Piano Sonata #20 in D major - On the Walls of the Wonderful White Wash Waltz
The "Piano Sonata #20 in D major," better known under the descriptive title "On the Walls of the Wonderful White Wash Waltz," is one of many pieces for solo piano that James Domine composed during the lost pandemic year of 2020. Cast in traditional dance form, the title of the piece is an alliterative paraphrase of Strauss's immortal "On the Banks of the Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz." The piece was written as a civic duty to fill a void of deprived inadequacy caused when the concrete straightjacketed trickle hitherto known simply as "the wash" is sometimes compared in its insignificance to the great rivers of the world.
The sonata takes us on a musical journey tracing the progress of "el Rio de la Nuestra Senora de los Angeles de Porciuncula" from its headwaters at the confluence of streams Bell Canyon Creek and Arroyo Calabasas at the Owensmouth overpass behind Canoga Park High School onward through the Sepulveda Dam, as it flows past familiar structures downtown, emptying the drainage channels of the metropolitan basin, meandering finally through a labyrinthine delta and out to sea.
The "Piano Sonata #20 in D major," better known under the descriptive title "On the Walls of the Wonderful White Wash Waltz," is one of many pieces for solo piano that James Domine composed during the lost pandemic year of 2020. Cast in traditional dance form, the title of the piece is an alliterative paraphrase of Strauss's immortal "On the Banks of the Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz." The piece was written as a civic duty to fill a void of deprived inadequacy caused when the concrete straightjacketed trickle hitherto known simply as "the wash" is sometimes compared in its insignificance to the great rivers of the world.
The sonata takes us on a musical journey tracing the progress of "el Rio de la Nuestra Senora de los Angeles de Porciuncula" from its headwaters at the confluence of streams Bell Canyon Creek and Arroyo Calabasas at the Owensmouth overpass behind Canoga Park High School onward through the Sepulveda Dam, as it flows past familiar structures downtown, emptying the drainage channels of the metropolitan basin, meandering finally through a labyrinthine delta and out to sea.
The "Piano Sonata #20 in D major," better known under the descriptive title "On the Walls of the Wonderful White Wash Waltz," is one of many pieces for solo piano that James Domine composed during the lost pandemic year of 2020. Cast in traditional dance form, the title of the piece is an alliterative paraphrase of Strauss's immortal "On the Banks of the Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz." The piece was written as a civic duty to fill a void of deprived inadequacy caused when the concrete straightjacketed trickle hitherto known simply as "the wash" is sometimes compared in its insignificance to the great rivers of the world.
The sonata takes us on a musical journey tracing the progress of "el Rio de la Nuestra Senora de los Angeles de Porciuncula" from its headwaters at the confluence of streams Bell Canyon Creek and Arroyo Calabasas at the Owensmouth overpass behind Canoga Park High School onward through the Sepulveda Dam, as it flows past familiar structures downtown, emptying the drainage channels of the metropolitan basin, meandering finally through a labyrinthine delta and out to sea.