Opus number: 91
Title: Remebering Al: Idumea Variations
Instrumentation:solo piano
Date written: Summer 2007
Length: three and a half minutes
Premiere performance: October 19, 2007, Memorial Church at Harvard University; Larry Bell-pianist.
Important subsequent performances: January 20, 2008, Williams Hall at New England Conservatory.
Program notes: Remembering Al was written in the summer of 2007 after the death of our close friend Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., the Pulitzer-Prize winning historian married to the artist Fay Chandler. I played it at Al’s memorial service, October 19, 2007, held in Memorial Church at Harvard University. Unchanging Love , for brass quintet and organ, was played at the same service.
Excerpt: (coming soon)
