A STILL OF MIRRORS (1995)
solo piano, 12 min.

Friends of the artist Susan Moore commissioned A Still of Mirrors in honor of her seventieth birthday. The title is a phrase from an A.R. Ammons poem. I premiered the solo piano piece at a party for the dedicatee in 1995. The music draws on shimmering and subtle images from Moore's silverpoint drawings. A five-note motif announces the adagio opening. The music gives way to faster, then more spacious music by sudden prismatic turns. Eventually the opening is revisited, builds and rounds out the work.