"Centerpiece" genre: Electronic Classical
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	Centerpiece is visual music, composed for modern ballet. Watching the dance, you will see an enormous sculpture made of human forms disassemble into unique groups and characters, each with its own fascinating dance. When this "exploration of parts" plays out, the sculpture works itself back together in a frenzied tarantella.
	CD: Two Modern Dances   Label: Random Touch Records Credits: Composed by Don Caron and Elizabeth Carlssohn
	Story Behind the Song Centerpiece was commissioned by Spokane Ballet for performance at the Winter Festival on January 17, 1986. It was premiered at the Spokane Opera House. Performers were Don Caron, playing an acoustic piano, a Yamaha DX7 and an Ensonique Mirage, Linda Siverts on a Mirage and a DX7, and Greg and Judy Murray on an enormous array of percussion instruments that filled the full sized orchestra pit. Although the work is without distinct movements, it is in six sections: 1. Dead Center 2. In Center Eight 3. CenterPede 4. On Red Center 5. CenterCourse 6. CenterFugue This ballet was composed and choreographed simultaneously by both Don Caron and Elizabeth Carlssohn. Making the composition and choreography process one and the same made for an unusual play between motion and music and allowed for more specific synchronization with he dance than would normally be expected. The work was a huge success at its premier, which prompted Spokane Ballet to commission to subsequent works from the Carlssohn-Caron team. In 1977 this resulted in "Five Gifts for Third Child", composed and choreographed by Carlssohn-Caron, and in 1978 the score for the Aponte ballet "Lady Macbeth" was composed by Carlssohn-Caron.

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