Together in Perfect Harmony
Instrumentation: piano 4 hands
Duration: 8
Written in: 2014
Category: Chamber
The initial spark which led to Together in Perfect Harmony came while daydreaming about the lyrics from the 1982 single “Ebony and Ivory” by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder: “Ebony and ivory, live together in perfect harmony.” Suddenly, the idea was born to write a piece based on two chord types, one built from a cluster of black keys and the other from a cluster of white keys.