The career of the English composer, Roger Quilter (1877-1953) has many parallels with that of Percy Grainger, who was one of Quilter’s classmates at the Frankfurt Conservatory in the 1890’s. Quilter’s light orchestral pieces were once staples of Sir Henry Wood’s Promenade Concerts in London but he is best known today for his many beautiful songs. Love’s Philosophy was written in 1905, early in Quilter’s career, and is a setting of a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Scott Hartmanreceived his BM and MM degrees from the Eastman School of Music and began his career by joining the Empire Brass Quintet and the Boston University faculty in 1984. As a trombone soloist and with his various chamber ensembles, Scott has taught and played concerts in all fifty United States and throughout the world. Mr. Hartman presently performs and records with Proteus7, the Millennium Brass, the Brass Band of Battle Creek and the trombone quartet – Four of a Kind.
Scott heads the trombone departments of Yale University and Boston University. At the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Mr. Hartman teaches a two-week workshop for aspiring trombonists. More information concerning Mr. Hartman and his present activities is available at his website – www.slushpump.com
