Desiderata, or “Two Girls, One Keyboard”, is a four-hand piano piece written for my cRazy friends Jennifer and Svetlana who form the Belsky-Maxwell Piano Duo. The piece is highly programmatic (though the program is likely not suitable for general web viewing audiences). It’s essentially a dance piece, and I’d love to see it turned into a ballet music video (a project for me and my video artist friend Ben for the summer, mayhaps…)
The sections, which play continuously, are titled: “L’entrée”, “La danse sacrale”, “L’autre”, “Le Chanson de Bilitis”, and “Tango à trois”. Perhaps you get the picture now.
This piece has been a big success for Jenn and Svet, probably because they always wear knee-high leather boots whenever they perform it. It was my first professional piece of chamber music, and the performances of this piece taught me the joy of being the kind of composer who just shows up and takes a bow instead of having to conduct the whole blessed thing.
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