Love to love your strings, baby

(2013)
for string orchestra

Erik Griswold

Love to love your strings, baby (2013)

"Love to love your strings, baby" is an affectionate homage to disco
strings. I've taken inspiration from Barry White's Love Unlimited
Orchestra, from the New York, Philadelphia and many other symphony
orchestras, and the many great arrangers who had a role in developing
the disco sound. My piece takes motifs and fragments from the golden
era of disco and weaves them together with my own original themes to
present a fantasy montage. The title refers, of course, to the 1975
Donna Summer hit "Love to love you, baby." It was composed for, and
is dedicated to the Camerata of St. Johns. Many thanks to the Australia
Council for the Arts for their generous support.

Love to love your strings, baby

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