This is a response to a lovely photograph by my friend Mr. Anthony Mark Lamort as he chronicles his sailing journey down the East Coast...  

Water Nap Lullaby

This is an meditation on a photo by my friend and excellent sailor Anthony Mark Lamort, who captured this picture on his journey... I have never seen such lovely blue in an evening, and it took me several days to come to this... the clue he gave me to unlock the colors was that the evening was to him like "the dark, sacred night" sung about by Louis Armstrong...

Blue Exalted Night

This is another meditation on a photo by my friend Anthony Mark Lamort, among the most remarkable I have ever seen... dark water, bright sky... the shimmering water reminded me of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata, which is echoed here,  but then the sky was silver-bright... silver light on bright and dark... 

Night Sea, Day Sky

This is yet another meditation on a photo by sailor and fellow composer Anthony Mark Lamort... the challenge was the still perfection of this photo, when music is about movement... but I had to remember the sound of the boat, the rhythm of its slowly moving along...

Stillness and Symmetry

Another meditation on another photo by Anthony Mark Lamort ... I have never, ever seen a sunset so orange and blue... the blend was so perfect between the contrasts... in music that was a challenge, but...

Fire Blue Sunset

Yet another meditation on a photo by Anthony Mark Lamort... I saw this picture and imagined the sky in motion... gentle, lovely motion, with sun rays coming through as well...

Silver Swirling Sky

This is a response to a photo by my friend Anthony Mark Lamort, which posed a real challenge in my synthesiac world... F minor for the sky, E minor for the sea because of that rose-pewter color... how to get the half-step relatives to play nice?  It took a little time, but...

Fiery Sky, Pewter Sea

I literally dreamed part of this music... the idea here is the processional of a king, of the manner of a Mansa Musa.  Listen carefully and you will hear where the king himself is before you in the parade, amidst all his court and his nobles ...

The Dream

The giants in Phyrgia are happily dancing, but the earth is shaking under their feet...

Photo by How-Soon Ngu on Unsplash

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