To Keep the Dark Away
To Keep the Dark Away
piano
Program Notefrom the composer
To Keep the Dark Away is a solo piano piece inspired by the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Both the title and each of the five movement names are drawn from lines of her poetry. The piece was commissioned by Ms. Ellen Waldo for pianist Gayle Martin, to whom it is dedicated. Both shared my enthusiasm for Dickinson's poetry. I composed To Keep the Dark Away while awaiting surgery and the images of all five poems felt especially apt: from the first, with its singing to keep the dark away to the internal glee of the second, the dark strength of the third, the ethereal light of the fourth and the flight into music suggested by the fifth. The lines that serve as movement titles are given below, with the numbers associated with them.This is the third piece I composed for Gayle Martin, who has been the muse for my piano compositions since we were students at The Juilliard School. Previous pieces include my piano concerto, The Passion of St. Cecilia, and a solo recasting titled Fantasy on St. Cecilia.
Movements:
1. #850 To Keep the Dark Away2. #326 A Glee Possesseth Me3. #686 An Actual Suffering Strengthens4. #1577 The Auroral Light5. #500 Whose Spokes a Dizzy Music Makes
""¦it is the intricately beautiful new music of Judith Shatin and Gayle Martin's playing of it that which makes this album so very special. The composer finds her inspiration for the intriguing opus that gives this CD its title in the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Structured as five brief pieces whose titles yield clues to the tone of each one, To Keep the Dark Away is effortlessly original and most intriguing"¦."
--All About the Arts (Rafael de Acha)
Authored (or revised): 2010
Duration (minutes): 11:00
First performance: 4/17/11 Gayle Martin, piano Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY
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Program Notefrom the composer
To Keep the Dark Away is a solo piano piece inspired by the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Both the title and each of the five movement names are drawn from lines of her poetry. The piece was commissioned by Ms. Ellen Waldo for pianist Gayle Martin, to whom it is dedicated. Both shared my enthusiasm for Dickinson's poetry. I composed To Keep the Dark Away while awaiting surgery and the images of all five poems felt especially apt: from the first, with its singing to keep the dark away to the internal glee of the second, the dark strength of the third, the ethereal light of the fourth and the flight into music suggested by the fifth. The lines that serve as movement titles are given below, with the numbers associated with them.This is the third piece I composed for Gayle Martin, who has been the muse for my piano compositions since we were students at The Juilliard School. Previous pieces include my piano concerto, The Passion of St. Cecilia, and a solo recasting titled Fantasy on St. Cecilia.
Movements:
1. #850 To Keep the Dark Away2. #326 A Glee Possesseth Me3. #686 An Actual Suffering Strengthens4. #1577 The Auroral Light5. #500 Whose Spokes a Dizzy Music Makes
""¦it is the intricately beautiful new music of Judith Shatin and Gayle Martin's playing of it that which makes this album so very special. The composer finds her inspiration for the intriguing opus that gives this CD its title in the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Structured as five brief pieces whose titles yield clues to the tone of each one, To Keep the Dark Away is effortlessly original and most intriguing"¦."
--All About the Arts (Rafael de Acha)
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