Contempo
Angry Tango
Wistful Waltz
Revenge Blues
Unlucky Love
Southern Serendade
Risky Romance
Tap Dance
Melancholy Ballad
Dazzling Duo
Swan Song
January 30, 2010, Today’s Youth Perform Today’s Music, students of A. Ramon Rivera
Contempo, Op. 94, is a set of ten piano duets (piano four hands) written for Angel Ramon’s NEC Preparatory School seminar. The work is notable for its use of the American vernacular and indigenous rhythms of American popular music. Contempo was written in 2008 and first performed at the annual NEC “Today’s Youth Plays Today’s Music” in January of 2009.
More Piano Works
A Brief History of Brooklyn and The Screening Room, Opus 192 1
Postcard from Ukraine for piano solo, Opus 189 2
Third Elegy, In Memory of KEO, Opus 179 3
Piano Sonata no. 7 Southern Meditations, Opus 174 4
Piano Sonata No. 6, Opus 171 5
Piano Sonata No. 5, A landscape of Small Ruins, Opus 166 6
Piano Sonata no. 4 in two movements, Opus 165 7
24 Preludes and Fugues, Opus 156 9
Piano Etudes (Book 2), Opus 146 11
Canons for the Young, Opus 145 12
9 Variations on "We Shall Overcome", Opus 132 14
Fifteen Three-Part Sinfonias, Opus 127 15
First Piano Sonatina, Opus 123 16
Twelve Lyric Preludes, Opus 116 17
INGS, Ten bagatelles for piano, Opus 115 18
Remembering Al: Idumea Variations, Opus 91 21
Piano Sonata No. 3, Sonata Macabre, Opus 83 22
Harmony of the Spheres, Opus 82 23
Four Chorale Preludes, Opus 67 25
Suite from Hansel and Gretel, Opus 65 26
Piano Sonata No. 2 "TÂLA", Opus 61 27
Reminiscences and Reflections; Twelve Preludes and Fugues, Opus 46 28
Blues Theme with Variations, Opus 37 29
The Parable of the Parabola, Opus 30 31
First Tango in London, Opus 22 33
Miniature Diversions, Opus 15 35