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Rift in the Eternal Time
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"Rift" is a piano solo that lends itself more toward the free-flowing 20th century style of composing, while remaining deeply embedded in the classic style of performance.
jesse worley piano ballad
One guy with a full digital studio, 20 years of piano training, and way too much time on his hands.
I'm a workaholic when it comes to music, often taking on far more projects than a single human should endure. I start somewhere between ten and twenty pieces of music per week, though no more than a couple per month make it to a second round of writing. At any given moment I'm working on several pieces of music, with about one in three coming to completion and release. The rest are usually stored, as I find that elements of unreleased music often work in current undertakings. Given time, every note that I write finds its way into a released work. Composition for me is as much a part of my life as eating and sleeping. While I once believed I actually had a need to write music, I've learned otherwise over the last few years. I write music, quite simply, because it's there to be written. There is a constant score playing in my mind as I live my life, and my inspiration is drawn from that. Sometimes the music isn't worth listening to and I write very little, and sometimes the music is too powerful for me to sleep.
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Jesse Worley
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September 13, 2002
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MP3 5.1 MB 128 kbps 0:00
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I wrote this piece of music as an escape from my tracking program. It had been quite some time since I'd worked live on a piano, and I longed to record something with substance and power. The opening stanza of this work is garnished from a D-minor Sonata I wrote years ago, which is in turn based on the Beethoven Sonata No. 8 (Patetica). The free-flowing right hand is written to accommodate the performer, as there are no set limits as to how long the phrase may be carried. It is, for all practical purposes, a phenomenal performance piece. The waltz sections throughout the work add a slight air of sweetness to a piece filled almost completely with rage and longing, offsetting one another with clarity and style the likes of which I only hope to reproduce someday. It is only fitting that I chose to close the work on a saddened waltz section. The allegro portion of the piece was based heavily on a G-minor prelude written by Sergei Rachmaninoff, the same prelude that Conversations with Sergei was lightly based upon. The thundering piano work through that section is truly a marvel to watch live, and is certainly one of the most difficult piano passages I've yet to perform. The premiere of this piece of music was at a Christmas party hosted by my company, where it was received by a standing ovation by my peers.
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