Turning of the Hour (2024 Flurry Festival)

Title: Turning of the Hour (2024 Flurry Festival)
Level: 2
Date: February 18, 2024
Formation: duple minor longways
Time Sig: 3/4 Key: F sharp minor
Original Source: Margaret & Jeff Bary (2021)
Tune: The Turning of the Hour (Rachel Bell, 2017)
Choreographer: Margaret & Jeff Bary (2021)
Caller: Gene Murrow
Music: Constellation: Rachel Bell (accordion), Susan Kevra (clarinet), Jacqueline Schwab (keyboard)
Recordings: Alchemy: Turning of the Hour CD
Instructions: video 02:53
Venue: Music Hall on the 3rd Floor of the Saratoga City Hall (erected in 1871)
Event: 2024 Flurry Festival
Notes:
Turning of the Hour (danced in Albany, April 2, 2023)
• Turning of the Hour (C...
Does a tune ever get stuck in your head (an earworm)? Alchemy's recording of Rachel Bell's "The Turning of the Hour" did that to me. I loved the haunting melody the first time I heard it.
I used it as a soundtrack for my video of the "Marvelous Musical Marble Machines" at Pinewoods Camp. • Marvellous Musical Mar...
Then, early in the pandemic, the tune inspired me to write a one couple dance (The Hands of Time). • The Hands of Time
This was followed by an article, "One Couple English Country Dances", that was published in the Pandemic Panaceas section of the CDSS News.
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