First performed by Gilbert Kalish and Paul Jacobs (piano) at Alice Tully Hall in New York City - 18 November 1979
Written in 2001, this piece was originally composed as one of the pieces in the 'Round Midnight Variations' project. In this project a number of composers were asked to write pieces based on Thelonius...
Text from Walt Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Composed 1947
Like Book I of George Crumb's final large-scale keyboard cycle, Metamorphoses, Book II: Ten Fantasy-Pieces (After Celebrated Paintings) comprises ten movements for solo piano, each inspired by one of...