Murmures Féeriques (en mémoire de George Harpham)

for solo violoncello, performed by Craig Hultgren at Belvedere Chamber Music Festival, Grace - St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Memphis Tennessee. June 2017

Murmures Féeriques is inspired by a summer walk in Paris (with Sylvaine Hinglais and George Harpham) through the Jardin du Luxembourg at l’heure bleue. We sat on a bench and listened to the enchanting soundscape created by birds chirping, pulses of katydids, leaves rustling, intermittent whooshes of boats whirring in the giant pond, distant drumming, old men playing boules, and the crunching stones. I tried to invoke the unseen natural world that surrounds us - perhaps it’s the murmurs of fairies?