"Chromotions" genre: Contemporary
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	This is a piece for two pianos written in 1988. It was recently performed again in Bryansk, Russia on a contemporary music festival by the remarkable duo of Vladimir Dubinin and Irina Askerova. Score available through music dealers or Seesaw Music Corp, 2067 Broadway, NYC 10023 (212-874-1200. Recording through Composers Concordance, P.O. Box 20548 PABT, NYC 10129. e-mail: info@composersconcordance.org
	CD: Composers Concordance CD Credits: Joseph Pehrson
	Story Behind the Song CHROMOTIONS for two pianos was written in 1988 in New York and was premiered the following year in 1989 at Cami Hall, NYC. Part of the impetus for this piece resulted from the presence of two pianos in my apartment for a period of time. Naturally, this fueled my desire to write a piece that I could perform with some of my other pianist friends. The title “Chromotions” indicates, of course, that there is significant chromaticism in the work (“chromaticism & “motion”), but I was trying, at the same time, to use “accessible” elements that would be comprehensible to a general audience. One method I used was to have a “layering” of simple elements, say, triads, overlaid by the two instruments with significant rhythmic complexity. In this way sections might sound “fresh” or “intriguing” to the musical cognoscenti and yet at the same time the simple building blocks could give the ear of the general listener some frame of reference. The piece is in two movements: in the first movement marked, “loud, insistent” I use many chordal and triadic juxtapositions with some slight hints of serial procedures. The second movement, (quarter note ca. 144) is a more “linear” exposition with linear motives, fewer chords and a “lighter” character throughout.

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