As I conceive it, meditation is not a state of impersonal coldness, devoid of emotional attachment: Rather, it includes all of the passion that naturally ensues from deep awareness. You cannot attain a full awareness of life and remain indifferent to it.
This Meditation was one of my earliest piano works (1985). It starts modestly enough, like a quiet Chopin nocturne, and then...as it develops...all the passions of Romanticism are unleashed. The piece was a breakthrough for me as a composer: All the thematic material is tightly and organically interconnected, yet the work comes across as free-flowing and spontaneous. I recorded it not long after it was written, and then recently I digitized it and created this video.
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Topic: VIDEO: Meditation