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Score title
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Demarest Suite
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Composer
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Barbara Harbach
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Date
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2009
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Instrumentation
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String orchestra
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Program note
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Echoes of Our Youth begins the suite with lush sonorities and bold statements. Its range of emotions such as insecurity, joy, and nostalgia, are all feelings associated with childhood. Remember the Ladies is a phrase from a letter from Abigail Adams to her husband John Adams. The letter spoke to the fact that John was involved in the freeing of the country and yet, women could not vote or be educated. The seductive tango comes to a quiet close as Mrs. Adams’ plea fell on deaf ears. Joyous Day is the development of a theme from Harbach’s opera, O Pioneers!. In the opera, this theme was used at a joyous wedding and the joy in the theme translates well to strings as the suite comes to a close.
Barbara Harbach
