The Creek by Josh Forgét

ETHOS NEW MUSIC SOCIETY

Fall Student Composers Concert 2009

PROGRAM NOTES:

This piece was conceived through a piano improvisation that I was experimenting with a few months
prior to th completion of the score. It is programmatic, following the path of a woodland creek that I
explored in my childhood. This creek was completely untamed, but wholly beautiful.
The flowing, but rapid rhythmic figures that open the piece illustrate the calm, shallow parts of the
creek. As it continues, these rhythms slowly morph as octaves in the left hand bring the deep, black
pools of ice cold water, the thickest and darkest parts of the creek, into view. The water swells as it
careens through the wilder, uncharted parts of the creek, before it is brought back down to size. What
originally began in the key of A minor has transformed into C Lydian, a warped version of its relative
major, symbolizing a change in the creeks overall character.

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I adore this song; it is so beautifully composed as well as played here. I can see the creek in all its torrents and little rapids, and most of all, its perpetual flow. Again, magnificently composed and performed.