Gwyneth Walker

Touch the Sky

for Cello and Piano (1986)

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Touch the Sky, for cello and piano, was composed during the Winter of 1986 for Norman and Jeanne Fischer. The music may be heard as a depiction of the starkness of the Vermont winter landscape in which the branches of the bare trees appear to reach up and touch the sky.

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