The Coeur dAlene Suite 09 Sunset

The Coeur dAlene High School String Ensemble, conducted by Music Director Jim Phillips, performs The Coeur dAlene Suite 09 Sunset 3:37 This piece brings to a close the history of North Idaho to this point beginning with a movement depicting a typical North Idaho Thunderstorm with its peaceful beginning, building up to rain, thunder and lightning and ending by the composers technique of a reversal of the buildup down to a peaceful Purple Sunset movement. The Sunset movement was composed with a technique borrowed from the style of Brahms basing sequences of chords on the third interval of the previous chord. Arranged for brass quintet, string orchestra, string quintet and full orchestra versions.