It’s spring of 2020.

I see and hear my creative friends out there suffering. Much of it I presume, beyond the financial upheaval, has to do with the fact that with cancelled events and opportunities for live contact our creativity is stifled. I’ve been amazed at what my friends and colleagues have been doing online to keep their powers of creation alive. In this spirit, I’m looking to the French double meaning of “création” as not only creation, but also a first performance or premiere (yes, one of those English false friends whose French equivalent is not the same) and will plan to put up as often as I can during this time of isolation an informal performance of music, that, as far as I am concerned, has either never been recorded on the piano, or is at the very least rare or unavailable as a recording online.

Mar. 16 | Armin Loos: Five Early Pieces, no. 1: Langsam

Mar. 30 | Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Suite no. 2 in G, from Pièces de Clavecin (1707)

Apr. 17 | Roman Palester: from Ten Etudes, no. 2: Andante affetuoso

May 14 | Antoine Mariotte: Piano Sonata in F-sharp minor (1906): II. Nocturne

July 7 | Charles Ives: Study no. 9: The Anti-Abolitionist Riots of the 1830s and 40s