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July 16, 2021

moonbeams for abuster | Robert Gross

A piece written and performed at Oberlin Conservatory in 1994. Robert Gross, piano, Marty Regan conducting, and a slew of Oberlin student performers. This piece was written (before I met my wife) as a love paean to a woman I had met on a new-fangled contraption called the internet. Her handle was “abuster,” hence, moonbeams for abuster. The piece is neo-Romantic and tonal but was one of the first pieces I ever wrote that I regarded as reasonably well crafted.

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July 16, 2021

Sand Castles and Moot Points | Robert Gross

I am loathe to represent myself in public with MIDI realizations. This piece, however, was written in 1994 when I was an undergraduate at Oberlin Conservatory and was never performed. I was just about to graduate, and never quite got around to assembling a performance. I think it is particularly well written for an undergraduate who completely lacked confidence. I would tell this young man that he has some promise. The title comes from a poem I had written at the time.

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July 16, 2021