Sonata - BSN/PN

from the composer:

This piece was written for my daughter, Megan Potter, for her Senior Recital in Bassoon in 2002.  As I ted to write 'concept' pieces, this Sonata was designed to be very personal and to revolve around my daughter and our immediate family.

The first movement depicts the 'happy family' of her childhood, when we were all together.  The second movement expresses some of the tender feelings she was then having for the young man she eventually married.

The third movement is one of my "Matthew" movements.  I find that I often have my son in mind when I write some of my most cheerful and lively pieces and this one displays a certain jauntiness and irrepressible jocularity that Matthew always had as a young child.

- Barbara York, 2005