Memorias Vagabundas by Olibel Music

Memorias vagabundas

for solo piano

Armando Bayolo Olibel Music

Armando Bayolo Memorias vagabundas

for solo piano

1. Cordillera oceánica....................................................................................................................1.

2. Dédalo y San Felipe..................................................................................................................16.

3. The Fania All Stars Meet Igor Stravinsky..................................................................................20.

Cameo: Chopin y la niña...................................................................................................35.

4. First Snow.................................................................................................................................39.

5. Selbsportrait mit Adams und Andriessen (und Ginastera ist Auch Dabei)................................45.

Cameo: Canción sentimental............................................................................................59.

6. Memories of Places Never Seen (Palimpsest)..........................................................................60.

Cameo: Full House............................................................................................................79.

7. Juan Sebastián en El Yunque....................................................................................................82.

8. Requiem....................................................................................................................................90.

Cameo: El pelotero............................................................................................................99.

9. Personal Apocalypses...............................................................................................................101.

10. Coquís en la llovizna...............................................................................................................111.

11. My Children’s Country............................................................................................................119.

Written between October, 2021-January, 2022 in Laurel, Maryland Commissioned by a consortium of the following pianists:

Vicky Chow (consortium leader)

Geoffrey Burleson

Mikael Darmanie

Erika Dohi

Timothy Hoft

Blair McMillen

Megumi Masaki

Michael Mizrahi

Winston Choi

Vicki Ray

Ju-ping Song

Duration: approx. 60 minutes

All pieces except for the cameos may be performed individually or within smaller groupings.

Program Notes

Memoirs are strange things. Too many people who really ought not write one do so while not enough people with something truly important to say do not. I don’t think of myself as having anything of particular importance to say, nor do I enjoy engaging in the type of navel gazing that is required for these projects. When it was suggested, however, that I write a type of memoir in a musical composition, the idea proved an intriguing one.

In Memorias vagabundas (Vagabond Memories) I primarily focus on engaging the cultures I’ve inherited by genetics, birth, and residence. My family is made up primarily of Cuban exiles who fled Fidel Castro’s communist regime in the 1960’s. My siblings and I were born in Puerto Rico, and were raised to see ourselves as Puerto Rican. And, in 1989 at the age of 16, I settled in the United States to pursue musical studies and remain there to this day. This melange of cultures--mixed with the ancestral culture of Spain, to which my paternal grandfather belonged directly but to which my entire family traces its origins--has made questions of identity personally murky throughout my life, and it is my goal to address them as best as I can in this piece.

The archipelago of Puerto Rico, like all of the islands of the Antilles, sits at the top of avast undersea mountain range. Seen from above, Puerto Rico seems quite small indeed; seen as one of the peaks of this mountain range, it is, like its people, grand.

I was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, in the metropolitan area around the capital, San Juan, in 1973. The place seemed very small to me as a child and young man. It’s only in middle age, and as an expatriate, that its true, physical and metaphorical vastness, is obvious to me. “Cordillera oceánica” (“Oceanic Mountain Range”), paints an aural picture both of the mountains rising from the ocean, revealing the islands of Puerto Rico (and Cuba, where my parents were born) and a testament to the strength and dignity of its people.

1. Cordillera oceánica

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One of the most famous structures in the old city of San Juan is the San Felipe del Morro fort, built by the Spanish in the 16th century, and which served as an important defense structure into the mid-20th century. The large field that leads to the fort’s entrance is also a great place to fly kites. One of my earliest and most pleasant memories is of my father taking me and my brother (we were so young that our sister hadn’t been born yet!) kite flying at El Morro. The experience was and remains magical. Our conception of God comes, it’s said, from our fathers. Imagine, as a young boy, not even in school yet, having your father take you to fly a kite (what even is flight to one so young?) in front of a structure so seemingly vast and ancient as to have been present at the foundation of the world. No wonder this memory is so indelible, imperfect as I’m sure it is!

