Arthur Foote - Suite in E major for String Orchestra

[@notmyworld44]

We used to play this man's gorgeous Night Piece for Flute and Strings at a classical station in Houston very many years ago. I remember calling him SIR Arthur Foote a couple of times before the program director informed me that the composer wasn't an Englishman. His name just sounds SO British, and the "Sir" seemed to fit so well.

[@LoveRonnelid]

Wow, this is amazing music! As a newly arrived Bostonian, I take additional pride!

[@davemiller7633]

Always puts a smile on my face

[@vicb4901]

Foote is a genuinely classical and truly universal composer.

[@servicebavaria7549]

A "truly universal composer". How so?

[@vicb4901]

@@servicebavaria7549 his music sounds universal to me, though unknown if not underrated...

[@servicebavaria7549]

Awesome. Changes my view about American Music.

[@simex909]

i love the ending on this one, it goes up instead of down ( or down and then a half step up ) but it totally makes sense and I intuitively know its the end. very cool.

[@VallaMusic]

such a lovely work - thanks so much for sharing with us

[@angebrowne1730]

Thank you. Lovely.

[@NovicebutPassionate]

"Arthur Foote was a university-trained composer and received the first M.A. degree ever given in America, Harvard University, 1875. His principal teacher was J. K. Paine." Twentieth-Century Music, Richard Burbank, Thames and Hudson, 1984, P. 182.

[@littlemarmoset]

Very glad you uploaded this! I was looking for art songs to audition with and found "In Flanders' Fields," a gem by this composer. I ended up not using it, as it's a bit low for me as a tenor, but it's a beautiful piece all the same. Thanks again.

[@IasminCaiane]

Sensacional. Sou a unica jovem dessa geração que ama esse gênero musical?

[@momollyfish]

praeludium 0:00 pizzicato und adagietto 4:12 fuge 12:40

[@JONBA.]

There are already chapters...

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

great upload man

[@JONBA.]

1:12 is my favorite part.

[@thadhorner5129]

Love that third movement - Bach with an American flavor, very interesting.

[@klop4228]

I'd not heard much of Foote, but I'd always assumed he was English, given how his music sounds That's a compliment, by the way!

[@helenamarie4337]

I know exactly what you mean, so did I.

[@benclarke4075]

Wendy

[@janineparnell6622]

Does anyone know whether or not the con sordino notation is only for the adagietto or does it apply to the rest of the piece (to include the concluding pizzicato section)?

[@AlexPDudley]

It would be for just the labeled section. You wouldn't use the mute for an entire suite beginning to end.

[@pyrow1059]

I'm over here trying to practice and I GET A STUPID AD!!! NOBODY CARES ABOUT AUDIBLE OR EMOTIONAL EATERS I JUST WANT TO LOSTEN TO THE FOOTE

[@baroqueman1]

Lovely ! Reminiscent of Elgar in some ways.