In Time's Unfolding
Chester Biscardi
About this work:
In Time’s Unfolding, for piano (2000)
Published: C. F. Peters: Edition Peters No. P68021
Recorded: Contemporary Eclectic Music for the Piano, Volume 7, New Ariel Recordings AE 007 (Jeffrey Jacobs).
Written for the 70th Anniversary of the Music Library Association.
In Time’s Unfolding was written for the 70th Anniversary of the Music Library Association. It is reflective - of the past, of one’s self - and celebrates the moment. For myself I evoke childhood memories of music by Schumann, Gershwin and Copland which interweave with self-references to several of my earlier piano works. Time unfolds over a musical landscape that is at once poignant and painful, lonely, celebratory, and heroic. The title comes from the seventh section of Galway Kinnell’s eleven-part poem, When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone.
Year composed: 2000
Duration: 00:07:00
Ensemble type: Keyboard:Piano
Instrumentation: 1 Piano