3. The Fania All Stars Meet Igor Stravinsky

The Fania All Stars were the house band/artist roster for Fania Records, founded in 1964 by Jerry Masucci and Johnny Pacheco. It was a shared love of Cuban music that brought an Italian American lawyer and a Dominican band leader together, and the label they created--and the musicians they brought together (among them Rubén Blades, Willie Colón, Ray Barretto and the diva of all divas, Celia Cruz) would define and revolutionize salsa music for a generation.

2. Dédalo y San Felipe By Neodop - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38796233

This piece is the first of three about the music I inherited, consciously or unconsciously, from each of the main cultures to which I belong. Essentially a mambo, its roots are Cuban, but one deployed untraditionally, in the manner of Igor Stravinsky’s reaction to encountering Jazz: a little awkward, not entirely authentic, but ultimately respectful. It’s a love letter to the soundtrack of my very earliest childhood and my encounter, as a young composer, with quite possibly the most influential composer in the European classical tradition of the 20th century.

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Cameo: Chopin y la niña

My mother had a very privileged upbringing in pre-revolutionary Cuba. This upbringing included piano lessons from a very early age. By adolescence (well into Castro’s regime), she had become quite a proficient pianist and was considering a state-sponsored career as a concert pianist when her family were granted their exit visas.

A famous family story about my mother’s playing is of one of her jury examinations at the Cienfuegos conservatory. She presented Frederic Chopin’s “Revolutionary” Etude (c minor, op. 10, no. 12) and played so impressively that the panel of judges gave her a standing ovation. This piece, takes the left hand pattern of Chopin’s etude and builds a small, vertiginous miniature out of it.

My mother, Clara, at the piano. Cruces, Cuba, ca. 1957 (?). Collection of Clara ALonso

4. First Snow

In 1989, at age 16, I moved from Guaynabo, Puerto Rico to Interlochen, Michigan to attend the Interlochen Arts Academy. I’d never seen snow before then and--oh, boy!--did I see plenty of it that first year.

There’s something magical about new snow, especially when it is a new experience. The quiet serenity during and after a snow fall is reminiscent to me of the rose colored glow that nostalgia often paints upon our past experiences. My time at Interlochen was extremely important in my development, but it was only one step--and an early one at that. Much like snow, nostalgia can be overwhelming.

5. Selbsportrait mit Adams und Andriessen (und Ginastera ist auch dabei)

The second piece about music that is important to me in this cycle, “Self-Portrait with Adams and Andriessen (and Ginastera is Also There)” treats with American music in general, and the postminimalist tradition in particular.

Growing up there were two camps: cocólos (kids who liked salsa, merengue, and other Latin music) and rockeros (kids who liked rock and other North American music). I fell distinctly in the latter camp. Although my love and appreciation for salsa, especially, and other Latin music has grown exponentially through the years, I still love my rock music.

As a young composer, encountering the music of John Adams and, especially, Louis Andriessen was revelatory in no small part because I felt the spirit of rock n’ roll embodying this music (although Louis was always more into Jazz than rock, he never lost a certain rebelliousness that feels more rock than jazz to me). This piece, whose title is also a reference to one of Gyorgi Ligeti’s Two Pieces for Two Pianos, is a tribute to the music of two giants who influenced my early style and provided a model for the kind of musician I wanted to be. (Ginastera is also there in the bombastic, percussive piano writing in the bass range.)

Interlochen, winter, 1989. Photo by the author.

Cameo: Canción sentimental

A little sentimental song for my grandparents. Both of my grandmothers died when I was very young (and my paternal grandfather died before I was born), so I don’t remember too many of the songs they sang. And while my maternal grandfather lived until 2001 and had been, as I found out long after the fact, a bourgeoning opera singer in Cuba (until his factory owner father made him quit. Knowing this explained so much about the man I knew late in his life), I don’t remember him singing to me very much, unfortunately. So I decided to write a song for them instead.

6. Memories of Places Never Seen (Palimpsest)

There are two places that hold strong genetic memory in my family: Cuba (where all of my family originated) and Spain (the “old country”). My paternal grandfather is the most direct connection to Spain in my immediate family, having been born in the fishing village of Redes, in the province of Galicia, not far from the Medieval pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela. While I have actually visited both Redes and Santiago de Compostela, these places represent to me the mythical quality of genetic memory.

