New Short Stories
Program Notes
The words of Italo Calvino were on my mind when composing New Short Stories. In this piece I aspire to convey the qualities that provide music it’s quickness: above all agility, mobility, and ease. I follow the thread spun by the first gesture (heard on bar one and present in a myriad of ways in the obbligato piano part), losing it a hundred times, finding it again after a hundred more twists and turns, and jumping around from one subject to another. I hope that the moment my initial “subject” appears in the narrative, “it will already be charged with a special force and become like the pole of a magnetic field, a knot in the network of invisible relationships.”
His piece New Short Stories premiered on March 15, 2019.