Januaries - David Evan Thomas

Composer: David Evan Thomas

Instrumentation: Solo piano

Duration: Approx. 7 minutes

Date Written: 1993, 2001

Additional Information: 

In a letter some years ago, Jane Van Dyk wrote of the winter doldrums: “My mother always called it the ‘januaries’ and tried to think of something fun to do.” Various impressions appear in the winter fantasy I call Januaries: alphorns I once heard on Lake Louise; bugling elk in Yellowstone, a solitary whistler, gusts of wind and crackling ice. Januaries was written for Jane’s January birthday in 1993.