Carole Sauter joins us today on Music Life Radio to talk about her personal history, and relationship with music. She is a flute player in the Gateway Concert Band, a community-based concert group, and she is the mother of MLR’s host and executive producer, Dan Sauter. Having survived two husbands, a career in teaching, Carole now spends most of her time creating art – from art books, to calligraphy projects, music, and even poetry. She never lets a setback slow her down, and is truly relentless in life.

Credits: “MLR Intro” by “Rob McCann, “Concert Prelude” performed by “Gateway Concert Band“, “Wabash Cannonball” performed by “Doc Watson“, “Senbazuru” by “Kevin MacLeod“, “O Holy Night” performed by “Gateway Concert Band“, “London Bridge” performed by “Gateway Concert Band”

Poem by Carole Sauter:

Free Play
I love the sheer beauty of the flute discipline
Notes thick, long, and colored round

Techniques in E flat Major or G
Clean notes with a constant beat

Mastered duets in altered meters
Playing and listening at the same time

Tone, technique, touch
Become the discipline of freedom

Heard beauty suspended on air waves
Satisfied or not I play on

Carole Sauter, December 10, 2010