- Januaries (1993-2001) piano solo 10'
- Partial premiere—2005, by Elizabeth Wolff, Winchester, VA.
Program Notes
In a letter some years ago, Jane Van Dyk wrote to me of the winter doldrums: "My mother always called it the 'januaries' and tried to think of something fun to do." Various impressions appear in the fantasy I call Januaries: alphorns I once heard on Lake Louise; bugling elk in Yellowstone, a solitary whistler, gusts of wind and crackling ice. Januaries was written for Jane's January birthday in 1993, but in recent years—as I've been learning it—it has expanded to comprise a second movement.