This Bittersweet Interior

This piece provides a good illustration of how far my music has progressed in the last fifteen years or so. The piece itself is only so-so as far as I’m concerned, but it uses a theme that I used in another very early recording of myself that I made in the mid-90s. I called that piece “It Is Good.” Perhaps I’ve come a ways in my ability to make up titles for pieces as well. Anyway, compare the two and I think you’ll see, like I do, considerable progress. I hope that fifteen years from now, I can look at the pieces I record now and see a similar amount of progress.

The old version is first, followed by the new version.

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This recording dates from the mid ’90s. It was recorded on my own piano, in my home. It’s one of the earliest recordings I have of myself, aside from my recital recordings from the early 1980s.

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This is a "remake" of a theme I wrote in the mid-90s.

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