Autumn Sound - "The Tomb of the Naiads" for Solo Piano

A piece for solo piano, "The Tomb of the Naiads(2009)" was successfully performed by pianist Andrew Stewart in the Autumn Sound concert.

The original “The Tomb of the Naiads” (Le Tombeau des Naiades) is a poem by Pierre Louÿs from his collection of 143 prose poems entitled “Songs of Bilitis” (Les Chansons de Bilitis,1894). Using the title of this collection, Claude Debussy set three of the poems to music, including The Tomb of the Naiads (Chansons de Bilitis for voice and piano, 1897–1898).

I wrote a short piano piece to express my impression of both the poem and the song in 2005(Debussy Sketch for Solo Piano). When I started to expand this piano work as The Tomb of Naiads for Solo Piano, I tried to recreate it as a fairly long solo piece interpreting the poem as a new instrumental work.

-Performance

Autumn Sound Concert

October.22.2011 Enoch Pratt Parish Hall, Baltimore, Maryland

Andrew Stewart (Piano)