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Arts&Entertainment
The Sounds of
Glacier National Park
Composer Jill Haley puts the Crown Jewel to a soundtrack as an Artist-in-Residence
Artist-in-residence Jill Haley is writing and recording original music inspired by Glacier National Park.
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lacier National Park was quiet.
The morning’s foggy silence
weighed on a sleepy West Glacier, the winds were still, and gentle rivulets from the night’s rains ran across pave- ment into the soft soil. Inside the Art- ist-in-Residence home at park headquar- ters, Jill Haley bent over her keyboard and played a string of notes from “First Snow,” one of eight songs she’s written this month inspired by the sounds and experience of the park.
“It’s delicate, it falls, and it’s pretty,”
she explained as she performed. “Very quiet. Peaceful.”
The Pennsylvania-based composer, who also plays the oboe and English horn, moved into the Artist-in-Resi- dence house on Oct. 3, and has spent the last month exploring the park by day and composing original music by night. Since 1997, Glacier has welcomed professional artists every year to focus on their work in solitude, nd new inspiration, and cre- ate art celebrating our natural national treasures.
This season, the park also hosted Suze Woolf, the Washingtonian “backcountry
artist” who creates “burnscapes,” depic- tions of burned areas; Bryce La erty, the Alabama-based watercolorist who ren- ders landscapes alongside underlying natural mechanisms; and Craig Barber, the photographer from upstate New York who uses tintype photography to capture nostalgic and ageless portraits of people who work with the land.
Haley performed her new soundscapes on Oct. 24 at a Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center Brown Bag Luncheon Presentation, and soon she’ll return back east. But the sounds of the park will stay with her — they have ever
since she rst visited the park with her husband seven years ago on vacation.
“I wasn’t coming as an artist,” she said, “but, (I thought,) ‘Wow, this is really cool. I want to write some music about it.’”
At home 2,500 miles away, she began to write, capturing sounds that lingered. One song became two, and eventually, 12. In 2010, Haley released “Glacier Sound- scapes,” her rst solo project, a tribute featuring titles like “Stillness on Sin- opah,” “Sunrift Gorge,” and “Turquoise Cirque.”
She has since composed award-win- ning music for Zion, Bryce Canyon,
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