Rejoicings, for solo piano (2000)
Duration: 2’
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Score excerpt
Awards Received: Honorable Mention, 2005 Renée B. Fisher Composer Awards
Premiere:
Russell Nadel, piano
Louise Shonk Kelly Recital Hall, Dublin School, Dublin, NH
Summer 2000
Performers in audio recording:
Russell Nadel, piano
Studio recording, Abington Friends School, Jenkintown, PA
Fall 2001
Program Notes:
I originally composed this short piece as the second movement of a suite, but have since withdrawn the other movements, leaving this one to stand on its own merits. Rejoicings was originally notated with the metric pattern 6/8, 2/4, 6/8, 3/4, etc., but on the advice of other student composers at the Walden School, I decided to emphasize the quarter-note pulse instead of the changing eighth-note pulse, and re-notated it into 5/4, 6/4, etc. I am still pleased, after all these years, with the counterpoint in this movement, and with the tricky way the left-hand ostinato is tweaked and modified throughout the piece.
— August 2010