This piece was an improvisation in 2014 which I had played at a local arts and crafts exhibition. I was playing the piano there (mostly improvising) as a contribution to the exhibition and found myself improvising this, in response to the unfolding, devastating crisis in Syria. I remembered the improvisation enough to be able to notate it afterwards. All monies received from the sale of this piece will therefore be donated to

The piece opens with a simple, quietly sad melody. Within a few bars the octaves, soon with added dissonances seemed to me to represent the relentlessness of the situation and the terrible, painful, deep sorrow of it. The music builds slowly to a fortissimo, still with the painful dissonances added to the octaves, gradually quietening to a pitiful pianissimo at the ends. 

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