Tone Poem

This is my all-time favorite of Beethoven's 32 sonatas, the Hammerklavier.  This is the fourth of four movements.

This is my all-time favorite of Beethoven's 32 sonatas, the Hammerklavier.  This is the third of four movements.

This is my all-time favorite of Beethoven's 32 sonatas, the Hammerklavier.  This is the second of four movements.

This is my all-time favorite of Beethoven's 32 sonatas, the Hammerklavier.  This is the first of four movements.

This piece was written and given as a Christmas gift to my amazing wife, Tara.  It was played beautifully by my very good friend, David Lloyd, who is the principal cellist with the Carroll Symphony Orchestra and plays with me in the chamber ensemble Atlanta by Six.

Day 9: Each day leading to Christmas I will release a recording from my Christmas album A Silent Night. Merry Christmas to all!

Day 8: The Carroll Symphony Orchestra presents a Christmas Pops concert each year, and I usually allow the audience to submit requests.  After intermission, we roll out a grand piano and I play the most requested tunes.  Here is a portion of the improvisation from last Thursday night, December 15, 2016.  I include it in this series, on Christmas Eve, because it contains Clement Moore's "Twas the Night Before Christmas".  (I very nearly remembered the poem!)  

Day 7: Each day leading to Christmas I will release a recording from my Christmas album A Silent Night. Merry Christmas to all!

Day 6: Each day leading to Christmas I will release a recording from my Christmas album A Silent Night. Merry Christmas to all!

Day 5: Each day leading to Christmas I will release a recording from my Christmas album A Silent Night. Merry Christmas to all!

Day 4: Each day leading to Christmas I will release a recording from my Christmas album A Silent Night. Merry Christmas to all!

Day 3: Each day leading to Christmas I will release a recording from my Christmas album A Silent Night. Merry Christmas to all!

Each day leading to Christmas I will release a recording from my Christmas album A Silent Night. Merry Christmas to all!

Each day leading to Christmas I will release a recording from my Christmas album Silent Night. Merry Christmas to all!

Schubert's wonderful Impromptu in G-flat major is a favorite of mine and of many.  I hope you enjoy.

This is my first podcast in a while.  I've been thinking a lot about the music that I would like to share in the future, and while "Piano Lab" was a lot of fun, the new show "Tone Poem" will allow me to feature more orchestral, choral and other non-piano music.  Of course, there will still be a good bit of piano music - especially music for piano and orchestra - but the new name will more accurately describe the show from now on.  The piece featured in this episode is a Tone Poem for piano, called Asleep.  I've shared it before, but I thought it would be appropriate to share it once more as the first piece under the new podcast name. I hope you enjoy this piece, written when my oldest daughter was an infant.  It was inspired by the many nights I spent rocking her to sleep.

This is a beautiful organ setting by Peter DeWitt of a very old Advent Noel, Bereden vag for Herran (Prepare the way, O Zion).  The recording is from an organ recital that I gave on December 20.  I hope you enjoy this and that you have a very Merry Christmas!

Debussy's beautiful suite for piano, Estampes. I hope you enjoy!

Crucifixus, one of my choral compositions for Lent

This week's Piano Lab features Beethoven's Fantasy, Op. 77

This week's Piano Lab features Chopin's majestic Polonaise in A major.

Today's piano lab features Debussy's wonderful Etude no. 11, "Pour les arpeges composé"

In honor of Father's Day, a duet with my dad. I hope you enjoy!

Brahms Intermezzo in B-flat minor, Op. 117 no. 2.  I hope you enjoy!

This week's Piano Lab features Chopin's beautiful Nocturne in B major.

This is my 50th Podcast Episode of Piano Lab with Terry Lowry.  Thanks for listening! 

This is an improvisation on a theme provided by an audience member at a recital.  I hope you enjoy!

This is a song cycle for bass-baritone and piano.  John Ray wrote the text and asked me to set it to music.  This recording is from a recital at the University of Alabama Birmingham that we gave together in 1998.

A two-part motet setting of Psalm 96, commissioned by RareSong, Patricia DeWitt, Director

Lament is a work composed for solo organ in 2002.

"O For A Thousand Tongues", a solo hymn cantata on themes by Lowell Mason,  written for and sung by my good friend Larry Frazier.  Happy Easter!

This is a  piece from a set I composed for Atlanta by Six.  facebook.com/AtlantaBySix

An improvisation from an Atlanta by Six concert at the University of West Georgia.  It includes my interaction with the young man from the audience who was brave enough to come on stage and give me a theme. I hope you enjoy!

An improvisation from a recent concert with Atlanta by Six.  The other members took a short break after we performed Schubert's Trout Quintet.  This one is a little different from my usual improvs.  I hope you enjoy!

First Date is modern take on the Chopin style Nocturne.  It has a beautiful melody over a steady, left hand accompaniment and provides the pianist with opportunities to explore the entire range of the piano.  It also makes a great performance piece with plenty of passages that display the performer's technical abilities.

This is a piece for tuba quartet, performed by members of the University of Alabama tuba quartet. 

Here is another improvisation on a theme from the audience from the Atlanta by Six concert at Eddie's Attic. 

This is an improvisation on a theme from an audience member at Eddie's Attic.  It begins with "Let it Be" because the woman from the audience made a comment about the Beatles.  I eventually get around to playing a piece build on her theme.  I hope you enjoy!

This is an improvisation on a set of notes given to me by a young boy at a program that I played earlier this week.  I hope you enjoy. 

This is the first piece from Atlanta By Six's concert on May 7 at Eddie's Attic.  More to come and I hope you enjoy!

Movement 14 of a 14 movement work for solo piano entitled Stations of the Cross.

Movemnet 13 of a 14 movement work for solo piano entitled Stations of the Cross.

Movement 12 of a 14 movement work for solo piano entitled Stations of the Cross.

Movement 11 of a 14 movement work for solo piano entitled Stations of the Cross.

Movement 10 of a 14 movement work for solo piano entitled Stations of the Cross.

Movement nine of a 14 movement work for solo piano entitled Stations of the Cross.

Station eight of a 14 movement work for piano solo entitled Stations of the Cross.

Movement seven of a 14 movement work for solo piano entitled Stations of the Cross.

Movement six of a 14 movement work for solo piano entitled Stations of the Cross.

Movement five of a 14 movement work for solo piano entitled Stations of the Cross.