For the most part a bookworm prior to the British Invasion of 1964, by the end of that year he was smitten by the Beatles and had acquired and mastered the drum kit made possible by the determination of his mother, Dorothy. He assembled some schoolmates who could play and his first band was incarnated as 'Phenomenal Phluke;' a name that still makes him smile ear to ear.
Faegre acquired quite a neighborhood notoriety for playing a fifteen-minute version of the Surfaris 'Wipeout,' the forerunner to 'Ina Gadda Da Vida,' and until 1968 his accomplishment as a drummer of local repute was sufficiently established...
But by the Summer of '68, as the Beatles 'Hey Jude' was bulleting up the charts, a neighbors' piano and an acoustic guitar purchased with blue chip stamps having strings nearly one half inch off the fret board would thoroughly occupy his waking hours. Remembering the strings that cut through his fingertips, he nonetheless persevered from the love of the sound of the chords--especially G major, and began to develop his skills by emulating the best of that era such as CSNY, Byrds and Buffalo Springfield.
Following his acquisition of guitar and piano skills, his reputation for playing became more widely known and respected as he developed and assembled as many various musicians as he could find for fun and profit. Performing for dances and weddings was fun he recalls, but his most passionate interest became his compositional quest that developed in earnest as he left high school.
Education:
Prior to the discovery that going to college was getting in the way of his education, he attendedMt. San Antonio and Rio Hondo junior colleges. Whereas curricula at both institutions were authored by establishmentarians of the socialist stripe, and teaching music was never his intention, his career choices of International Relations and Music became impossible to attain. He made a constructive nuisance of himself by first challenging, and subsequently embarrassing faculty and administration alike, and was shown the exit.
1.
A Time For Us
Aficionados of Claude Debussy (1862-1918) will likely recognize this track for his influence. Written late in the 80's, it was a labor of love adding orchestral instruments to the basic piano. Part of my 'Wedding Suite,' the romantic suite of music specifically tailored for an individual...
Catalog Id: 233992
Composed: 2005
Tempo: Mixed Tempo
Vocal Mix: Instrumental
Artist:Leland Thomas Faegre Genre:Dramatic Music •
Neo Classical
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STEREO Length 2:53
2.
Abraham Carlton Elliot
Innocent and childlike, this composition is among the oldest in my catalog. Written about 1977 on an available upright, a Steinway Grand is heard in the production's intro followed by sections of cellos, French horns, violins, percussion and harpsichord. Abraham Carlton Elliot seeks to capture...
Catalog Id: 234037
Composed: 2005
Tempo: Medium
Vocal Mix: Instrumental
Artist:Leland Thomas Faegre Genre:Dramatic Music •
Neo Classical
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STEREO Length 2:47
3.
After You
'After You' is an imaginative spy themed, sweaty-palmed swashbuckling rocker which is evocatively suggestive of various thematic opportunities for film or television. It was mixed with an orchestra lay-out in mind, with tympani to the left, strings to the front, and brass behind etc...
Catalog Id: 233983
Composed: 2005
Tempo: Mixed Tempo
Vocal Mix: Instrumental
Artist:Leland Thomas Faegre Genre:Dramatic Music •
Production / Dark
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STEREO Length 4:07
4.
Beautiful Faces
It was not long after meeting Patricia Lee Combs [who came to me as a guitar student in 1978] that I wrote this romantic and melancholy bar stool composition on her baby grand piano. Although I feel her presence, she was my biggest fan and I will always miss her fairest of friendships that I am...
Catalog Id: 234040
Composed: 2005
Tempo: Mixed Tempo
Vocal Mix: Instrumental
Artist:Leland Thomas Faegre Genre:Jazz Music •
Cabaret / Lounge Jazz
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STEREO Length 2:57
5.
Castles, Canticles and the Cadence of the Celts
This composition came to me as I was working on another track [currently in production] that lent itself to this transition. A part of the world that is rich in history, tradition and culture, its music perhaps being the most enriching. Got Pipes?
Catalog Id: 233986
Composed: 2005
Tempo: Medium Slow
Vocal Mix: Instrumental
Artist:Leland Thomas Faegre Genre:Dramatic Music •
Production / Military
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STEREO Length 1:47
6.
