Wendy Edwards Beardall-Norton’s
Wendy Edwards Beardall-Norton’s
Streets of Salamanca
Streets of Salamanca
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Today’s blog features one of my favourite composers, Wendy Edwards Beardall-Norton. It’s just a coincidence, but she also happens to be my wife!
Wendy has published four books of piano music, the first two with Debra Wanless Music in Canada, the last two with 80 Days Publishing. With Christopher Norton, she helped to create 31 Micromusicals, which are already part of the school curriculum in schools in London, U.K. There are also 10 books of Songs from the Micromusicals, starting to be used in vocal examinations and festivals. Wendy has also written new melodies for 20 hymns by John Wesley – Eternal Depth
Streets of Salamanca finds Wendy in exuberant (as well as solemn) Spanish mode. Her comments:
“A very few years back we visited an ex-piano student of mine who was studying Spanish at a language semester at Salamanca University in Spain (the oldest Hispanic University in the world and also one of the world’s oldest universities to be in continuous use as a university since its inception in the 13th Century) I fell in love with Salamanca - its flavour of antiquity, its thriving and exciting atmosphere and it’s streets that day and night are throbbing with the vibrancy of Hispanic life! All of the pieces in Streets of Salamanca were suggested by journeys of discovery, either through the streets themselves or from the open window of our hotel. I have tried to capture, in these works for intermediate piano, the romance of the streets, and at the same time express my deep affection for the ancient Spanish city of Salamanca!"
Here’s a sample of one of the pieces from Streets of Salamanca:
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