These pieces are the ones that I consider to be the best I’ve done to this point. The recordings are reasonably good quality, and the music is as good as I’ve been able to create.
- Anticipating Spring - The last day of February. Spring's approach is palpable. With it comes hope's realization.
- Ben's List - A pianistic interpretation of a writing by my son, Ben.
- 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.
- Intimate Interlude - Background chatter gives the piece some character, don't you think?
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
