These three short pieces for oboe and piano are in an atonal style. I wrote them during my early years on the faculty at Loyola University New Orleans. The first movement is slow and expressive, the second a wild, fantastic dance. The last movement, again slow and expressive, is a cancrizan, that is, a special kind of canon in which the oboe part is the same as the piano part, but played backwards. The performers in the nearby performance are Helen Erb, oboe, and William Horne, piano.
- Molto adagio
- Allegretto
- Arioso