Alex Shapiro, composer: Piano Suite No.1

Piano Suite No. 1: The Resonance of Childhood
(Solo Piano).
Total duration ca. 12 minutes (1996)
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).
Five movement work: "Variations on a Memory," "On My Mother,"
"Quiet Child," "For My Father," and "Older."
19 pages, 8.5" x 11".

Premiered in November 1996 in Los Angeles, CA.
by Zita Carno, piano.

Audio clips of mov'ts 1, 2, 3 and 5 performed by Hamilton Tescarollo, piano. Audio clip of mov't 4 performed by Susanne Kessel, piano.

One of the movements from this Suite, For My Father, is featured on Susanne Kessel's 2006 CD, Californian Concert, on Oehms Classics OC 534. Click CD for more info.

For My Father is featured on the 2007 Innova Recordings CD, Notes from the Kelp (innova 683). Click CD for more info.

"This is an imaginative idea beautifully realized... Kessel is known as an avant-garde specialist, but she plays like a romantic... full of rubato and sudden splashes of color; she is not afraid to slow down or speed up for dramatic effect... The recorded sound is exceptionally warm and velvety, completing a seductive picture."

------— American Record Guide, Sept/Oct 2006

"...particularly compelling"

------— David Toub, Sequenza21

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1. Variations on a Memory

2. On My Mother

3. Quiet Child

4. For My Father

5. Older

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Piano Suite No. 1: The Resonance of Childhood was composed as a set of personal reflections exploring early years, difficult parental relationships and ultimately the acceptance of conflicting emotions. The opening set of variations sets the tone for the entire Suite: searching and hope that are met with the uncomfortable combination of disappointment and acquiescence. Of the five short movements, perhaps the most intimate is the fourth, entitled For My Father, which was written in response to a beloved parent's descent into dementia.

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1. Variations on a Memory D

D2. On My Mother
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D3. Quiet Child
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D4. For My Father
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D5. Older
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