The current post-graduation freedom finally allows me to have some time for the things that really matter to me – such as playing music and composing. And while I know that you are all waiting for more information on a certain dinner for two, I must ask you for a little more patience. I will tell you more about that soon anyway.
~ I promise ~
This piece is for my dear friend and little brother Cel, and she has been waiting for this record since October, when the piece was almost finished already. But as my composition skills are improving and the pieces I write are gradually getting more sophisticated and more challenging to play, I need some time to practice them until I can make a record appropriate to exposing it to virtuality. I have also changed some little things on the piece until two days ago, until I was satisfied with the harmonies in the middle part.
The challenges with this piece lie in the wide fingering the left hand has to manage in the comping of the main theme – in that part there frequently occurs a tenth which is the widest interval my hands can do – as well as in the required tenderness of touch and the different airs the piece takes as it progresses.
Originally, I intended this piece to be very calm and introspective. The beginning of the piece was created around the image of a mountain scenery lying quietly in the moonlight, and I wanted for a somewhat otherwordly atmosphere which I tried to capture by using Phrygian dominant mode for the intro and experimenting around with minor-major harmonies in the main theme. When continuing working on the composition, however, I had the idea to contrast the initial calmness with a more dynamic and harmonically more adventurous passage, and that one ended up to be the central part of the piece. To me, this part sounds like a sudden snowfall coming about the mountain scene, and I created it in an almost impressionistic fashion, using a lot of inside-outside harmonies (which my wonderful jazz piano teacher encouraged me to implement with greater consequence) and taking up the snowflake swirling with the flow of the music and the change of meters. By the end of the piece, the snowing has stopped, and the mountain scenery remains quietly as before.
Anyway, I hope you will enjoy this!
i always love your music kath, so beautiful!
Thank you so much, Lindsay!
Just gorgeous!!!
Aww thank you, this makes me very happy!!!
Yeah, love your compositions and your playing. Thanks for sharing. My husband and I download your stuff and listen to it repeatedly.
I’m glad you have time to do what you love.xxxooo
Wow, I cannot believe that you downloaded my stuff and continue listening to it! This is such a wonderful compliment! You know, I’ve always wished to be able to touch other people and somewhat connect with them via something I write, so this really means a lot to me.
Because of our slow internet connection I have to download before I can listen and watch stuff. Otherwise it will play for a few seconds then pause for a minute or two, then play another couple seconds etc. It’s maddening. So we download. Then after listening the first time I like to listen again and then later again because I hear more of what you are doing upon further listenings.
Yup we like your music. And I enjoy seeing your hands play….I think “that’s our Kath playing”
Ah I see. Slow internet connections suck.
But I really love how deeply you listen into my pieces! That’s such a wonderful compliment! 
It sounds like the Dinner for Two is a romantic proposition? I’m so curious and full of suspense
I’m listening right now.. and
it
is
beautiful.
smiling. calm. restful. cool.
I really can picture snowfall silently over a sleeping village.
Moon and stars in a sky dark ebony-blue
soft flakes
(can you tell I love it?)
xx
Aww thank you, Fi! Yes, the dinner is a romantic thing, and you’ll learn more about all of this soon.
Why it has to be so beautiful, goddammit!
I’ve just put my mascara on and now I’ll have to fix it – I cried a little. I’m an emotional train-wreck!
Thank you for this, love!
Oh no, I’m sorry, Greta! But also happy of course that you liked the piece so much!
Lovely Kath – as always. I adore the way you challenge yourself.
Thank you, Tammy! This is a kind a challenge I enjoy a lot.
Beautiful Kat, I especially loved the intro.
Thank you, Becky! The intro is inspired from guitar, basically those are Flamenco harmonies. I plan to do a whole piece on harmonies of that kind soon.
Lovely! I saw that you write about it in detail, but listened to it first, out of curiosity, to see if the images I see match what you’ve had in mind. And yes, totally snowstorm, bouncing flakes. At the end I imagined somehow zooming out with the moon reflecting on the scant flakes still in the air.
Nice to read the details behind the process, please post it next time as well.
I have very similar pictures in my mind with this piece. So happy you liked it! And yes, I’ll write more about the pieces I post from now on.