Projects
Lectures
REMEMBER THE RIVER: Nurturing Courage Through Beauty
Compositions
SOLO:
Child of Light
Flowers of Kurdistan
Gifts from Damascus
The Guitar in the Ceiling
Lights of Beirut
The Phases of Eve
Las Puertas de San Miguel
Tsohar (Radiance)
GUITAR AND NARRATOR:
Gilgamesh
Quasimodo
GUITAR QUARTET:
Gifts from Damascus
Lights of Beirut
GUITAR AND VOICE:
Cuantas Lágrimas
En Estas Partes
Gentes Dóciles
Las Ovejas Mansas
Los Brutos
Yo Quedo Solo
ANIMAL BALLETS:
The Aquarium: a Marine Micro-Ballet for Guitar and Sea Creatures
Yasuni: Dances from the Rainforest
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CDs
COMFORT
"...charming
music...Susan McDonald
combines brilliant musicianship
and flair with sensitivity and warmth." - NEW CLASSICS
Inspired by and dedicated to the
patients and families at
MD Anderson Cancer Center.
TICO-TICO
"Guitar Goddess...hypnotic
precision---
but the hypnosis induced by "Tico-Tico" leaves the subject entranced with a smile." - HOUSTON PRESS
Latin American
music which has often inspired small children to dance.
THE CATHEDRAL
"...all the skill and insight that a Bel Canto master brings to a Bellini cadenza... ...masterful
Bach playing." - NEW YORK CONCERT REVIEW
Grand Sonata
in A Major (Paganini) La Catedral (Barrios) Second Violin Partita in D minor (Bach)
HOT FLASHES!
music for cooking and other revelries
THE
AQUARIUM: A Marine Micro-Ballet
for Guitar and Sea Creatures
RELEASE
inspired by and dedicated to patients, families, and all who are involved in hospice
AUTUMN
DANCES
"The brilliant Susan McDonald leads a talented
group of musicians in a selection of
delightful and exciting music..." - NEW CLASSICS
THE PHASES OF EVE is like a poem. THE SOURCE sets the theme with allusions to a Scottish setting defining a positive, almost
melancholy start to life. The mood grows somber, then light, then there's sunshine, chaos, befuddlement, sadness, and grief.
Within all this there is nostalgia which is created by remembering the theme from THE SOURCE. This memory is sometimes invoked
through a few subtle notes in a minor key, or may emerge from a passage where the connection is loud and clear.
- Composer Paul Clancy-
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