The Tempest Suite, Incidental Music

for piano

Jessica Schroeder, piano

I. Banquet Scene 1

II. Banquet Scene 2 (synthesizer)

III. Comic Theme

IV. Wedding Scene, Poem 1

V. Wedding Scene, Poem 2

VI. Combined Theme

VII. Ariel’s Song of Freedom

VIII. Prospero Reveals All

IX. Prospero Reveals All + Ariel’s Song of Freedom

Program Note:

In 2009, I collaborated with Portland State University’s Theater Arts program and wrote this short suite for piano, which provided incidental music for their production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.