{"product_id":"tilson-thomas-constancy-kongcha","title":"Tilson Thomas: Constancy","description":"\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComposer\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003ca href=\"\/es\/collections\/michael-tilson-thomas\"\u003eMichael Tilson Thomas (1944-)\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cstrong class=\"original-instrumentation-title\"\u003eInstrumentation\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"original-instrumentation\"\u003ePiano\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWork\u003c\/strong\u003e: Constancy (2020)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"binding hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSize\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"book-width\"\u003e8.9\u003c\/span\u003e x \u003cspan class=\"book-length\"\u003e12.0\u003c\/span\u003e inches\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"book-pages hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages\u003c\/strong\u003e: None\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c!-- split --\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"one-half columns\"\u003e \u003ch4\u003eDescription\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"feature_divider\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003eDuration: 6 minutes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eComposer note\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe musical germ for \u003cem\u003eConstancy\u003c\/em\u003e dates from when I was about seven or eight. My parents had an old upright piano, a lovely but fragile instrument. Most piano technicians didn't want to deal with its erratic problems. and then Per Matson came into our lives. He became devoted to my parents and our venerable instrument. He'd come around every few weeks to touch up the tuning and contrive some repair to its obsolete parts. He took his time. He tuned the piano using an old method. He played a fifth, then a fourth, then back to a fifth again while listening and adjusting the notes to the open interval. It took hours. It was meditative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sound of those fourths and fifths still vividly evokes the atmosphere of my parents' house. These intervals became the starting place for this section of my life-song. It has a familiar shape, but it's never quite the same. It reflects upon the past, gives a grateful nod to all that has occurred since, and imagines what's to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Michael Tilson Thomas\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kongcha Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67817556508751,"sku":"GSP84632SCO","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0900\/1828\/files\/4c97762b5b92a7282c605ca71e0432cd.webp?v=1792521231","url":"https:\/\/www.ficksmusic.com\/es\/products\/tilson-thomas-constancy-kongcha","provider":"Ficks Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}