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Product Description This striking collection of four programmatic works utilizes guitar techniques in a truly evocative sense. North Face depicts the dramatic Rocky Mountains of Banff with brushed strums, snap pizzicato, and tremolo. Hibiscus on the Water, in a fantasy variation form, captures the scenic landscape along the Piscataway river with flowing lyrical melodies and an undulating accompaniment. Woodchuck Blues, a playful work, draws from blues and jazz styles, employing syncopated rhythms, hemiola, blue notes and pizzicato. In D tuning, damped open basses provide an ostinato. The presto Wind Dance closes the Forest Scenes with rocking chords and stinging snap pizzicati. Clearly notated and edited. The work is recorded on the Acoma CD FOREST SCENES AcomaGXD5734 Review "Equally appealing are the highly descriptive pieces that form Forest Scenes with Woodchuck Blues being a wonderful tongue-in-cheek look at a lazy blues." -- Fanfare About the Author Like Charles Ives and Aaron Copland, PETER WARE (May 4, 1951) has fashioned a melodic and harmonic vocabulary both distinctive and attractive. Frequently drawing titles from North American landscapes, Ware seeks to climb inside his sources creating an organic synthesis into the musical texture. With driving rhythm and intense drama, his music evolves through long-breathed melodies, spun out in a free-flowing contrapuntal style. Ware's musical structures develop naturally from motivic cells that seem to grow and mutate in an evolutionary sense. The music emerges from a primitive sense and communicates directly with the listener on a purely spiritual level. For this reason, its meaning can be interpreted and understood emotionally, but the message is encoded outside the realm of language. Wares early musical training was in the church choir and under the piano tutelage of Florence Robertson in Beethoven's lineage. He studied composition at Virginia Commonwealth