My Garden...My World
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Composer: Andrew Martin Smith
Duration: ca. 4:30
Scoring: solo viola
Materials: score (8.5 x 11)
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Duration: ca. 4:30
Scoring: solo viola
Materials: score (8.5 x 11)
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Program Note
"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." — Leo Buscaglia
Born Felice Leonardo Buscaglia on March 31, 1924, Dr. "Leo" Buscaglia was an American author, public speaker, and a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California. During his time at USC, a student's suicide profoundly affected Buscaglia, moving him to contemplate human disconnectedness and the meaning of life, which subsequently became the impulse for his first book, Love, published in 1972.
While pondering Buscaglia's quote, and considering the nature of my own personal connections, I learned that a dear friend and colleague, Andrea Priester Houde, had recently lost her grandmother, Patricia Wilda Haney Perrodin (November 30, 1919–June 26, 2019). Knowing first-hand the emotional turmoil that comes with the passing of a close family member, I immediately began work on a short composition for Andrea, in the hopes that music would provide an opportunity for her to process and express her own grief through an art-form she loved. In times of intense tribulation, it has been comforting for me to know that solace is often found in the simplest of things…or within the smallest gesture of kindness. As so many others have done for me, I wished to give something of myself to Andrea, in supportive friendship, at a time of heartache.
Premiered in 2019 by violist Andrea Priester Houde during the 92nd season of the Interlochen Arts Camp, My Garden…My World is a sonic meditation on a quote from Dr. Leo Buscaglia. Its title, concept, and formal structure is a musical nod to Buscaglia's profound words, as well as an homage to the German-born American composer Ursula Mamlok, whose composition From My Garden had significant influence upon the harmonic framework within this piece.
— Andrew Martin Smith
Born Felice Leonardo Buscaglia on March 31, 1924, Dr. "Leo" Buscaglia was an American author, public speaker, and a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California. During his time at USC, a student's suicide profoundly affected Buscaglia, moving him to contemplate human disconnectedness and the meaning of life, which subsequently became the impulse for his first book, Love, published in 1972.
While pondering Buscaglia's quote, and considering the nature of my own personal connections, I learned that a dear friend and colleague, Andrea Priester Houde, had recently lost her grandmother, Patricia Wilda Haney Perrodin (November 30, 1919–June 26, 2019). Knowing first-hand the emotional turmoil that comes with the passing of a close family member, I immediately began work on a short composition for Andrea, in the hopes that music would provide an opportunity for her to process and express her own grief through an art-form she loved. In times of intense tribulation, it has been comforting for me to know that solace is often found in the simplest of things…or within the smallest gesture of kindness. As so many others have done for me, I wished to give something of myself to Andrea, in supportive friendship, at a time of heartache.
Premiered in 2019 by violist Andrea Priester Houde during the 92nd season of the Interlochen Arts Camp, My Garden…My World is a sonic meditation on a quote from Dr. Leo Buscaglia. Its title, concept, and formal structure is a musical nod to Buscaglia's profound words, as well as an homage to the German-born American composer Ursula Mamlok, whose composition From My Garden had significant influence upon the harmonic framework within this piece.
— Andrew Martin Smith
Reproduction Notice:
This program note may be freely reproduced in concert programs, provided that proper credit is given to the composer.
This program note may be freely reproduced in concert programs, provided that proper credit is given to the composer.