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Symphony No. 7

My View From Here

7th Symphony 1st MovementWilliam Call
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In Memoriam

A gifted ballroom dancer, after serving in the African campaign of World War II, my neighbor became a struggling, determined, overworked dairy farmer, who measured success not in wealth but in solvency.

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Tracks

1. *My Neighbor, a Character Study
2. Procession of the Past
3. Let them love now...
4. My finale

*The recording of the first movement has been posted. Recordings of the remaining movements will be posted as they are completed.

Track 01: My Neighbor, A Character Study

Colorful, fun-loving and hard-working my neighbor was both a gifted  ballroom dancer and a dairy farmer for whom success was dependent on  dogged determination. In his younger days he would drive “over the hill”  to Coconut Grove, a dancehall where old and young alike would gather to  mix music and motion.

 

Rhythm was in his bones. As an adult he  frequented weekend dances and loved to gather with family and friends to sing songs around the piano. 

After serving in World War II he operated a dairy farm in a mountain valley with short summers and long winters, which he regularly referred to as “this godforsaken place.” With insolvency as an ongoing threat, dairy  cows were an economic necessity. The never-ending, year-after-year cow-milker’s routine, however, would threaten anyone’s sanity. 

Although a devout religious believer, his speech was peppered with barnyard profanity, and he sometimes skipped Sunday services, to bail hay on the Sabbath day. 

 

The only way he could retire was to sell the farm, but farming was his way  of life. He persevered in the profession into his advanced years, and had it not been for the intervention of mortality, would have stayed on indefinitely!

My Neighbor

Musicians

Thor Call - Producer, Engineer


Violin

Elizabeth Cox
Hannah Kwong (soloist)
McKenna Taylor
Parker Gardner (soloist)


Viola
Emily Brown (soloist)
Gina Conelly
Melissa Draper

Cello

Hanna Brown (soloist)

Monika Rosborough-Bowman

Thor Call

Piano

Nathan Schaumann


Contrabass
Matt Shumway


Woodwinds
Flute & Piccolo - Jeannine Goeckeritz
Oboe - Justin Torres
Clarinet - Daron Bradford
Bassoon - Brian Hicks

Brass
French Horn - Brian Blanchard
Trumpet - Shane Turner
Trombone - Alexis Smerdon
Bass Trombone - Zachary Crawford
Tuba - Mike McCawley


Percussion
Matthew Coleman


Percussion recorded at Funk Studios by Stoker White.

 

Piano recorded at June Audio.

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