Month: January 2016

As with the previous post, I have been revisiting some of my earliest works.  Today brings the middle movement from my Suite (Mouvement), also from 2006.  While I will freely admit that the first and last movements aren’t all that great, I do like this middle one quite a bit.  It certainly shows the very strong Denis Bédard influence that pervades much of my music, but particularly in my first pieces.  In fact, if you put my Suite next to his Suite, it’s pretty obvious how much I paralleled his work in mine.  Of course, these years later, I do not think it is a bad thing by any means to imitate those whose works deserve imitation.  I’m just happy that this particular movement holds up fairly well by itself.

I recently was revisiting some of my first works when I discovered this little gem from the collection Five Short Pieces (2006).  The entirety of the work is dedicated to Denis Bedard and Rachel Alflatt, but they were written for Rachel in a particular situation.  The church she worked made a decision to have announcements happen before the prelude and that turned the prelude into an awkward affair.  She was looking for short pieces, about 2-3 minutes in length, and I did my best at the time to make that happen.  Of the five that I wrote, this is easily my favorite.