suite for piano
Five Movements
Duration: 12 minutes
Premiere: 1954 by the composer
Stanford University
Recording: Momo Kodama, piano
Publisher: ECS, St. Louis, MO
An immediately accessible early work of only moderate difficulty, dedicated to pianist Roy Bogas, who has often performed it.
audio
1 Overture
2 Elegy
3 Scherzo
4 Nocturne
5 Finale
press
“Bogas began with Mechem’s fine little suite, unassuming but charged with the effervescent spirit of youth. The play of energies, in both the piece and performance, was engaging.”
— San Francisco Chronicle