Pirouette on a Moon Sliver
I'd like to introduce you to Harlequin - the real Harlequin. He's an obsessive trickster, a devilish cad, a caustic judge, a demented jury of one; he's an entertaining, evil, sly, and tortured beast who is terrorized by his own irredeemable nature. But, oh, how he can love. With a murderous zeal he binds himself to Colombine...for better or for worse. And thus we find him, pirouetting on the edge and spinning one of his famously cryptic yarns in three parts: 1. Illusion (The set-up) 2. Delusion (Love Imagined and Destroyed) and 3. Dance of the Asinine (Coda). Pirouette on a Moon Sliver (a character study for a larger work for eighth blackbird) is warmly and respectfully dedicated to Tim Munro - its commissioner and its inspiration. (ABK August 2011)