Opus number: 22
Title: First Tango in London
Instrumentation: piano
Date written: June 1985, London
Length: two minutes
Commissioner: Yvar Mikashoff
Premiere performance: Yvar Mikashoff, pianist, February 1986, Dance Theater Workshop, New York City
Subsequent performances: Larry Bell, March 25, 1986, and November 6, 1987, the Boston Conservatory
Recording: tape of Bell’s 1986 and 1987 performances at Conservatory
Program notes: “First Tango in London” was written for Yvar Mikashoff’s tango project. It was written one evening in the summer of 1985 at the home of Keith Potter and Kay Yeo in East London.
