…for solo piano.
Like Thing Left in Sunlight was written in a time of liminality in my life. During a period where I wasn’t sure I would continue composing at all, I sat down and began writing a piece that would reignite my passion for composing. Basing it on a poem I’d written in the previous year, it reads:
“And these things fade like things left in sunlight. / Like parking tickets in June, / like window shades in November, / like bowls left out in Spring / for thieves that came at night and took everything. / Everything. / Taken and lost, / but taken care of.”
The music itself emulates a kind of journey to find myself again. The opening chords ring out proudly, yet a skeleton of something much greater. Moving forward with both optimism and curiosity, the vibrant, opening soundscape is reminiscent of a time since gone. Soon enough, doubt sets in as the obsessive, trance-like oscillations begin to drag us back down into the question feared most: “Is it enough?” This lamentation is then challenged by a hope for the future still to come. Inscrutable yet powerful, the music overexerts to rend itself from a past it can do nothing about. Exhausted and fading, left in the sunlight too long, the question is asked once more as the opening chords return, worn down but ultimately unchanged.
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