Stars Over Yellowstone
PDF score of this educational piano solo inspired by the landscape and wildlife of Yellowstone National Park, featuring twinkling high melodic lines and powerful low fifths. , featuring a rhythmic ostinato and powerful fourths and fifths.
Length: 2 1/2 minutes
Program note:
I wrote Stars Over Yellowstone for pianist Christian Abbassi, a student of Nancy Stone, for Cascadia Composers In Good Hands 2022. Christian told me about a documentary he’d seen about Yellowstone National Park which included beautiful footage of a vast night sky full of stars over a wilderness full of mountains, forests, rivers, and canyons, populated by wolves, deer, bears, and bison. In this piece, you’ll hear the stars twinkling high in the piano and the majestic expanse of the park and the wild animals in the low register.