PROGRAM NOTE

SPARKLE EPOXIPLAST 2000 was written for pianist and composer Martin Kennedy. It follows what I call a circular rondo. The four themes reappear, but always in the same order, like watching four people on a merry-go-round. It is a spiraling Escher-like journey around the circle of fifths, filled with jazz harmonies, tangential excursions, and joie de vivre. As for the title, the fast virtuosic flourishes are the Sparkle, the sinuous chorales make the Epoxiplast, and the world’s millennial fervor is the 2000.