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-The Garden of Eden
-This suite for solo guitar, represents a description of the Garden of Eden. The music is at times programmatic, as in Serpent and The Voice of the Lord God, romantic, as in East of Eden's Garden, optimistic and jo [+]-PROGRAM-
-The Garden of Eden
-This suite for solo guitar, represents a description of the Garden of Eden. The music is at times programmatic, as in Serpent and The Voice of the Lord God, romantic, as in East of Eden's Garden, optimistic and joyful as in Adam and Eve and musically absolute as in the first movement Life. Every movement represents some part of life in the Garden of Eden as we have read about it, heard about it or imagined it.
-The Daedalus and Icarus Journey
-This guitar and vocal work was originally set on the Robert Frost poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, and was written for part of a lecture series at Boston University given by Lukas Foss entitled 'Words on Music". Some years later I set out to publish the work only to find that the estate of the late R. Frost frowned upon this particular practice. After two failed attempts to get permission to use the poem, I wrote my own verse for this composition, (my first actually) using a familiar subject, the story of Daedalus and Icarus Journey to freedom.
-Wishes for a Beautiful Life
-I was almost sixteen when I composed this work and many years later decided it was an important part of my compositional life. Driven by instinct and motoric impulse I wrote Wishes with the guitar in my hands. The work still sounds fresh and vivid in my ears, as it supposes to be by a sixteen year old, the programmatic title helped me to maintain its fast pace and the minor tonality to express maybe a concern...
-Lament for the Balkans
-For guitar, strings and mezzo soprano. The initial idea and inspiration came to me after the tragic events in the former Yugoslavia. In this piece the guitar plays a narrative role, here and there supported by the string orchestra expressing visions of grief. Toward the end of the piece a lone soprano voice is heard, from almost far away, lamenting the victims of another war. The tragedy of all wars in this world is very compelling for me, and as a creator and performer I express my views and feelings through music.
-Etudes I
Etudes I unfolds through a series of variations, opening theme in a minor key, that it returns to at the end transformed into major. It is a lyrical and nostalgic work with moments of agitation and a Greek flavor to it.
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