Walter Carroll - In Southern Seas

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Intro : [00:00]
I. The Isle of Palms [00:10]
II. By Dimpled Pool [02:09]
III. Spraymist [03:01]
IV. From Ship to Shore [04:48]
V. The Reef [06:00]
VI. Flakes of Foam [07:32]
VII. A Stormy Coast [09:14]
VIII. Night's Shining Peace [10:28]
IX. Samoan's Dance [12:14]
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Piano : Christopher Baxter
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Walter Carroll was an English composer, music lecturer and author. He was born at 156 Great Ducie Street in the Cheetham district of Manchester.
He was a pupil at Longsight High School, Manchester. Leaving school at the age of 14, he went to work at the Manchester textile firm of J. N Phillips and Co., learning office routine and account keeping. Joining the choir of St. John Chrysostom Anglican church, Victoria Park in 1886, he studied with the organist there, Frederick Pugh. He composed music for the choir there and became the librarian. In 1887, he also joined the Halle Choir in Manchester which broadened his choral experience widely.
From 1912 until 1953, Carroll composed a substantial body of educational original piano pieces for children learning the piano. Teaching his young daughter to play, he was dissatisfied with the teaching material then available for the very young and their teachers. Returning from a family holiday in Scotland and filled with memories of their trip to Portpatrick, Carroll and his daughter Ida found that "the tutor (book), with its dull cover and queer contents, seemed very dull".[14] Consequently the compositions were inspired by the Galloway countryside and published as collections with titles inspired by nature, starting with 'Scenes at a Farm' (1912), followed in 1913 by 'The Countryside'. 'Sea Idylls' appeared in 1914 and 'Forest Fantasies' in 1916. In 1922, 'In Southern Seas' (for the more advanced performer) made its appearance and in 1933, 'River and Rainbow'.