Aphorisms III
Stan Grill
About this work:
Many authors and thinkers have written aphorisms, but few excelled at this art. The ability to capture a complex thought in a simple, pithy phrase is harder than it looks! Early in 2019, I found myself reading through several volumes of aphorisms by François La Rochefoucauld, Franz Kafka and Oscar Wilde. Finding that while the format of these books, in places, has some semblance of order, mostly each maxim or aphorism stands on its own, this arrangement intrigued me for music, as such a method of organization runs so contrary to how music is usually structured – and I wanted to experiment with a piece that flowed from one brief idea to another, without interruption or development. I employed this first in a string quartet, Aphorisms I, followed shortly thereafter with Aphorisms II, for viola & piano. Still not finished, this work for solo piano followed shortly thereafter.
Year composed: 2019
Duration: 00:17:00
Ensemble type: Keyboard:Piano
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