Seventeen Windows
Seventeen Windows, for solo piano, is a group of short piano pieces (yes, 17 of them) ranging from one to three minutes long.
Many years ago I wrote a long, complicated difficult piano piece called The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Math. One pianist I showed it to complained "Why is new music always so hard? Why doesn't a composer ever show me a new piece with the simplicity and power of a Bach prelude?"
The first of these pieces was a reaction to that comment. The rest were because, upon seeing that piece, Jenny Lin told me, "Write sixteen more of them!"
Three of the pieces are available as downloadable PDF files. (Click on the thumbnails to download.) Please contact me if you're interested in performing some or all of them—the world premiere is available!
