The Lake Studies, by Lar Duggan

The Lake Studies

by Lar Duggan

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1.	pianist: Lar Duggan - Lake Study No.1 05:50	info	buy track
2.	pianist: Lar Duggan - Lake Study No. 2 03:29	info	buy track
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Solo piano music inspired by the serenity and subtle moods of Lake Champlain in Vermont. Each of these lyrical compositions is intimately polished; collectively, they form a quiet reverie about a peaceful place.

It is a great delight to discover the music of Lar Duggan.

Lar is one of those quiet, gentleman poets of the piano. His music is both lyrical and beautiful in a unique and unusual way. He has lived near the shores of Lake Champlain in Vermont for almost forty years, and his constant view over the ever-changing waters, and solitary journeys by kayak around the lake, have informed his music.

The suite of piano pieces that make up 'The Lake Studies' are both personal as well as reflective of this wider landscape. Superficially, they remind one of the impressionist composers - Debussy, Satie, Ravel - and, like Debussy's preludes, they are each serene, finely honed masterworks of composition.

Lar writes of Lake Champlain, "I had spent many hours on it's shores, both wandering and sitting, absorbing the peacefulness of the place. And it was this quiet sense of sanctuary which I most wished to embody in the music, as well as the songs of birds, and the varying colors of the weather and times of day."

Listening to Lar's music, you can fairly see the sunlight sparkling off the ripples, and feel the gentle rhythm of wave swell, amidst the luminous and expansive plain of this vast and wondrous place of water, sun, sky, air, and tranquility.

Album notes by Andrew Skeoch

credits

released October 6, 2013

Violin: David Gusakov (Lake Studies Nos. 14-16)

Original recording by Charles Eller

Remastering and cover design by Andrew Skeoch

Photography by Lar Duggan

Portrait photography by Lesley Alpert

Aerie Records AC 706

ⓒ/ⓟ 1978/2013 Aerie Records. All rights reserved.
Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws.

More info about The Lake Studies is available at www.larduggan.com

If you hope to see a CD of this material released, please let me know. If there is call for an individual CD now and then, please contact me through the Bandcamp contact form....Given a little time, I can make one for you and send it to you.

Special thanks to Andrew Skeoch. Without his encouragement
and more than generous hands-on help, this project would not
have evolved to it's present and much improved form.

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Lar Duggan Burlington, Vermont

Music has to come from the heart. It has to be about life. And you need to be able to live with it. I owe much to Margaret Chaloff, Joel Forbes, Dave McKenna, Bill Evans, and NYC jazz greats in the late 50s. Since that era I have continued to perform and to compose in a variety of genres. I have lived in Vermont since 1967 and rarely leave. My best known recorded work is "The Lake Studies". ... more

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