Smoke and Mirrors (2019)
for solo piano

Afrikosmos Volume 3: No 2
Dedicated to Theo Herbst
Composed 20-22 February 2019, Mostertsdrift, Stellenbosch

Publisher: Bardic Edition
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Score BDE 1283 (Volume 3 Complete)
Duration: 1 minute

Recording
Recorded by Antony Gray on 'Michael Blake: Afrikosmos’ (Divine Art DA 21374)

Première
First performance: 21 August 2021; Le Genesteix Concerts, Azat-le-Riz, France;
Antony Gray
piano
Further performance: 22 September 2022; Chisholm Recital Room, Cape Town; Antony Gray piano
(South African première)

Programme note
Smoke and Mirrors is entirely symmetrical in the presentation of its material, as the bass works its way down from E to C, with sustained inner voices. 

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