Hartzell Memorial United Methodist Church

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This is an intermediate-level piano pedagogy piece that was supposed to be in memoriam to Bruce Berr, one of the greatest pedagogy faculty members ever, and where Charles took a piano pedagogy class at Roosevelt University as a student of that faculty member, in the early 1990s, when Charles was majoring in piano performance to eventually earn a BM degree in Piano. 

The piece includes fingering, dynamics, and appropriate articulations. The fingering was provided by the composer of the composition. 

The composition describes a maudlin lady who tries to do a waltz herself, pretending to be some type of ballerina in her dreams, to try to combat depression, but then another nightmare leads her to cry out in depression in a sort of relapse. 

It is in a simple ABA form with a short coda.

A Little Sad Waltz

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This composition for wind quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and French horn, transposed to F) focuses on 2 of the folk dances that are popular in Spain, and one in the Dominican Republic. 

The piece focuses on the G minor key for most of the time, and the opening of the composition with the Spanish Malaguena, which was inspired by Lara's "Malaguena", in triple meter. Later on, it segues into the paso doble, the bullfighter's march, in a martial 4/4 feel. Finally, the last segue brings us to the folk dance of the Dominican Republic, which is the Merengue. Here, there is the attempt to do the heavy syncopation and staccato beats that are common in merengue music, with only the French horn imitating the brass of a merengue band, bringing this Latin music fantasy to a close.

A Little Piece of Latin

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