LUCIO PETROCCIONE, COMPOSER
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Jagged Memories 

This is the first composition I performed on stage. I was just beginning my studies at college. The memory of composing and performing the work was a special one for me. The piece began as I was sitting on a bench sketching some musical ideas. It was a quiet day and then a elderly woman sat across the way from me and smiled. She just sat there and looked out into the day. There was something about her, a triumphant strength - so I started sketching her. 

The piece starts as one who is remembering a past life. Sadly at first, but as the piece develops the memories are fond and beautiful. She seems to be listening to someone and then speaking together.  And in the end, there is a triumph and satisfaction that it was a good life filled with love. When I finished, she looked at me - smiled and walked away.

As for the performance, I remember only two things - playing the first notes and how I felt while playing the last notes. I lifted my hands from the piano and realized I was somewhere else during the performance. Maybe the same place as the elderly woman.

Score:  Flute / Piano
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      • Baylight
      • Coming Home
      • Day Break
      • Evening Run
      • Heading Out
      • Night Fog
      • Spring Tide
      • Storm at 5 Mile
      • Storms Edge
      • Morning Run
    • Blue Fields
    • You and I
    • Two Movements for Voice
    • Red Rhapsody
    • Holding Up Half the Sky
    • Standing Still
    • Jagged Memories
    • Of Younger Days
    • Children's Lullaby
    • The Snowman and the Bridge
    • An Awkward Man
  • Soundscapes
    • Heartbeat
    • Like the Rain
    • driving home...
    • away from home
    • incredible day
    • without you...
    • gehrig st
    • ice storm
    • touching fire
    • flying
    • every moment
    • breathe me
    • fragments
    • tear my soul...
    • distorted memory
    • sweet agony
    • beautiful Girl
    • starlight
    • moody ways
    • believe me
    • house
    • stonington lane
    • sunday afternoon
  • Basement
    • Words >
      • the yellow taxi
      • yesterday
      • pink sweater
      • brown meadows
      • snowing in new york
      • thirty years
      • some dogs for me
      • the table
      • disturb
      • travel too
      • every every
      • god
      • home
      • unusual
      • the night before
      • the passing
      • soaring
      • as one
      • hundred times
      • Us
      • a poem
      • fallen
      • dance as she sings
      • tender and sweet
      • the hill
      • the bridge
      • wistful words
      • lay witness
      • family
      • how far can i run
      • with you
      • twenty minutes to the bridge
      • a wine glass of you
      • drowning into you
      • broken
      • still more
      • waiting for you
      • winter calls
      • rainstorm
      • your road
      • rooftops
      • on her way home
      • wait
      • i have you
      • turbulence
      • yellow winter orange sky
      • white
      • passes
      • and
      • and i miss you
      • hotel
      • duet
    • Every Storm Passes
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