"In one area only can I chart my past to my present in a more or less straight line, and that is of course in my vocation, my avocation, my hobby, my obsession, my most things. I decided to make my life in music when I was in the fourth grade, and I have never desired to do other than that, and though I have had odd corners of temporary employment, I've never been fundamentally anything other than a musician."

Facts of a Life

• Born Minot, ND, July 13, 1941
• Childhood:
  • North Dakota
  • Childhood Illness
  • The Desert
• Adult Life
  • Career
• Died Lancaster, NH, November 9, 2003

 

The music of Leroy W. Southers, Jr. is available here to be printed, or by application of your chamber or woodwind group by email to this site. All we ask is that you inform us of any performance so that we may possibly arrange for recording. Currently available music is listed on the music page.

Five Contrapuncti For Woodwind Trio

I. Mirror Canon With Palindrome III. Cancrizans With Palindrome.

 

A Little Like Coming Home

From the Exegesis on Time

"Musical forms tend to be circular, making a homeward journey in musical materials"

"My own personal journey is such that I seem compelled to make a full circle, returning to the place where I was initially, as a singularity, wrestling my own spinxes. It's a given, you see, that making things is the most important thing to me, and that is consonant with what is and has been the most important thing anywhere, anytime, even when contexts are such that they have to be subdued first in order to do that."

On Time