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Abstain Red Hells takes its title from a movement of a forgotten piece of mine for flute and soprano saxophone. The basic idea of a stubborn ostinato and a tense-yet-lyrical melody was played out in the very small scale in this earlier piece and has since been liberated into a bigger and more open musical …
This piece is a simple set of variations on a simple and song-like melody. The subtitle “Sonatiny III” refers to the series of short instrumental works that I have composed for specific people. I am grateful to Arianna Tieghi for requesting this piece from me! Download the score: Simple Variations
In January of 2009 I started writing a chamber piece. As the music unfolded, I kept changing the scoring, changing the instrumentation, etc. and was never happy with the way it was working. Eventually, I realized the piece was a really a piano piece. I wrote on the manuscript paper: THIS IS A PIANO PIECE. …