date completed
2016
duration
12'
scored for
solo piano
commission
David Fung
premiere
March 2018
I
II: Self-Portrait (with Domenico in the Background)
III: Up and Down
Program Note by Samuel Adams
These three short pieces were commissioned by pianist David Fung to be performed interstitially with Scarlatti’s Keyboard Sonatas. They were premiered in 2016 at Lincoln Center and received performances at the Kennedy Center in the spring of 2017.
- Samuel Adams
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Sonatas 2016
press
"Interleaving those works with Scarlatti-inspired sonatas by contemporary composer Samuel Adams, which offered witty deconstructions of the Baroque sonatas surrounding them — was a canny bit of programming, and Fung played the newer works with clear affection."
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