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
Postcard from Ukraine for piano solo, Opus 189
Third Elegy, In Memory of KEO, Opus 179
Piano Sonata no. 7 Southern Meditations, Opus 174
Piano Sonata No. 5, A landscape of Small Ruins, Opus 166
Piano Sonata no. 4 in two movements, Opus 165
24 Preludes and Fugues, Opus 156
Piano Etudes (Book 2), Opus 146
Canons for the Young, Opus 145
9 Variations on "We Shall Overcome", Opus 132
Fifteen Three-Part Sinfonias, Opus 127
First Piano Sonatina, Opus 123
Twelve Lyric Preludes, Opus 116
INGS, Ten bagatelles for piano, Opus 115
Remembering Al: Idumea Variations, Opus 91
Piano Sonata No. 3, Sonata Macabre, Opus 83
Harmony of the Spheres, Opus 82
Four Chorale Preludes, Opus 67
Suite from Hansel and Gretel, Opus 65
Piano Sonata No. 2 "TÂLA", Opus 61
Reminiscences and Reflections; Twelve Preludes and Fugues, Opus 46
Blues Theme with Variations, Opus 37
The Parable of the Parabola, Opus 30
First Tango in London, Opus 22