Opus number: 22

Title: First Tango in London

Instrumentation: piano

Date written: June 1985, London

Length: two minutes

Commissioner: Yvar Mikashoff

Premiere performance: Yvar Mikashoff, pianist, February 1986, Dance Theater Workshop, New York City

Subsequent performances: Larry Bell, March 25, 1986, and November 6, 1987, the Boston Conservatory

Recording: tape of Bell’s 1986 and 1987 performances at Conservatory

Program notes:  “First Tango in London” was written for Yvar Mikashoff’s tango project. It was written one evening in the summer of 1985 at the home of Keith Potter and Kay Yeo in East London.