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| Coelle | |
| Date Completed: | December 12, 2008 |
| Duration: | about 6 minutes |
| Instrumentation: | piano |
| First Performance: | May 9, 2009 by Robert Frankenberry at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Chelsea, NYC |
| Comments: | dedicated to Constanze Klein and Carla Spannbauer |
| Program Notes: | Coelle This brief set of little pieces is dedicated to my friends Constanze Klein and Carla Spannbauer who showed me the traditional sayings in Cologne dialect at www.koeln-ratgeber.de I have translated them in the following way: Cologne Ten Recommendations for piano I. It is what it is. II. What happens, happens III. It's always gone well in the past. IV. What's gone is gone V. Things don't stay the way they used to be. VI. Don't know it, don't need it, it's out of here. VII. What can you do? VIII. Have a good time, but not too often. IX. What's that crap? X. Let's have a drink. |