Gypsies of Galatia
The compositional depiction of 'Gypsies of Galatia' developed along the harmonic structure of the introduction of the track. The I vi ii IV chord pattern established in the introduction creates the architecture for the production, and the instrumentation was selected to reflect the cultural...
Catalog Id: 233988
Composed: 2005
Tempo: Medium Fast
Vocal Mix: Instrumental
Artist:Leland Thomas Faegre Genre:European Music •
Gypsy Music
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STEREO Length 5:08
7.
Here I Am/Libra Go Lucky
Naive and child-like, this classically tinged composition uses a reverse lead guitar and is laden with sections of strings and French horns. Beginning with the finger snaps, it picks up towards the middle and evokes the carefree intent of the production. Both of these tracks...
Catalog Id: 233993
Composed: 2005
Tempo: Mixed Tempo
Vocal Mix: Spoken Word
Artist:Leland Thomas Faegre Genre:Childrens Music •
Childrens Instrumentals
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STEREO Length 5:01
8.
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
Stripped of its production, its category or genre would have to be 'blues;' but even without the arrangement, I thought the composition was eerie and applicable to themes of fright and horror. Recorded at 63 bpm, the arrangement seeks to capture Frankenstein's gait or walking speed, while the...
Catalog Id: 233985
Composed: 2005
Tempo: Slow
Vocal Mix: Instrumental
Artist:Leland Thomas Faegre Genre:Dramatic Music •
Halloween Horror Music
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STEREO Length 4:23
9.
March of the Monarchical Miscellany
This composition was another of those conceived in the fertile chapter of my lengthy stay in Ireland. A Royal wedding unfolded across the Irish Sea and its aristocratic pomp and circumstance probably influenced its development. Taxi critiqued the track as follows: "...stirring, solidly executed..."
Catalog Id: 233984
Composed: 2005
Tempo: Medium Slow
Vocal Mix: Instrumental
Artist:Leland Thomas Faegre Genre:Dramatic Music •
Production / Military
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STEREO Length 2:38
10.
Marquees, Matinees and Marionettes
As the title and production suggests, this composition is an aural gift of nostalgia, and reminiscent of what a child would find entertaining. Orchestrally exciting with tympani and triangle, the puppets almost walk off on their own...
Catalog Id: 234010
Composed: 2004
Tempo: Medium
Vocal Mix: Female Vocal
Artist:Leland Thomas Faegre Genre:Dramatic Music •
Neo Classical
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STEREO Length 3:10
11.
Minuet In D
The horse and carriage heard in the intro to the composition not withstanding, and although not originally written for this purpose, 'Minuet in D' has been used as a musical suggestion [prelude to the ceremony] from the bride to her guests in attendance at her wedding, signaling her intention to...
Catalog Id: 233990
Composed: 2004
Tempo: Medium
Vocal Mix: Instrumental
Artist:Leland Thomas Faegre Genre:Classical Music •
Modern Period
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STEREO Length 2:17
12.
Novus Ordo Seclorum
Subtitled, The Orwellian Overture [the translation from Latin meaning 'new order of the ages'], the production for Novus Ordo Seclorum was necessarily experimental and subject to much trial and error in the course of three months and 56 tracks. Its mood seeks to reflect a serious interpretation of
Catalog Id: 233981
Composed: 1981
Tempo: Mixed Tempo
Vocal Mix: Mixed Vocals
Artist:Leland Thomas Faegre Genre:Dramatic Music •
Production / Dark
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STEREO Length 5:58
13.
On Top Of a Cloud
My signature thematic statement, on lovely cumulus and preferably without shoes, it is without effort that this ethereally tranquil, atmospheric composition will summon the listener to imagine themselves On Top Of a Cloud...
Catalog Id: 234043
Composed: 1987
Tempo: Medium Slow
Vocal Mix: Mixed Vocals
Artist:Leland Thomas Faegre Genre:New Age Music •
Atmospheres
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STEREO Length 3:35
14.
