Places in Time

NEW WORKS WHOSE INSPIRATION STEMS FROM NOSTALGA FOR AN OLDER AMERICA.

The very nature of this disc is appealingly old-fashioned: a collection of works that reveal the composers’ innermost feelings about distinctly American places. For example, Lee McQuillan’s Sweet Home Suite is inspired by his hometown, Middletown, Connecticut and its people and geography. A more wistful approach is taken by Christopher Montgomery in the second half of Two Cities: the idea that unless New Orleans is relocated to higher ground, then the city might be completely submerged in the future — akin to the ancient legend of Atlantis. And the veteran Chicago composer, Helmuth Fuchs, pays homage to the Second City in his Chicago Fantasie Overture.

CONTENTS:

Lee T. McQuillan, composer
Sweet Home Suite
Dvorak Symphony Orchestra, Julius P. Williams, conductor

Armand Qualliotine, composer
Noi Sian Le Triste Pene
Dvorak Symphony Orchestra, Julius P. Williams, conductor

Christopher Montgomery, composer
Two Cities
Dvorak Symphony Orchestra, Julius P. Williams, conductor

Helmuth H. Fuchs, composer
Chicago Fantasie Overture
Dvorak Symphony Orchestra, Julius P. Williams, conductor

Armand Qualliotine, composer
His Cove Is Now The Firmament
Dvorak Symphony Orchestra, Julius P. Williams, conductor

REVIEW:

“…this is the kind of release that has always characterized Albany. This is latter-day 20th Century American orchestral music at its best.” (American Record Guide)