"A fragment of the main theme came to me one day during a visit to Switzerland in August 2004. I filed it away in my memory and developed it into a piece when I got home. The 'bluesy' harmony in the fourth bar of the theme suggested that the piece should be called Valse Bleue." -Angela Morley Angela Morley was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England in 1924. She was a professional woodwind player in her teens and twenties and, at twenty-six, after studying harmony, counterpoint and composition with Matyas Seiber and conducting with Walter Goehr, gave up playing and embarked on a career as an arranger and composer.