Larsen: Land

Description

• Composer: Libby Larsen (1950-)
• Format: Score & Set of Parts
• Instrumentation: Cello, Piano, Horn
• Work: Land (2023)
• Binding:
• Size: 8.5 x 10.9 inches
• Pages: None

Description

Land, commissioned in 2021 for Camerata Pacifica by Joan Davidson in memory of her husband John Schnittker (1924-2020), is a six-movement work for french horn, cello and piano. Mr. Schnittker is remembered publicly for his work as Under Secretary of Agriculture for President Lyndon B. Johnson and later an influential Washington farm policy consultant, and privately as strong, generous, humor-filled loving and family-centered.

Each of the six movements takes its title from the poetry of Hayden Carruth, Vermont Poet/Farmer and a contemporary of John Schnittker. in Carruth’s poetry I found is a communion of spirit between these two men who lived at the same time, in the same country and, as boys, farmed the land.