Ottoman Odyssey
Subtitled, 'Phantasmagoria,' 'Ottoman Odyssey' is an arrangement derived from the original production comprised of a haunting motif that availed itself to mystery and ethnic interpretation. The 'world music fusion' that resulted from the original production incorporates instrumentation from the...
Catalog Id: 293131
Composed: 2008
15.
Paris
Parlez-vous Francais? Suggested by a girl of the same name, I remember my infatuation with her and with the composition as it came out on a baby grand piano somewhere in Southern California. Drawing upon my trip to France in August, 1998, and overwhelmed by the countryside in the north which bore...
Catalog Id: 234009
Composed: 2005
Tempo: Medium Fast
Vocal Mix: Mixed Vocals
Artist:Leland Thomas Faegre Genre:New Age Music •
Contemporary Instrumental
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STEREO Length 5:29
16.
Pathetique
Written in 1978-79, this classical work is actually two ideas conceived in related keys. Classical aficionados will likely recognize that Beethoven and Debussy influenced this composition. It is perhaps ideally suited for ballet or ice dancing and if you are not wide awake, could gently pull you...
Catalog Id: 234042
Tempo: Mixed Tempo
Vocal Mix: Instrumental
Artist:Leland Thomas Faegre Genre:Dramatic Music •
Neo Classical
18.
Pipes of Peace
[subtitled 'For God's Sake'] is a musical documentary of the 'troubles' that have held up the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of the people of the partitioned six counties of Northern Ireland for 30 years. Includes actual background audio of the BBC describing various sectarian terrorism...
Catalog Id: 234053
Composed: 2005
Tempo: Medium
Vocal Mix: Instrumental
Artist:Leland Thomas Faegre Genre:European Music •
Irish Music
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STEREO Length 5:30
19.
Sauterne
'Sauterne' [a dry to bittersweet white wine] is perhaps the second oldest song in my catalogue. It was submitted in 1976 for a College music theory assignment to an amenably strict instructor [Williametta Spencer] who seemed to enjoy it. It is quite melancholy, yet without the urge to find a...
Catalog Id: 234045
Composed: 1976
Tempo: Slow
Vocal Mix: Instrumental
Artist:Leland Thomas Faegre Genre:Dramatic Music •
Production / Dark
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STEREO Length 2:34
20.
Serengeti Serenade
The introduction to 'Serengeti Serenade' features the Kudu [Antelope] horn described as having French horn characteristics. The Kudu or Antelope horn is also heard at the conclusion and is the hook of the production; African flute, kalimba and various sundry percussion in addition to African...
Catalog Id: 233982
Composed: 2005
Tempo: Medium
Vocal Mix: Mixed Vocals
Artist:Leland Thomas Faegre Genre:African Music •
African Music
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STEREO Length 5:12
21.
The Processional
This regal production was written for my own wedding processional as an alternative to Wagner's 'Lohengren,' the traditional composition that serves the same purpose. Arranged and produced with orchestral sections of violins, violas, cellos, French horns and a pipe organ once played by Mozart...
Catalog Id: 233987
Composed: 2005
Tempo: Mixed Tempo
Vocal Mix: Instrumental
Artist:Leland Thomas Faegre Genre:Dramatic Music •
Production / Military
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STEREO Length 3:16
22.
Through a Rainbow
As a rainbow appears and arrests our vision, so too does the production of this composition. Aurally as delightful as a rainbow is visual, 'Through a Rainbow' engages the listener to imagine its beauty as though one was witnessing its splendor for its naturally brief, yet spectacular duration...
Catalog Id: 233991
Composed: 2005
Tempo: Medium
Vocal Mix: Mixed Vocals
Artist:Leland Thomas Faegre Genre:Dramatic Music •
Neo Classical
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STEREO Length 2:52
23.
Together, Around the Sun
'Together, Around the Sun' had only a working title until just before I went into final production, though I always had a celestial interpretation as the divining guide throughout the creative process. The trumpet motif heard throughout the piece represents our infinite and circuitous planetary...
Catalog Id: 233989
Composed: 2005
Tempo: Medium Slow
Vocal Mix: Instrumental
Artist:Leland Thomas Faegre Genre:New Age Music •
Atmospheres
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