music      news/events      bio      recordings      contact Slow Peacherine Rag 2006 piano duration 5' SCORE VIDEO Mischa Salkind-Pearl PROGRAM NOTE This short work was written after a summer afternoon's walk through the backstreets behind Harvard. From an open window I heard someone practicing a piano rag fantastically slowly. The balmy day and the wonderfully static rag led me to search out Scott Joplin's Peacherine Rag and apply longeurs, stretched chords, and hesitations in order to simulate and exaggerate what I'd heard earlier in the day. As Visitor 2: Stretch this piece is also a satellite component of Fabrications, a set of 32 works which may be performed together, in any smaller configuration, or individually. see also Fabrication 15: Amplification which includes an 'amplification' of this piece.