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| Barcarolle, well-travelled | |
| Date Completed: | November 12, 2013 |
| Duration: | about 4 and a half minutes |
| Instrumentation: | piano |
| First Performance: | Rob Frankenberry may have played it for friends a time or two, but I think the first public performance was given by Walter Morales as part of an Aria412 materialization in Foxburg, Pennsylvania on January 5, 2019. |
| Comments: | for Betty Rieley reminiscence of the Penthouse Suite (the Mini-fridge Aria arranged for piano solo followed by the Male Assistants' chorus in the distance) |
| Program Notes: | Barcarolle, well-travelled is an "operatic paraphrase" of the famous moment in my Penthouse Suite - when the great diva of international reknown, Torta Gwentrob, arrives in her Penthouse Suite (followed by the Male Assistants' chorus in the distance) and discovers the mini-fridge. I created this for my well-travelled friend and pianist Betty Rieley "in celebration of her 80th birthday; an encore to be followed by many, many more". |