Informationen zu "Lourdes C. Montgomery Gamer String Orchestra"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM1078
EAN: 9990093814572
Beschreibung
The Heroes Suite, written in the late summer of 2017, is a set of five short
pieces for double bass and piano. Each piece is dedicated to a man who in
some way touched the life of the composer Lourdes C. Montgomery. Gamer, the
piece dedicated to the composer's son who enjoys playing video games, is her
favourite piece of the suite which led to it being arranged for string
orchestra in May 2018. The composer writes: 'Gamer?, is an attempt to
capture my impressions of the ambient sonorities which so often fill our home
when my son Michael is engaged in video gaming. From the onset a driving ?con
fuoco? tempo evokes feelings of excitement and unrest, feelings augmented by
the somewhat syncopated 6/8 meter and G minor setting. As we encounter this
music we might imagine some worthy warrior setting off on an adventure,
hoping to rid his realm of the forces of evil that threaten it.' Born in
Havana, Cuba, Lourdes C. Montgomery moved to the United States at age five.
She studied jazz piano at Miami-Dade Community College with Sanford Gold and,
at the University of Miami, music composition with Dr. Dennis Kam as well as
classical piano with Dr. Rosalina Sackstein. Many of Lourdes' sacred and
liturgical compositions are published by Oregon Catholic Press, who also
produced her CD entitled 'De La Cruz a la Gloria', and World Library
Publications. In 2008, Lourdes was honored to have her song Bienaventurados
('The Beatitudes') was performed at the mass of Pope Benedict XVI that was
held at the National Stadium in Washington, D.C., and televised nationally.
In 2005 Lourdes became music director at St. Vincent de Paul Church in the
Ozark Mountains of NW Arkansas, where she now lives with her double bassist
husband Michael Montgomery.
