what music was that?

We were both attending Boston Conservatory at the time; she had expressed appreciation for some piano pieces I wrote about a summer I spent at Tanglewood, which is close to where she grew up. Soooo..when I was trying to cultivate a relationship during the fall of 1987, I decided to write another piano piece and dedicate it to her. She was in attendance at the premiere (with another guy, I might add) and hearing the preformance in person sealed the deal; we've been together ever since, dating thru college and finally marrying in 1991.

congratulations. what a great story!

i really enjoy stories like that. did she just leave the other guy after hearing the piece (not to pry)? must've been a great piece.

After seeing her reaction to the performance, the other guy just knew that he was all done...he didn't even bother to try.

I _do_ have, somewhere in the vaults, some different recordings of the piece that may need a bit of archival sweetening and such; I'd be happy to post a version for public consumption (for those who find mostly-dissonant, but still rooted in tonality-type stuff intriguing.)

would love to hear it.

So, after rooting around in my digital archives, I located a halfway-decent recording from my senior recital at The Boston Conservatory back in 1990; copyright and other pertinents are in the id3 tags:

Coming Home...going home
[WARNING: AAC Audio]

Further commentary or discussion of form and "where did this note come from" is welcome.

very nice. some of the up-tempo sections reminded me of rachmaninof's prelude in g-minor. the slower stuff sounded pretty progressive-jazzy to me. you sure you didn't go to berklee? you're not allowed to use jazz unless you went to berklee, you know. i'm telling.

lately, i can very much relate to longing in silent apprehension. and i think you nailed it right smack dab on the head.