Andy McLeroy
I'm excited to announce that Line & Landscape, my album for solo cello recorded by Wayne Krigger, is now available for digital download. Click one of the icons below to make a purchase, and thanks for your support. This collection of contemplative solo cello works was inspired by both poetry (line) and nature (landscape). Line... Continue Reading →
This short piece by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich to me is like the music of trees reaching into a winter night. Welcome, December...
A new video for November Wind, part of my collection Six Memories for solo cello, recorded by Wayne Krigger.The man who walks a road and does not hearAn autumn wind that whines incessantly,Through sassafras, sawbriar and cockleburr,Does not know he has missed a symphony.-Jesse Stuart, from the poem Ever Near
Just for a change of pace, I thought I would share one of my influences and post this short prelude I recorded by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), even though my wife and son mocked me (justifiably) for the self serious video. I enjoy the mood this piece creates, but I’m hardpressed to describe it. It’s got... Continue Reading →
Welcome, October. This short composition is titled "Morning Prayer." It's from my collection for solo cello recorded by Wayne Krigger that will be available on iTunes & Amazon a little later this fall. The field grasses/flowers I filmed with a Kodak zi8 camera on a recent walk.
A new piano composition paired w/ carousel footage filmed over Labor Day weekend. Goodbye summer...
New piano composition paired w/ "sky wheel" filmed while travelling this summer.
This is an new composition for solo piano, which I've paired with animation from Eadweard Muybridge's Phenakistoscope (No. 35): A Couple Waltzing (public domain). The phenakistoscope is a technology from the 1800s that incorporated a spinning disc to produce the illusion of movement -- a precursor apparently to motion pictures. I wrote the music first,... Continue Reading →
This is part 3 in a series of solo piano pieces I've based on Ted Kooser's poem Flying at Night (http://www.tedkooser.net/excerpts/flyingAtNight.html). To see the other two, check out the video section to the right.This is based on the lines:some farmer, feeling the chill of that distant death/snaps on his yard light, drawing his sheds and... Continue Reading →
This is part two of the Flying at Night series I've written for solo piano, based on the poem of the same name by Ted Kooser (scroll down further for part one). Images again shot with my wife's iPhone using the 8mm app, with the help of a fortuitous spring night snow. Music recorded in... Continue Reading →
Line & Landscape 