A GREEN VIEW (1994)
cello and piano, 11 min.

Cellist Nancy Green and pianist Frederick Moyer commissioned me to write a piece for the centennial of their grandfather Paul Green, the noted playwright and great friend to humane causes. My early piano training was with Gladys Green Sylvester, his sister. I incorporated one of Green's own tunes, "What Is the Soul of Man?" into this one-movement piece. The borrowed tune emerges out of a hymn-like beginning, and the piece builds to a frenzied climax.