Description
Lullaby (after Rameau) (2009) for piano was composed in honor of the birth of Goldie Celeste
Hunka and is also dedicated to her parents: pianist Marilyn Nonken and playwright George Hunka.
The substrate of the music is an E–D tolling figure, whose continuous changes in placement and
temperament drive the discourse. The overall tone is tender and gentle, even as the music
continually tries to burst its confines. (Jean-Philippe Rameau’s harpsichord piece L' Entretien des
Muses served as a template for a number of structural and textural aspects.)