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Quieting by Lydia McCauley Lydia McCauley : Quieting.
 Intriguing piano compositions with dynamic accompaniment.

QUIETING is an all-instrumental recording that sprang forth from an intensely quiet period of about three years when Lydia lost her singing voice. It was an inward time, what she calls "the midlife turnstile - that introspective place where one crosses the threshold into the second half of life." The fragrance of trees, seeds drifting through the forest, and the unexpected friendship of a frog inspired such pieces as "Hawthorn," "Cottonwood," and "Every Bug, Every Bee, Every Breath."

Full of childlike wonder and beauty, QUIETING is quieting. There are extraordinary musicians featured on the recording, such as Grammy Winner Nancy Rumbel (oboe, English horn) and Jami Sieber (cello), Lee Mohler (trumpet and flugelhorn) and Lydia's long-time group of musicians.

Songs:

1. Black Walnut And Willow Waltz
2. Hawthorn
3. Cottonwood
4. Searching For The Clovis Point
5. Every Bug Every Bee Every Breath
6. Willow
7. The Busy Bees Of Sansepolcro
8. For My Daughters
9. Porcero Danza (Dance of the Pigs)
10. Monarch
11. Blue Vale
12. Black Walnut Reprise

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Release date: 7/31/2010
Lydia McCauley lives in Washington USA

Tagged as: New Age, Folk, Instrumental

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