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GARTH BAXTER b. 1946<\/strong>
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Composer Garth Baxter is noted for his modern traditionalist style of writing. This is a style that combines the traditions of form and clear melodic writing with the use of contemporary approaches to harmonies and other elements. Baxter was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1946. He earned music degrees from Pepperdine University and California State University at Northridge. He studied composition with Robert Hall Lewis, Joseph Wagner, and William Thornton. Baxter\u2019s compositions for chorus, orchestra, symphonic band, piano, organ, flute, voice, and guitar, as well as other instrumental combinations, have been performed throughout the world. His music has been featured on radio and on-line programs worldwide. He has received numerous awards, commissions, and honors. His music has been the topic of Doctoral and Master\u2019s Theses. His recording, ASK THE MOON, works for voice and piano by Garth Baxter, released January 2018 by PARMA Recordings (Navona), has been praised worldwide. The recording Katherine Keem Sings Songs and Arias by Garth Baxter, from Centaur Records, has been acclaimed for its significant contribution to the voice and guitar repertoire. A recording of Baxter\u2019s instrumental works, Resistance, was released from PARMA Recordings (Navona) February 2019 and has received wonderful reviews. His work Still Falls the Rain was featured on the album Voices of Earth and Air, Vol. 3 released by PARMA (Navona) in October, 2020. Baxter\u2019s works are published by ALRY Publications, Columbia Music Company, Les Productions D\u2019OZ, Doberman-YPPan, Guitar Chamber Music Press, Mel Bay Publications and Theodore Presser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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AUDIO<\/strong>
\nWHEN YOU ARE OLD<\/a>
\nLET IT BE YOU<\/a>
\nLET IT BE FORGOTTEN<\/a>
\nA THUNDERSTORM IN TOWN<\/a><\/p>\n

PROGRAM NOTE
\n<\/strong>The four songs express the different aspects of love, from loss, to profound love, an old love that, in reality, will never be forgotten, and a cute look at an early relationship.<\/p>\n

WHEN YOU ARE OLD
\nWilliam Butler Yeats (1865-1939)<\/p>\n

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
\nAnd nodding by the fire, take down this book,
\nAnd slowly read, and dream of the soft look
\nYour eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;<\/p>\n

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
\nAnd loved your beauty with love false or\u00a0true,
\nBut one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you,
\nAnd loved the sorrows of your changing\u00a0face;<\/p>\n

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
\nMurmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
\nAnd paced upon the mountains overhead
\nAnd hid his face amid a crowd of stars.<\/p>\n

LET IT BE YOU
\nSara Teasdale (1884-1933)<\/p>\n

Let it be you who lean above me
\nOn my last day,
\nLet it be you who shut my eyelids
\nForever and aye.
\nSay a \u201cGoodnight\u201d as you have said it
\nAll of these years,
\nWith the old look, with the old whisper
\nAnd without tears.
\nYou will know then all that in silence
\nYou always knew,
\nThough I have loved, I loved no other
\nAs I loved you.<\/p>\n

LET IT BE FORGOTTEN
\nSara Teasdale<\/p>\n

Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten,
\nForgotten as a fire that once was singing gold,
\nLet it be forgotten for ever and ever,
\nTime is a kind friend, he will make us old.<\/p>\n

If anyone asks, say it was forgotten
\nLong and long ago,
\nAs a flower, as a fire, as a hushed footfall
\nIn a long forgotten snow.<\/p>\n

A THUNDERSTORM IN TOWN
\nThomas Hardy (1840-1928)<\/p>\n

She wore a ‘terra-cotta’ dress,
\nAnd we stayed, because of the pelting storm,
\nWithin the hansom’s dry recess,
\nThough the horse had stopped; yea, \u00a0 motionless
\nWe sat on, snug and warm.<\/p>\n

Then the downpour ceased, to my sharp sad pain,
\nAnd the glass that had screened our forms before
\nFlew up, and out she sprang to her door:
\nI should have kissed her if the rain
\nHad lasted a minute more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6443,"template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[51,42,25,27],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1485","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-garth-baxter","7":"product_cat-individual-songs","8":"product_cat-soprano","9":"product_cat-tenor","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-variable"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}