Maybe Maybe Maybe

But every weekend he was certain to play one or more of his favorite classical works. I developed a strong appreciation--and even affection--especially for Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, Franz von Suppé's Light Calvary, Serge Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kijé, and more.

In my early teens I took to coding little orchestral vignettes on the family PC; the instruments were state of the art, my music theory not so much. 

40 years later those classical strings still swell in my heart and I sit down at my MIDI keyboard every so often and let the muse possess me.

Pyloric Melancholy marked my reentry into the orchestral territory almost 40 years after I composed my first orchestral vignette.  It's a little clumsy with the dynamics... and tempo... and a dozen other things... yet it holds a certain charm, and above all, it was truly inspired.

Satiety was inspired by Erik Satie's infinitely superior Gymnopédie No.1;  I should hope the name Satiety says as much. I had Satie on repeat those days, and this motif was stuck in my head, as well as the delicate touch with which it was expressed. I don't get any of it right, but I almost got it the way I sort of remembered it, and it scratched the itch.

Maybe Maybe Maybe features a short suite of improvisational piano, parts of which I am proud; Home Again is one of these.

Listen to some representative tracks from Maybe Maybe Maybe below, or the whole album on Soundcloud.