I attempt to evoke this idea through a kind of palimpsest variations, in which themes erase and replace each other. The first theme, “Congaudeant Catolici,” comes from the 12th century Codex Calixtinus, a manual for pilgrims on the road to Santiago (and possibly the earliest example of notated polyphony in the Western European tradition). This is gradually “replaced” by Les folies d’Espagne, an extremely famous progression for improvisation originating not in Spain but in Portugal, but associated with Spain since the Baroque. Finally we hear the Muiñeira de Santo Amaro, a riotous folk song associated with the Santiago pilgrimage and traditionally played on gaitas (bag pipes).

Granted, none of the tunes replace the others so much as ebb and flow, much like their legibility would vary in a reused parchment. The effect is one of constant acceleration and excitement.

My paternal grandparents, Amando and Esther (undated photograph) My maternal grandparents, Rafael (standing, left) and Clara, seated) with my family. Rio Piedras, 1980

Cameo: Full House

A little romp based on life with siblings, children, and multiple generations together (not the 1980s American television show). Musically, it is a solo arrangement of part of my piano duet, Childhood, which is in turn based on Robert Schumann’s Kinderzscenen.

7. Juan Sebastián en El Yunque

The seis has been called the backbone of Puerto Rican folk music by myriad musicologists. It forms the basis for a broad instrumental and vocal tradition in the island well beyond the scope of this work (and my expertise) to explain. Its instrumental parts tend to incorporate several ostinato figures that have come down to us with names derived from their region of origin, performance practice, or purported composer.

In “Juan Sebastián en El Yunque”, the third piece celebrating dance traditions in the cycle, I spin two of these ostinatos into a fugue: that of the “seis con décimas” and that of the “Villancico Jíbaro” (“Peasant’s Carol”). During the Covid19 pandemic years of 2020-22, the study of J.S. Bach’s music, and the teaching of his contrapuntal practice, proved an excellent diversion during times of isolation. I imagined what the old Cantor of Leipzig might have made of Puerto Rican peasant music (or, conversely, of a peasant musician finding themselves practicing their art in 18th century Thuringia--un jíbaro en Eisenach). I hope that I’ve done the dignity and beauty of these musical traditions justice.

8. Requiem

My father died on April 22, 1988, a month and four days shy of my 14th birthday (and a little less than four months before his 40th). This trauma, needless to say, became a defining aspect of my identity as an adolescent and adult, coloring my ideas about life and death to this day.

“Requiem” is a moment frozen in time. It begins in horrified shock and moves gradually into stunned numbness and psychological instability. It sounds like I remember feeling that weekend of April 22-24, 1988, from the shock of the news, to the wake and the burial, not to mention the feelings of my entire family for nearly a year afterwards.

Cameo: El pelotero

My father had a deep, abiding and life long love for baseball (especially the New York Yankees). It drove me more than a little mad as a kid, who wanted to discuss other things with him sometimes. I once told him this and he took me and my brother out to lunch and asked, “what do you want to talk about?” I don’t remember what we talked about--probably some baseball, honestly--but I like that memory because he thought enough to make the time and ask.

9. Personal Apocalypses

The only constant in life is change. And change often comes from struggle. “Personal Apocalypses” is about the revelations that come from those struggles and the personal growth that struggle’s sorrows can bring.

It’s also about a very specific time: 2014-17. This was a very, very difficult time in my personal and professional life, comparable to the death of my father in how it’s defined my outlook and attitudes in mid-life. Things got better, though, and I’m a better person for it.

10. Coquís en la llovizna

Coquís are a species of tiny tree frogs that thrive almost exclusively in the tropics of Puerto Rico (a population, transplanted by Puerto Rican expatriates, now thrives in Hawaii. Although the residents there are not as keen on the frogs’ song as we are). They have a distinct song that colors the evening and night air up till sunrise, and in days when it is particularly rainy (coquís love the rain). I still miss their sound after all these years living away from home, and adore coming home to them when I have the chance. “Coquís en la llovizna” (Coquís in the Light Rain) is a little tone poem trying to recreate the sounds of a rainy evening in my mother’s backyard.

