Album Amicorum

(Work-in-progress)

Instrumentation:  Solo Piano

Duration:  TBD

Program Note:

Album Amicorum takes its name from a practice in the 1700s of keeping a friendship book or an “album of friends” – a book in which one collected the autographs of notable figures or kept mementos and messages from one’s close friends of childhood or university study. There is a long musical tradition of memorializing friendship in music, including well-known works such as the Elgar’s Enigma Variations and the Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin. This work is inspired by several of my friends, with each receiving a movement bearing their initials and inspired by their personalities, interests, or idiosyncrasies.

Book I of Album Amicorum (movements I – IV) was premiered in November of 2024 at the Dancz Center for New Music at the University of Georgia.

I. Prelude – W. B.
II. Hymn Fragments – A. G.
III. Evidence – T.C. R.
IV. Groove Canons – R. R.
V. Maintenance Fughetta with Road Race – M. T.
VI. Games – S. F.
VII. Questions – D. S.
VIII. Travelogue – T. C.
IX. Postlude