Search - Marthanne Verbit :: Endangered

Marthanne Verbit writes, Long before moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2001, I began to think about what role a musician might play in the environmental struggle our planet faces. In choosing to make a recording of five piano works from 1997 to 2007, this may be fiddling while Rome burns. However, it can do no harm to share these very personal musical visions of what is endangered, what is now lost, what needs to be celebrated or preserved, and it may give some pleasure. The noted environmentalist William deBuys, who provides an eloquent essay for the booklet says, ...Each piece tells its own deeply felt, inspired story, each in the language of solo piano, which itself is an endangered form...