Today, another one from the set of dances I’m working on that also includes the Cradle Waltz. This one is a bit different in character!

Paul Cantrell
Entropic Waltz

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This performance is rough — I’m still learning it, and it’s not easy! — but I thought I’d share it with you anyway. (You can look at the score and see what I’m supposed to be playing.) I think the basic spirit of the piece comes off: somewhere in the grey area between humorous and disturbing.

Well, I did mess with the program after all.

• Cantrell – Cradle Waltz
• Brahms – Intermezzo Op 116 No 4
• Brahms – Intermezzo Op 117 No 2
• Chopin – Ballade No 3
• Cantrell – Three Places
• Chopin – Nocturne Op 15 No 2
• Chopin – Nocturne Op 15 No 3
• Brahms – Ballade Op 10 No 4

Tonight’s particularly charming audience got a little tour of the piano’s innards, which was fun. And the new “greatest distance award” goes to my friend Dan, who’d come up all the way from Iowa … well, not just for the concert, truth be told, but it’s such a long drive that he still wins the award in my book.