11. My Children’s Country

The greatest privilege of my life has been to be a father. It is a bittersweet experience to see your children enter adulthood, born of two irreconcilable impulses. You want to preseve them as children, full of innocence and magic, but you also relish their becoming their own people and finding their own way in the world. And so, my last piece in the cycle is not about me but about them and their peers. They are what follows us. Our legacy, theirs. I have great faith in them.

Memorias vagabundas was written between October, 2021 and January, 2022 in Laurel, Maryland, St. Louis, Missouri, and Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. It was commissioned by a consortium of eleven pianists led by Vicky Chow, with Geoffrey Burleson, Mikael Darmanie, Erika Dohi, Timothy Hoft, Blair McMillen, Megumi Masaki, Michael Mizrahi, Winston Choi, Vicki Ray, and Juping Song. I am greatly indebted to them for commissioning this project and their continued support.

--Armando Bayolo

Laurel, MD, February, 2022

Memoriasvagabundas

to those who forged the path, and to those who follow it for Mikael Darmanie

1.Cordilleraoceánica

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Armando

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  Pno. 24                                                             Pno. 26                                               Pno. 28                                                         3 3 3 3                Pno. 30                   3 3                                   Pno. 32                                                      3 3 3                   3

      Pno. 35                      3 3 3 gradually clear pedal                       3 3 3   Pno. 37                      3 3 3                      3 3 3   Pno. 39                     3 3 3             pedal freely                 Pno. 42                                      4

  Pno. 45                     quasi corni                      leggiero   Pno. 47                                                    Pno. 49                                                                 Pno. 52                                                            Pno. 55                                                          5

          Pno. 58                                                               Pno. 60                                             Pno. 62                                                              Pno. 64                                                          Pno. 67                                            6

              Pno. 70                                                                                        Pno. 72                                                                              Pno. 74                                                                                                                            Pno. 77                                                                                    Pno. 79                                                                      7

          Pno. 81                                                                              Pno. 84              pedal freely                                       Pno. 87                                                           Pno. 90                                                   Pno. 93                                               8

          Pno. 96                                                             Pno. 99                                                        Pno. 102                                                              Pno. 105                               cresc.         3 3 3                    Pno. 108           3 3 3                      333             9

              Pno. 110                 3 3 33                                      Pno. 112                                     6666  cresc.           Pno. 113                                                6666 6           Pno. 114                                6 66 10

              Pno. 115                               6 6 6 6                                                  Pno.  117                                     maestoso         pedal freely                                                         3                  3                                                                     Pno. 122                                                                   3 3                  3 3                                                                                           Pno. 128                                                                                                                     11

                  Pno. 132                                                                                                                                                   Pno. 136                                                                                                                       3                     3                                       Pno. 140                                                                                                         9                                                       Pno. 143                                                                                                                                                                         12

      Pno. 147                                             molto rit.                                                               a tempo            Pno. 150                                                                                                           Pno. 152                                                                                                                       Pno. 154                                                                                          simile  13

              Pno. 156                                                                                         Pno. 158                                                         poco rit.                                  Pno. 161             a tempo                            3 3 3         3                Pno. 165                                                    14 sempre molto legato

              Pno. 169                                                               Pno. 173                                                 Pno. 176                                                                         Pno. 180                                 morendo                            Pno. 184                 let the sound die out naturally    15

2.DédaloySanFelipe

always very legato

pedal luxuriously, with plenty of blur, although clearing at appropriate chord changes

always bring the chorale melody out

         

  Gently(=72)           

                                                        7                            

                                   poco rit.                    a tempo                     12                                                                                                                           16         poco rit.          3 33                a tempo            3 3 3                        

for Megumi Masaki

                        19             3 3 3 3                       3 3                          21       3 33                     3 33           poco rit. poco rit.              3                         a tempo a tempo               24            3                                           3 3 3                             17

