Tune The Loaf of Bread
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Back in the olden times, I was lucky enough to do a series of schools concerts with Chris Wood and Gail Duff, themed around seasonal food. It was so much fun! Chris was still mostly playing the fiddle in those days, and at one point in the show, he accompanied himself telling a French story, Felix and the Wolf, which prominently features a loaf of bread. At that time I was listening a lot to Chris' friend Jean-François Vrod, and his group Trio Violon, and they played one tune in particular which I loved very much, and which I still play, in fact.* I wrote this tune as a response to these two things: in my mind it was supposed to sound like the music of the Massif Central, although Chris thought it sounded more Swedish: no surprise there, really.
*I thought the tune I was inspired by was a Jean-François Vrod composition called Les Miroirs, but I just went and listened to that again so I could include a link to it here, and it turns out to be completely different (though very wonderful) tune. So now I don't know the name of the French tune I was responding to.
©1995 Ben Paley
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N:Back in the olden times, I was lucky enough to do a series of schools concerts with Chris Wood
N:and Gail Duff, themed around seasonal food. It was so much fun! Chris was still mostly playing
N:the fiddle in those days, and at one point in the show, he accompanied himself telling a French
N:story, "Felix and the Wolf", which prominently features a loaf of bread. At that time I was
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N:played one tune in particular which I loved very much, and which I still play myself, in fact.*
N:I wrote this tune as a response to these two things: in my mind it was supposed to sound like
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N:there, really.
N:*I thought the tune I was inspired by was a Jean-François Vrod composition called Les Miroirs,
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