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Peformance Notes These pieces may be played separately or together and in any order All bowings, fingerings, and tempo-indications are suggestions only. Players should feel free to be as imaginative and musically creative as they wish. All of this music started life as works for viola and piano trio written for Typhoon, a group comprised of lwao Furusawa, violin, Phillip Bush, piano, Francis Gouton, cello, and me. We played entire concerts from memory, and I changed my pieces night after night. To some extent, the present versions for viola and piano differ in content from earlier performance versions, but they do incorporate the essential violin and cello lines. From My Heart I wrote "From My Heart" in July 1993 during a visit to my Italian mother's birthplace of Montaquila, where I met a lovely person whose hypnotic gaze reminded me of my father, who had recently passed away. When I was near her I felt I was reunited with my dad. The piece is dedicated to his memory Blue Tango I wrote this piece for Hannah Reimann in 1995. At that time we were living in Manhattan, immersed in playing and arranging the tangos of Astor Piazzolla. The original title was "Hannah," but I discovered during my Asian tours that in Japanese "Hannah" sounds like "nose" or "flower," and like ''no. 1" in Korean, so I renamed it "I Was Thinking of You" when I recorded it for Typhoon's fourth album. I revised the piece in 2002, adding a thirty-bar blues-inspired coda and giving it the current title. Circus I wrote "Circus" in New York in 1997 in about one hour. In style, it is like a gypsy piece with a few humorous twists. The circus begins, just as one would expect, as the troupe enters the arena. The principal clown, depicted by the violist, thrills and dazzles the spectators. The entire piece lasts about ninety seconds. "Circus" is featured on two Typhoon CDs. I am indebted to Hannah Reimann for the priceless help she has given me, as pianist, musician, arid collaborator. I am deeply grateful to Francis, Phillip, and lwao, my colleagues in Typhoon, for their musical suggestions, many of which I have used in these pieces. I also wish to acknowledge Brianna Atwell, without whose invaluable assistance many pages of hand-written manuscript would never have become legible copy.
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