To Move Away

To Move Away (i.e. I Have Longed to Move Away) is a brief piano solo that is more emotional than previously experimental compositions. A gentle pulsing left-hand accompaniment brings the piece into the gentle F major world before a graceful, syncopated right-hand melody soars high above the left hand throughout much of the piece.

The work opens gradually opens up ethereally and gains momentum, gradually ascending higher as the piece evolves into a calming 3/4 lullaby of gently rocking playful exchanges between the left and right interplay. Taken as a whole, the piece is in two contrasting sections, working through mannerism that peacefully climbs toward rich, timeless, subtle, and moderately complex emotional musical materials. It is a response to a poem by Dylan Thomas and is about mysterious nostalgia and gentle tenderness. Attracted to the commentary in the poetry, this piece spreads widely across the keyboard in purely pleasing diatonic tones. It is a hushed, hazy tone poem whose hints at modality tug at the heartstrings.