                        26                      3                              3 3                     28                             3                 molto rit.                  3 3   a tempo         30                      3 3                                                                                                       long, slow rolls 18

                33                                                                                                            rit.                               37                     3 3 3                a tempo molto rit.                     3 3                       39                  3            3         19

for Blair McMillen

3.TheFaniaAll-StarsMeetIgorStravinsky

Withpanache,andalwayssharplyaccented(=132)

Accents should be very heavy and brusque, always

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                                                              Pno. 5                                                                               Pno. 8          6                                                                                            Pno. 12                                                                                                       

                  Pno. 15                                                               Pno. 18                                                                         Pno. 21                                                                                     Pno. 25                                                     21

      Pno. 27                                                                   Pno. 30                                                               Pno. 35                                                                                                             Pno. 39                                                                           22

                  Pno. 43                                                        Pno. 47                                                                    Pno. 51                                                                                            Pno. 55                         Boisterous!                                                                    23

          Pno. 61                                                                                                                   Pno. 66                                                                                      Pno. 70                                                                                                          Pno. 75                                                                 simile staccato, leggiero                  24

  Pno. 80                                                                   Pno. 85                     simile, etc.                                               Pno. 90                                                         Pno. 95                                                            25

  Pno. 100                                                                    Pno. 105                                                                                                    Pno. 111               somewhat delicately                                                                                                                        3                           Pno. 117          3                                     3                  3                                                  26

  Pno. 123                                                                                 Pno. 128                                                                                                     Pno. 134            cresc.                                                             cresc.               Pno. 138                                                                                       cresc.                     27

  Pno. 143                   cresc.                                                          Pno. 147                                                                               Pno. 151                                                                   Pno. 154 freely, Lisztian                       28

      Pno. 155                              Maestoso                                                     Pno. 157                                                                                Pno. 159                                                                                           Pno. 161                                                                                                      29

          Pno. 165                                                                                Pno. 168                                                                                          Pno. 171                                                                                                          Pno. 174                                                                        Pno. 177                                        30

              Pno. 180                                               Pno. 182                                                            Pno. 185                                                                                 Pno. 189                                                                                       Pno. 193                                                                                 31

      Pno. 197                                                                      Pno. 201                                                                     Pno. 205                                                                 Pno. 209                                                                        32

          Pno. 213                                                                      Pno. 216                                                                                                Pno. 220                                                                                        Pno. 225                                                                                                                   33

          Pno. 229                                                              Pno. 232                                                                                            Pno. 235                                                                  Pno. 238                                                                    Pno. 241                                                  34

to my mother

Cameo:Chopinyla niña

Lithe,swift(=90)

                                        non molto legato 

    2                                         3                                             4                         

            5                                              6                                    7                                        8                       36

        9                                   10                                      11                               12                         37

    13                                   14                                   15                                    16           38 ...after Frederic Chopin

for Michael Mizrahi

4.FirstSnow

Very,veryslowly(=88)

                

                                                   4                                                                       8                                                               11                                                                                

            14               Rit.                 16                           ATempo                        3 3 3               18                                                                  40

                     20                                                                            22                                                                                                                     25                                             PocoRit.                              MenoMosso(=72)                              41

      28                                                                                                                              32                                                                                     TempoI(=88)  42

      35                             3 3 3          36                                                       37                                                43

                    39                                                     42                                              44                                                                      44

5.SelbsportraitmitAdamsundAndriessen (undGinasteraistauchdabei)

          sempre martellato    CoolUnderPressure(=132)                                       7                                                                                          14                                                                                       20                                                                         

45 for Erika Dohi

             25                                                                      30                                                                   34                                                                                         40                                                                                      46

         45                                                                                  50                                                                                                56                                                                                                      61                                                                                                             47

     66                                                                                                     71                                                                                                     77                                                                                                                            83                                                                                                                    48

     89                                                                                                                 94                                                                                                    99                                                                                                             104                                                                                                                49

    109                                                                                          115                                                                                                         118                                                                                                   121                                                                                                    50

        124                                                                                                                              128                                                                                                         131                                                                                                               135                                                                                             51

