MUSIC SCORE - Piano Solo
Listen to the composer perform it here on YouTube:
http: //youtu.be/aKvA0FUWOg4
Lopez (1950 - ) initially conceived of Pieces from a Distant Land as a set of relatively easy-to-perform tonal pieces in response to a request by his mother in the early 1980's for such a collection of pieces. At first these occurred to Lopez in the manner of short single movement works from the Romantic Period, similar to Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words and Chopin's Nocturnes or Preludes. Over time the concept evolved into something more personal and extended beyond the...

MUSIC SCORE - Piano Solo
Lopez (1950 - ) composed his First Adagio for Piano in 1973. Originally it was included as the middle movement of a three movement sonata, but Lopez felt that the Adagio was strong enough to stand alone, and so extracted this movement as a piece in its own right. In fact, this is the only movement of the sonata that was completed at that time, and Lopez performed the Adagio No. 1 in numerous piano solo concerts from 1973. Lopez ultimately submitted the Adagio No. 1 as his Master's Thesis, and it was in part due to the emotional maturity and contrapuntal...