Composition

[contrapunctus]

Here is a nice story:

After hurricane Katrina down in the gulf coast several high school students came up to Memphis, where I live, for a semester untill they could go back home. One of the student's name's was Ben Ireland. I found out he was a pianist although he did not think he was very good, but all the sudden while we were messing around on the piano at school, he started playing Pathetique, Fantasie Imptomtu, and other things with speeds and clarity in which I have only heard by world class musicians. But that was only one thing he could do. He was one of the best improvers I have ever heard. He liked to play at church, and one mass he played this 10 minute long improv. on amazing grace which he just made up. He was brilliant. We struck up real friendship, and he said he would compose me something before he left. I didn't think he really could but on the day before he left he gave me a rec. and the score of the piece he composed for me. It sounded amazing. I still have no idea how he did it. He apparently wrote it in a week while sitting in his boring french class (he was already trilingual).

And now I present you the piece for you to ctitique. It was written by a tenth grade 15 year old for me.

Rec. on a digital piano.

[stevie]

its not quite Bach, is it? but then...not much is

[quantum]

I had a bit of trouble getting this one to play.  It crashed both my XP Pro and Win 98 machines.  Went in and discovered it plays ok from bar 2 onwards.  Went into the event list, deleted the System Exclusive events and voila - the file doesn't crash. 

There were some very interesting key changes / modulations in this one. 

[emmdoubleew]

The piece is a little too new-agey for my taste, but the story was wonderful! 

[Derek]

Yeah, the rhythms and melodic style are rather new agey (which I rather like when done well), but this young man, unlike most new age pianists, realizes that the notes lower than middle C weren't put on the piano just for decoration! And, he has an excellent sense of harmony.

[alwaystheangel]

well, I think it is beautiful.  That's an incredible story!