MODERN MINIATURES FOR PIANO; SHORT PIECES FOR PIANO
PERISCOPES
miniatures for solo piano
Duration:
30 minutes
Instrumentation:
piano solo
Year Composed:
2009
Commissioned By:
In memory of Adele and John Gray
Premiere Performance:
31 March 2012
London, United Kingdom
Gila Goldstein, piano
Movements:
1. Voyage
2. Howdy!
3. The Maiden and her Soldier…
4. Suspicious Fluids
5. A Dusky Fall
6. The Wondrous Park Carousel
7. Towards the Unknown
8. Awakening
9. The Garden behind the Gate
10. Cotton Candy Man
11. Before Farewell
12. Night Ride
Program Notes:
Somewhere in the middle of an imaginary ocean, a friendly submarine sends its periscope up to the surface in a mission of discovery. What awaits there above the water? What is to be seen? With “Periscopes” I have portrayed twelve different miniatures; each sending the listener into a different sonorous world. “Periscopes” was generously commissioned in memory of Adele and John Gray