NEW CLASSICAL IMPROVISATIONSMarch 3, 2007A year has passed since last piece below, now I have a new piano, a remarkable Falcone 6'1" from l988 built by the master builder Santi Falcone in Haverhill MA. I recorded several minutes of improvisations one afternoon to test recording the action and tone quality of the bass; here is the sequence just as it was recorded with no digital enhancements at all. Marchwind 2006It is on St. Valentine's day when the birds were supposed to meet and mate, but here in Vermont it is in March when a hundred robins return to my tree, flit around and then disappear to their nesting. I know spring is coming soon if not yet, but now the air is a little softer and that shows in this Marchwind music. Winterchill 2006Recorded on an exceptionally bitter Feburary evening in a single sequence, this piece had no intention of being 'program music'. Editing it a few mornings later I felt a chill emanating from the music - - - a blunt frigidity with swirling snow gusts and icicles dripping in the morning sunlight. But this has nothing to do with the music of course. Moods of a Fall Afternoon 2005This was composed on November 2 2005 in a ten minute sequence without breaks, apparently based on a scrap of paper which I found later on the piano, with these varied notions: ...... brooding Afternoon Frantic Impromptu November 2005Acoustic TexturesThis was recorded as a single take on a summer afternoon in August 05, as a way of bringing together a variety of sound "textures" which seemed a special part of that day. The range was from the [[heavy feeling]] of wet summer heat, then some building (clouds) light at first becoming dense, soon broken by | abrupt | staccato rising figures quickly fading into a chorale of {{ rustling }} cedar branches and finally after a space closing with something like ......needle work..... on a rough burlap ground. Consider these words a prose-poem of sorts, having little to do with the music, but added here to suggest a sly angles for careful listening.
William Harris |
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