with string orchestra, and another one would sound much better with a brass choir, and another would call for the color that you get from woodwinds; so I finally finished by writing three suites of carols, three different ones -- one is a strong orchestra, one for brass choir, and one for woodwind ensemble, and I took about 18 or 19 of these carols and divided them up and made them into the three suites"

Leroy Anderson, December 12, 1970
About the Music - in Leroy Anderson's Words
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