Gamer

String Orchestra
Composer: Lourdes C. Montgomery

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RMD1310
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The Heroes Suite, written in the late summer of 2017, is a set of five short pieces for double bass and piano. Each piece is dedicated to a man who in some way touched the life of the composer Lourdes C. Montgomery.

Gamer, the piece dedicated to the composer’s son who enjoys playing video games, is her favourite piece of the suite which led to it being arranged for string orchestra in May 2018.

The composer writes: “Gamer”, is an attempt to capture my impressions of the ambient sonorities which so often fill our home when my son Michael is engaged in video gaming. From the onset a driving “con fuoco” tempo evokes feelings of excitement and unrest, feelings augmented by the somewhat syncopated 6/8 meter and G minor setting. As we encounter this music we might imagine some worthy warrior setting off on an adventure, hoping to rid his realm of the forces of evil that threaten it.”

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Description

The Heroes Suite, written in the late summer of 2017, is a set of five short pieces for double bass and piano. Each piece is dedicated to a man who in some way touched the life of the composer Lourdes C. Montgomery.

Gamer, the piece dedicated to the composer’s son who enjoys playing video games, is her favourite piece of the suite which led to it being arranged for string orchestra in May 2018.

The composer writes: “Gamer”, is an attempt to capture my impressions of the ambient sonorities which so often fill our home when my son Michael is engaged in video gaming. From the onset a driving “con fuoco” tempo evokes feelings of excitement and unrest, feelings augmented by the somewhat syncopated 6/8 meter and G minor setting. As we encounter this music we might imagine some worthy warrior setting off on an adventure, hoping to rid his realm of the forces of evil that threaten it.”

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OrchestrationString Orchestra
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About the Composer

Born in Havana, Cuba, Lourdes C. Montgomery moved to the United States at age five. She studied jazz piano at Miami-Dade Community College with Sanford Gold and, at the University of Miami, music composition with Dr. Dennis Kam as well as classical piano with Dr. Rosalina Sackstein. Many of Lourdes’ sacred and liturgical compositions are published by Oregon Catholic Press, who also produced her CD entitled “De La Cruz a la Gloria”, and World Library Publications.

In 2008, Lourdes was honored to have her song Bienaventurados (“The Beatitudes”) was performed at the mass of Pope Benedict XVI that was held at the National Stadium in Washington, D.C., and televised nationally. In 2005 Lourdes became music director at St. Vincent de Paul Church in the Ozark Mountains of NW Arkansas, where she now lives with her double bassist husband Michael Montgomery.

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