            140                        Violento!                                           144                                                                           149                                                                              154                                                                              52

              159                                                 164                                                                                                         170                                                                     175                2x.        Selvaggio,brutale                                                                             179                                                                                                         53

  183                                                                                                         187                                                                                            191                                                                                                                       195                                                 54

          199       2x.                                                                                  203                                                                                       207                                                                                                213                                                                                          55

      219                                                                                        224                       (loco)                                                         230          5x.                                              3x.                                                     234                         2x,                                    56

          239                                                                       242                                                                                              246                                                                                                 249                                                                              57

  252                                                                                                          256                                                                                   58

To the memory of my grandparents

Amando, Esther, Rafael and Clara

Cameo:Canciónsentimental

Slowerthanitreallyshouldbe(=60)

                       

                                   5                                           8                                         12            rit.                

6.MemoriesofPlacesNeverSeen (Palimpsest)

                  Archaic(=44)                      3                                                      6                          rall.     (echo)               9              a tempo                           

for Timothy Hoft

        12                                     poco rit.         15   (echo)       a tempo                                17                 (echo)                                       21                                 (echo)    61

                26                                                  29           (echo)                                 33                                           36                             3            62

            39      (echo)                                42                                  (echo)     poco rit.               47          gently    Moltomenomosso(=66)                                   51                                          63

        57            3  TempoI(=44)          3             3            3               61                                     65       3                     3         3           69                                           3              74                                     3  poco rit.        64

Somewhat

        78               3 Tre Corde

faster

                               6     81                                                    84                         rit.                   87                  L'istessoTempo(=104)  a tempo                                                                                                     65

(=52)

    94        poco a poco          3 3 3 crescendo             3 3 3                   3 3 3                3 3 3             98                  33 3      3             3 3 3            3 3 3          3 3         102                3 3 3                3 33                  3 33             3 33             106                  3 3 3              3 3 3           3 3 66

                    109          sparkling         some blur is desired, but not overpowering  PlayfullyDelicate                                                 112                                                                                            115                                                                118                                               67

                121                                                          123                                        poco rall.                  125                  a tempo                                                         128                                                 68

    130                                                                                 132                                                                                           134                                                                                                     136                                                                                                          69

    138                                                                                                  140                                                                                                                                                        143                         2x.                                                           146                                                                                                  70

            148                                                                                                                                 150                         poco a poco                          cresc.                                                                                                             153                                                                                                  155                                                                                                                                                    71

                158                                                                                                                                            10x.                                             161                     L'istessoTempo(=138)   5x.                                                       165      2x.                                                                                                  170                                                                 72

            174                                                                        179                                                                   184                                                                                                             190      white key gliss.                                                                 73

    195                                                                     199                                                                               204                                                                        208                                                                              74

    212                                                                                   217                                                                                             224                                                                                                                  231                                                                                             75

    238                                                                    244                                                                      249                                                                                    255                                                                    76

    262                                                                 268                                                                                                  275                                                                                 280                                                                                77

    286                                                                                 291                                                                                                                297                       white keys                    78

Cameo:Full

House for Juan, Mayté, Luis, Olivia, Jules and Valeria

                     Energetic(=ca.112-120)                                                     4                                              7                                                          10                                               

                  13                                                            16                                                               19                                                                    22                                        80

              25                                                 28                                                   31                                      81

...after Robert Schumann (and Armando Bayolo)

for Geoffrey Burleson

7.JuanSebastiánenElYunque

           

toofastandalittleacademically(=80)                                   6                                        11                                                            16                                                                                              

Not

    20                                                                                                               25                                                                       30                                                                      34                                                                 83

    38                                                        poco martellato            42                                                                                 45                                                                      48                                                                                                                                84

    52                                                                                                                                           56                                                                                                                           60                                                                          64                                                            85

    68                                                                                        72                                                                                   77                                                                          81                                                                  86

        84                                                           89                                                                      94                                                                                                                 98                                                                                                                        87

                        102                                                 cresc.                                   106                                         110                                                   113                                                                 88

