Palindrome

for piano solo (1984), c.10’-11’

Palindrome for solo piano is a completely monophonic work which contains only seven different pitches that remain registrally, rhythmically and dynamically the same throughout. I was an undergraduate at Columbia University in 1984, and the music I wanted to write at the time was diametrically in opposition to the music my professors wanted me to write, or so we all thought at the time….”