Category: Original Music
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“Sweet at Home” (Original Piano Piece)
A few months ago I created a piano piece from a 30 second recording I improvised a couple years ago. I wanted the piece to be personal and beautiful. I did my best to achieve it with “Sweet at Home.” I performed “Sweet at Home” during my piano students’s piano recital last month. I hope…
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Music at Noon 2016: The most eclectic show ever? (LIVE VIDEO)
By all accounts, last month’s Music at Noon show in Sacramento was a big success: the audience cheered, the show host, Brad, seemed very happy (He actually said our show was “the most diverse” show he had ever had there!), and I pulled off three challenging classical pieces as well as doing a bunch of…
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Sing Joyfully for Christmas (Original Christmas Song)
“Sing Joyfully for Christmas” is an original holiday carol I wrote a few months ago. I conceived of this as a straight-forward, fun, classic Christmas carol. In this recording, I sing it solo at the piano… yet I wrote the music for at least two voices, imagining a choir singing it. Maybe some day one…
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My mom’s Southwest trip for her new novel “Spiral” (Watch video)
My mom, Margaret C. Murray, is a novelist. A few years back she published her first novel, “Sundagger.net,” a novel that alternately takes place both in modern day Silicon Valley and ancient Anasazi Native American times. Her new novel, “Spiral,” due to be released soon, is also set in the Ancient Anasazi world in the…
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Winter Glass (Piano Rock Band Performance!)
A few years ago I completed a collection of piano pieces called “Waterfall: Original Piano Music.” The front runner of the collection was a piece called “Winter Glass,” which people repeatedly noticed and talked about, and which I also performed frequently at my shows. In fact, the piece almost made it into an independent movie,…
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“Up Close and Personal” — My New Piano Improvisation
Here is an improvisation I just did tonight. I’ve been wanting to showcase my music in different ways, thought this might be a nice treat, something different. The close up angle occurred out of trying to place the phone such that it could record the keys. I’m pretty happy with the result. Recorded on…
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“Life’s Great Mysteries” (Original Cinematic Piano Music)
This is a live performance of me playing a piece I wrote a little while ago. Live performance in Oakland, CA.
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Recording my Piano Improvisations
They say a good woman is a great thing for a man, and I have to agree on so many levels. Among the many, many other great things my woman has done for me, one is to encourage me to record my piano improvisations. I remember how it started: Back when we were dating, I…