Program Notes

This one-movement work for piano and orchestra was inspired by the concluding lines from Pablo Neruda's poem Entrada a la Madera (Entrance to Wood).

y hagamos guego, y silencio, y sonido
y ardamos, y callemos, y campanas.

(and let us make fire, and silence, and sound, and let us burn, and be silent, and bells.)

This concerto was written for pianist Louise Thomas and is dedicated to her and my father, Arvydas, whose piano improvisations have always inspired me.