The Dance

   Just to keep you interested, here is the piece "The Dance", one of the second-half works from my collection "Spectrum". This piece is the soundtrack to all lovers during their first dance; if every teenage boy to step to the school gym dance floor is a rootless pirate and every girl a heart-torn beautiful American beauty. The opening is that of the Captain asking his love to dance. The slow figures played by the piano in the opening measures represents her indecisiveness. She is in love, but how could she love the man that wants to sell her on the slave market. The conflict is resolved as she takes his hand represented by the leading tone-tonic figure. And so "The Dance" beings. This excerpt is from the beginning of the movement. Enjoy and keep listening. 

Spectrum

         Summer is over! - and I’m very excited to be back to the grind of things at UPEI. Interesting enough, below is a short excerpt of a collection of works I've been 'working on' (pardon the pun) over the summer. The collection is called "Spectrum", and includes pieces on the clarinet, voice and piano. The following piece was a putting together after a previous piece of the same title took on new meaning and place in my collection. The story behind the music is that of fairy-tail and fantasy. A young attractive Captain, in charge of a ship of pirates, if given the opportunity to pillage a captured vessel and kill its crew. Oddly, along with crew, this ship carries a beautiful brown-haired maiden in which he falls in love with. Yet hides this from his crew, claiming he is only sparing  her life for to sell her on the slave market. The love story develops through the "Spectrum" collection. This piece titled The Captain and His Captive is the love duet between the clarinet and piano. This excerpt contains only a part of the piano solo section in the first half of the piece. Enjoy and keep listen for more.  The official release date of "Spectrum" is December 15th.