ANOMALIES

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Composer's note: ANOMALIES is a set of fourteen pieces for solo piano originally intended as studies in composition. They are anomalous both in their dissimilarity to each other, a nd in their dialogue with historical rather than contemporary music.They vary in mood, although irony predominates until the final two movements. A number of the movements--the third in particular--attempt an elasticity of time relations, where brief passages are elongated or compressed moment by moment so that each takes on a special temporal relation with similar passages; but always twisted out of shape. The sonatine is an homage of sorts to Milhaud, whose music had had exerted a strange attraction on me during the year it took to compose this work. I wrote these pieces for Charles Abramovic, whose formidable technique and expressive range make him an ideal exponent of the work. Show more