Darkness Falls

Darkness Falls, for solo piano, creates an atmosphere and paint a picture with music of the metaphoric poem “In a Dark Time" by Theodore Huebner Roethke (1908-1963). It is a sensitive depiction of total despair and of transcendence; of the affliction and exaltation of intense consciousness; of the personal experience of madness...

Reality falls away and this is musically portrayed through dark/low passages, sorrowful tones, combined with lyrical sections and lingering reverberations that describe nature, anguish and mystical moments.