Leland Thomas FaegreSauterne Piano and Orchestra

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'Sauterne' [a dry to bittersweet white wine] is perhaps the second oldest song in my catalogue. It was submitted in 1976 for a College music theory assignment to an amenably strict instructor [Williametta Spencer] who seemed to enjoy it. It is quite melancholy, yet without the urge to find a handkerchief... Engineered by Michael French at 20/20 Productions; Engineered and Mastered by Patrick Collins at Collinator Studios

The mood probably speaks for itself, though I cannot recall the specific episode. Written on my then very new baby grand, a 1939 Wurlitzer, it wrote itself very quickly. While it was recorded digitally late in the 80's, I did not get around to its production until the Summer of 2002, and even then, it was worked up around some other tracks that required much more time, without diminishing at all the quality of the composition...

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