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Here are five bright and brilliant dances for two pianos, dedicated to my daughter, Camille. They are showpieces, just as she is a showy dancer. They range in mood from happy to sensual to academic (there's a full-
blown, and very danceable, fugue in the last movement), and they display my love of rich textures and intricate rhythmic patterns as well as my command of, and at times disregard for, traditional harmonies and structures. The suite makes use of a few themes from earlier works too, which I have developed and hopefully improved upon. The Habanera melody, for example, comes from my children's ballet, Aladdin from 1979, and the Waltz movement is the Blue Fairy's theme from the even earlier
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Featured on my 2nd dedicated CD:
RONALD HANNAH
Music for Piano and Organ
Label: PGMaudio 2201-2
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Pinocchio. I have found over the years that when I return to my older scores, even student scores, I sometimes find real treasures there. It is most gratifying to think that I might have started out with some genuine ability.
You may download the opening 2 pages of each movement by clicking in the black box. This suite has had several performances and, at last, has been properly recorded on CD, by the team of Christopher Devine and Mehrdokht Manavi. The album is available from the Canadian Music Centre, and online at various streaming and purchase sites.
An interesting live performance by Ronald Sedlaczek and Sandra Schennach in December of 2015, took place in Vienna at my 70th birthday concert. You may watch it by clicking here:
A Primo and Secondo version of the score for performance purposes is available on request (see "Inquiries" below), or through the Canadian Music Centre. But you have to promise me that you'll let me know the details of any performances so that I can keep this website up-to-date. Sadly, few ever do...
Both my daughters have danced professionally, though where they get that ability I do not know since I am quite uncomfortable on a dance floor, but of course mine are not their only genes. When the eldest was born I sat down and composed a piano piece, Suite for Elan, for her. But as most parents find out, the excitement wears off by the time any more babies arrive, and I did not do the same for Camille. Her baby book was not maintained either, to my chagrin (apologies, my dear!) She noticed all this when she got older, of course, and I have always felt slightly guilty. I did try to assuage that guilt by writing a piece for her high-school band, and she even played the trumpet solo I wrote for her, but it wasn't quite the same. So, note to Camille, HERE IT IS, a piece for two pianos, not just one, and just in time for your birthday too (if a few decades late!)
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