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title	slug	instrumentation	date	categories
Four Pieces for Piano	four-pieces-for-piano	For solo piano.	2019-05-01	Solo

This work was written for my dear friend Julia Hamos. It is a set of four small pieces, each varying wildly in character:

1. A "celebration", full of radiance, and in a flowing tempo.
2. A bit mysterious, and in a slow, very free tempo. Echoes of Debussy (who himself echoed Wagner).
3. A moderate toccata, alternating between quietly agitated (though somewhat playful) and furioso characters.
4. Slow. Feelings of resignation and loss.