“To Be Specific is a collection of fifteen 1-2 minute pieces for solo piano, each based on a single, “specific” idea. These short pieces are highly diverse in character - amusing, serious, virtuosic, simple, meditative, sweet, wistful, and dramatic.

“The “specific” ideas for these pieces were gathered from four decades of leftover bits and snippets of my work; rough, loosely-defined motives and phrases which begged to be put into final form. Memory of 1977, Tyger, Tyger, Early Riser, and Petit Rag de la Grande Jatte  are thoroughly “recomposed” versions of pieces from 1970-80, while the ideas for Strategy, Dust, Andante with Issues, and Irritation were born in the 1990s and early 2000s. Weightless, Short Message to Distant Worlds, Toccata, and the more light-hearted Off-Leash and It’s Complicated were composed from scratch in spring, 2020 during that difficult period of global pandemic and self-isolation.”