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  • 1993 Composition 1 - An unnamed composition from around 1993, played on my Ensoniq KS-32. I was considerably less skilled then than I am now, which is as it should be. This is rambling and stiff, tentative and unstructured, but it is me, 17 years or so ago!
  • 2009 Theme #1 - A pretty theme that I may do something more with sometime
  • 2010 Theme #2 - A four minute doodle in D-flat major.
  • Allegretto For Two Fingers - This piece is played using only my two index fingers.
  • Anticipating Spring - The last day of February. Spring's approach is palpable. With it comes hope's realization.
  • Baroque Musing - Sometimes thoughts are deep and dark... mysterious...
  • Behind the Looking Glass - Why is it that sometimes the person looking at you in the mirror isn't the person you expected? Who is that person, anyway?
  • Ben's List - A pianistic interpretation of a writing by my son, Ben.
  • Christmas Lullaby - At Christmas, simple melodies are sometimes drowned out by the season's majestic music and silly ditties. Mary didn't hum "The Messiah" to The Messiah. "Frosty the Snowman" was not the song that rested The Savior. She sang him to sleep with a simple song. Perhaps it was a bit like this one.
  • Disonance and Sonority - An experiment with chord progressions and minimal melody.
  • Excited Inside - Sometimes my calm facade only barely contains a very excited inside.
  • Finding Me Again - At the end of the year, I begin the process of figuring out who I've become this year, and what things about myself I want to keep, and what I want to discard. It's a quietly intense, and rewarding process, filled with disappointments and satisfactions, reflecting on dreams both fulfilled and languishing, memories of simple joys and profound sorrows, regrets and contentments, all the things that make us into who we become year after year.
  • Friday's Meditation - What is it about Friday? What does Friday think about at the end of the week?
  • Intimate Interlude - Background chatter gives the piece some character, don't you think?
  • Irregular Heartbeat - I love to experiment with non-standard metrics. This piece is mostly in 5/4, with a few other odd, non-standard measures tossed in for good measure (pun intended)
  • It Is Good - 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.
  • It Is Good/This Bittersweet Interior - This is a "remake" of a theme I wrote in the mid-90s.
  • Lead Me to the Rock - At Ben's request, I recorded this music this evening. It's one of his favorite of my compositions. I use the term loosely, of course. It's not well-developed at all... it's more like a theme that I can play around with, and that's what I'm doing here.
  • Moonlight Sonata, first movement -
  • Musings of a Heart Reflected - I can be intensely introspective at times. I can be quite reflective as well. Sometimes I try to express myself in those times. This is something like what it feels like.
  • November Frost - The First of November brings frost and bare trees, the rustle of leaves waiting to be raked, the calm before the storm of the holiday season.
  • November Thanks - A mid-November 10 minutes of thanks that this week is done and I made it.
  • O Holy Night - This is a recording of a practice session when I was working this song. I love this song very dearly. It speaks to me of the true meaning of Christmas.
  • October Air - Fall is so named because it seems everything is falling. The leaves, the temperature, even the length of the day... as the fall wears on, my spirits begin to fall, too. This piece attempts to capture the falling-ness of fall.
  • Overcast - The Midwest fall can bring weeks of gray, overcast skies. Dull and boring, they seem to sap the energy from the land. This piece intones the monotony of the leaden skies of fall in my corner of the prairie.
  • Rain Shower's Breeze - When the fresh breeze follows a summer rain, it invigorates the land, refreshes the creatures that live there, it is the period at the end of one of Nature's most beautiful sentences.
  • Reflections - On the eve of a long-anticipated wedding, reflecting upon their journey and how my own journey intertwined with theirs, the seasons of our friendship, the tenderness... the love...
  • Rhapsody - Installment number three in the musical ideas department: rhapsody in d-minor
  • Running - Just a little messing around on the piano tonight. How many things can you do with a Gm/F/C progression?
  • Silent Waterfall - Sometimes the world goes into a soft slow-motion. The sounds that clutter our everyday fade into the background, and cleansing raindrops glide slowly past our eyes, like waterfall that makes no sound.
  • Solfeggietto - This well-known classical piece, written by P. E. Bach, one of the sons of Johann Sebastian Bach, is played by virtually everyone who is serious about piano, at some point in their training. It's deceptively difficult, given that most of the time the player is only playing a single note at a time.
  • Sunday Morning Rhapsody - Sometimes a Sunday morning is just the right time to let go and see what comes out of my hands.
  • Sunday Rain, April - The softer the rain, the sweeter the April Sunday morning.

    Near the end of the piece, you can hear my pastor come in and say "Maestro." He didn't realize I was recording!
  • Sunrise - Sunrise is a calm majesty.
  • Tapestry of a Single Day - If you take a day and divide its memory into sections of hours, each section has its own song.
  • Tenderness in D - Some days are better than others. The ones that aren't quite as good, sometimes they begin to get me down. I have a natural tendency to view myself in a negative light. If I let things go, I can get unhealthy. This was one of those days.
  • Theme #2 - A simple and pretty theme
  • Under the Moonlight - January 29, 2010 gave us a beautiful conjunction between the nearly full moon and Mars, which was at its closest and brightest. Even though it was cloudy, it put me in the mood for some moonlight...
  • Walk With Myself - I'm rarely alone when I'm by myself.
  • Walk With Myself -
  • Waltz of the Summer Rain - Sometimes the gentle June rain seems to dance on the sidewalks and streets as it sings its soft song to me.
  • Waltzes With Wind - When the wind dances, my hands dance with it.
  • Wandered - Sometimes a wandering is just what is needed.
  • Warmth's Lamentation - Does Warmth mourn when its season passes?
  • Winter Quiet - There's a quietness about the winter... Imagine a scene of freshly fallen snow, the sun is rising, and there isn't a breath of movement in the air. There is only crystalline quiet.
  • Winter Wind's Chime - Sometimes the winter wind is gentle. Sometimes it has a touch of warmth. The echo of the summer breeze it aspires to become.
  • Winter's Over - There is a freshness, a warmth, that comes after the harshness of winter. It's not yet truly warm, but in comparison to the biting cold, it is as welcome as any wonder can be.