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T:The Loaf of Bread
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C:©1995 Ben Paley
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
N:listening a lot to Chris' friend Jean-François Vrod, and his group Trio Violon, and they
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
N:the music of the Massif Central, although Chris thought it sounded more Swedish: no surprise
N:there, really.
N:*I thought the tune I was inspired by was a Jean-François Vrod composition called Les Miroirs,
N:but I just went and listened to that again so I could include a link to it here, and it turns
N:out to be completely different (though very wonderful) tune. So now I don't know the name of
N:the French tune I was responding to.
Z:Ben Paley <ben.paley@benpaley.com>
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