These six songs date from somewhere around 1992. I vaguely remember recording some of them, but I don’t recall much about the occasion. Some of these songs are multiple layers, with drums and flute added for a nice effect. There’s about 50 minutes of music here, and to be honest, it’s not necessarily all great. But it at least serves to illustrate my progress over the last 20 years.
The first movement of the “Moonlight Sonata” by Ludwig Von Beethoven is one of the most beautiful piano pieces that has ever been composed. It’s one of the first classical pieces I learned to play as a high school boy.
t’s the middle of winter. Snow has fallen, chased by ice and then rain. The sun hasn’t shown for weeks on the prairie, and now there is water everywhere. But it does not make much sound as it moves across the countryside, cleansing the very soul of the prairie of all the accumulation of the past year. It does that for me as well.
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.