Two of my greatest loves (in addition to my wife Amalia) are New York City and classical music. I have dabbled in the latter for almost fifty years now as a part-time composer and have coupled one of my piano pieces with what I hope are ...See moreTwo of my greatest loves (in addition to my wife Amalia) are New York City and classical music. I have dabbled in the latter for almost fifty years now as a part-time composer and have coupled one of my piano pieces with what I hope are uplifting and, in some cases, rather surreal images of what I consider to be the greatest city in the world. This little piece is one of a set of three "Manhattan Etudes" I composed several years ago and which I hope captured the frenetic, yet (for me) uplifting character of the Big Apple. I "lifted" this particular etude from a piano sonata (No. 5) I wrote in 2002. Structurally it is in rondo form (what I jokingly characterize, due to its rather hyper-kinetic nature, as a rondo from hell). Written by
Donald Marcus Jones
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