WHITE POTATOES (2013) by Charles Turner
White Potatoes began as the opening number of a one-act musical that I wrote in 2012. It is a ‘composed folk song’ along the lines of ‘I Wonder as I Wander’ and ‘Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair.’ The singer is a woman who is waiting for her husband to return from the Civil War. When I found out about Aaron’s New Lullaby Project, White Potatoes came to mind right away, and I arranged it for solo guitar.
• Premiered on Greater Boston House Concerts, Boston, MA on January 11, 2013.
• Score published in Hushed, volume two of the New Lullaby Project by the American Composers Alliance.
Charles Turner (1951-) began composing while he was in high school in rural Iowa. He studied composition with Richard Hervig, William Hibbard, Peter Tod Lewis, Donald Martin Jenni, Robert Stern and Charles Fussell. He studied voice with Albert Gammon and Kathleen Spillane. Charles has composed operas, vocal music, handbell music, toy piano music, solo and chamber music, and most recently a symphony and a violin concerto. He has written a few other solo guitar works: Solitudes (for beginners), Sweet Gazelle for guitar and shakuhachi, Lullaby for Lahore, and Raven Dreams of Flight.
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released June 4, 2021
ALBUM CREDITS
Produced, Edited and Engineered by Aaron Larget-Caplan.
Mixed and Mastered by Steve Hunt at The Kitchen, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA
Recorded 20-23 November 2020 at L’atelier d’artiste Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Publishers: Centerlinemusic Publishing (1); Composers (2,5,6,7,9,11,12,14,15); Frank E. Warren Music Service (3); Norwegian National Library (4); Pantograph Publishing (8); American Composers Alliance (10,13)
Guitar: Olivier Fanton D’Andon, 2009. Strings: Hannabach.
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