"Blue Hope" genre: Bebop
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	I was very depressed when I came back to Pullman, from the University of Illinois, a failure; this piece began as an attempt to cheer myself up—every time I felt like writing something negative I forced myself to be positive—and ended up being an unexpected kind of affirmation of myself and of life. The piece was a surprise in several respects: for one thing, there is more jazz in it than I had planned. (I have a kind of prophetic image, possibly perverse, certainly eccentric, of what jazz will someday sound like when it becomes more frankly cognizant of streams of thought in the so-called "classical" or "concert" musical idiom; and, although this piece begins to scrape the tip of the iceberg in realizing that image, it still has more swing and improv than I imagined originally.) Another surprise was the somewhat impressionistic, symphonic sound I wrote into the tutti sections, a reference that had not figured into my pre-conception of the piece. Also, it is much shorter than I had in mind. It almost comes off as a lyric poem rather than any of the grander large-scale musical forms I usually play with. I have been writing a lot of poetry lately, trying to work out my feelings of disappointment, so I guess it figures. This music has meant a great deal to me, as it has restored my faith in the principle upon which I have based my life and my teaching—that music can perform beneficent miracles by bringing higher dimensional energy into the physical plane. For me this piece has been true.I hope you get something out of it.
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	Story Behind the Song I was very depressed when I came back to Pullman, from the University of Illinois, a failure; this piece began as an attempt to cheer myself upevery time I felt like writing something negative I forced myself to be positiveand ended up being an unexpected kind of affirmation of myself and of life. The piece was a surprise in several respects: for one thing, there is more jazz in it than I had planned. (I have a kind of prophetic image, possibly perverse, certainly eccentric, of what jazz will someday sound like when it becomes more frankly cognizant of streams of thought in the so-called "classical" or "concert" musical idiom; and, although this piece begins to scrape the tip of the iceberg in realizing that image, it still has more swing and improv than I imagined originally.) Another surprise was the somewhat impressionistic, symphonic sound I wrote into the tutti sections, a reference that had not figured into my pre-conception of the piece. Also, it is much shorter than I had in mind. It almost comes off as a lyric poem rather than any of the grander large-scale musical forms I usually play with. I have been writing a lot of poetry lately, trying to work out my feelings of disappointment, so I guess it figures. This music has meant a great deal to me, as it has restored my faith in the principle upon which I have based my life and my teachingthat music can perform beneficent miracles by bringing higher dimensional energy into the physical plane. For me this piece has been true. I hope you get something out of it.

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