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Old 11-04-2006, 01:12 PM
Dr Peter Kalve
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Hello all

I'm currently writing my third symphony, and, breaking all my usual habits, it is going to be a largely tonal piece of one movement. I have completed the first of what I think will be six main sections, and during these last few days I have been sketching out the gentle chorale theme that will make up parts of the the second and fifth sections.

This is a simple piano reduction of the main theme of the chorale - I shouldn't say it, but I find it really rather beautiful. How vain I am!

A word on the title of the Symphony - "Fort Sumter to Perryville". Those of you with a good sense of American Civil War and literary history will recognise the title instantly as coming from the fantastic first volume of Shelby Foote's trilogy on the American Civil War - a work of art in itself, and one of the most satisfying three books you are ever likely to pick up. My hope is that Symphony's 3 4 and 5 will have a title from each of the volumes. This also explains the moving autumnal "wide-open-spaces" feel to the chorale theme. More puzzling for those who know a bit about me is why a Brit writing in a village in the UK should want to write a symphony cycle on the American Civil War. Frankly even I can't answer that one! Now...think autumnal golds and reds of the leaves falling gently in the Shenandoah Valley in the latter months of 1862 or 1863. You stand watching the sun as it sits lower in the sky this early November afternoon....and let the music speak of past times....

<center><table border=1><tr><td>The chorale theme from Symphony No. 3 "Fort Sumter to Perryville"
Chorale from Symphony No. 3.not (25.0 k)</td></tr></table></center>
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