                      116                                                  molto rit.                                 120                 Maestoso(=60-72)                                                                                                                                                                                 125                    3          3                                                                                                129                                                        89

                  pedal freely   UnhingedAnger(=104/=208)                                   5                                                  9                                                           13                                           8.Requiem for Winston Choi 90

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                19                              22                                            

24                       =                             

30                                      34 sub.                          emphasize each beat     91

      36            333 3               39             33 3 3             33 33   41             3333             3333             3333             3333         43             =     lift pedal gradually    92

            48             =        StunnedNumbness(=52)                                55                                                                        60                                                                                                     65               3               poco rit.                   a tempo                            93

             71       3                            3 3 3 3               74              3                          3 3 3 3         77            3 3 3 3                  3 3 33 33         79                  3 3 33 33             3 3 3 3  94 simile legato

    81             3 3 3 3              3 3 3 3      83             33 33             3 3 3 3      85            3 3 3 3            3 3 3 3     87             33 33 95

    88             3 3 3 3             3 3 3 3       90             33 33              3 3 3 3        92             33 33         3 3                 95               3 3 3 3          pedal freely   96



                98                                                                                                     

104         3                                     111                        3 3 3 3                   114           3 3                    97

      118                           very long!    98

Brutal,likeanopenwound(=104-112)

freely)

                                      (pedal

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                                                                                       5                                                                                                          8                                                                    10                                                                              

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          13                                                                                            16                                                                             18                                                                                                                  21                                                                                                  102

          25                                                                                                                          28                                                                                                               32                                                                                                  35                                                                           103

                  38                                                                                                              41                                                                                                  44                                                                                               47                                                                                       104

              50                                                                                                  53                                                                                                    57                                                                                     62                                          105

              66                                                   69                                                            72                                                              76                                               106

          79                                                                  82                                                                              87                                                                90                               sub.          107

      93                                                97                                                      100                                                                         103                                                           108

                  107                                                                                                   112                                                                             117            6 6            Calmly(=)                          pedal freely but luxuriously                        122                                                                12        109

                126                                                                                                                              131                                                                                 135                     rit.          perdendosi...        a tempo                                              110

Calmly,evenwithintheviolence,andwithablurredsenseofmeter(=132)

let everything ring always

      Piano     

 

                      Pno. 5                                      Pno. 9         3        3     3              3    Pno. 13                                   3 3     10.Coquísenlallovizna for Vicki Ray 111

  Pno. 17              3                      3           Pno. 20                                        3        Pno. 24               3               3         3           Pno. 27                      3      3         112

  Pno. 30        3              3                      Pno. 34    3                                              Pno. 39         3 3       3                                 Pno. 42               3 3                  3 5   113

          Pno. 44                6                      Pno. 46                      3 3               3          Pno. 48         it's fine to be inexact          5                      55                    55            Pno. 51             3 3              3  114

      Pno. 53            5 6       3 3               5         Pno. 55                   55                                  55   Pno. 57                         55                    55       3 3          5   Pno. 60    3        3       3      3      115

  Pno. 66                    3              3                3 3   Pno. 70                3 3                3 3 3        quíquí           3 3 3 Coco        simile        3       Pno. 74                  3 3               3 3               3 3            3 3         Pno. 78        3       3                3 3                   3 3 3 3      116

bring out the left hand bursts but within a pianissimo context this time...

  Pno. 82       3          3 3 3                    5 3 3       3          3 3 3        3           Pno. 86          3    3                     55          3           3 3 3 3       Pno. 90         3 3 3        3 3        3        5                   55       Pno. 94                      3 3

           3 117

  Pno. 96                5                    55   Pno. 99            5 3      118

11.MyChildren'sCountry for Ju-Ping Song

                    Largo(=72)                                                                         7                               3             rit.                               a tempo                                              13                                                                                                                                         19                                                                                  

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            24       3     rit.                              a tempo                         29                                                                                34                                                                                                                        38                                                                                                                        120

    42          sub.                                                                                          47                                        rall.                   a tempo                                    53                                              121 Laurel,MD January,2022