Glad to be back! I just had a fantastic trip to the west coast visiting family and friends with my wife this last week. Monday morning and getting quite summery in New York.
Todays piece is directly inspired by a Rachmaninoff piece I'm learning. I haven't touched a music keyboard for 10 days, and the music for this piece is just sitting right in front of me so I played through it once. Then of course it consumed me (basically the reason I chose to learn it). It's this tortuous rhapsodic G minor melody and progression that is pretty captivating. I chose to take the melody and have it descend which makes this variation take on a "descend to end" character. I love LH arpeggios.
