Andrew Mark Sauerwein

A wistful etude, named after an early mishap in the compositional process, composed in a single sitting.

You may be wondering about this series entitled "Digressions". Originally entitled "Insipid Digressions," I and III are youthful experiments in collaboration with a fellow composer, Kurt Landre.  In our first session, we drafted in turns, without talking, each completing the other's phrase and beginning a new one, until the piece found a natural end.  For movement III, Kurt gave me a twelve-tone row and a rhythmic gesture, with which I composed a short etude.  Out of this grew the sporadic habit of writing short piano works, often in a single sitting with a whimsical state of mind.