White Lies for Lomax - Piano Version

for Solo Piano Approximate Duration: 7' Buy on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/2009-van-cliburn-international/id470346106 YouTube Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUtMM2FPZYM PROGRAM NOTES It is still a surprise to discover how few classical musicians are familiar with Alan Lomax, the ethnomusicologist who ventured into the American South (and elsewhere) to record the soul of a land. Those scratchy recordings captured everyone from Muddy Waters to a whole slew of anonymous blues musicians. White Lies for Lomax dreams up wisps of distant blues fragments - more fiction than fact, since they are hardly honest recreations of the blues - and lets them slowly accumulate to an assertive climax. This short but dense homage ends with the sounds of a Lomax field recording floating in from an off-stage radio, briefly crossing paths with the cloud-like remnants of the work's opening. The seemingly recent phenomenon of sampling - grabbing a sound-bite from a song and incorporating i