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PnOVA American Piano Series Volume 2

The American Piano Music Series Volume 2 features new music composed by Jennifer Barker, Byron Petty, Kent Holliday, Christopher Cook and Mark Hagerty.

Jennifer Margaret Barker's Moana was inspired by the streams, rivers, waterfalls, lakes and oceans of southeast Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. The title means ocean, sea, large lake in Maori.

Kent Holliday's Toccata Inquieta (Sp. restless) is a toccata-like composition featuring fleeting scale and arpeggio passages, changing meters, and rapidly repeated notes. It explores a wide variety in keyboard range and attempts to demonstrate the virtuosic elements of the traditional keyboard toccata.   

Mark Hagerty's two movements from Clavier (Book Two) on this concert are Capriccio, a perpetual motion study where the theme is pulled apart and put back together, and Aria, which features an elaborate melody, a response to certain philosophical keyboard movements in Bach.

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