Seq99 Concealment And Unveiling 1

My first experiment in a somewhat sonata-like movement that loosely follows the exposition-development-recapitulation cycle, where the second, G major (tethering even on D major) returns in the recapitulation in the home key of C minor. It took me longer to finish than anticipated but in the end, I'm extremely pleased with the result. 

The main theme is one of those themes that simply appears almost on its own when your hands land on the piano. It was a delightful, but chalenging experience trying to develop it and derive new themes from it, in the end I've scraped as many themes as I've included. 

I dedicate this work to my dear friend Ivan Dadić and his wife, Katarina Dadić, who liked the melody so much that she used it as a ringtone for her alarm clock.

Allegro for Piano, C Minor

In memory of the survivors' terrible ordeal and of those who lost their lives in the sinking of USS Indianapolis, 30th July 1945, and of those who very soon were to perish from the deadly cargo she had just delivered: the first atomic bombs

USS Indianapolis

Dark Renaissance

Premiered by Charles Abramovic at the Old Library at Bryn Mawr College. 

The Periodic Table is a piece and a project dedicated to Nicholas Patruno and Primo Levi, two people, one who I knew personally as a teacher and one who I only knew through their writing.

This is a solo piano work inspired by Primo Levi’s book by the same name with its 21 chapters being recreated in 21 movements.  The format and structure of each movement is guided by Nicolas Patruno’s book, Understanding Primo Levi.  Throughout the piece there are references to books Levi read, ancestral migrations, modern collaborators, regional specifics, and more. There are themes running throughout the book of Levi as establishing his identity, the love of his work in the field of chemistry, the women he loved, and the Fascism he endured and fought against his entire life. Most importantly, there is the theme of memory; bearing witness for those lost and the continuation to speak the truth when people wish it suppressed.

Chapter 15 - Arsenic

Eva Theme

The Sunshine Inside Your Soul

Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, and Neal Kosály-Meyer improvising at The Tintinabulary, Seattle, February 4, 2013

Banned Rehearsal 2013

Banned Rehearsal 829 130204

Aaron Keyt sings his sudden song in 1984, Keith Eisenbrey accompanies

Purple Stripe

Bickleton Burger

arrangement of a tune found in an 1843 shape-note song-book

49 Effingham 240609 [240609]

my recent composition, written for alto-horn, but played here on clavichord

Invocation 240119 [240611] (clavichord)

Also known as George. A Montana-born freelance composer and teacher; gardener and reader; thinker and walker. 

Photo Credit: Sonya Harris

Chapter 15 - Arsenic

Jessi Harvey

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